Time billing, utilization tracking, and tax-season capacity planning — built for CPA firms and bookkeeping practices.
CPA firms and bookkeeping practices bill by the hour, plan capacity around tax season, track utilization for partner draws, and need reliable billable-vs-non-billable accounting. Tempough handles all of these without the QuickBooks ProAdvisor-grade overhead of practice management tools like Karbon or Canopy. It doesn't do CPE tracking, client portals with secure document exchange, or tax-software integration — those stay in your existing tools.
Schedule the team's January-April capacity in advance with drag-to-create assignments. Time-off requests around tax season get flagged for conflict. Forecast-vs-actual variance at the end of April tells you which engagements ate more hours than estimated — useful for next year's tax-season staffing.
Per-CPA billable %, with configurable annual targets (e.g. 1,600 billable hours/year for senior, 1,400 for managers). Practice-area splits (audit / tax / advisory) at Team Pro via team groupings. The data partner meetings run on.
Partner bills at $450/hr, manager at $275/hr, senior at $175/hr, staff at $125/hr — same engagement. Tempough's per-member rate model handles this. Some firms use blended rates for fixed-fee engagements — per-project rate override handles that.
Tax prep is typically fixed-fee, audit is typically hourly, advisory varies. Tempough tracks internal cost (hours × rate) regardless of billing model, so the margin report tells you whether a $5,000 tax prep engagement actually paid out. Reveals fixed-fee underpricing.
PTO and holidays deduct from capacity automatically. The forecast respects time off, so when you're planning April 15 capacity you're not over-allocating someone on vacation. Time-off requests route to managers via the org chart.
CSV exports map to QuickBooks Online's import schema. Time + invoices land cleanly. Tempough doesn't replace your bookkeeping — it feeds it. Useful when the same firm uses QBO for client books AND its own books.
Not the full feature list — the ones that map directly onto how accounting firms actually work.
Tax-season forecast, time-off integration, multi-week assignments.
Annual hour targets per CPA. Practice-area splits (Team Pro).
Per-member + per-engagement rates. Resolves automatically.
Per engagement, per client. OT-aware. Reveals fixed-fee underbids.
Weekly review. Locked at approve. Important when billing is the source of truth.
Time + invoices in QBO format. Native fit for QB-centric workflows.
Team covers cost rates, margin, approvals, forecasting, and team reports. Team Pro adds team groupings for practice-area splits (audit / tax / advisory) + branded invoices + document distribution. Accounting firms over 5 CPAs typically land on Team Pro.
The audience-specific case for switching from Harvest.
Timer + invoices
Retainers + approvals
Utilization + margin
Forecasts + QBO
Phases + milestones
Billable hours + matters
Retainers + channel reports
Phase-gate work + change orders
No credit card. Cancel any time. Full feature set during the trial.