OfficeTime Time Keeper Pro 4+

Good App

Good app for tracking work time on projects and allows for setting job cost rate to make it easier to invoice clients. Does allow multiple timers. Can export your tracked time data in various file formats including tab delimited, .csv, .txt and .xls. Can include or exclude column id field. Also offers file name prefixing when exporting if the data should need to be imported into a database program. It now includes a Today Widget to offer access to current/recent projects to quickly start and stop timers. I personally wish that the widget feature had been integrated 2 years ago, but I guess better late than never; can you say Agile, unfortunately not. Now I just need to decide if and when I'm willing to export all of my data from the app I switched too a couple of years ago.

Developer Response ,

BTW, we got a widget in place now! :)

Lost time sheets

I can’t express how disappointed I am with this app. Once you figure out how to get it to work, it’s pretty convenient to click on and off from the time sheet window. Project setup is easy. Yes are easy to input. BUT...and here is the big BUT that had us stop using it today. I have been diligent about using this app to do freelance billing. Today, when going back to do my two-week billing, I found two whole WEEKS of projects and time sheets completely missing! I have to go back and recreate them or not get paid. Hours and hours and hours of work. I do a lot of segmented work with different clients, often an hour here or a half-hour there, or even ten minutes for phone calls or edits. That is impossible to find again. This is the third time this has happened. Today, we downloaded Toggl. It integrates with our project management software, so this may work out. Otherwise, it’s back to pencil and paper. I’ve tried now something like nine time tracking products. All fail or aren’t flexible enough. This one, had it worked reliably, was pretty good. But, I can’t have lost time like this.

Developer Response ,

Hi! OfficeTime should never lose time. That's not right at all. Write to me asap on support@officetime.net and I'll look into this and do all I can to help plus let's get you a free copy of the desktop app to backup your data.

Happy her for over 10 years 😎👍🏻👍🏻

Yes, I have been using this app for over 10 years and I use it to time my job so I know how much to charge based on the hourly rate that I set for each client. it’s working very well on my Mac, iPhone, and iPad. I did purchase the subscription because I wanted to use the cloud sync which works very well.

I emailed their support the other day and they were fairly quick to respond to the email and was very helpful. There also is a reporting feature so if you need to calculate for tax season all the jobs and how much you made, you can easily do that by filtering for the whole year or doing a custom filter for other years.

Personally, I think it’s good to make a project for each client or at least that is is what I’m doing.
When you’re in the projects, you can select a project tap the edit button and you can set a default hourly rate for that project. You set the hourly rates in the categories area.
So basically when you’re in the settings for the projects, you can set a default category for that project so every time you add a new timer to that project it will use that hourly rate, but you can always change the hourly rate/category on the fly also.