The 7 Best Timesheet Software Solutions

With a smooth, straightforward user experience (UX) fully powered by drag-and-drop functionality, Avaza is timesheet software at its most superbly simple. You can use its in-built timer from your phone or computer for easier hours tracking, as well as bulk import old timesheets, so everything’s in one place.

Avaza’s analytics features are also excellent. We particularly love its staff utilisation report, which allows you to drill down into the projects your business is spending the most time on, and better allocate resources to the most pressing work.

If you’ll be the only one at your business generating timesheets and recording expenses, Avaza’s free plan should do nicely, which is something BeeBole and QuickBooks Time don't offer.

You’ll also get basic QuickBooks and Xero integration (for all you accountants out there), plus top-notch email and chat support. However, Avaza’s free plan limits you to just 100MB of storage, as well as imposing restrictions on the amount of customers, projects, and invoices you can handle per month.

For unlimited contacts, customers, and collaborators, it’s definitely worth upgrading to Avaza’s ‘Startup’ plan (£7.50 per month), while its ‘Basic’ version (£15 per month) nets you 20GB of data storage – not to mention 100 invoices per month, too.

For slightly larger teams, Avaza’s ‘Business’ package (£30 per month) scores you advanced integrations with accounting and payroll software, as well as premium customer support and unlimited…well, everything!

Adding more users will cost you anywhere from $2 (£1.50) to £7 (£5.20), depending on what you’ll need their permissions to be.

Time tracking doesn’t exist in isolation from the rest of your business’ processes. In fact, timesheet software works best when it works with its payroll, HR, and EPR (Enterprise Resource Planning) counterparts – and BeeBole knows it.

With BeeBole’s API (Application Programming Interface) setup, your time tracking tool will work in tandem with your existing G Suite and Microsoft Office programs – not to mention a range of other tools your business uses every day. Throw in a fully customisable dashboard, stellar business intelligence capabilities, and an affordable price point, and it’s easy to see why BeeBole is generating such a buzz!

Having a head for numbers doesn’t always equate to a passion for planning – so let QuickBooks Time take care the timesheets, so you can get back to balancing the books. Formerly known as TSheets, QuickBooks Time is tailor-made for professional number crunchers.

Integrations with Sage, Gusto, and (of course) QuickBooks – plus a range of other accounting tools – make QuickBooks Time an industry must-have. With time tracking, billing, and job costing functionality all underpinned by real-time reporting, this software adds plenty of value – without adding to your to-do pile!

There’s no free plan here, either, although you can try QuickBooks Time free for 30 days, which is longer than Avaza's free period.

Plus, the monthly per user fee – which starts from just £6 – is plenty affordable and less than BeeBole's plan. However, that comes with an additional base fee, which begins at £16 for those on the’ ‘Premium’ plan.

The ‘Premium’ plan (£6 per user, per month, plus a £16 per month base fee) buys you a GPS-equipped mobile app – for tracking time in the field – plus all the real-time reporting, invoicing, and payroll support you’d expect from a top timesheet software provider.

However – and this absolutely sets QuickBooks Time apart – the ‘Premium’ package also includes a time clock ‘kiosk’. Essentially, this is a setup that acts as a kind of basic time and attendance system, using facial recognition technology to identify your staff, and automatically check them in for work. Oh, and did we mention that live, unlimited customer support is included?

The ‘Elite’ plan (£8 per user, per month, plus a £30 per month base fee) adds timesheet signatures and geofencing. You’ll also score more advanced reporting – such as being able to compare project estimates with actual figures – and an enhanced activity feed.

We most love Hubstaff’s industry-specific timesheet system options for nonprofits, healthcare, construction, and ecommerce. With geofencing technology, you can track employee hours based on when they arrive or leave a job site, while daily automated timesheet reports keep you in the loop. You’ll also benefit from automatic invoice generation, and slick payroll integration.

Free plan? Check. Do we recommend it? Nope. Hubstaff’s free plan offers very basic time tracking capabilities, but none come close to what you’ll need at your architecture firm, or in any other specialised industry. Overall, its free plan doesn't compare to Avaza's.

That’s why we’d recommend skipping both the free plan and the ‘Time Starter’ package, and plumping at least for Hubstaff’s ‘Time Pro’ plan ($8.33 per user, per month). It allows you to automatically pay staff for time worked, and enables unlimited integrations.

Hubstaff’s ‘Time Pro’ plan also scores you a host of key timesheet software features – namely, GPS tracking, invoices, payroll, 24-hour support, expenses, and project budget planning. It even supports vehicle tracking!

Available as bespoke pricing, ‘Enterprise’ is Hubstaff’s highest offering. If you’re in the market for VIP support and ‘concierge’ account setup – not to mention the tech stuff, like higher limits on public API – then it’s worth the extra outlay. If you need a more simple timesheet solution, stick with ‘Premium’ – or head back up to Avaza. Prices are billed in US dollars.

Creative teams need a creative platform. And – when it comes to time, profitability, and cost tracking, at least – there aren’t many that are as fun to use as Scoro. Its colourful, visually stimulating ‘Kanban-style’ interface is reminiscent of the highly-praised monday.com project management tool. And that’s fitting – Scoro is as much a project management tool as it is a timesheet system, with project planning and task tracking features included as standard.

With shared calendars, timesheets, and to do lists  driving productivity, Scoro helps you add a touch of the organised ‘left’ brain to your ‘right-brained’ creative team!

The only catch? Vis a vis most of the other best timesheet software providers we’ve listed here, Scoro is expensive, unlike the relatively cheap BeeBole, Avaza, and QuickBooks Time.

There’s no free plan, either, so you can expect to budget at least £19 per user, per month for Scoro’s ‘Essential’ package. It includes a grid-like view for managing your timesheets, as well as resource planning and project management capabilities – basically, everything most small creative agencies will require from a timesheet solution.

The ‘Standard’ plan (£28 per user, per month for the ‘Standard’ version; £47 per user, per month for ‘Pro’) adds quote planning, as well as project timelines and templates – though not too much more in the way of actual timesheet software functionality. We’d pass a similar assessment on the ‘Pro’ plan, which as you can imagine is tailored to the sales, rather than time tracking side of things.

We’d only recommend the ‘Ultimate’ plan (which has bespoke pricing) for large creative agencies looking for a more comprehensive time tracking solution.