Bill4Time vs TimeSolv: Law Firm Billing Guide 2026

The choice this search is making

A managing partner who searches this comparison is close to signing. The firm needs a system that records hours, prices the work, and sends an invoice the client will pay. Bill4Time and TimeSolv both sell that system under the names in the search. Neither pricing page reviewed for this guide describes a rename of either product, a merger of the two products, or a shutdown.

Legal time and billing software records hours and expenses against a matter, turns the approved entries into an invoice, and, on a legal plan, keeps client trust money apart from the firm's operating funds. TL;DR: choose the Legal Pro plan on Bill4Time when you want trust accounting, a conflict check, a UTBMS code set, and LEDES export at a posted per-user rate. Choose the Legal plan on TimeSolv when you want that legal set at the lower first-year list rate and you will get the card fee, the renewal, and any volume price in writing before you sign. Leave either base plan alone if the firm holds client trust funds.

The wider market of law firm billing software includes practice tools this pair does not try to be. This page stays on the two products in the search. The decision turns on the posted seat price, whether trust and electronic billing codes are on the plan you would actually buy, whether the card fee is printed, and how an approved bill reaches the accounting file. Outside review scores are reported later as separate facts. They are not a test of either product.

Key Takeaways

• The base plan on Bill4Time lists time tracking, invoicing, a client portal, QuickBooks, and payment processing. Trust accounting, conflict checking, the UTBMS code set, and LEDES export are listed on the legal plans.

• The Legal plan on TimeSolv lists trust accounting, LEDES billing, ABA task codes, conflict checks, and automatic trust transfer. The Pro plan's per-user price is not printed, so that plan is Quote-based.

• Read the annual cards as monthly rates paid yearly. The base plan on Bill4Time shows $39 per user per month when billed annually. The Legal plan on TimeSolv shows $44 per user per month on the annual option, next to first-year discount language.

• Card processing is printed for Bill4Time at 2.95%, and eCheck at 1%. The TimeSolv pricing pages checked here do not print a TimeSolvPay percentage, so that fee is Quote-based.

• A review score is a separate signal from a plan card. Use the card to see whether trust and LEDES are included. Use the score only to see how other users rated the product.

• If approved hours must still move into QuickBooks or Xero, keep a person between the draft and the sent bill. A second layer does not replace the billing system you choose here.

Who this is for

This guide is for the managing partner or operations lead who will sign the order at a small or mid-size firm. You bill hourly, flat, or a mix. Some clients may want a coded electronic bill. You either hold retainers in a trust account or you have confirmed that you do not.

You can use the plan cards if you can answer four questions. Do we hold client funds? Do any clients require LEDES or a task-code set? Which accounting system receives the paid bill, QuickBooks or Xero? Will we sign if the processor rate is not printed?

Red flags: you need court-rules docketing that these pricing pages do not sell as the product; you will pay only for a base plan while the firm holds client trust money; you require a printed TimeSolv card rate before signing and will not accept a Quote-based processor.

Walk this list before you book time with either sales team.

1. Name every matter that holds trust money today.

2. Name every client that rejects a plain PDF and wants a LEDES file.

3. Name the accounting file and the person who posts to it.

4. Count people who will enter time, and drop former staff who are still sitting in the old system.

5. Name the person who may approve a draft bill before it is emailed.

6. Ask sales only for the blanks on the public page: the Pro price, the price after the first-year discount, the volume price for your headcount, and the card rate.

How we evaluated these tools

This guide weights six checks a partner can verify from public pages before anyone sits through a walkthrough. The weights sum to 100%. They are a buying frame for a firm that is close to a decision. They are not a lab score, and neither product is given a point total here. What a vendor page lists is kept separate from how this guide reads it.

The price weight is high because a per-user rate changes every time you add a timekeeper, and both vendors print at least some of those rates. Trust is tied with it because client funds are the line that removes the cheaper Bill4Time card from consideration for many firms. LEDES and task codes matter when insurers or corporate clients specify the file format. The payment weight exists because a low seat price can be overtaken by a card rate you only hear on a call. The accounting weight exists because QuickBooks is on both products and Xero is listed on one of them. The last weight covers the practical start: what import the plan includes, whether a named contact is on the card, and how many days the trial lasts.

