How do I track time/expenses and allocate them to a project?
Hello Hackers!
My business has recently switched to MYOB for its accounting. We're using the small business option and so it doesn't have much in the way of project tracking. That makes it difficult to know if the three days I'm billing my company for was because of work done producing training material or spent on the client's site. I want to better track how I'm allocating my time and how money is being spent (and why it's coming in to the business as well.)
I think this is "running a business 101" stuff.
So my question is this: what external software (or methods) can you recommend for tracking time and expenses and allocating them to a project? Can any of these tools integrate with MYOB that you know of?
What about a Google Docs spreadsheet? A Word doc? pencil and paper? Thoughts?
Thanks all.
This is my solution:
Although my solution is not very easy to duplicate, I just want to share with you to provide an idea. I use shortcut by creating cards to manage my monthly works. I use toggl track to record time for each card. I use Integromat to create an automate connection between shortcut and toggle. Whenever a card is dragged to a specific column in shortcut, a task in toggl will be started or stoped. In the end, I can look at the toggl to see all the time. It seems toggl can also track expense but I never used it.
Hi @MrCrilly a very good friend of mine was using https://hubstaff.com/ a few years back for his dev agency and I believe it does the work which you've described above.
Hope it's useful :)
There's:
I've written a Chrome/Bash plugin that literally tracks everything I do electronically but it won't scale to other people without a bit of work.
Hope that helps,
Thanks a bunch, @Lakebed_io