Consultants: from ClickUp time entries to Lexware invoices

For consultants every hour counts twice: high rates, tight schedules. Click2Bill automatically transfers your tracked ClickUp time entries as invoice drafts to Lexware Office, client-accurate and fully auditable.

At high hourly rates, every missed hour is expensive

In consulting, hourly rates often reach three figures. That makes time tracking the most sensitive part of your value chain: even a single unbilled hour per week can add up to a four-figure sum over the year. These are exactly the hours that get lost most often, because a manual Excel step sits between ClickUp and the invoice in Lexware Office.

Typical leaks in a consulting practice:

  • Tracked but never invoiced: hours sit in ClickUp but never make it onto an invoice.
  • Fragmented billing: exporting, sorting, copying, pasting, roughly 5 to 15 hours a month go on this as a rough guide, time you are losing at your own hourly rate.
  • Copy-and-paste errors: wrong client, incorrect line item, missed task, every correction costs trust.

Click2Bill closes this gap: every tracked ClickUp hour automatically becomes a line item in Lexware Office. The free Revenue Leak Calculator can estimate what your current leak is costing you in under a minute.

Clean auditability: quality check and full control

Consultants bill demanding clients, often with detailed activity reports. Click2Bill creates a continuous trail from the tracked hour to the invoice for exactly this purpose.

  • Automatic quality check: Click2Bill checks time entries for typical weaknesses such as overlapping entries and empty descriptions before they reach the invoice, so messy entries are caught while you can still correct them.
  • Invoice draft instead of direct send: Click2Bill only creates invoice drafts in Lexware Office. Reviewing, approving and sending are decisions you make yourself, not a gut feeling, but a documented record per line item.
  • Optional ClickUp approval: if your team approves time in ClickUp using a four-eyes process, you can choose to bill only those hours. It is not mandatory: Click2Bill can also use all tracked time.

The result: you can demonstrate to every client exactly which hour was tracked and billed, without an additional tool and without a manually maintained spreadsheet.

Client mapping: ClickUp Folder meets Lexware client

Anyone juggling multiple clients simultaneously knows the risk: hours land on the wrong client. Click2Bill therefore binds your structure firmly to your accounting.

  • Map once, stay clean forever: you assign each ClickUp Folder to the matching Lexware Office client. After that, all tracked time automatically flows to the right client.
  • Multiple clients, cleanly separated: via the multi-tenant architecture, multiple ClickUp workspaces or Lexware entities can be run as separate tenants in parallel, ideal for consultancies with multiple legal entities or sub-teams.
  • Automatic sync: Spaces, Folders, Tasks and time entries are mirrored in the background with priority. You work in ClickUp as usual, and billing keeps pace.

Data protection is built in: Click2Bill is hosted in the EU, operates GDPR-compliantly and stores your API tokens for ClickUp and Lexware Office encrypted. Sensitive client data stays protected where it belongs.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I bill my consulting hours from ClickUp in Lexware Office?

You track your consulting time in ClickUp as usual. Click2Bill then automatically transfers the tracked hours as line items into an invoice draft in Lexware Office, including the task name, description and date. You review and send the finished draft yourself from Lexware Office. If your team uses approval in ClickUp, you can choose to bill only approved hours.

Is Click2Bill suitable for consultants with multiple clients?

Yes. Click2Bill is designed for parallel client work. You assign each ClickUp Folder to a fixed Lexware Office client via client mapping, so hours always land on the right client. Via the multi-tenant architecture, multiple ClickUp workspaces or Lexware entities can additionally be managed as separate tenants, cleanly separated from one another.

How does Click2Bill ensure clean auditability for client billing?

Click2Bill first creates only an invoice draft in Lexware Office from the tracked time entries, which you review before sending. An automatic quality check additionally checks entries for overlapping bookings and empty descriptions. This creates a documented trail from the tracked hour to the billed line item. If your team uses approval in ClickUp, you can choose to bill only approved hours.

Does Click2Bill send invoices to my clients automatically?

No. Click2Bill only creates invoice drafts in Lexware Office and never sends anything on its own. Reviewing, approving and sending are deliberately your decisions in Lexware Office. As a consultant you retain full control over every invoice and your client communication before anything leaves your office.

Is there a ready-made ClickUp–Lexware solution or do I need Zapier or Make?

Click2Bill is a dedicated bridge between ClickUp time tracking and Lexware Office; there is currently no comparable end-to-end billing workflow elsewhere. Zapier effectively only offers the action of uploading a document to accounting for ClickUp and Lexware, and Make and n8n have ClickUp modules but only limited Lexware Office actions. An end-to-end time-to-invoice workflow does not exist there.

What does Click2Bill currently cost for consultants?

Click2Bill offers three plans: Starter at €0 (free forever), Pro at €39 per month and Advanced at €99 per month. You can try the Advanced plan free for 14 days. The free Revenue Leak Calculator can estimate how much forgotten hours are costing you in under a minute.

Stop giving away expensive consulting hours

Connect ClickUp with Lexware Office and automatically turn your tracked hours into invoice drafts. The Starter plan is free forever. Estimate what forgotten hours are costing you in the Revenue Leak Calculator first, then register in just a few minutes.