A feature that was absent from the pages opened for this guide is marked not listed. A price that was not printed is Quote-based. Outside ratings are quoted under each profile and are not folded into the weights.

Prices printed on the vendor pages

Pricing checked October 10, 2026.

On the Bill4Time pricing page, the Time and Billing plan costs $49 per user per month, or $39 per user per month when billed annually. The enterprise version of that billing plan costs $79 per user per month, or $69 when billed annually. The Legal Pro plan costs $69 per user per month, or $59 when billed annually. The Legal Enterprise plan costs $99 per user per month, or $89 when billed annually. The page says yearly billing saves up to 25%, and it offers a 14-day trial with no credit card. The posted gap between the monthly and annual cards is $10 per user per month on the base plan and $10 per user per month on the Legal Pro plan. Annual base rate: $39 per user according to Bill4Time (2026).

Use those pairs rather than the savings slogan by itself. The page claims savings of up to 25% on yearly billing. The numbers a partner can multiply are the ones printed on each card. The pricing page offers the 14-day trial and does not display a permanent free plan.

Card payments on this processor cost 2.95%, and eCheck payments cost 1% per payment. The fee page's own example deposits a $100 card payment in full and debits a $2.95 fee separately, and it deposits a $100 eCheck in full and debits a $1 fee separately. Card deposits are described as 2 to 3 business days, and eCheck deposits as 3 to 5 business days, excluding weekends and bank holidays. Network fees from the card brands can be extra and are passed through without a markup described on that page. Card fee: 2.95% per payment according to Bill4Time (2026).

On the TimeSolv pricing page, the client-engagement add-on costs $147 per month when billed annually, for up to 3 users, or $177 month to month. The website add-on costs $149 per month when billed annually, or $159 month to month. The page says you pay per active user, that volume pricing for more users is a sales inquiry, that the trial lasts 10 days and needs no card, and that an annual plan takes 25% off the first year while a monthly plan takes 25% off the first four months. The same page says the account goes inactive at the end of the trial unless you subscribe, and it identifies TimeSolv as part of ProfitSolv. The Pro plan's per-user price is not printed there, so that plan is Quote-based. CRM add-on: $147 per month according to TimeSolv (2026).

The Legal plan on TimeSolv is listed at $58 per user per month, or $44 per user per month when paid annually, beside first-year savings language, and the same page states a 97% collection rate. Treat that collection figure as the vendor's statement on the page. The page does not print a separate year-two rate, and it tells firms to ask sales about volume pricing when they add users. First-year annual rate: $44 per user according to TimeSolv (2026).

Annual prices in this table are the per-user monthly amounts charged when you pay yearly, except the two add-on rows, which are flat monthly amounts, and except the Legal row for TimeSolv, which is the first-year annual figure printed on the legal pricing page. The CRM row is not the price of a billing seat. A buyer who treats $147 as the cost of the time and billing product is reading the add-on card.

Plan features that change a legal bill

The matrix below uses the plan cards, not a blended "typical" firm. "Listed" means the feature appears on the plan page opened for this guide. "Not listed" means it does not appear there. It does not mean a salesperson is forbidden to add it.

Trust is the disqualifier on the base card. The Bill4Time pricing page puts trust accounting, the conflict checker, contingency billing, task workflows, an invoice cover letter, the UTBMS code set, LEDES export, and Box or NetDocuments integration on the Legal Pro plan. The Legal Enterprise plan includes that Legal Pro set and adds custom data fields, custom LEDES export, advanced data import, and a dedicated success specialist. The base card lists time tracking, tasks, clients, a client portal, expenses, accounting, invoicing, payment processing, reporting, documents, a mobile app, QuickBooks, calendar sync, and encrypted backup. Accounting on that base card is not the same line as trust accounting.

