Recruiter time tracking

Track recruiter hours by client, search, and placement.

Recruitment runs on time spent sourcing, screening, and managing searches. Keito turns that effort into a reviewed billable record — by client and role — so retained and project recruitment work is billed accurately.

$49
Flat team plan from
0
Per-seat billing surprises
14 days
Trial workspace
app.keito.ai / recruiting

Placement review

Talent Forge Recruitment

Search billing

$23.1k

Active work

24

Reviewed

91%

Ready to bill

$18.4k

Time captured with context

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Live

Billing review complete

Client and project checked

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Invoice evidence ready

Approved summary prepared

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Built around the work before the invoice

recruiter 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.

Capture delivery work by client and role

Record time by client, project, and team member role so billing reports reflect actual team composition without needing a separate tracking system per person.

Review team-level billing before it leaves the project

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.

Report team delivery in client billing language

Produce summaries that explain team effort by deliverable, milestone, or service area so clients understand what they are paying for.

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Recruitment billing

Turn recruiter sourcing and screening time into reviewed billing evidence

Recruitment agencies sell time and outcomes, but most only measure the outcomes. A retained search engagement or an embedded talent project involves dozens of hours of sourcing, screening calls, candidate management, client calibration meetings, and offer negotiation — work that should be visible whether the engagement is billed on a retainer, a project fee, or hourly. When a search runs long or a client expands the brief mid-engagement, the agency needs an accurate record of recruiter time to justify a scope conversation or an overage. Without that record, agencies absorb the extra hours or have an awkward, evidence-free negotiation. Keito gives recruitment teams a place to attribute recruiter time to client, role, and search stage as the work happens. Sourcing, screening, and client-management hours are logged against the right engagement, team leads review entries before they inform a client invoice or a scope discussion, and finance receives billing summaries that explain recruitment effort in client terms. For retained and project work this turns recruiter time into defensible billing evidence; for agencies experimenting with hourly or embedded models it provides the accurate hour record those models depend on.

Track recruiter sourcing, screening, and client time by engagement and role

Review billable hours before retainer overage or scope conversations

Produce billing summaries that justify recruitment effort to clients

Workflow fit

Placement outcome vs recruiter effort

Keito keeps recruiter time tracking connected to client, project, billable status, approval, and invoice context before the work reaches finance.

Track recruiter sourcing, screening, and client time by engagement and role

Review billable hours before retainer overage or scope conversations

Produce billing summaries that justify recruitment effort to clients

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What Keito adds to recruiter time tracking

Team billing without per-seat penalties

Keito flat pricing means project leads can add contractors, specialists, and reviewers without facing a billing escalation each time the delivery team changes composition.

  • Flat-rate team plans from $49/month
  • Mix of full-time and contract contributors
  • Finance and project lead reviewers included

Delivery context the whole team fills in

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.

  • Quick entry with client and project tags
  • Billable or non-billable classification per entry
  • Manager review before entries become billing evidence

One billing view across the full team

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.

  • Project and team utilization view
  • Combined billing summary by client
  • Exportable team report for invoice backup
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Compare the workflow

The difference is not just recording time. It is whether the record can support billing, project decisions, and client conversations.

Area Keito Typical setup

Placement outcome vs recruiter effort

Keito keeps recruiter 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.

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Related solution pages

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Useful reading

Frequently asked questions

What is the best way to manage recruiter time tracking?

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 recruiter time tracking is not separated from the approval and invoice context it needs.

Can Keito help with recruiter time tracking?

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 recruiter time tracking needs to support billing, profitability, and client reporting rather than just attendance.

How is this different from a generic timer?

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.

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Start solo. Add people when you need them.

Solo is built for one human owner and unlimited AI agents. Pro adds human teammates. Business adds integrations, exports, and online invoice payments.

Solo

One human owner

For independent consultants, freelancers, and small studios running work with AI agents.

$19 /mo

Start Solo
1 human owner
Unlimited AI agents
API access and API keys
Time, expenses, projects, and invoices
Agent source tracking
AI agent work invoice grouping
Most popular

Pro

Team collaboration

For teams that need shared workspaces, approvals, and team-level project visibility.

$49 /mo

Start Pro
Unlimited human team members
Everything in Solo
Team management and invites
Timesheet and expense approvals
Team reports and utilization
Per-member billing rates

Business

Advanced operations

For organizations that need integrations, exports, online payments, and stronger controls.

$199 /mo

Start Business
Everything in Pro
Xero and QuickBooks
Stripe invoice payments
CSV and Excel data export
Custom roles and SSO
Priority support
Agents are included

AI agents do not count as human seats on any plan.

API on every paid plan

Solo, Pro, and Business can use API keys for agent workflows.

Business-only payments

Stripe payments, exports, Xero, and QuickBooks are on Business.

Build a cleaner billing record for recruitment agencies, staffing firms, and embedded talent teams that bill clients for retained search, project recruitment, or hourly talent work and need an accurate record of recruiter time.

Start with Solo, add people on Pro when you need reviewers or collaborators, and see how Keito turns tracked effort into clearer reports.

Track recruiter hours with Keito