Taskomat ties every tracked second to what the project actually earns — freelance ROI management on a lifetime deal

The pitch: most freelance suites help you do the work. Taskomat's angle is telling you whether the work was worth doing. It runs projects (Kanban boards, planning, automation), tracks time, manages clients, and sends proposals and invoices — but every tracked second is wired to the project budget, the client's profitability, your effective hourly rate, and an annual financial target. The vendor's own framing is "manage your ROI, not your projects." Third-party coverage also mentions electronic invoicing with XML for EU compliance, which matters if you bill inside the EU.

Read this before you buy — it's the third overlapping deal we've covered in three weeks

We've now run Envoice (invoicing), Backlsh (automatic time tracking), and Taskomat, which does a version of both plus projects. They are not complements. Buying all three is how you end up with three lifetime licenses, three logins, and your business data split across them.

Pick by what you're actually missing:

• You only need to get paid → invoicing alone is the cheaper, simpler answer.
• You lose billable hours you can't reconstruct → automatic time capture is the fix; it's the one thing Taskomat's manual-ish tracking won't do for you in the background.
• You genuinely don't know which clients make you money → that's Taskomat's actual product, and neither of the others answers it.

If you already own one of the first two, the honest move is to skip this unless the profitability question is the one keeping you up.

Why we picked it

• Profitability per client is the question most freelancers can't answer. Plenty of people track hours; far fewer can tell you which client is quietly costing them money at their nominal rate. Wiring time to budget and target is a genuinely different product than a timer.
• The incumbents are all subscriptions. Bonsai runs about $25/mo and Plutio about $15–30/mo — a year of either is likely well past this deal's one-time price.
• All-in-one actually suits solo operators. Fragmentation is worse for one person than for a team; a single system that spans quote → work → invoice → verdict has real value at this size.

Watch out for

• All-in-one means every part is "good enough," not best-in-class. If you already love your invoicing or your Kanban, you'll be trading a tool you like for consolidation. Test the parts you'd be replacing before you commit.
• ROI math is only as honest as your inputs. The dashboards assume you log time accurately and set real budgets and rates. Garbage in, confident-looking dashboard out — this tool will happily show you a precise number built on guesses.
• It's the sort of tool you must migrate INTO. Clients, projects, rates, and history all have to move before it's useful, so run one full billing cycle inside the refund window rather than a weekend trial.
• Confirm the tier and the EU e-invoicing claim on the live page. Third-party writeups disagree on what each tier includes, and if XML e-invoicing is why you're buying, verify it's in the tier you're getting.