Pipedrive closes the deal. Keito tracks the reviewed billable hours that follow — by client, project, and engagement — so delivery work reaches invoices instead of disappearing once the CRM stage flips to Won.
Delivery review
Post-deal billing
$31.2k
Active work
24
Reviewed
91%
Ready to bill
$18.4k
Time captured with context
pipedrive time tracking
Billing review complete
Client and project checked
Invoice evidence ready
Approved summary prepared
pipedrive time tracking needs more than a timer. The billing record has to keep client, project, approval, and invoice context together before the work reaches finance.
Group work by client, project, issue, branch, or repository reference so time reports explain what changed, not just who was online.
Use approvals and project summaries to catch unassigned work, non-billable research, and time that needs a clearer client note.
Export clean summaries that connect delivery activity to project budgets, retainers, and invoices without exposing internal noise.
Pipedrive-to-delivery billing
Pipedrive is a sales-pipeline-first CRM that handles deal management, sales activity tracking, and pipeline reporting well. For agencies and consultancies that use Pipedrive to close client engagements, the platform does its job at the top of the funnel — but it is not a delivery or billing system. Once a deal flips to Won, the work moves to delivery teams and the time spent serving the client needs a different record. Most Pipedrive-using services teams handle the post-sale handoff with one of two patterns: they keep a loose calendar of delivery time and reconstruct billing at month end, or they spin up a separate tool for time tracking that has no awareness of the deal context Pipedrive captured. Both patterns lose information. Hours get reconstructed instead of reviewed, and client billing happens in a tool that has no link back to the original deal terms. Keito fits between Pipedrive and finance. Delivery teams log hours against client and project as work happens; approval queues catch missing context before invoicing; and finance produces invoices from reviewed billing summaries that explain post-sale delivery in client-readable language. Pipedrive keeps owning the sales pipeline; Keito keeps owning the billing evidence that follows.
Track post-Pipedrive delivery hours by client, project, and deal context
Approve billable entries before they reflect on client invoices
Produce billing summaries that justify post-sale invoice amounts
Workflow fit
Keito keeps pipedrive time tracking connected to client, project, billable status, approval, and invoice context before the work reaches finance.
Track post-Pipedrive delivery hours by client, project, and deal context
Approve billable entries before they reflect on client invoices
Produce billing summaries that justify post-sale invoice amounts
Keito is designed for technical teams that need billing records to reflect real delivery work without pushing every developer into finance tooling. The Keito CLI, GitHub Action, and Agent Skill log time from the terminal, CI jobs, pull requests, and AI coding sessions directly.
Managers can separate billable implementation, non-billable discovery, support, and internal work before reports leave the team.
Use tracked engineering work for invoice backup, project profitability, and retainer reviews without stitching together several spreadsheets.
The difference is not just recording time. It is whether the record can support billing, project decisions, and client conversations.
CRM deal vs delivery billing
Keito keeps pipedrive time tracking tied to clients, projects, billable status, approvals, and billing summaries in one workspace.
Typical setups capture time in one tool and rebuild the billing explanation later from exports, comments, or spreadsheet cleanup.
Review before invoicing
Managers review entries before they become invoice evidence, so missing context is fixed internally rather than during a client dispute.
Raw timer exports usually reach finance before delivery leads have confirmed whether the work is billable, complete, or client-ready.
Predictable team pricing
Flat-rate plans let delivery staff, reviewers, contractors, and finance users participate without per-seat pricing friction.
Per-seat time trackers make teams choose between clean billing participation and controlling tool spend.
Use a workspace where time is captured against the right client and project, reviewed before invoicing, and exported as billing evidence. Keito is built around that workflow, so pipedrive time tracking is not separated from the approval and invoice context it needs.
Yes. Keito tracks work by client, project, person, billable status, and review state, then turns approved records into client-ready summaries. That makes it useful when pipedrive time tracking needs to support billing, profitability, and client reporting rather than just attendance.
A generic timer records duration. Keito records billable context: who did the work, which client and project it belongs to, whether it has been reviewed, and how it should appear in billing evidence.
Solo is built for one human owner and unlimited AI agents. Pro adds human teammates. Business adds integrations, exports, and online invoice payments.
One human owner
For independent consultants, freelancers, and small studios running work with AI agents.
Team collaboration
For teams that need shared workspaces, approvals, and team-level project visibility.
Advanced operations
For organizations that need integrations, exports, online payments, and stronger controls.
AI agents do not count as human seats on any plan.
Solo, Pro, and Business can use API keys for agent workflows.
Stripe payments, exports, Xero, and QuickBooks are on Business.
Start with Solo, add people on Pro when you need reviewers or collaborators, and see how Keito turns tracked effort into clearer reports.