The legal pricing page for TimeSolv includes trust accounting, automatic trust transfer and holds, LEDES billing, ABA task codes, and conflict checks. It also lists split billing, batch invoicing, a client portal, flexible rates, QuickBooks, Xero, Outlook, LawPay, and Office 365, plus mobile entry that works offline. The main pricing page shows a Pro column beside a Legal column. Most time-and-billing rows are marked for both. The trust, LEDES, automatic trust transfer, and conflict rows carry fewer marks. Confirm the Pro column with sales before you treat those controls as included. Firms that live in code sets can compare the UTBMS list and the ABA list against the practical map in ABA task-code billing.

US Tech Automations is not a column in this matrix. Where the billing system stops at a saved time entry, a configurable queue can read the unbilled rows and wait for a person before a draft moves, which is the path described later in this guide.

Payment facts are uneven. Bill4Time prints the card rate and the eCheck rate. TimeSolv prints that online payments, recurring payments, and built-in processing are on the Legal plan, and it does not print the percentage. Document sharing and e-signature on the TimeSolv comparison are marked as an extra add-on. A partner who needs both a printed seat price and a printed card rate can check both on the Bill4Time side today. On the TimeSolv side, the Legal seat price is printed and the card rate is still Quote-based.

Bill4Time when you want every rate posted

Best fit is a firm that will multiply a printed rate by headcount and that needs the legal controls on the same order. The Legal Pro plan fits when you need trust, conflicts, contingency billing, UTBMS, and LEDES export, and you do not need a named success specialist on the card. The Legal Enterprise plan fits when you also want custom fields, a custom LEDES export, advanced data import, and a dedicated success specialist. The base plan fits only when the firm does not hold client trust funds and no client requires LEDES. The enterprise version of the base billing plan adds custom fields, a dedicated account manager, advanced import, and advanced reports, and it still does not list trust or LEDES.

The limits are on the same cards. Customizable data fields are absent from the Legal Pro list. Basic data import is what Legal Pro lists. Advanced data import is what the enterprise cards list. The public time-entry article documents a GET route for time entries and fields such as invoiceId, billableTime, and entryDate. That article shows read filters. It does not show a create call, so a write-back into the timer should not be assumed from that page. Xero is not on the pricing cards. QuickBooks is. Box and NetDocuments appear on the Legal Pro card, which matters if the firm already stores files there.

Outside reviews are a separate sample, not a feature. Capterra's product page, last updated August 26, 2026, shows 210 reviews, with 98% of the sentiment positive, 1% neutral, and 1% negative, and it lists ease of use at 4.8, customer service at 4.8, features at 4.7, and value at 4.7. Bill4Time review score: 4.8 out of 5 according to Capterra (2026).

Implementation follows the import the plan actually names. Export clients, matters, and open balances from the old system. Use basic data import on the Legal Pro plan, or advanced data import on an enterprise plan. If you are moving trust balances, rebuild those ledgers and compare them to the bank before the first live invoice. Have one partner read a draft bill. Confirm that one invoice reaches QuickBooks the way the bookkeeper expects. Turn on payment links after that draft is right. The 14-day trial is the window on the pricing page. It is long enough to test a slice of matters, and it is a poor place to convert years of history for a large roster.

TimeSolv when the legal plan is the product

Best fit is a firm that wants the legal billing set, may post to Xero as well as QuickBooks, and will pin down the unprinted numbers before it signs. The Legal plan fits when trust, LEDES, ABA codes, conflict checks, and automatic trust transfer are why you are leaving the old system. The Pro plan fits only after sales writes a price and confirms you do not need those legal controls. The CRM add-on is a separate purchase for intake forms and drip campaigns, and the printed annual price covers up to 3 users. It is not a billing seat.

The blanks are the limits. The card rate is Quote-based. The price after the first-year discount is not printed. The Pro per-user price is not printed. Secure document sharing and e-signature are an add-on on the comparison page. Volume pricing is a sales conversation, so a growing roster should not assume the $44 figure simply multiplies out to the contract. The comparison does show a dedicated account manager, live onboarding and migration, and phone, email, and chat support across the plans on that table.

Review samples disagree with each other because they are different groups of users, and this guide does not average them into one rank. Capterra's reviews page, last updated August 26, 2026, shows 117 reviews, ease of use at 4.6, and customer service at 4.7. TimeSolv review score: 4.6 out of 5 according to Capterra (2026). A separate G2 sample is larger and slightly lower. G2 review score: 4.5 from 420 according to G2 (2026).

