Client Hours Tracking – Billable vs. Non-Billable

Billable vs. Non-Billable Teamwork Tags and Hours – High-Level

Billable Hours are for these categories:

  • Professional Services Management: Work done on staging instances, and any documentation, meetings and/or communications related any work done on staging instances. 
  • Engineering: Work done on any staging site, and any documentation, meetings and/or communications related to any work done on staging sites.

Non-billable hours are for these categories:

  • Professional Services Management: Bug fixes on production instances, and any documentation, meetings and/or communications related to any professional services management work for bug fixes on production insutances
  • Engineering: Bug fixes on production instances, and any documentation, meetings and/or communications related to any engineering work for bug fixes on production instances. 
  • Customer & Partner Care Team Support: All

*For exact details, please see the following slides with proper task and tag descriptions

Billable vs. Non-Billable Hours Tracking

Action Area

Task Type

Task Tag Name

Billable

Non-Billable

Pre-Sales

Pre-Sales – ANY Pre-Sales activity by ZINFI team member

Pre-Sales

 

x

Portal Set Up

Free Trial/Sandbox – Portal Set-Up for distribution

Free Trial Set Up

 

x

Staging – Portal Set-Up for client delivery

Staging Set Up

x

 

Production – Portal Set-Up for client delivery

Production Set Up

x

 

Configuration

New Configuration – Customer-Specific based on Use Case or Feature Request

Client Config

x

 

New Configuration – ZINFI Internal Only

ZINFI Config

 

x

Existing Configuration – Change Request to an existing configuration

Client Change Request

x

 

Portal Upgrade – Client Instance

Client Portal Upgrade

 

x

Customer-Specific Pre-Release – Bug Discovered during Staging Development or QA

Client Bug/Issue Pre

 

x

Customer-Specific Post-Release – Client Reported in Production

Client Bug/Issue Post

 

x

Customer/ZINFI Meeting Onboarding Kick-Off Call

Client Mtg Kick Off

 x

Customer/ZINFI Meeting – Regularly Scheduled

Client Mtg

x

 

Customer/ZINFI Meeting – Training

Client Mtg

x

 

Customer/ZINFI Meeting – Requirement/Use Case Capturing

Client Mtg

x

 

Customer/ZINFI Meeting – ZINFI Roadmap Presentation

Client Mtg Roadmap

 

x

Customer/ZINFI Meeting – Executive Escalation

Client Mtg Escalation

 

x

Internal Meeting – Customer Requirements

Int Mtg Client

x

 

Internal Meeting – Knowledge Transfer

Int Mtg Knowledge Transfer

 

x

Internal Meeting – General

Int Mtg General

 

x

Customer/ZINFI Report Creation

Client Reports

x

 

Client-Facing Documentation Creation/Editing

Client Docs

x

 

Development

Any ZINFI Internal Documentation (Non-Client Facing) Creation/Editing

Int Docs

 

x

New Development – Customer-Specific Request

Client Dev

x

 

R&D – Customer-Specific

Client R&D

x

 

Data Migration – Customer-Specific

Client Data Migration

 

UI Translation – Client-Specific

Client UI Translation

x

 

QA – Customer-Specific Development/Configuration

Client SQA

x

 

Other

L1 – Report Creation for Partner or Client

L1 Report Creation

 Additional Tag added to already existing Tag 

L2 or L3 – Report Creation for Partner or Client

L2/L3 Report Creation

 

x

Escalation

Escalation

 

x

Internal – Time Track (PTO, Vacation, etc…)

Int Time Track

 

x

Internal – Hiring

Int Hiring

 

x

Internal – Training

Int Training

 

x

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