Editor's Note: February's editorial focus is on Time-tracking. Here, Murph takes a look at another time-tracking app. All told, he will be unveiling up to 60 articles for products that work with QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Desktop.
BigTime is a leading time and expense management tool used by thousands of professional services firms. Even with remote work, you can efficiently manage time, expenses and billing for multiple projects all at once. The tool quickly identifies areas of opportunity with advanced features like resource allocation and custom reporting.
With BigTime, you will stop wasting time by entering time. That means time entry will be easier than ever, thanks to intelligent timesheets that auto-fill repetitive data entry. Auto-save, auto-complete and smart look-ups with user-specific presets and defaults streamline your time entry.
In addition, you can limit the timesheet information your staffers see to reduce errors, speed up time entry, control access to sensitive data and set required fields that must be completed before saving.
BigTime enables you to use time to manage your projects rather than your projects managing you. Your timesheets can be configured to collect the data you need to stay on top of and on track with your projects.
For example, use daily or weekly timesheet views with user-defined projects in mind, build flexible submission periods based upon project requirements, and gather the project-specific information you need when time is entered rather than being forced to find it after the time is turned in.
BigTime was built with projects in mind, so you can create budgets based on projected time and expense that include tasks for your staff. Then you can keep track of project budgets against actual time to find opportunities to improve project efficiency by visualizing timelines and activities to stay on time.
Other BigTime features include:
- Eliminates the frustration of lost or missing timesheets, delayed expense reports or approval requests, and keep your engagements on time and on budget.
- Makes it easy to optimize your staff capacity and avoid over/under-utilization by giving your team the project visibility they need to succeed.
- Helps you get paid faster by making it easy to see what needs to be billed and when.
- Provides your clients with a personalize experience to pay on time from anywhere thanks to the BigTime Wallet.
- Empowers teams to make better, faster business decisions to improve project profitability and team performance with its reporting center.
- Configures features to follow DCAA requirements for hassle-free, worry-free audits.
- Tracks time and expenses, upload receipts, looks up project information, and more, anywhere, anytime, with its mobile app.
BigTime is designed to integrate with your existing workflows and software stack, acting as a single source of truth for your data—and your team. It offers a QuickBooks integration that syncs time, clients, projects, and financial data with the click of a button.
When setting up the QuickBooks integration, it can import all of your labor and expense codes from QuickBooks. They are automatically linked to their BigTime counterparts, so your staff can continue to log time against those codes.
For more details about the integration of BigTime with QuickBooks, visit its landing page at the QuickBooks App Store.
If you want to learn more about all its features and benefits, head over to the BigTime website and request a demo.
Acknowledgments and Disclosures:
BigTime — Graphics and content used within this feature were derived or adapted by the author in part from BigTime source materials, including the BigTime website, and the BigTime app landing page at the Intuit QuickBooks Online App Store. BigTime is a product of BigTime Software, Inc. a private equity funded corporation based in the greater Chicago, Illinois area.
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