Logging hours doesn't protect your margins. RetainerAlert monitors every retainer cap and fires alerts before you're working for free.
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Imagine your client's 30-hour retainer is a big pitcher of water. You use that water to fill three small cups (SEO, Web, and Video).
To get alerts in your time tracker, you split the 30 hours manually across three projects: 10 each for SEO, Web, and Video. Smart enough. But now every cup has its own alarm. The moment Web logs an extra hour, it screams “STOP!” at you, even if SEO and Video haven't touched their allocation and the pitcher is still more than half full. You're left doing the math yourself just to see if you're actually out of water.
It doesn't care about the cups. It puts the alarm on the Pitcher. We only alert you when the pitcher is actually running dry.
Standard trackers treat every project as an island. If a client has three active projects—SEO, Content, and Social—the tracker sees three separate budgets. It has no way to “sum them up” into your actual 50-hour retainer, leaving you to do the mental math yourself.
Many trackers hide basic budget alerts behind expensive “Pro” tiers. Paying $8 or $15 per user just to unlock a notification means a team of 15 pays $225/month for a simple email. Retainer Alert offers a flat agency fee that protects your margins without taxing your growth.
Most alert systems are all or nothing. Every project with a budget triggers notifications, including internal and non-billable ones. RetainerAlert lets you toggle exactly which projects count toward a client’s retainer cap. If only 2 of 6 projects are covered, only those 2 are tracked.
Not every hour logged to a client is a “retainer hour.” Sometimes you have one-off projects running alongside a monthly retainer. If your tracker can’t distinguish between the two, your “burn rate” data becomes noisy and inaccurate, leading to false alarms or missed overruns.
Most tools are architected around tasks, not contracts. They can tell you who worked on a specific ticket, but they can’t tell you the health of the entire client relationship. Retainer Alert bridges that gap by aggregating fragmented project data into a single, unified retainer total.
To check 30 retainer clients, you’d have to open 30 projects one by one. Nobody has time for that.
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