How we priced Clockout
Pricing should read like a promise, not a decoder ring.
There are three numbers, and they should be the three numbers you expect them to be.
A lot of freelance software charges you per user, even when the “team” is one person with a laptop. It makes the billing math exciting right before it makes the decision annoying. Clockout doesn’t work that way. If you’re the owner of your practice, you pay one number. If teammates join later, each one is a small, visible add — not a tier change.
The free plan is the full core workflow. Track time, take session notes, send invoices, from any device. It is not a crippled trial. Many freelancers stay on Start for months while they decide whether the habit sticks — and the billing trail is built on Start in exactly the same way it is on Pro.
Pro exists for one reason: once you’re sending invoices steadily, the admin around those invoices starts to matter. You want reminders to chase on a cadence. You want a Stripe pay-now button. You want recurring templates for the retainer client. That’s $4/month. The upgrade pays for itself the first time a reminder collects an invoice you would have otherwise hand-chased.
“If the pricing page needs a glossary, the pricing is wrong.”