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These were the five option, which can be implemented to save huge spending on time tracking system,

1. Build your own time tracking app,

2. Install a free / open source time tracking app,

3. Signup for a free hosted time tracking service,
This option works great for some, especially freelancers who may not need the more in-depth features of a web-based app. Even our own time tracking app, Intervals, has a free plan for this reason.

4. Pay for a hosted time tracking service.

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Time tracking tools to help small businesses keep a better record of billable time. It’s as simple as starting a timer and letting it run while you get things done. When the job is completed, apply the time. Run a few reports, generate an invoice, and collect your money. Then start the process all over again the next day.

After you’ve been tracking your time diligently for a few months or a few years you’ll have amassed a healthy amount of data — useful for evaluating past productivity and estimating future projects. At Pelago, we’ve found good time tracking practices to be an essential component to project management.

Incorporating time tracking into your day-to-day workflow will give any small business great quantitative insight into productivity. But what about the quality of that time tracked? Simple distractions like a phone call, an exclamation-pointed email, or a question from a co-worker can deter us from the task at hand. Before we know it, half our time has disappeared into an unrecoverable void.

Understanding the quality of the time we’ve tracked is still beyond the capabilities of any online tool, but perhaps that is where we’ll be headed next. It may not be necessary to analyze time tracking data in this way for business tasks like billing clients and paying freelancers. However, understanding the quality of the time spent can be extremely useful for optimizing business productivity.

Imagine being able to deduce that your web designer is most productive during the mornings, and that your developers crank out the most code in the evenings (yeah, I know, you probably don’t need a computer to tell you that developers stay up late). Qualitative time tracking data could help a project manager schedule tasks during the optimal hours for each resource. How cool would that be? Each industry has their next generation products in the works. Could this be ours?

Curt Finch, CEO of Journyx, shares his thoughts on the future of time tracking. Here are some of the highlights:

Software-as-a-Service will become more and more dominant as IT people become more and more scarce and businesses become more accustomed to this model.

Businesses will start to see the advantage of viewing time management as a core business process, like inventory management is today.

Single point-of-entry time collection systems that send different views of the same data to payroll, billing and project management applications will become even more valuable.

Some of the other points include XML transfer of data between services and more automated forms of time tracking. Intervals has been evolving in these directions already, as we continue to develop the API and improve the web-based timers. Hosted time tracking tools may seem like they’ve been around for a while, but their influence is just starting to be embraced by small business.

1. Choose like-minded partners who share your vision

A typical web development agency will be started by multiple partners. It is important that the partners share common goals and have skills that are diverse in a complementary kind of way. You don’t want one person getting stuck with all of the peripheral duties like IT, HR, and Legal. It’s best if you can distribute these tasks across all owners. It’s like Tom Waits sings: “We’re chained to the world, and we’ve all got to pull.” You are in this for the long term, make sure your cohorts are too.

2. Don’t always be the nice guy

For whatever reason, some clients are known to make outlandish demands. These demands are harder to deflect when you are first starting out because you need the business. But as you become more established, you need to know when to be the nice guy and when to say no. The problem with being nice all the time is that it sets a precedent. You’ll say “sure, I can knock that out by tomorrow” because, what the heck, today is a slow day. The next time the client has a quick need, they won’t understand why you can’t help them out as quickly as you did the last time. If clients become too accustomed to quick turnarounds, they will start shuffling their internal deadlines around the expectation that you will be available at the last minute, and that is when you really get into trouble.

3. Do not apologize for your rates

It doesn’t really matter what other agencies charge as long as you trust that your rates are a fair price for the service you are providing. You know your business better than anyone else and what rates you need to charge to be successful. You are far better off taking on clients who want to work with you, regardless of the cost. Standing behind your rates and your work tells the client that you are confident and able. Being thrown into a pool of lowest bidders is insulting and a waste of time.

4. Be as clear as possible in your proposal

The proposal and resulting contract should articulate the specifications of the project with as much detail as you can muster. If there is any question about the deliverables, which there will be, you can refer to the spec. Without a clearly defined spec you are leaving the project vulnerable to disagreements that can ruin client relationships. It is also helpful to verbally iterate certain points of the contract before it is signed, in case the client skimmed it too hastily. For example, if you don’t offer web hosting as a service, make sure it is clearly spelled out. Otherwise, the client will expect you to get involved when a mac truck takes out the data center where their site is hosted.

5. Track your time and tasks

This is important enough that we rolled our own web-based time tracking software, Intervals, to manage our projects. Tracking time and tasks gives you invaluable data that can be used to accurately estimate new projects, gauge the health of current projects, and provide clients with detailed invoices. Without this information you will lose money on underestimated projects, fail to meet deadlines, and upset clients over money issues.

Every small business struggles with tracking their time. As a web development shop, we’ve been constantly evolving and improving our time tracking methodologies since we started eight years ago. Here are some tips we have learned along the way.

