Do you know if you’re making money on your matters?
Whether the work is time billed or fixed fee, view it all in Smokeball.
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Key Data
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Dashboard
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Profitability
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Tracking performance and profitability can seem like an impossible task for a busy small business owner. The performance tracking in Smokeball takes into account all staff’s time and activities and gives you an accurate view of profitability, even if you charge fixed fees.
Fixed-fee businesses can now see where time is being spent and the true cost of performing the work for each client. Our dashboards give you incredible insights into the actual amount of work you and your staff are performing for each client. Over time you will see which clients and practice areas are the most profitable. Learn where you need to increase focus on specific areas or clients. View our "How to Make More Money in a Slowing Conveyancing Market" guide for Australian conveyancers and lawyers. |
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Reach new levels of success with data-driven decision making
You deserve the same data-driven analytics that other businesses get each day, which is why Smokeball provides all the information you need to generate and track goals in one place with Firm Insights. So you can see how your firm actually performs in real time. Don’t make decisions about your business based on feel. Use all the data that Smokeball provides on your clients and matters to make educated decisions and know exactly what challenges and opportunities are around the corner. |
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The Firm Insights dashboards provide flexible views of data in a way that is beneficial to your practice
Profit is a tangible number that can be tracked on every matter you and your staff touch. Smokeball’s Firm Insights profit dashboards interact with Smokeball’s automatic lawyer time tracking software to feed you up-to-the-minute profitability details. Know how much time a matter is taking your staff and whether that means efficiency and more money in your pocket. Whether your work is billed by the hour, fixed fee or a contingency structure, Smokeball’s Firm Insights will deliver a profitability analysis to assure you what you do is literally paying off. Get detailed breakdowns of new business, referral sources, time spent, and area-of-law-specific data. These captured analytics, powered with Smokeball legal billing software, will give you insights into your business you’ve never seen before. |
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Find Missing Time
Our clients report that they’ve been able to capture missing activities such as calls, tasks, legal document assembly and email management. By tracking and capturing all these activities, Smokeball is able to give you incredible insights into the actual amount of work you and you staff are performing for each client. |
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See the Profit
Over time, you will see which clients and practice areas are the most profitable for you. Learn where you need to adjust your fees or perhaps increase focus on specific practice areas. Smokeball's visual dashboards make it easy to understand each staff member’s volume of work on an individual matter; that includes lawyers, conveyancers and assistants. |
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Fixing the Fixed Fee
Don’t bill by the hour or capture your time? Fixed-fee conveyancers or law firms can now see where time is being spent and the true cost of performing the work for each client. Don’t overwork your staff on matters that simply are not paying off. Counsel your fixed-fee clients and manage their expectations based on real data from Firm Insights. Also, learn from past fixed-fee data to smartly staff similar matters moving forward. Whether it's staffing adjustments or actual adjustments to your fixed fees, let Firm Insights help navigate this difficult territory. |
See what our clients have to say
"Smokeball has the capacity to make your business more profitable with its Profitability Reporting. Now we can see if we’re making money on our matters. Before tracking our performance and profitability was a hard task for our busy firm. I am now finding it to be user-friendly and simple to understand - the reporting within Smokeball is far more meaningful than other programs."
Debbie Brown - Icon Legal - QLD
"Smokeball provides key reports, which will benefit us long term as they identify the strengths and weaknesses of the business. This is a huge asset to our small conveyancing business!
Daniel Short - Paul Short & Associates - SA
"I also love that you can produce easy to understand reports so that you can track, evaluate and learn. It gives you the ability to analyse effort and progress for a particular matter or for your entire business with just a click. Over time you can see which clients and practice areas are the most profitable and learn what to increase focus on.”
Alison Barnard - Croydon Conveyancing - VIC
"The profitability reporting feature is absolutely brilliant for small business owners. With Smokeball you don’t have to spend hours manually collating data and conducting reporting for your business. All vital information is available instantly with a click of a button! Using the data Smokeball provides on your clients and matters it enables you to make informed business decisions. Over time, you can see which clients and areas are the most profitable, so you know exactly where to focus your efforts."
Jacqui Pawelski - Smart Conveyancing - SA
Debbie Brown - Icon Legal - QLD
"Smokeball provides key reports, which will benefit us long term as they identify the strengths and weaknesses of the business. This is a huge asset to our small conveyancing business!
Daniel Short - Paul Short & Associates - SA
"I also love that you can produce easy to understand reports so that you can track, evaluate and learn. It gives you the ability to analyse effort and progress for a particular matter or for your entire business with just a click. Over time you can see which clients and practice areas are the most profitable and learn what to increase focus on.”
Alison Barnard - Croydon Conveyancing - VIC
"The profitability reporting feature is absolutely brilliant for small business owners. With Smokeball you don’t have to spend hours manually collating data and conducting reporting for your business. All vital information is available instantly with a click of a button! Using the data Smokeball provides on your clients and matters it enables you to make informed business decisions. Over time, you can see which clients and areas are the most profitable, so you know exactly where to focus your efforts."
Jacqui Pawelski - Smart Conveyancing - SA
