Capacity engine

Your next available date, calculated in real time.

Not a static calendar. Not a rough guess. The exact date you can start something new, derived from the hours still owed on every active project.

< 1ms
Recalculates on every render
Never stored
Always current, never stale
Calendar-aware
Skips your non-working days and holidays
Capabilities

What it does

  • Sums remaining hours on all projects with status "active"
  • Divides by your configured daily billing hours
  • Walks forward skipping blocked and holiday dates
  • Visible in the sidebar on every product screen
  • Clients see your real availability on the booking page
  • Projects show ON TRACK / AT RISK / OVERDUE against the same engine
How the number is made
  1. 1
    Remaining hours

    Estimated hours minus hours logged. No estimate means the project does not block capacity.

  2. 2
    Daily rate

    Set in Settings → Capacity. Defaults to 8 hours. Change it and the date shifts immediately.

  3. 3
    Calendar walk

    Skips weekends, your custom non-working days, and the holidays for your locale.

Want to try the calculation first?

Map your commitments in the browser and get an earliest start date. No account, nothing stored on our side.

Open the Capacity Calculator →
Or do it by hand, for free

A complete, editable file in Microsoft and OpenDocument formats. No signup, and it works whether or not you ever use Freshlance.

Available formats: XLSXODSPDF

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Free forever for 2 projects and 2 clients. No credit card, no trial clock.