Implementation can start from the live onboarding the comparison lists, and the firm should still reconcile trust itself. Map one matter from time entry through a draft invoice, including a split bill if you use that feature. Connect QuickBooks or Xero only after that draft matches the matter. Ask for the Pro price if you need it, the renewal after year one, the volume price for your headcount, and the card rate in the same written quote, so you can set it beside the posted Bill4Time rates. The 10-day trial is the window on the pricing page. Pick the matters you will rebuild before that clock starts, because the page says the account goes inactive if you do not subscribe.

What list rates cost for a small roster

The rows below multiply the posted annual rate on the Legal Pro plan, $59 per user per month, and the posted first-year annual rate on the Legal plan, $44 per user per month. They are list-rate arithmetic for an illustration. They are not a quote. TimeSolv says volume pricing for additional users is available from sales and does not print the bands, so any of these headcounts can be replaced by a written volume price.

Take a six-lawyer firm as an illustration, not as a contract. Six seats on the Legal Pro plan at the posted annual rate of $59 per user per month come to $354 a month, which is $4,248 a year. Six seats on the Legal plan at the posted first-year annual rate of $44 per user per month come to $264 a month, which is $3,168 a year. The list-rate gap is $90 a month, or $1,080 a year, before taxes and before any volume price that has not been printed. A card payment sits on a different line from the seat price: the published example on the Bill4Time fee page is a $100 payment with a $2.95 fee. If that firm posts the approved bill into Xero, the reviewer checks Invoice.AmountDue on the accounting invoice, the open balance on the invoice object in Xero's payments documentation, before anyone treats the bill as cleared.

The $1,080 gap is real only while both firms stay on those posted rates. It narrows or flips if TimeSolv's year-two price is higher than $44, if a volume quote is lower, or if card fees on one side exceed the seat savings. Put the processor quote on the same page as the seat quote before you call the lower seat price the cheaper system.

Getting approved time into the accounting file

Both products can hold the timer, the matter, and the invoice. QuickBooks is listed on both pricing pages. Xero is listed on the TimeSolv pages and is not listed on the Bill4Time pricing cards. The gap shows up when the firm wants unbilled hours gathered, codes checked, and a person looking at the draft before anything is marked approved. That path is configuration. It is not a button this guide can point to on either pricing card.

A proposed US Tech Automations workflow starts when a timekeeper saves hours, or when the narrative is sitting in a mailbox instead of on a timer. The read step uses the published GET route for time entries, keeps rows whose invoiceId is empty, and groups the hours by client and matter. The output is a review list, not a sent invoice. The prerequisite is an API key the firm is allowed to issue, plus a named reviewer who accepts or returns each group before a bill is created. Firms that lose the narrative in email can line that queue up with moving time from email into billing.

The next step in that workflow maps ABA or UTBMS codes onto the lines a reviewer has accepted, then prepares the handoff to QuickBooks or, where the firm uses the connection listed for TimeSolv, to Xero. The reviewer compares the draft with Invoice.AmountDue so the open balance is visible before the bill is marked approved. The prerequisite is a connected accounting file and a rule that a person, not the automation, is the one who approves. The output is a draft the partner can still edit. This describes a configurable design. It does not describe a firm already running it, and it does not claim a measured change in collections.

Zapier, Make, and n8n can carry a similar handoff when the firm builds it. Those tools can keep run histories, retries, error branches, and audit evidence when someone configures those parts. The buyer then owns observability, idempotency, escalation, access controls, and the upkeep when a field name changes. A proposed US Tech Automations design can set the review gate, the code map, and who receives an escalation, with the API key or the export file as a prerequisite and with a person still approving the bill. The difference is who maintains that path. Neither description means the entries are already moving.

US Tech Automations is the wrong layer when the firm only needs the timer, the invoice, and the trust ledger inside one product. It is the wrong layer when nobody can issue an API key or produce an export. It is also the wrong layer when one alert inside a tool the staff already runs is enough, and someone on the team will keep that alert working. In those cases the billing product is the whole system. Firms whose books look more like an accounting practice than a docket can read time and billing for accounting firms beside this comparison, and they still do not need a second product if one system already holds the hours and the invoice.

