DeskTime vs. Paymo

I would say that a scenario where DeskTime is well suited is for personal use in a private business. DeskTime does exactly what it advertises, and it does it very well. However, I think there is a lot of potential for over-monitoring of your employees, or over-monitoring from high ups in larger companies. In a private business for personal use, you're only monitoring your own time management, so you can adjust as needed.

Incentivized

Well suited: tracking time, making notes to share with clients, live reporting. Less so: tracking and bookkeeping - they don't market it as a bookkeeping app, though they do allow for invoicing through it. Still, my needs are such that I use a separate app for tracking receipts against a project and then invoicing clients.

Incentivized

• Tracks productivity
• Takes screenshots of activity
• Ranks users based on performance
• Can create and manage many teams
• Can see all hours worked, arrivals and departures
• Can dictate which websites are productive and unproductive

Incentivized

• Time tracking. As long as you set up everything correctly on the front end, you don't have to think about it again and it will run in the background.
• Job management. Organizes jobs intuitively and can easily archive jobs.
• Support. If you ever have an issue or questions, they have a chat feature and will usually respond in a couple hours.

Incentivized

• Potential to over-monitor employee time usage
• No task tracking feature
• Realization of own poor time management

Incentivized

• The main area for improvement is exportability of data. It's tough to get full data out of Paymo. You can export most things in CSV format, but if you were to start with Paymo and want to switch to another project management and accounting platform, there would be substantial manual effort involved.
• There also aren't as many integrations for Paymo as some of the more mainstream project management suites. This isn't necessarily Paymo's fault. It's just a function of them still being one of the "little guys." Something to be aware of before you select this platform though.

Incentivized

It is a complete, a bit overambitious app but with many features that are needed. I didn't need most of the features but managed to make the most of the two I was using. Also, I think it is a well-rounded app and I am considering moving some team collab there.

Incentivized

Good! Fast, excellent, speedy responses. They always wanted to know why and how they could improve on something (good on receiving feedback, too). Not that they were much needed, but my limited experience with them is good; they were really keen to understand what the problem was really about and how they could help with it.

Incentivized

Desktime is the first time management software I have used.

Incentivized

Similar in almost all project management aspects... Paymo seems to have a slight edge in invoicing and reporting. They are also adding new features regularly so that (in our opinion) makes the investment worth it. Customer support has also been terrific. Easy onboarding process and we found this solution the easiest to get started doing actual work with.

Incentivized

• Good Investment, with the report you can decide which other paid apps [are] not being used in the organization

Incentivized

• It helped us to realize that our actual spend for events like trade shows was actually higher with our manpower included

Incentivized