Freelance Fixed-Price Project Profitability Tracker
Track actual project hours and costs against a fixed client quote to forecast profit, margin, and budget overruns before delivery.
Fixed-price project budget
Add completed work
Profitability as work progresses
Planning tool, not accounting software. Internal hourly cost is your own cost assumption, not the rate charged to the client. Taxes, payment risk and untracked overhead are excluded. No Toggl or invoice integration.
Catch a fixed-price project margin problem before delivery
Tracking time is not the same as knowing whether a project remains profitable. MarginWatch compares a fixed client quote with internal labor cost, outside expenses, actual logged hours and an explicit remaining-hours estimate. The completion forecast updates every time you log work.
What “margin” means here
Forecast profit = quote − (completed hours + estimated remaining hours) × internal labor cost − fixed outside costs. Forecast margin = forecast profit ÷ quote, when quote is greater than zero. This is a contribution estimate, not a tax return or full financial statement.
Use the gap between planned and forecast profit as a prompt to renegotiate scope or improve estimation—not as proof a client owes more money. Entries stay in local storage and can be exported to CSV.