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RE: [going_independent] What do you use to track time and bill clients?

We went through a fairly long evaluation process and ended up with
Standard Time - which is far from perfect but closer than anything else
we've found so far. Key issues for us:

- Quickbooks interface
- Central database
- Must be able to handle offline mode for tracking time when people are
working disconnected (we do a lot of work with people in client offices
via laptops, can't always get to our servers over the net due to idiotic
security restrictions)
- Some sort of stopwatch/timer mode (people are not reliable when they
have to record time on their own or remember it after the fact)
- Security at least on a user/project basis

Given the number of commercial products out there, I'd love to think the
perfect system exists, but if it does, I haven't found it.

Mike Gunderloy
http://www.larkware.com





Fri Sep 1, 2006 2:49 pm

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I have been an independent more or less my whole career and have used various time tracking methods over the years. My steady favorite for a long time was a...
thycotic
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Sep 1, 2006
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We went through a fairly long evaluation process and ended up with Standard Time - which is far from perfect but closer than anything else we've found so far....
Mike Gunderloy
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Sep 1, 2006
2:49 pm

How much is that? I have time tracking module with QB online. As for the disconnected mode, A QB app that saves it then "uploads" when possible, would not be...
Joe Mele
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Sep 1, 2006
3:11 pm

... My company was using XL spreadsheets to manage timesheets and we underwent an evaluation of time tracking software. In the end, we also chose Standard...
Brian Jack
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Sep 2, 2006
3:01 pm

Hi, For time tracking I believe there are many tools available out there... An example is a free tool available if you had Sharepoint server ...
Yama Kamyar
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Sep 1, 2006
6:02 pm

Hi I agree somewhat with Yama here, if you are already running Windows Server 2003 (even SBS) then you already have the 'free' tools for the job in Windows...
Matt
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Sep 3, 2006
8:47 am

Hi, Thank you Matt! For starter when using an off-the-shelf solution you end up having no control over the application. A time tool, to be perfectly honest, is...
Yama Kamyar
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