Book a demoSell hours to law firms in monthly packages or prepaid blocks. Each law firm gets a portal where it can see its remaining hours, the work done and its invoices, and buy more hours.
A law firm that buys 40 hours a month wants to know how many are left before it sends more work. When the invoice arrives, it wants every entry: the date, the matter, who did the work and what was done, in tenths of an hour. Without a portal, someone on your team answers these questions by email.
Set up each package once with its hours per month, quarter or year, and its price. Unused hours can expire at the end of the period, roll over for 3 or 12 months, or never expire. Prepaid blocks of hours have their own expiry date. See retainers.
Create a project for each matter. Track time with a timer or enter it by hand. Billable time can be rounded up to 0.1 hours, and the original time is kept. A memo field adds a longer description to the invoice line.
Activity codes are your standard task descriptions. They appear as you type and become the entry's description. Expenses such as filing fees and couriers are logged with a receipt and a category, and billed at cost. Activity codes, step by step.
Select the matters and the date range, and Timebun creates an invoice from all unbilled time. Each line shows the date, matter, person, description, hours and rate. Time already covered by a package is not billed again. The law firm receives the invoice by email with a Pay invoice button and a PDF.
Send one reminder before the due date and several after it. Timebun checks Stripe before each reminder, so a firm that has just paid is not reminded. Emails are sent as "Your Firm via Timebun".
| Description | Qty | Unit price | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/08/2026 - Estate of Morgan - Priya Nair: L110 Fact Investigation/Development — Collected the bank and brokerage statements | 1.25 | $125.00 | $156.25 |
| 09/15/2026 - Estate of Morgan - Sam Ortiz: L120 Analysis/Strategy — Summarized the beneficiary issues in the will and codicil | 0.75 | $125.00 | $93.75 |
| 09/22/2026 - Estate of Morgan - Priya Nair: L140 Document/File Management — Indexed the estate documents for the executor | 2.25 | $125.00 | $281.25 |
| 09/25/2026 - Estate of Morgan - Priya Nair: L120 Analysis/Strategy — Drafted the memo on the contested bequest | 1.75 | $125.00 | $218.75 |
| 09/29/2026 - Estate of Morgan - Sam Ortiz: L160 Settlement/Non-Binding ADR — Prepared the mediation summary | 1.25 | $125.00 | $156.25 |
Each law firm sees its remaining hours, each block with its expiry date, its timesheet by matter with a CSV export, its invoices and its statements. It never sees rates, costs, internal notes, non-billable time or running timers. Everyone you invite can buy hours. See the client portal.
When a law firm's balance falls to the level you set (5 hours by default), Timebun emails the firm a Buy hours link and notifies your team. The firm buys more hours in the portal and pays through Stripe. The hours are added when the payment clears.
Send each law firm a statement monthly or twice a month. It shows the opening balance, hours added, hours used by matter and the closing balance, with the entries attached as a CSV. Statements, step by step.
Each law firm has one message thread with your team in the portal. Internal notes are not visible to the firm.
| Date | What | Invoice | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Sep 2026 | September allocation | CALDR-0037 | 20.00 h |
| 21 Sep 2026 | Top-up — 10 hours | CALDR-0040 | 10.00 h |
| Date | Person | Description | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Sep 2026 | Priya Nair | L210 Pleadings — Prepared the answer to the amended complaint | 3.50 h |
| 16 Sep 2026 | Priya Nair | L310 Written Discovery — Drafted responses to the second set of interrogatories | 4.25 h |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Sam Ortiz | L120 Analysis/Strategy — Research memo on the statute of limitations defense | 4.50 h |
| Subtotal | 12.25 h | ||
Work billed on an invoice at its own rate, not taken from the balance.
| Date | Person | What | Invoice | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 Sep 2026 | Priya Nair | Estate of MorganL110 Fact Investigation/Development — Collected the bank and brokerage statements | Billed on invoice CALDR-0042 | 1.25 h |
Lev Legal sells retainers and blocks of hours to law firms. It moved to Timebun in September 2026.
“We can finally sell retainers and packs of hours — and our clients can see exactly where they stand.”
Clients on retainer ask how many hours are left because they budget them. Answer with six facts in a monthly statement, and a page they can check in between.
BillingThree ways a firm can bill clients for its time: hourly, a monthly retainer, or a prepaid block of hours. When each fits and what clients need to see.
No. Timebun does not produce LEDES files, and entries have no UTBMS code field. You can add your codes as activity codes, such as "L120 Analysis/Strategy." The code then sits in the entry's description. It prints on the invoice line, in the firm's portal timesheet and in the time CSV exports.
Finished, billable entries on the matters you show them: the date, matter, person, description and billed hours. Rates appear only on invoices. Costs, internal notes, non-billable time and running timers never appear.
Your team can keep tracking time. Hours beyond the balance are billed as overage on the next invoice, at the firm's hourly rate. The firm gets a low-hours alert before that, at the level you set.
Yes. Add the address as a contact marked Receives invoices. It gets invoices, reminders and statements by email, without signing in.
Yes. Invoices are paid online through Stripe. You can also record a check, ACH, wire or cash payment on the invoice. Once it is paid in full, reminders stop.
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