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Timesheet Software for Engineers: Boost Project Efficiency

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The right engineering time tracking software helps you stick to project scopes and prevents budget overruns.

Most engineers are salaried, yet time tracking is still required to ensure each client is billed appropriately. With multiple projects running simultaneously, keeping organized is essential.

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Organized Workloads

Engineers are often required to switch between projects throughout the day. Without an organized system, it’s easy to record time against the wrong deliverables.

Analyze cost of projects and budgeting
Set up unlimited client workspaces and arrange each client’s work into projects. Specify deliverables by breaking projects down into tasks.
Assign users to projects and tasks. Users can only record time against their assigned work, ensuring time gets tracked in the right place.

Flexible Billing Structures

Many engineering contracts operate on a flat-fee basis, but some may require hourly billing structures.

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1. User-based rate records users’ hourly billable rates

2. Task-based rate allows you to tailor rates at the task level
3. Project-based rate applies a flat hourly rate across the whole project

4. Non-reimbursable work is marked as non-billable

Budget Control

Flat-fee contracts require careful budget control to maintain profitable margins. Without oversight, funds are quickly depleted and costs exceed projections.

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Create time-based or monetary budgets to match flat-fee amounts. To align with contractual terms, budgets can be set at the project or task level and reset each month.
View budget progress bars to see expenditure at a glance. Automated alerts warn you when a certain budget percentage is spent.

Efficient Expense Capture

It’s not just labor costs that must be accounted for. Engineers must also track billable expenses to ensure the organization is compensated accordingly.

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Upload expenses directly to time logs, complete with copies of receipts or invoices and any supporting information.
For more detailed data, custom numerical time log fields capture unique expense-related information, like mileage. 

Track CLIN and WBS Codes

Complex engineering projects use contract line numbers (CLIN) and work breakdown structures (WBS). These codes must be assigned to deliverables to maintain clear information for billing and reporting.

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Create custom tags for any purpose and use them to assign CLIN and WBS codes to time logs. Alternatively, use custom fields on entities to capture the information.
Filter custom tags and fields according to codes in the reporting feature to get granular insights into time and costs.  

Client Reporting

Clients need detailed, transparent breakdowns of how their money is spent.

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The Dashboard report for a visual overview of time and costs 

The Detailed report for deep insights and analysis

The Timesheet report for a full picture of team time and activities
Export reports into PDF or XLS format and save customized report settings. Email reports directly or schedule reports to send automatically.

Streamlined Invoicing

My Hours provides a simple way to bill clients without shuffling data from one platform to another.

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Pull billable data directly onto the invoice for accurate billing amounts. Customize the invoice form and send it directly from within My Hours.
Use the uninvoiced tracker to keep tabs on anything that is yet to be invoiced, so billable amounts are not missed.

Contractual and Regulatory Compliance

Engineering contracts come with strict terms over how money is spent and how work should be performed. Additionally, regulatory bodies like GDPR and DCAA have their own set of compliance rules that engineering firms may have to abide by.

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My Hours provides a fully transparent audit log that tracks and records all activities and changes within the system.
The platform is fully compliant with major privacy laws and DCAA, and has enterprise-grade security and user hierarchies to maintain data control and safety.

My Hours time tracking features

Timer or weekly timesheet

Track time with our seamless timer or enter your time through our keyboard-friendly timesheet. Add a description and custom inputs.

Set billable rates and budgets

Automate calculation of billable amounts by setting precise hourly rates by project, task or team member. Add a project budget to monitor its progress.

Analyze logged hours & expenses

With the Dashboard you’ll get a bird’s-eye view of billable vs non billable hours, earned income by project, under- or over-utilized employees and more.

Generate custom reports

Detailed reports are completely customizable and display as much  information as needed. Print to PDF, export to XLS or send schedule it via email.

Manage tasks

Add and assign tasks with an estimated budget. Create templates when identical tasks appear across projects.

Submit and approve timesheets

Supervisors get email whenever timesheets are submitted. Each timesheet can be approved or rejected with an email message.

Set flexible roles

Invite your team to track time on their projects without seeing each other’s hours and rates. Designate managers to oversee their team and  manage their work.

Prevent inconsistent reporting

Lock team’s time logs to prevent editing or adding new logs in a selected period. Download the audit log report to keep your books in order.

Streamline invoicing

Create numbered invoices straight from hours logged. Integrations with the most popular invoicing apps are available to all customers.

Integrate with other tools

Connect My Hours data with other tools or vice versa through Zapier connectors. Alternatively, use our API to develop your own integration.

Access from anywhere

My Hours is a cloud-based app with nothing to install. View and manage your hours from any web browser or install our native mobile apps.

Secure infrastructure

My Hours is hosted in Microsofts Azure cloud and we are proud of 99.95% uptime. We perform regular security checks to keep your data in safe hands.

Highest praise from our customers

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“Best time tracker app out there”

"My Hours does everything I need it to do, and is in an easy to use and functional format with a clean, uncluttered interface. It's become an indispensable tool for me."

Brian S. | Marketing and Advertising

“Couldn't do my job without My Hours”

"My Hours saves me a ton of time tracking projects. My Hours makes it easy to assign multiple tasks to multiple projects. I also like that I can organize reports by client or project."

Cheri G. | Graphic Designer

“Great for tracking time on tasks and projects!”

"Love this software! I don't bill for my time, but I do need to keep track of time spent on various projects and on tasks within those projects. Easy to set up projects that you need track your time on."

Jenifer H. | Business Analyst

“Great Time Tracking Software”

"My manager wanted me to track the amount of time I spent on different tasks so we could better define the role. I tried a few different things before I found My Hours, and I've been using it ever since. I love it!"

Bonnie L. | Multimedia Content Developer

“Best Hours Tracking Tool”

"I like how easy it to use but has features to do custom reporting. It's always available, in 2+ years I've used it, it's always up. I totally rely on it to track hours and there has never been a hiccup."

Lori A. | Software Engineer

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