Recommendation for a web app to track Time, like a Time Clock at work? [closed]

Question

I'm an independent contractor, and work on many different jobs throughout a given day...

I'm trying to find a decent web-app based time clock so I can use my phone or the computer to access it. It is important for me to easily dump this data out to another usable format (CSV / API / Reports / etc).

Requested Features:

Note: not all features are required, just some ideas of what will become my accepted answer

• Clock In / Clock Out entries
• Manual entries (1 hour doing something where I wasn't at the computer)
• Job Tracking (which client am I working for, what task?)
• Reporting
  • I would love to see reports per day/week/client/etc.
  • Even a CSV export of data would be usable for me
• Assistance with Billing using paypal/or even printable invoices would be amazing.
• Ability to have multiple users on the same "time clock" account would be a bonus as well. (Imagine being the boss of 2 or 3 employees and needing to see their time clocks as well)

Answer 1

Track My Hours - without a doubt has the exact feature set you are looking for:

1. Can track hours, with clock in/clock out functionality
2. Can do manual entries, also can specify that some employees can't do manual entries (important for us, because our min wage employees we don't want editing their hours)
3. Tracks unlimited number of Jobs and clients, or can be used for internal use only (In other words it works as a "time clock" for hourly employees, but also a task manager for consultants.
4. Very good reporting interface.
5. Tracks invoices, printable versions, and which ones were paid in simple and efficient manner.
6. Unlimited employees/consultants

Answer 2

Rescue Time is another option, automatically tracks your time spent on each active window.

Answer 3

We use TickSpot for time tracking in our business, It fulfils the majority of your feature requests.

Answer 4

How about Freckle? http://letsfreckle.com/

Answer 5

Check out Kimai. It's the best I've encountered so far and it is open source and actually quite simple so if you have some programming knowledge you can even adapt it to your needs (I did it). http://www.kimai.org/en/

Answer 6

Some Time trackers for consideration:

• Klok (Runs on Adobe AIR)
• Manic Time (Windows)
• Slim Timer (Web-based)

Answer 7

Check NotePub.com, it does not have all the features you ask for, but it is very nice to use. Each note has a timer running since it was last modified.

Answer 8

Billing application Freshbooks has a widget that does most if not all of what you require. I'm very happy with this app.

Answer 9

I've been using Toggl and I like it. I don't think it hits all of those features, but does do some.

Answer 10

A couple of very nice looking ones I've come across in the past. I've not used any of them, so YMMV

• http://www.subernova.com/ - this one is drop dead gorgeous :-)
• http://www.freshbooks.com/ - looks to be well loved and has lots of features

Answer 11

http://colorhat.com/

Is the best, without a fling.

Answer 12

1daylater - Most the features you requested. Very clean very easy to use. I've been using it for 6-8 months now.

I think the only feature it lacks is the boss view you requested.

Answer 13

I liked ClockingIt pretty much as long as I used it. It is free, you can host it yourself if you want:

• no restrictions or limits
• one-click time tracking
• clean and out of the way interface
• interactive gantt chart & scheduling
• flexible reporting
• multiple ways to communicate
• tracks and indexes all changes
• notifications via email, rss & ical
• ajax, comet & drag and drop
• translated to 14 languages

Answer 14

I use Paymo time tracker , it pretty much has all the features you listed.

Answer 15

I would recommend giving timr.com a try! In addition to its web interface it also provides clients for iPhone, Android and BlackBerry devices.

Answer 16

We use http://www.getharvest.com/ for time tracking. It has project budgets, different billing rates, alerts and stats about budgets, it can also do invoices.

Answer 17

+1 I was going to ask this same question!

I have used intervals- they have a free plan and their timer system is pretty nice. You have to pay to get large scale features like invoicing and time tracking across multiple separate projects.

They also just launched a version of their site optimized for mobile browsers. Haven't used it much though as I don't code on my mobile device (yet).

I am interested in alternatives though- mostly because Intervals feels a bit too heavyweight for my current level of contract activity. If I had employees working under me it would be the perfect fit.

Answer 18

I've used the online app tiktrac, which has most but not all of the features you're looking for (mobile access yes, invoicing no, ....). I like its simplicity and the timer feature.

Answer 19

Hours Tracking is another good option. It has all of the features you requested other than invoicing. Instead, you can create customizable reports that work with Quickbooks or another invoicing system. Pricing is $1 per user, per month after a free trial. As an administrator, you can add as many users as you want.

Answer 20

I believe that mite has most of the features your requested. I recently came across a new app, that is not live yet called clockmeister, which also has most features. Site looks promising.

mite is a sleek online tool for collecting and analyzing labor. Designed in close collaboration with and for teams and freelancers: advertising agencies, architects, lawyers, designers, universities and so on.

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