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Best Time Tracking Solutions December 2020
It seems like a crowded space, but we like 3 of the main workforce management software in the market and call out their strengths and weaknesses below.
Forget excel spreadsheets, the disruptors are all in one HR solutions; websites where you can easily do workforce planning, time keeping, process payroll with one click and see who’s on the tools (or most importantly off the tools). The software either does it all for you, or integrates with third party HR applications and allow labor demand forecasting, scheduling, reporting on and attendance tracking.
But they are very different in their approach and pricing also differs.
The top options are: Hubstaff (Employee time tracking software with screenshots, reporting and automated payments), Bigtime (the only time, billing, and expense tracking platform that protects your time), and Clockshark (ClockShark integrations make payroll and accounting painless).
Let’s take each in turn:
Who are the Competition?
Hubstaff
Bigtime
Clockshark
Hubstaff
Disillusioned with the grind of daily commutes and mindless work, Dave Nevogt started his own business with a remote team. Yet managing this global team became a challenge. He knew there had to be a better way to track hours, pay contractors, send invoices, and manage projects — and that’s how Hubstaff started.
Today, their team runs on the Hubstaff platform, so they know what it takes to collaborate effectively with colleagues on the other side of the globe. It’s how they’ve continued to grow since 2012, and how they’ve helped customers do the same.
Bigtime
BigTime Software is a private equity-funded company based in Chicago, committed to helping clients run professional services firms more efficiently, to unlocking potential revenue, and to improving profitability within the knowledge economy.
We provide industry-leading time-tracking, billing, and project management software for more than 2,000 professional firms, tracking over $4 billion (USD) of billable time each year.
Their flagship product is a SaaS-based system that is custom-built for the professional services industry, and specifically for accounting, architecture and engineering, consulting, creative, government contracting, IT services, and law firms.
Clockshark
Clockshark exist to give businesses back the valuable time and money they need to grow and succeed, and improve the lives of the people that run them.
They are crazy-focused on creating an elegant, easy to use product that users love.
They are obsessed with continuous learning and improvement. Every day they strive to further their knowledge so they can improve the product as quickly as possible.
Clockshark is dedicated to helping you become a time tracking superhero. Their 5-star rated support team will bend over backwards on every phone call, chat or email and won’t stop helping until you succeed.
Time Tracking Software
1. Hubstaff
Hubstaff ($7.00/month/user – ideal for growing businesses that want to accomplish more)
With Hubstaff’s smart time tracking software you can focus more on completing work than tracking it, the timesheet app records time spent on projects, they also have smart web, desktop, and mobile apps and feature-rich dashboard for easy team management..
Hubstaff’s employee time tracking software allows your team to track work hours spent on every single project and task. Anyone can easily start and stop the timer from the Mac, Windows, or Linux desktop apps. Your team can also track time directly from Chrome or the Hubstaff web dashboard.
You can cut down on your team management time by getting detailed timesheets sent directly to you. Through the Hubstaff dashboard, you can break down everyone’s hours by client, view detailed timesheets, and simplify time management all in the same place
See who’s on the clock and where they are with Hubstaff’s GPS and geofence time tracking apps. Set iOS and Android mobile apps to clock in and out automatically, or send your team reminders, when they enter a job site, so you get accurate timesheets.
2. Bigtime
Bigtime ($10.00/month/user – ideal for professional services firms, especially accountants, architects, engineers, IT-service firms, and consultant)
BigTime is the only time, billing, and expense tracking platform that protects your time like your wallet depends on it, no matter where you’re working from. Seriously, it takes fewer clicks to accomplish any task.
They have an all-in-One Professional Services Automation Software.The highest-rated time and expense entry system in the marketplace. Intuitive data entry system that lets your users log time quickly. Invoice faster and realize more revenue by leveraging BigTime’s central hub for tracking WIP, drafts, billing rates, cost rates, PDF formats, billing rules, and more.
You can get a real-time look at resource allocations and avoid over/under scheduling–keeping your consulting teams happy as well as streamline internal processes from project creation, setting budgets, approving time and expenses, to sending custom client invoices.
They have all the resources you need to stay connected with your team to deliver the same exceptional services your clients have come to expect.
3. Clockshark
Clockshark ($3.00/month/user – ideal for construction, field service, and franchise companies)
Clockshark offers mobile time tracking. Employees can easily track time from their smartphone with just a few taps from mobile apps for Android and iOS. Flexible and powerful, industry-leading features make your time tracking easier, more accurate and less painful than ever before.
With ClockShark’s free mobile time tracking apps for Apple and Android, your employees’ smartphones become robust, yet easy to use mobile time clocks. Your team can switch tasks, take breaks, go to lunch, send you notes, and clock out. It’s easier than paper timesheets… and faster too. Everything is designed to be so easy that no training is needed. Open the app, pick a job, pick a task, and push clock In. It’s that easy.
Never wonder where your employees are (or were) again. The GPS location of each employee’s smartphone or tablet is available alongside your timesheet data. So you can easily figure out if employees are in the right place, or not.
Our Conclusion
They all have pros and cons. Hubstaff is our first choice being cheaper than Bigtime at $7 per user per month and having a smart time tracking software, Bigtime is our second choice offering timesheet and payroll management, employee tracking and mobile access at $10.00 per user per month, they are also ideal for professional services firms, especially accountants, architects, engineers, IT-service firms, and consultants and while Clockshark is the cheapest at $3 per user per month they are our last choice but still a good option because they can automate time tracking for 100% accurate timesheets.
All of them monetise users and time tracking, and in that regard you could start at the beginning of the list and work down to see which one suits you best.