Mistakes that pick the wrong plan

These are the misses that show up after the order, when the first trust deposit or the first insurer bill fails.

• Buying the base plan because the annual card is $39 per user, then discovering that trust accounting, the conflict check, UTBMS, and LEDES export are on the legal plans.

• Treating the $147 client-engagement add-on as the per-user price of the billing product. That figure is a flat add-on for up to 3 users.

• Treating $44 as the renewal price. The legal pricing page ties that figure to first-year annual language and does not print year two.

• Comparing a directory's price label with the vendor card. This guide uses the vendor pricing pages for every dollar figure above.

• Assuming Xero is available because one of the two products lists it. The Bill4Time pricing cards list QuickBooks and do not list Xero.

• Letting an automated handoff mark a bill approved. The useful check is a person reading the draft, the codes, and the open balance.

Short glossary

• IOLTA. The client-trust rules that keep a retainer apart from the firm's operating money. This is why the trust line on a plan card matters more than the color of the invoice.

• LEDES. A standard electronic bill format that many insurers and corporate clients require. The Legal Pro card lists a LEDES export. The TimeSolv Legal page lists LEDES billing.

• UTBMS. The task and activity code set named on the Legal Pro card. It is the code list a firm uses when the client wants work described in set categories.

• ABA task codes. The code set named on the TimeSolv Legal page. Confirm that your clients accept this set before you treat it as a match for a UTBMS requirement.

• Active user. The unit TimeSolv says you pay for. People who no longer enter time should be removed before you accept a per-user quote.

• Matter. The case or project time is recorded against. Rates, trust balances, and budgets hang off the matter, not off the client alone.

• Split billing. Dividing one set of fees across more than one paying party. The TimeSolv pages list it. The Bill4Time pricing cards opened here do not.

• Prebill. A draft invoice a partner reviews before the client sees it. The automation described above stops at this draft until a person approves it.

Questions to settle before you sign

Is the Legal plan on TimeSolv cheaper than the Legal Pro plan on Bill4Time?

At the posted annual list rates, the first year is lower on TimeSolv: $44 per user per month against $59 per user per month. A volume quote or an unprinted renewal can close that gap, so compare written quotes before you treat the list gap as the contract.

Which plans include trust accounting?

The legal plans include it. On Bill4Time that is the Legal Pro plan and the Legal Enterprise plan. On TimeSolv that is the Legal plan described on the legal pricing page. The base billing plan on Bill4Time does not list trust accounting.

What card fee is printed?

Bill4Time publishes 2.95% for cards and 1% for each eCheck, with network fees that can be added. TimeSolv does not publish a TimeSolvPay percentage on the pricing pages checked for this guide, so that rate is Quote-based.

Is $44 the price in year two?

No. The legal pricing page shows $44 per user per month on the annual option next to first-year savings language, and it does not print a separate renewal rate. Ask for year two in the same quote as the seat price.

Do these products still go by these names?

Yes. Both pricing pages still sell Bill4Time and TimeSolv under those names. The TimeSolv pricing page also says the product is part of ProfitSolv, and the plan names on the page stay Pro and Legal.

When should the firm skip a second automation layer?

Skip it when one product already holds the timer, the invoice, and the trust ledger, when you cannot get an API key or an export, or when a single alert your own staff will maintain is enough. Add a review queue only when entries must be coded and checked before they leave the billing system.

The decision to write down

Write the plan name on the order, not only the brand. If the firm holds trust money or sends LEDES bills, the realistic cards are the Legal Pro plan or the Legal Enterprise plan on Bill4Time, and the Legal plan on TimeSolv. Get four unprinted TimeSolv items in writing before you compare totals: the Pro price if you need that plan, the renewal after year one, the volume price for your headcount, and the card rate. Keep the CRM add-on off the seat-price line. If approved time still has to reach the accounting file with a person checking codes and the open balance, see how US Tech Automations configures this as that review step, with the API or the export as a prerequisite and with the partner still approving the draft.