Timeslips Alternatives and Sage Timeslips Pricing for Law Firms

The Timeslips figures here come from Sage's own US pricing page, its system requirements article and archived copies of the pricing page back to 2022. Alternative prices come from each vendor's pricing page. We build CaseAgent, which is not a billing system, so nothing below ranks our own product against these tools.

How much does Sage Timeslips cost in 2026?

Timeslips Premium, the desktop product most firms run, is sold as a subscription in four tiers. Sage prints a starting price for the first license and promises "additional savings on all consecutive licenses" without saying how much, so a five person firm cannot price itself from the page.

Two details decide the real cost. LEDES export and the QuickBooks link start at Standard, so an insurance defense or corporate practice cannot stay on Starter. And the $1,250 is the price of one license; a firm with four timekeepers pays that plus three discounted licenses at a rate Sage gives you on the phone.

Timeslips prices have risen about 5 percent a step since 2022

Archived copies of the Sage pricing page show the Premium list moving up five times in four years. Starter went from $515 to $657 and Elite from $1,450 to $1,851, both about 28 percent. Timeslips Anywhere moved the other way, from $49 and $39 in mid 2025 to $44 and $34, then up to today's $46 and $35.

Promotions muddy the comparison. In October and November 2025 Sage offered new customers 30 percent off the first three months, which is where the $579, $1,101, $1,462 and $1,631 figures on some review sites come from. They were never the renewal price.

Why law firms look for a Timeslips alternative

Price is rarely the trigger on its own. The usual reason is the machine. Sage's system requirements, last updated March 31, 2026, ask for Windows 11 Pro or Windows 10 Pro, a wired network, no network attached storage and no virtual machines, and the QuickBooks link works only with QuickBooks Desktop 2021 to 2024. A firm replacing its server, moving to laptops on Wi-Fi or leaving QuickBooks Desktop finds Timeslips in the way.

The cloud route Sage offers does not solve it for most law firms. Sage's own launch note said Timeslips Anywhere "isn't a replacement for Timeslips Premium at this time" for firms that rely on its robust features or integrations, and there is no automatic conversion from Premium. Moving to Anywhere is the same CSV project as moving to any other vendor.

The third reason is trust money. Timeslips tracks client funds, but Premium's tier table has no trust accounting row, and the cloud tools below sell a trust ledger with the IOLTA reports a state bar audit asks for. If you keep trust in QuickBooks today because Timeslips could not, that is worth fixing in the same move.

Timeslips alternatives compared on price

These are the tools Timeslips firms most often move to, at each vendor's printed price per user a month, with the plan you need for LEDES export rather than the cheapest one on the page.

For four timekeepers on annual billing, Bill4Time Legal Pro comes to $2,832 a year, PracticePanther Business $4,272 and CosmoLex Core $4,752. Timeslips Premium Standard starts at $1,250 for the first license, so the cloud tools cost more on paper; what the difference buys is no server, browser access, and trust accounting in the same system. The full plan by plan list of which tools export which LEDES format is on our LEDES billing software comparison.

TimeSolv, if you want the closest thing to Timeslips

TimeSolv targets Timeslips firms directly, with a Timeslips converter and a published conversion price. LEDES and trust accounting are on its Legal plan only. It stopped printing per user prices in November 2025; the last table showed Legal at $53 a user billed yearly for one to four users, so get a written quote. Our TimeSolv pricing page traces every figure you will see quoted.

Bill4Time, if billing is the whole job

Legal Pro at $59 adds trust accounting, conflict checks, UTBMS codes and LEDES export to time and billing. It is one of the cheapest printed paths to both. Bill4Time raised this plan from $45 in February 2026, so price your renewal at today's list.

PracticePanther, CosmoLex or Clio, if you want matters too

Timeslips never tried to be case management. If the move is also a chance to put documents, calendars and intake in one place, these three bill and track matters. CosmoLex Pro at $129 adds the firm's general ledger, which matters if the books are leaving QuickBooks Desktop at the same time.

Tabs3, if you want to stay close to desktop habits

Tabs3 still sells an OnSite subscription from $69 a user alongside Cloud from $89, and its Transporter utility reads Timeslips data directly. LEDES export needs a separate Taskbill license with no printed price.

How to move off Timeslips without losing your receivables

Timeslips has no one click export of the whole database. You export by template under File, Export, or print reports to CSV: the client information listing, unbilled and billed slips, accounts receivable and funds balances. Timeslips stores a matter as a client that shares its first nickname with others, so decide how those map to matters before anything is imported.

1. Bill everything you can, then run final A/R and funds balance reports and file them as PDFs as well as CSV.
2. Ask each vendor for a fixed migration price in writing and what it does not move. TimeSolv's own data table, for example, marks payments as not migrated.
3. Move opening balances, not ten years of history, unless a client's billing guidelines require it.
4. Keep one Timeslips license until the first month closes cleanly in the new system. A secondhand report says a lapsed Premium subscription leaves the database read only, which is enough to look things up but not to bill.

If the books are moving from QuickBooks Desktop to QuickBooks Online in the same project and your bank only offers CSV downloads for older months, a CSV to QBO converter gets that statement history into the new company file so reconciliation picks up where it stopped. Do the bank side before the billing cutover, so the trust and operating balances you load into the new billing system agree with the bank on day one.

Timeslips alternatives, other questions

What is the best alternative to Timeslips for a small law firm?

For a small firm that mainly needs time, billing and a trust ledger in the cloud, Bill4Time Legal Pro at $59 a user a month billed yearly is the cheapest printed option with LEDES and trust accounting. TimeSolv Legal is the closest feature match and sells a Timeslips conversion for $350 plus $125 per extra user. Firms that want matters and documents too look at PracticePanther, CosmoLex or Clio.

How much does Sage Timeslips cost?

Sage prints Timeslips Premium at $657 a year for Starter, $1,250 for Standard, $1,659 for Pro and $1,851 for Elite, or $64, $119, $159 and $176 a month, as starting prices for the first license. Additional licenses get an unpublished discount. The cloud product, Timeslips Anywhere, is $46 a month for the first user and $35 for each additional user.

Is Sage Timeslips being discontinued?

No. Sage still sells Timeslips Premium and Timeslips Anywhere on its US site. What ended is the perpetual license: according to a Sage email quoted on its community forum, license only copies were sold until September 30, 2020 and there was no perpetual v2021. Premium now ships as a subscription with service releases rather than yearly versions.

Does Timeslips have a cloud version?

Yes, Timeslips Anywhere, launched March 31, 2023, at $46 a month for the first user and $35 for each additional one. Sage says it is not a replacement for Premium if you rely on its more robust features or integrations, its integrations are listed as planned, and there is no automatic conversion from Premium, so moving to it is a manual CSV import.

Can I export my data from Timeslips?

Partly. Timeslips has no single export of the whole database. You export by template under File, Export, or by printing reports such as the client information listing, slip listings, accounts receivable and funds balances to CSV or Excel. Matters are stored as clients sharing a first nickname, so map them carefully before you import anywhere else.

Does Timeslips do LEDES billing?

Yes, from the Standard tier up. Sage's Premium tier table lists LEDES 98B, Litigation Advisor and TyMetrix export as a Standard feature, so the $657 Starter tier cannot send a LEDES file.

A billing system makes sure recorded hours become invoices. It does nothing about the hours spent reading a production or rebuilding a timeline that a carrier will cut anyway. That is the work CaseAgent does inside the case, with the legal billing software left to whichever tool you choose.