CPA Practice Advisor

NOV 2013

Today's Technology for Tomorrow's Firm.

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Reviews For Your Firm TIME & BILLING Timesheet.com 2013 OVERALL RATING 4.75 Read the full review and see expanded ratings for this product online at: www.CPAPracticeAdvisor.com/11190091 • Users can submit paid time of • The powerful project managerequests for approval through ment and reporting tools in this the application. application may require training • Interfaces are available for sevfor users to properly confgure eral accounting, payroll, and and implement in their frms. CRM applications. • Good project management tools SUMMARY & PRICING TPS is an excellent on-premises POTENTIAL LIMITATIONS time and billing application, and its • Timesheet.com is designed for technology updates should allow it firms with tens, hundreds, or to work well into the future. Its STRENGTHS thousands of users in a range of l e g a c y o f s u p p o r t i n g o n l y • As a web application, Timesheet. industries, and is probably not accounting professionals and their com can be hosted by the pubthe best ft for frms with fewer practices makes it a good choice for lisher or run on a company's own than 10 timekeepers. frms who want a traditional time server. BEST FIRM FIT Any organization who needs a s c a l a b l e, c l o u d - b a s e d t i m e reporting tool could beneft from the Time and Atendance version of Timesheet.com. Medium and large firms can benefit from the Project and Billing edition of the sofware. and billing solution which has industry practices built into the application. TPS is priced starting at $399 for a single user, plus $149 for each additional user. Annual renewals and support plan pricing is available upon request. www.Timesheet.com Mobile App Options for Tracking Time A challenge for some users is having the discipline time and billing applications. More information is to faithfully record time spent on projects. Tere are available at www.ofcetime.net. a number of applications which are designed to be • Chrometa – Te time tracking tool in Chrometa, digital diaries for recording time which are either which is a Windows and cloud-based time and included with reviewed applications or are available billing solution (our review of it appears at www. as separate apps for individual timekeepers, including cpapracticeadvisor.com/11190114, runs in the the following: background on a user's Windows personal com• OfceTime – Tis app, available on Windows and puter and creates a log of every application and MacOS computers ($47) or iOS mobile devices document accessed by the user on that personal ($7.99) allows users to create clients, projects, and computer during the session. Mobile apps for service codes. Users enter their time directly into Android, iPhone, and BlackBerry will automatithe desktop and mobile applications. Data is cally capture data on the phone calls made and synced between the two devices, and users can received on the device, and sync it to the cloud. export data into a fle format for import into most Tis detailed log makes it fairly simple to recon- struct the tasks performed in a busy Monday morning in which you failed to log a single time entry. Chrometa is available in three plans starting at $19/month per timekeeper. More information is available at www.chrometa.com. In addition to these two applications, most applications for invoicing clients (both practice management solutions and time & billing applications) include a timer which is designed to assist timekeepers with tracking their time by allowing them to enter the client and project, and then begin a "timer" which records the amount of time spent until the user enters the next task. ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, ANY DEVICE. Get fast, relevant product information on the NEW Product Guide at CPAPracticeAdvisor.com Easy navigation Browse companies and products by category Advanced search for quick, relevant results TRY IT NOW! Go to Content fts your device … no app needed Product reviews GET INFO NOW! button speeds results

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