# What's the difference between phases and milestones?

I'd like to understand the difference, I use milestones simply to apply my monthly retainer, but I am not sure that this is a best practice.

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- Posted at: about 6 years ago
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## Comments
### Comment 1

This link should be helpful: https://help.timesolv.com/managing-matter-plans

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- Posted at: over 4 years ago
- Author title: Partner



### Comment 2

You can use milestones in different ways.  A 'billable milestone' allows you to create fixed fee invoices.  A regular milestone can represent a date something is due.  

TimeSolv allows you to keep things very simple or to build out Matter Plans that include phases, tasks, and budgets.  If you are just doing a fixed fee invoice, you will not need to worry about phases, etc.  If you wish to learn more about matter plans, please visit https://help.timesolv.com/article/317-managing-tasks

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- Posted at: about 6 years ago




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