1. Group your daily tasks by availability and type of work

If you know you are going to have three solid hours to get things done, try to work on a lot of similar tasks. Mentally shifting gears is a productivity killer and will hinder your efforts to track time. It is much easier to keep track of your hours if you can work uninterrupted and on fewer tasks. The best time for this is in the morning, when your mind is fresh and your day hasn’t yet been hijacked by client and coworker needs.

2. Use timers and use them often

Find web-based or desktop timer software that works for you, preferably with multiple timer support, and use it. Get in the habit of starting and stopping timers each time you touch a task. The more you practice at this, the more second-nature it will become. We’ve been doing this long enough now that stopping and starting task timers are a natural part of our workflow.

3. Find your time zone

After a few days of diligent tracking, you should have a pretty good idea of what a normal day looks like in terms of hours tracked. Don’t expect to track every minute at your desk, because it won’t happen. My magic number is 7.5 hours. Knowing my daily number helps me stay focused on getting things done, but also gives me some wiggle room to goof off and surf the ‘net.

4. Turn it into a competition

At the end of each week, compare your hours tracked with your coworkers, or your own previous week. A friendly competition among coworkers is a great way to get people motivated to track their time better. We review and compare our timesheet tracker totals each week, and challenge one another to do better the next week.

Time tracking software is software that allows you to accurately measure the time spent on a particular task or project. There are various types of tracking software depending on the needs that you are looking for. A simple use is to utilize it as a planner. It allows you to record and monitor your schedules and set reminders for your daily activities. A common use of time tracking software in the business world is used to monitor the attendance of your employees in the company. There are those that are simply used to record timesheets and generate reports. There is also a different variation that can integrate with your accounting system and generates your account summaries. Contractors or professionals such as doctors or lawyers may use time tracking software to record the time spent with a client and automatically calculate the fee and generate the invoice for billing. Another use is to integrate it with project management software to calculate the efficiency and keep track of the progress of the project.

Just like every other acquisition, there are considerations you would need to make before purchasing your time tracking software. You need to make sure is that the software you find has the functions that you need. With the various types of time tracing software, it is best to make sure that you purchase the software that is right for you. With the emergence of technology, a good consideration is to find software that allows you to synchronize your data with a mobile device like a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) or a notebook. Along with the ability to transfer data, you have to make sure that the synchronized data is accurate, encrypted and secure. After taking these into consideration, one of the most important aspects is the affordability. A product can be the best in the world, but if it does not fit into your budget, then it is useless for you.

The company has grown and you are looking at ways to get an accurate sense of your expenses. The top corporate expense is payroll, so looking at time tracking software is a great place to start.

But first, do you really need to put out hard earned dollars for a time tracking program? If you are endeavoring to computerize more of your business and streamline procedures, the answer is yes.

If you can track time more efficiently, you gain pragmatically in productivity as well as reduce bottom line financial numbers. You will have more control over payroll expenditures, ensure your company’s conformity with state and federal laws, and increase employee productivity.

Studies have shown implementation of time tracking software can specifically

* Cut down on time sheet review by over 83%. The American Payroll Association documents individual timesheet review at six minutes. With a time tracking program in place you can reduce that review time to one minute.
* Increase conformity with state and federal employment laws and regulations including Family and Medical Leave Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act and SOP 98 which provides guidance on the capitalization of software created for internal company use.
* Prevent project overruns and more accurate client billing as time and, therefore, expense is monitored by managers and team.
* Tightens up employee attendance, where lunches can go long, and afternoons end early. The American Payroll Association claims this misuse of time can be more than four hours per week.

The right choice in time tracking software can pay for itself very quickly.

There are over a hundred time tracking software packages on the market. There are freeware packages as well. However, note that in this area, freeware could fall short of expectations, as there are usually report and billing omissions in the application.

Access Anytime and Anywhere – You can access OfficeClip Time Attendance Software using a web browser, eliminating the need for installing a client software or Active X control and providing ultimate flexibility for any team.

Reduced Administrative Tasks – All communication is centralized through the web Timesheet Application. No more chasing the team members to complete timesheets and submit them on time.

Affordable and Useful – OfficeClip Web Timesheet provides high benefit at low cost of adoption. This directly translates to increased Return on Investment (ROI).

Easy to Adopt – The employee free time tracking software is very easy to use, configurable and intuitive. Timesheets can be updated, submitted and approved using a common interface, increasing the user acceptance.

Integrated Solutions for the Entire Organization – With the employee time tracking software, you will not need to keep time information in various mediums like paper, excel spreadsheets and emails. Data is stored in a relational database and can be accessed anytime, anywhere with the simple click of a button.

Improved Accountability – Employees can record time only against the projects or activities that are assigned to them thus reducing inadvertent mistakes. Also, detailed log information is kept for all changes made in the system. The web timesheet is approved by a supervisor before being transferred to the payroll.

Secured information Access – Information is secured by the user access levels. This enables you to control access to all parts of the software.