Buddy Punch vs QuickBooks Time: Which is a better fit?

Kevin J.: Hi, my name's Kevin, and I'm the general manager at a paper crafting company. We have about 40 employees here and we use the app Buddy Punch for time-card keeping, and I would rate it five stars. Before Buddy Punch, we were using a program called Homebase. And Homebase really wasn't working well for us because all of the settings were global settings, so we couldn't do an individual setting for a user. So whatever setting we applied had to be applied to our whole group. So that really wasn't working well for us. We decided to go with Buddy Punch for a couple of reasons. One was it was customizable on the user level. So we have different parts of our organization that require different modes and methods of timekeeping. Some of our folks are hourly, some are salary. So it allows us to change the settings on the individual user level, which is really great for us. The other reason that we went with it, we felt like it was affordable. It's a flexible solution. We pay by the user, so we felt like it could grow with us as a company. And overall it's just easy to use and pretty simple for my managers to use, and that's why we like it. Getting started with Buddy Punch was super easy. I really didn't even need to use any of the help that they provided for us. It was pretty straightforward to walk through. You can either upload things as a batch or you can do it individually. So we found it super easy to get on board with Buddy Punch. I would say if you're looking for a really flexible timekeeping solution to track your hours, your PTO, company calendars, block out dates, things like that, Buddy Punch is a great solution. We're a growing company and we needed something that could grow with us and that was flexible, so I would recommend it if you have any of those needs.

Loura M.: My name is Loura. I am an office administrator at U.S. Lawns. My rating for QuickBooks Time would be a five out of five. It works very well, as far as when someone is on the road. They can just stop with one client and then pick up with another while they're on the road. I can do geo-searching so that I can see where they are. So, overall, I would completely recommend QuickBooks Time. It was actually the first one that was implemented because we used QuickBooks for the accounting, so it was actually the first thing that we ever used. We chose QuickBooks was because of how easy it was for it to sync. We use several different groups of software, and QuickBooks basically syncs with everything. So it's just very easy to be within one software and be able to see what's going on with our books, using the [inaudible 00:00:57] software. Extremely easy to integrate, immediately. Simple as logging in and just everything just imports, so it's very easy. The only advice that I could possibly give to someone who is new to QuickBooks is, there's just a wealth of information, so you can just take a class that's available within the software. And it'll teach you everything you need to know. It's just very easy to learn. It's very intuitive. So it doesn't take a lot, if you're new to it, to learn it.