Why This Matters
Time tracking is important for a number of reasons:
- It’s difficult for us to perceive how much time we spend on a project if we aren’t actively time tracking. A difficult project can seem to take a lot longer than the actual time spent on that project.
- If your team is working remotely, how are they tracking their hours and when do you have insight into that?
- Do you know how much time you spend on various projects, not only so you can better organize your time – but so you can bill accordingly if needed?
- Will you let team members choose their own time tracking system or will you have your employees using one time tracker and giving you a dashboard with everyone’s results?
Resources
How to Choose the Best Time Tracking Software – The chapter headings and sub-headings in themselves give you a great list of questions to consider when choosing time tracking software (note this article is written by a software vendor).
Best Time Tracker Apps for Small Business – 10 of the best time card apps and their main features (note this article is written by a software vendor).
Best Employee and Time Tracking Software – A time tracking app is an essential time management tool that can help you and your team become more organized, efficient, and get more things done
Recommendations
Harvest Time Tracking – Time tracking, integrations, invoicing, expense keeping, time sheets and more. Offers a 30-day trial, no credit card required.
Clockify – Clockify is a simple time tracker and timesheet app that let’s you and your team track work hours across projects. Unlimited users, free forever. It integrates into a variety of other software applications and apps as well as providing a central project dashboard and time sheets for your team. There are paid versions with extra features.
Toggl – Toggl is a free time tracker that allows you to track clients and projects with paid levels with extra features. You can make and export reports. It is web-based, and has a downloadable desktop app that automatically syncs with the website. Toggl has an idle detection, so if you have issues remembering to pause the timer when you leave your desk, it will ask you if you want to disregard the time time during which you weren’t touching your mouse or keyboard.