In Flowmine, a client is any business entity that you want to invoice. For the most part, that means another company. But a client might also be another department or cost center within a large organization.
There is also a pre-defined Internal client. It behaves just like the clients that you create, except that its billing capabilities are disabled.
The purpose of the internal client is to provide a logical container for your in-house projects, like internal product development.
For now, however, we just want to create a client so that we can track a few hours and create an invoice.
Select
in the menu, and then hit the button.![Add client screen](/assets/support/getting-started/add-client.png)
Start by entering your client's name, preferably as you would like it to appear on future invoices and reports.
Next, enter a default hourly rate for this client. You can override this later on a project-by-project basis.
Finish up by hitting the
button located below the form.