That's really interesting advice about avoiding granular time reporting, which I've been doing habitually. Your reasoning makes a lot of sense, and I think I'm going to move away from doing that.
As far as only breaking time down to half days -- I tried billing daily for a while, but it has felt clunky to me because I tend to work a ton some days and comparatively little others. Do you work at a relatively constant rate? If not, how do you decide when to bill a half day vs an hour?
I used to work more randomly when I was starting, but I am now having strict routine with set working hours. That makes it easy to bill by man-days.
Decision is usually by customer, I am trying to go with having man-days as billable unit as much as possible, but it is not battle worth winning every time. At the end what customer want is having clear idea how much is project going cost and trust that quality would be (at least) good enough.
As far as only breaking time down to half days -- I tried billing daily for a while, but it has felt clunky to me because I tend to work a ton some days and comparatively little others. Do you work at a relatively constant rate? If not, how do you decide when to bill a half day vs an hour?