Keito gives staff, managers, partners, and finance one controlled workflow for submitting engagement time, resolving exceptions, approving billable records, and preparing invoice evidence.
Partner approval queue
Illustrative review progress
96%
Active work
24
Reviewed
91%
Ready to bill
$18.4k
Time captured with context
accounting firm timesheet automation
Billing review complete
Client and project checked
Invoice evidence ready
Approved summary prepared
accounting firm timesheet automation needs more than a timer. The billing record has to keep client, project, approval, and invoice context together before the work reaches finance.
Record time by client, project, and team member role so billing reports reflect actual team composition without needing a separate tracking system per person.
Give project leads a combined view of who worked on what, what is billable, and whether the team effort matches the client story before invoice prep starts.
Produce summaries that explain team effort by deliverable, milestone, or service area so clients understand what they are paying for.
From submitted time to approved billing evidence
Accounting-firm timesheets often fail between capture and billing, not at the timer. Staff submit hours with inconsistent engagement detail, managers chase missing descriptions, partners review write-offs in separate files, and finance rebuilds the approved record before invoicing. Keito turns those handoffs into one visible workflow. Time stays attached to the client, engagement, service, contributor, and billable status; reviewers can identify incomplete or non-billable entries before approval; and finance works from the reviewed record instead of a parallel spreadsheet. The automation is controlled rather than opaque: Keito does not claim to import activity from every accounting, email, calendar, or practice-management system automatically, and no entry becomes client evidence without the firm's review. That gives a practice less administrative chasing while preserving the judgement, approval ownership, and audit context required for professional billing.
Route submitted client and engagement time into a consistent manager and partner review workflow
Resolve missing descriptions, non-billable work, and write-off decisions before billing closes
Prepare invoice-ready summaries and reporting evidence from the same approved timesheet record
Workflow fit
Keito keeps accounting firm timesheet automation connected to client, project, billable status, approval, and invoice context before the work reaches finance.
Route submitted client and engagement time into a consistent manager and partner review workflow
Resolve missing descriptions, non-billable work, and write-off decisions before billing closes
Prepare invoice-ready summaries and reporting evidence from the same approved timesheet record
Keito flat pricing means project leads can add contractors, specialists, and reviewers without facing a billing escalation each time the delivery team changes composition.
Keito is designed for teams who move fast. It captures the minimum needed for billing accuracy: client, project, task, and billable status, without turning every entry into a form.
Project leads can see all team contributions to a client engagement, not just their own entries, so the billing review is a single step rather than an aggregation exercise.
The difference is not just recording time. It is whether the record can support billing, project decisions, and client conversations.
Controlled timesheet workflow vs manual approval chasing
Keito keeps accounting firm timesheet automation 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.
Accounting firm timesheet automation is a controlled workflow that moves client and engagement time from staff submission through review, exception handling, approval, and billing handoff. Keito keeps each step attached to the same timesheet record so the firm does not have to reconcile separate emails and spreadsheets.
Buyers should compare how each tool handles client and engagement coding, submission status, reviewer ownership, write-offs, approval history, billing handoff, and accounting-system boundaries. Keito is designed for firms that want reviewed billing evidence, not just a faster timer or an employee-monitoring system.
Yes, an accounting firm can migrate by mapping its clients, engagements, service codes, billable rules, reviewers, and billing cut-off before moving active work. Keito lets the firm introduce the approval workflow in stages while keeping the spreadsheet archive as historical evidence.
An approved accounting timesheet should keep the client, engagement, service, contributor, duration, billable status, description, reviewer, approval state, and any write-off decision. Keito keeps that context together so finance can prepare invoices and partners can review realisation without reconstructing who approved what.
No automatic import from every accounting or practice-management system is claimed. Keito provides structured time capture, API and agent-friendly options, approvals, reporting, and billing workflows; each firm chooses and validates the capture methods and downstream handoffs that fit its systems and controls.
Solo includes 1 licensed user, unlimited AI agents, Mac desktop and iOS apps, Stripe payments, and standard CSV and Excel exports. Pro adds your team. Business adds integrations, planning, advanced reporting, and stronger controls.
1 licensed user
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, planning, advanced reporting, and stronger controls.
AI agents do not require licenses on any plan.
Solo, Pro, and Business can use API keys for agent workflows.
Solo, Pro, and Business include standard CSV and Excel data export.
Start with Solo, add people on Pro when you need reviewers or collaborators, and see how Keito turns tracked effort into clearer reports.