Effort, deadlines and invoices

What Lexora measures

While a segment is open in the editor, Lexora counts the time you spend on it: from opening it to your last change, and the reading before you confirm it. A pause longer than two minutes counts as two minutes. The time stays on your computer: it is not shared with a team or sent anywhere.

For each segment that started from an AI or DeepL draft, Lexora also keeps the draft, so it can tell how much of it you changed.

Post-editing effort

Open Insights with a project selected. Post-editing effort shows how many confirmed segments started from a draft, their edit rate (the share of words you changed, added or removed), how many were kept, lightly, moderately or heavily edited or rewritten, your time and your words per hour.

When Lexora also knows your pace from scratch, it says how long post-editing took compared with translating the same amount yourself. Save the effort report, or Post-editing effort under Reports in the Export dialog, saves it all as a page for your client.

Test a sample before you quote

1. Make the sampleUnder Test a sample before you quote, choose the document, 10 to 30 sentences and Lexora AI or DeepL, then Make the sample. Lexora drafts sentences spread through the document. AI must be on for the project.
2. Post-edit itThe editor opens on the sample, filtered to it (Post-editing sample in the list of what to show). Post-edit and confirm as usual.
3. Read the rateEnter what you want to earn per hour. Lexora shows the rate per word that pays it at your pace on the sample, and, when it knows your pace from scratch, your usual rate scaled by how long post-editing took.

End the sample forgets which segments it was; their translations stay.

Time left and delivery dates

Time left in Insights says how long the work left takes at your pace, when you finish at the hours you translate a day, and what the delivery date asks of each working day. A tag beside the time says how the date looks: On track, Tight when it leaves little room for anything else, At risk when it asks more than you translate in a day, or Overdue. Your pace is measured separately for drafts, exact and fuzzy matches and translating from scratch; until a kind has ten minutes of work behind it, Lexora estimates it and says so.

With all projects shown, Finish at your pace lists when each would be done if you worked through them in order of delivery date, and marks those that would be late.

Invoices

1. Your detailsUnder Invoice, open Your details on invoices: your name or business, address, tax ID, how to pay you, the days to pay, VAT if you charge it, and notes for every invoice, such as a VAT exemption. Check what your country requires an invoice to say.
2. ChargeChoose weighted words from the memory analysis, source words, the hours Lexora recorded, or a fixed amount, and add the client’s address.
3. Create itCreate invoice saves the invoice as a page; open it in your browser to print it or save it as PDF. Invoices are numbered in order.

Lexora remembers each invoice until you choose Mark as paid; Insights shows the unpaid ones and those past their date. Everything stays on your computer.