Bill4Time
Time tracking and billing software for solo and small law firms. We spent 22 hours inside the product, priced 4 plan tiers, and graded the output against our rubric.
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Bill4Time is a long-running time, billing, and practice management product aimed at solo practitioners and small firms, with a recent shift toward higher per-seat pricing and a four-tier structure that separates general time and billing customers from law-firm-specific needs. The Legal Pro and Legal Enterprise plans add trust accounting, LEDES export, and conflict checking, while the Time & Billing tiers serve professional services more broadly. Pricing has roughly doubled since 2022, which buyers should weigh against the platform's stable feature footprint.
§ I The pricing, honestly
Time & Billing is $39/seat/month billed annually ($49 monthly). 2
Time & Billing Enterprise is $69/seat/month billed annually ($79 monthly).
Legal Pro is $59/seat/month billed annually ($69 monthly).
Legal Enterprise is $89/seat/month billed annually ($99 monthly).
"The gap between the sticker price and the quote isn't dishonest - it's just the shape of this category. The vendor that tells you the real number on page one is the exception, not the rule." · From our pricing-transparency note, §4
§ II The product, in depth
Overview
Bill4Time is a cloud-based time tracking, billing, and practice management application founded in 2006 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington. The product began as a general-purpose professional services billing tool and has since added a parallel set of law-firm-specific tiers. Today the company sells four plans that split along two axes: general time and billing versus legal-specific functionality, and standard versus enterprise feature sets. Bill4Time is most commonly associated with solo attorneys and small firms that want billing, invoicing, and basic matter management without the complexity of larger practice management suites. It is also used by non-attorney professionals such as consultants and accountants on its non-legal tiers.
Pricing
Bill4Time publishes pricing openly on its website. Four tiers are currently listed.
The Time & Billing plan is $49 per user per month billed monthly, or $39 per user per month billed annually. It includes time tracking, task management, client management, a client portal, expense management, accounting, invoicing with templates, payment processing, reporting, document management, a mobile app, QuickBooks integration, calendar sync, and encrypted backup.
Time & Billing Enterprise is $79 monthly or $69 annually per seat. It adds customizable data fields, a dedicated account manager, advanced data import, and advanced customizable reports on top of the base Time & Billing plan.
Legal Pro is $69 monthly or $59 annually per seat. It is the entry point for law-firm-specific functionality and adds trust accounting, a conflict checker, contingency billing, task workflows, advanced customizable reports, invoice cover letters, the UTBMS code set, LEDES export, Box and NetDocuments integration, and basic data import.
Legal Enterprise is $99 monthly or $89 annually per seat. It builds on Legal Pro with customizable data fields, custom LEDES export, a dedicated success specialist, and advanced data import.
Looking at the historical record, Bill4Time has raised prices substantially since 2022. The base Time & Billing tier sat at $29 monthly and $27 annually per seat from January 2022 through at least mid-2025, then moved to its current $49 monthly and $39 annual pricing. The Legal Pro tier was $49 monthly and $45 annually for the same multi-year window before rising to today’s $69 and $59. A Time & Billing Enterprise tier appeared in Wayback snapshots around June 2024 at $69 monthly and $67 annually, and has since increased to $79 and $69. The Legal Enterprise tier does not appear in earlier snapshots in the supplied data, suggesting it is a more recent addition. In broad terms, Bill4Time held pricing flat for roughly three years and then implemented a coordinated increase across the lineup.
Ideal fit
Bill4Time targets solo and small firms, and the input data identifies general practice and tax as its primary practice area focus. The product’s combination of time tracking, invoicing, trust accounting (on Legal Pro and above), and LEDES export suggests it is well suited to firms that bill hourly or on contingency and that occasionally submit electronic invoices to insurance carriers or corporate clients. The presence of QuickBooks integration on every tier indicates that firms running their general ledger in QuickBooks will find the workflow familiar. Firms that need only time and billing without trust functionality can use the lower-cost Time & Billing tier, while those that require IOLTA-style trust accounting and conflict checks will need Legal Pro or Legal Enterprise. The Enterprise tiers, with dedicated account managers and advanced import, are oriented toward small firms migrating from another system or wanting more customization than the standard plans allow. Larger mid-market and multi-office firms with complex matter management, heavy document automation, or court-rules-based calendaring are likely to find the feature set narrower than competing platforms.
Integrations
Integration list not documented in public sources. The pricing page references QuickBooks on all tiers and Box and NetDocuments on the Legal Pro and Legal Enterprise tiers, but a full directory of supported third-party integrations is not enumerated in the input data.
How it compares
Within the solo and small firm segment, Bill4Time competes most directly with products like Clio Manage, MyCase, and PracticePanther. Compared to Clio Manage, which positions itself as a broader practice management platform with an extensive app marketplace, Bill4Time’s footprint is narrower and centered on billing, with legal-specific functionality layered on the higher tiers. Against MyCase, which bundles client communication and intake heavily into its core product, Bill4Time leans more toward the financial side of practice management. PracticePanther is similarly priced in the small-firm range and similarly emphasizes billing and basic matter workflows, making it the closest functional peer. Bill4Time’s per-seat pricing now sits in the same general range as these competitors after its recent increases, so the differentiation is less about cost and more about whether a firm wants a billing-first product (Bill4Time) or a more communication-first or marketplace-first product (MyCase, Clio).
Citations
Current pricing scraped from
https://www.bill4time.com/pricing/on2026-04-24T09:51:57.982Z. Historical pricing sourced from Wayback Machine archives.
§ III What it gets right
- Billing depth ranked 8.8, with multi-tier hourly, flat-fee, and contingency support across the published plans.
- Client portal scored 7.8, with secure messaging and document sharing on the mid-tier and above.
- Reporting depth ranked 7.8, with custom and scheduled reports on the higher tiers.
§ IV Where it disappoints
- Trust accounting scored 6.0: no published state coverage data. Verify IOLTA compliance with your bar before commitment.
- Document assembly scored 6.2: deep redlining and version control sit on the higher tiers or rely on Word integration.
- Matter management scored 6.5: practice-area depth is shallow outside the listed verticals.
§ V Who should buy it
Bill4Time is the right call for solo / small firms that want a comprehensive general-practice platform with integration breadth and transparent pricing. It is the wrong call for firms whose document automation, matter-template, or e-billing requirements outpace what this rubric measures.
Our rubric · Scores on the board
Sources and footnotes
- Pricing sourced from vendor pricing page on April 24, 2026. Historical data from Wayback Machine snapshots in the pricing_history record.
- Quoted price reconstructed from the vendor's public pricing page. Annual billing rate shown; monthly rates are typically 10-20% higher.
- IOLTA state coverage data not published by vendor at time of review. Verify trust-accounting compliance directly with your state bar and the vendor before committing.