Project Billing and Timesheet Best Practices

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Tracking your team’s time is an important practice for any small business selling professional services. This holds true no matter how you bill your clients. Whether billing projects at an hourly rate, a fixed fee, or a monthly retainer, knowing exactly where your time is going will make your company more productive and profitable. Weekly […]

5 Helpful Weekly Timesheet Visualizations

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The weekly timesheet is the most drab, over-templatized productivity tool that’s ever been utilized in the history of the business world. We’ve tried to keep it fresh by reincarnating it every few generations — from paper timesheets, Excel spreadsheets, and desktop widgets, to its latest incarnation as online time tracking software. Despite weekly timesheets being […]

How to Make Timesheets Less Painful

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No matter how you spin it, time tracking is not fun. If there were a survey, filling out a weekly timesheet would be easily make it in the top ten list of least enjoyable work responsibilities. However, weekly timesheets are also a must for any business that bills hourly or has to keep a record […]

Weekly Timesheets – An introduction and advanced features

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Time tracking is a core feature of Intervals. One of the main reasons why a customer picks Intervals over another solution is the fully integrated time tracking with weekly timesheet approvals in addition to the ability to manage projects, project budgets, and tasks. The time tracking is fully integrated and part of the regular way […]

New Feature: Set the Character Limit for Time Entry Descriptions

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We’ve recently launched several new improvements to round out our time tracking and task management features. In this post we highlight the new character limit setting for time entry descriptions. Previously, the description field on time entries had a hard limit of 255 characters. Many of our customers have contacted us requesting to have this […]

New Feature: Edit Multiple Time Entries at Once

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After recently launching a feature that enables users to add time for an entire week at once, we decided to keep going on that theme and add the ability to edit multiple time entries at once. This new feature is great for those times you need to update time in bulk, such as changing several […]

Track time spent on tasks for better estimating and reporting

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Time tracking is a discipline that can be difficult to incorporate into your day to day workflow. With practice, however, it becomes second nature and the efforts spent tracking time pays for itself in the form of more accurate billing. That’s just one benefit. There are others. Assuming you are breaking down your projects into […]

Three reasons to track non-billable time

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The benefits of tracking billable time are well established — it’s the most reliable way to account, and more importantly, get paid, for client work. What about the time spent on non-billable work? You won’t get paid for it, but there are three reasons why you should still track non-billable time. Calculate project cost and […]