A spreadsheet looks really inviting; free! If you have a small business with a few employees and don’t have to send any invoices, then it probably is OK. But multiple projects, many employees and different billing rates for them all is when you need a professional timesheet.
All true…
But here are some reasons spreadsheet are not the best tool for tracking client hours.
- You can easily make the mistake of entering hours into the wrong employee.
- Same with the wrong project
- Same with the wrong client
- You can’t sync with a neato time tracking app like Standard Time®.
- You can’t easily share the spreadsheet on the web without collisions.
- You don’t get any email notifications when things are wrong.
- You don’t get any real project status.
So… that free timesheet may be costing you more than you think.
Check this out.