Everyone in the world of business realizes that time is money. There is no better occasion to prove the validity of this saying than when running our own company. Time is everything: the efficiency of your employees, the finished projects and so on. You can’t afford to lose it if you want your company to be profitable instead of being the source of misery. Count it. The more efficiently, the better. How? Every project should be carefully monitored – the better is the outcome, the more satisfied is the customer. The more satisfied is the customer, the more people will know about your reliability. We are presenting some examples of tools that track project time (and not only that) for projects. With their help, you may gain the upper hand in the world of business; they go as follow:
TIMECAMP
You are not a clock, that is sure. You need a helping hand, so to say. Timecamp can offer it to you! Besides having numerous handy functions at its disposal, from time reporting system, billing to invoicing, the tool is an advanced time-tracking and project timesheet software, also, one of the best. The app owes its reputation in this matter to, firstly, timer, secondly, time diaries. The second of two mentioned features is particularly significant since they are irreplaceable when the need to document the work arises. No manager should be disappointed with Timecamp, neither of small, medium or large businesses. The app will meet every expectation. Problems with the inefficiency of work time tracking apps? The inaccuracy of client bills, or reports? Do you find it difficult to tackle and solve business problems? TimeCamp is just for you!
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Some of TimeCamp’s top features:
- Time and billing software,
- Comes with a wide range of platforms. The tool is available for Desktop (app for Windows, Mac, and Linux, and has native mobile apps available for iOS and Android to help users track their time regardless of location,
- Automatically records time usage of each application running on your computer.
- Monitors the time devoted to individual documents,
- Easy budgeting – budgeting function lets you estimate how much time the implementation of individual projects will take, and thus effectively plan the use of human resources and make a valuation of future similar projects,
- Integration with popular project management software such as Trello, Basecamp, Podio, Pivotal Tracker, Jira,
- Measures the working time by particular categories.
- Records the time spent away from a computer – detects when user ceased to be active and for how long it lasted,
- Automatic time tracking based on keywords which allows you to switch between tasks without any effort,
- Accurately bill your customers,
- Turn time entries into invoices basing on estimated hourly rates.
For Mobile
If you prefer to track your time through mobile phones, we have an app that is tailored to your needs! The newest version of TimeCamp’s app for iPhones and Android phones offer an intuitive interface with a lot of great features, like:
- Tap to start or stop tracking time from every place on earth,
- Alternatively, create time entries manually,
- Generate reports of your time,
- Browse your projects and tasks,
- Log your time offline,
- Easily make notes on every time entry you are working on,
- Edit time entries with just a few clicks,
- Mark time entry as billable or non-billable,
- Browse and edit your historical data or plan your future.
You can find and download it from
Google Play and iTunes
Timogix
The app is a sophisticated work time tracking solution which is based on the cloud and dedicated to for businesses of all sizes. It offers numerous functions among which are approval processes, notifications, invoices, and reporting. So simple, you can run it at no time
Key Features:
- Timesheets
- Timesheet management
- Setup hourly rates charged for users and projects
- Invoices
- Invoice clients from time entries or free-form entry
- Track employee time and the labor costs incurred
- Unlimited number of projects
- Vacation / Leave tracking
- Approval process control
- Email notifications for submissions and approvals
- Setup access to certain reports and the data shown
- Flow data between Timogix and QuickBooks
- Unlimited number of tasks to time log
- Define who can view and approve an employee’s timesheet
- Expense tracking
Minterapp
The app is an online time tracking and invoicing software dedicated to projects. Minterapp enables members of a team to convert time tracked into invoices. One is granted the possibility to see how their team works and whether they are hitting their time tracking targets on all their projects. It can be integrated with Basecamp and Trello.
Key features:
- Billable Hours Tracking
- Time Tracking by Client
- Time Tracking by Project
- Billing Rate Management
- Expense Tracking
- Activity Tracking
- Multiple Billing Rates
- Invoice Processing
- Project Tracking
TMetric
Do you wonder what it is? The app is a user-friendly online time tracker, for free, dedicated to freelancers and teams of any size. What does it enable you to do? It helps, first of all, see one’s workday on a timeline and get detailed time and money reports. Moreover, TMetric enables one to create tags and set them to any task. Finally, the app makes possible setting budgets for one’s projects and setting rates on any task, client, project or team member. Besides, the tool can be integrated with almost anything including Bitbucket, Asana, GitLab, Basecamp, GitHub, Pivotal Tracker, Redmine, Jira, Trello, and more.
Key features:
- Time tracking
- Workday timeline
- Manual time entry
- Billable hours tracking
- Timesheet export
- Revenue & Expense tracking
- Activity Tags
- Tag filtering
- Summary reports Real-time monitoring
- Daily reports
- Project & Task management system integrations
- Multi-project & multi-client support
- Automatic activity tracking
- Task tracking
MSCTIME
What is it? It is an online timesheet web application. It provides companies in the construction industry with a single and centralized platform and enables to submit timesheets from it. MSCTIME helps to generate payroll and billing reports, too.
Read more about construction time tracking.
How can MSCTIME help you to track time more effectively? The answer is simple. It offers its users customized online timesheets, which have been designed with replacing paper-based timesheet systems in mind. Moreover, the platform offers users a fully responsive cloud-based time tracking application. This measure enables MSCTIME’s users to enter timesheets conveniently on the move from any internet-enabled smartphone or tablet device.
Finally, it is worth mentioning that the said software improve administrative reporting with detailed payroll and billing report functionality. Besides, it grants users quick and actionable insight into important information such as project labor costs and employee hours worked.
Key features:
- Project time tracking
- Timesheet management
- Timesheets
- Billable hours
- Billable hours tracking
- Overtime calculation
- Employee database
- Multiple billing rates
- Time tracking by project
- Task tracking
- Role-based permissions
- Activity dashboard
- Cost analysis reports
- Labor cost tracking
- Payroll & billing reports
- Historical labor information
- User access controls
PurelyHR: Time-Sheet
This software offers three different time-tracking formats at the moment. Those are: simple, detailed and advanced. Every kind under the sun, so to say. The first one is literally simple. For each day of the week, a textbox to input the number of hours worked on that day is provided. The second one offers employees the possibility to specify the start/end time of their daily shifts, which automatically calculates their hours worked on each day. The third format grants employees the possibility to add time towards tasks, projects, and clients.
Key features:
- Timesheet management
- Timesheets
- Project time tracking
- Time & expense tracking
- Time tracking by Project
- Time tracking by client
- Hourly employee tracking
- Approval process control
- Event triggered email
- Email invitations & reminders
- Email alerts
Oolyo
The tool is a smart and simple web-based time tracker. It is free for one month trial. The app has Android and Apple iOS mobile version. Thanks to this convenience, you can track your hours away from the office. What is more, software has tiered user security, in the result of which only managers can run reports for all users. Those reports, in turn, are in Excel/CSV and HTML format, which facilitates their viewing. Users have been granted the possibility to track hours against clients, projects, tasks, tags. Finally, Oolyo has a timer function for granular time tracking at its disposal.
Key features:
- Billable hours tracking
- Project time tracking
- Employee time clock
- Overtime calculation
- Time planning
- Timesheet management
- Overtime tracking
- Real time reporting
- Task management
- Project management
- Invoices
- Billing rate management
- Calendar management
- Interactive reporting
- Expense tracking
- Employee database
- Vacation/leave tracking
- Timer
- Mobile integration
- Client management
- Tagging
SUMMING UP
You don’t have time to follow every step of your employees but wish to account for time spent on the project efficiently. Is there a solution to your dilemma? Yes, there is. Invest in time tracking software, best examples of which can be found above.
