The days of keeping track of hours out in the field on scraps of paper, old receipts and business cards are done. Mobile apps make it possible to track hours and make sure no billable minute goes unlogged. Here are five tools that offer road-weary business owners efficient ways to track time.
| Application | Features | What it's good for | Price | Where to find it |
| Timewerks | A comprehensive time-tracking and invoice tool, this app not only allows for creation of time sheets and invoices, it also has integration with a credit card acceptance app to speed up payment. | iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad | $9.99 | sorth.com/timewerks |
| Billbull | Created by a law- staffing agency, this app tracks time or allows manual entry of time against your phone's contact list and lets you export a CSV file to a spreadsheet program for central tracking. | iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad | 99 cents | exparte-staffing.com |
| TimeDroid | This straightforward time tracker--with timer and manual entry--is designed for FreshBooks users on the road with Android devices. | Android | Free | appoxy.com |
| Exgis | This time tracker gives BlackBerry users the power to manage clients and track billable hours and export to spreadsheets. | BlackBerry | $4.99 | exgis.com |
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Minute7 |
This cloud-based time- and expense-tracking software-as-a-service solution for QuickBooks shops is particularly good for organizations that need to manage timekeeping among multiple employees in the field. | All major platforms | $4 per user/month | minute7.com |
This article was originally published in the December 2010 print edition of Entrepreneur with the headline: Time to Run.
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Comments:
I don't have a dog in this fight, but this list of time tracking applications is ludicrous. I own a company and have tested all of them and they all work like they were built by geek and a webdesigner in a garage. The ONLY web based time tracking system that is truly built for businesses with actually employees - is TSheets.com. They've got the best mobile capabilities and the best integration with QuickBooks - by far. I wasted a TON of time because of articles like this one... Let my mistakes save you some time.
I've been using Minute7 for awhile now and it's really been helping our company get timesheets through on the go.