I finally retired my Access-based time tracking tool, and switched to a new on-line tool called SyncD. It turns out that it is a New Hampshire product, written by two brothers. It has most of the features I was looking for:
- 3 levels of detail: clients, projects, tasks
- online employee access
- the ability to enter starting and ending time – this is because I usually enter time at the end of the day, and this helps keep it organized. Many other time tracking tools only allow you to enter a duration. This is enough for reporting or billing, but less helpful when checking your time spent against emails in/out, phone logs, etc.
- easy, intuitive interface
- optimized, fast data entry
Things I don’t like (but I can live with):
- no iPhone interface
- unable to force time to 15-minute increments
- no approval process – i.e., once a time is approved and or billed, then it can’t be changed
In the process of researching products, I built the following comparison grid:
