How To Sum By Client
Learn how to efficiently sum hours worked and paid by client using the SUMIFS function in Google Sheets, along with tips for creating a clear summary table.
I have a bunch of projects with different clients. I have hours worked and I want to sum them all up, all of the hours paid and worked by the client. So, I want to create a little table here of each client. So, I'm going to do unique equals unique . I'm going to take the range of all of my clients here. And there I have each of the unique clients. I'm going to say how much have they paid altogether for all of these projects. So, I'll equals sum ifs. I particularly like to use sum ifs because it is a little bit easier syntax than sum if oddly. So my sum range , what am I actually going to add up is going to be this c column. What is the criteria range ? That's going to be my client list. And what is the criteria is this
particular client and end that. And that's some ifs. And I'm only summing one particular thing by one criteria , only this one client name. But I'm still using some ifs just because I like that syntax a little bit better. And I'm going to hit enter. And it's going to ask me to autofill . I will just copy and paste each of those. And that is all of the paid hours here. 135. We can check that 135. But how much have I worked? I'm going to do very similar thing here equals sum ifs. Sum range is going to be the hours worked, criteria range is going to be that client e column and criteria is going to be that client name again. So just shifting one single column which is which of the columns am I summing up or adding up.
Hit enter there and again to copy paste each of these. Now I don't necessarily want to add up the difference column. I want to make sure that this difference is for everything. So I will in this particular case equals paid minus and have that difference there and see oh I've worked two extra hours for Fred across projects. Actually only one project for Fred but this is going to be able to show you by client all of that added up information. But again you can do that with diff if you want the exact same way as we did with some ifs. But I like to do the math here just to double check
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