busybusy vs Time Tracker: Which is a better fit?

Aaron H.: Hey. My name's Aaron. I'm a project manager and I give busybusy a five star review. For more videos like this, click the link below. Before busybusy, we tried other products like Procore and even just writing things out on a normal timecard. When we switched over to busybusy, it did take some time for our team to learn how to use this app, but now that we've got everybody on it, this app has really helped us be able to track our time, manage our time, and keep accountability on each of our individual projects. We chose busybusy for its flexibility with our 80-plus employees that we have. It gives us the ability to have them log into different projects throughout the day as they're working, as they're doing the things that they are supposed to be doing, we can then be accountable to our client and just let them know that, "Hey, this is accurate billing. This is the amount of time, the amount that these projects take to do this, and we can bill for that time." Whereas before, we ever had that ability. When we first got started with busybusy, it was pretty tough. A lot of the older people in the company were afraid to use an app, and they thought that the GPS tracking meant that we were going to be tracking them all the time, but unless somebody has the time to sit down and just watch every little move that they're making, it just wasn't realistic. And so we got them all to buy into it and they have their GPS location on, just so that way, everybody knows that we're clocking in and out of the project, and it gives us just that one more level of checking for accountability. But, after four years of using this app, we've just really grown to love it and really grown to have the expectation that everybody knows how to use it. And any new hire, just it's no question. It's "Hey, get this app. We're going to get you set up with a log-in. You'll get there and be able to log in and out of your projects with ease and be able to tell us what you're doing and what you've been doing all day without having to take the time and write it down with an old-fashioned piece of paper and pencil." If you're looking for an app that will track your employees and give you readable data to be able to help you with your billing, to help you with accountability for your guys, and just be able to put at ease having to go through a timecard that's written down on a piece of paper, or even maybe you've tried some other apps where you still have to go through and add everything up and figure out how many hours people have, this is the solution. This has been such a wonderful thing for us, and we can click on the individual person, or we can look at the company as a whole, and we can see how many hours we worked this week, and we can break it down to how many hours we put in on specific jobs. And just the ability to account for that saves us hours and hours of time. And payroll is no longer an issue and checking in with guys and trying to figure out where they were working and trying to put together this billing, it's just all right there at my fingertips, either on the app or right there on my desktop when I'm sitting in front of my computer.

Lisa: Hi, I'm Lisa. I'm CEO of 3 Dog Write, and I would give a rating of Time Tracker of five out of five. So before, I wasn't using an actual software system; I was doing what a lot of small businesses or accidental entrepreneurs do, which was using an Excel spreadsheet, and I knew I had to level up with something that would save me time, and would have the reports and accuracy I needed to be able to share that with my clients. So one of the main reasons that I went with Time Tracker is a lot of my clients had been using it, and they gave their own testimonials as to why it worked for them, and then I did a little bit of research, and I saw that it wasn't just a one-off, that the reviews were very unanimous, that it was easy to use, that it was affordable, and that it gave me that professionalism in tracking time, and having reports so that I could share those with my clients. So it was very easy for me to bring it into my organization and to set up Time Tracker. I am the CEO. I'm the one who kind of runs all of those items. It was easy to integrate with QuickBooks. QuickBooks is what we use to bring in the client information into Time Tracker, and the tutorials and the help support within the software itself made setting up and getting used to using it very, very easy and intuitive. So if you're considering using Time Tracker, I want you to think about two different things: number one, if you track your time for your clients, it's an absolute must-have, but even if you don't necessarily track your time for your clients, you can use it in a different way, which is how I also used it, you can track your projects and how long it takes for you to complete a project. If you do a fee project-based model, sometimes you're not quite sure how much time actually is devoted to a certain task or a certain project, and you can actually break that down within the software itself so that you can understand how much time things take, and then you can do your pricing accordingly. Instead of trying to just guess how long something will take, you can look at historical data, and then you're able to really leverage the software under how much you should be charging, and how long you should be budgeting your time to do that project.