Top 5 Time Tracking Tools for Teams

Time has become the most valuable asset to teams in everyday work.

Finding ways to cut unnecessary work has become a hot topic to streamline your team’s productivity. Auditing time is now a popular technique used by many CEOs and managers to help review where your team is focusing their attention.

There are many different ways to do this, time tracking apps have become very attractive as a new resource to audit time spent.

Most of the resources combine a dashboard, timesheet and detailed audit of the time spent. Here are our suggestions from time tracking resources for teams to use alongside your everyday tools.

Hours Time Tracking

Capturing clients time, your time and meeting time can sometimes be very intense, lots of numbers and distractions across your day. Hours helps to combat that by offering a clean, efficient way to track your time.

It’s web dashboard is a great way for teams to view everything in one place. Tracking your time is easy too via the iOS app and Web dashboard, colour-coded and labeled allow you to track specific tasks, projects, and clients easily.

Hours offers a layer of reports. Reports allow you or your team to go deeper with your time data. This data can showcase useful insights like time spent, projects, detailed tasks, as well as exporting options. Perfect for team admins and HR to help review progress.

Download: iOS and Web.

Price: iOS only (free), iOS & Web: $8.00 per user/per month.

Toggl Time Tracking

A well-celebrated resource for teams, Toggl offers a host of functional features for teams to track their time.

Toggl delivers a range of applications to download for all devices imaginable, making it perfect for out and about. One-click tracking makes Toggl perfect for those wanting easy-to-use set-up.

Connect your Toggl account to popular services like Todoist with a simple integration. Allowing you to track the to do’s in your inbox, ideal for those who like to stick with their task management tools.

Download: Android, iPhone, Windows, Mac, Linux (with other plugin options)

Price: Starter = $9, Premium = $18, Enterprise = $49 — per user/per month

Everhour Time Tracking

A clean user interface combined with a range of features makes Everhour an excellent choice for businesses to capture their time.

Manual functions allow you to add offline meetings and phone calls. Extra notes on each task tracked enable you to add even more context for later. Everhour combines time tracking with project and team management functions like a live dashboard for an additional fee, enabling you to view all your team’s activity in real-time.

Connect Everhour to your Asana account for the ultimate project management time tracking resource. This connection will track time on each of the activities inside of your Asana, saving your admin some time organizing final reports. Everhour also integrates tasks with Basecamp, Pivotal, Trello and GitHub.

Integrate with: Basecamp 2 & 3, Asana, Trello, GitHub, Pivotal, JIRA.

Price: Basic ($25 for 5 users) + $5 per additional user.

Paydirt: Time Tracking and Invoices

Using a time tracking resource to monitor time spent with clients as an agency can sometimes be very helpful. This time spent helps with the billing process for working with the customer.

Paydirt aims to support freelancers and agency needs by combining time tracking with an online invoicing system, accepting credit cards, converting currency and reporting with full accounting functions.

Although the time tracking feature isn’t as advanced as the others in this list, if you are looking for a way to combine both the payment progress and team time tracking, this might be the resource for you.

Download: Web.

Price: Starts from $8 (single user) to $149 per month (20 users)

Timely Time Tracking

Timely provides an active time tracking resource for agencies and freelancers. Designed to help track the data around spending time with clients and on projects, associating each area of time to money provided for the business.

For sales teams and marketing agencies, this could be an excellent way to monitor the time spent against earnings per client/sale. Timely offers a host of tools surrounding this experience like meeting import to help save you time introducing meetings/calendar events, as well as tags, sub tags, project areas, reminders and more.

Timely is available on most devices and delivers an impressive UI to help dashboard your team’s data.

Download: Mac, iOS, Apple Watch, Web with Android coming soon.

Price: Free for 5 active projects, $14 per user, per month (unlimited projects)

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