Engineering time tracking software is a must for all engineering firms. Architecture time tracking software is a must for all architecture firms.

Time tracking or Time slips, are an indispensable portion of project management software. And not only is time tracking important but knowing how that time was spent and what was accomplished with that time is just as important.

So you need to track more than just the number of hours spent on a project so that the project manager can see where and how time is being spent. A high quality time tracking module in a project management software solution will allow you to not only track the time by the project but also the phase of the project and the activity being performed by the architect or engineer.

When tracking activities in your time tracking software or module, you should track names such as meetings, production, administrative, design, engineering, errands, staff meetings, etc..

Entering this data and tracking the activities into project management software is just the first step. Your software must also report on this data, and it would be advisable to have a software solution that can report and show you activity by person, activity by phase, activity by billing rate, and when it is totaling these numbers up it should include the direct cost, the indirect cost or overhead,  the total burden cost, the total of your billing rates, and finally the total cost plus targeted profits.

One of the best project management solutions with integrated time tracking is Praesto. Our integrated solution handles all of the items discussed above.

One other thing that we alluded to was that the time tracking software must also track your billing rates for the individuals entering their time. Those individuals should be able to see lack from various billing rates based on the activity and or role that they are fulfilling.

Engineering time tracking software is a must for all engineering firms. Architecture time tracking software is a must for all architecture firms.

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