QuickBooks Time vs. TimeClock Plus

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
QuickBooks Time
Score 8.6 out of 10
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QuickBooks Time (formerly TSheets) is a cloud-based time tracking and scheduling app that allows employees to clock in and out from the job site with the devices they’ve already got in their pockets. The vendor aims to help companies replace paper timesheets with accurate, electronic time data as well as make payroll and invoicing faster and less costly. QuickBooks Time also accurately tracks time and GPS points (even without cell or internet service) then automatically syncs when back…
$0
1 user, unlimited projects
TimeClock Plus
Score 9.5 out of 10
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TimeClock Plus is a time tracking and attendance solution from Data Management Incorporated (DMI) in San Angelo, Texas. The Express edition is targeted at small businesses, Standard and Pro at larger businesses, and finally TimeClock Plus OnDemand is a complete cloud-based solution.N/A
Pricing
QuickBooks TimeTimeClock Plus
Editions & Modules
Free
$0
1 user, unlimited projects
Premium
$8
per user/month + $20 base fee/month (paid annually)
Elite
$10
per user/month + $40 base fee/month (paid annually)
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
QuickBooks TimeTimeClock Plus
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Chose QuickBooks Time
Toggl is nicer as far as full capability and additional features, but QuickBook's time is built right in, which makes it nice not to have to go between multiple interfaces. As someone who jumps between programs all day, it is nice to stay within one to complete multiple …
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It has a better integration with QuickBooks.
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we selected the product based on compatibility, but the consistent glitches outweigh any positives.
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Worst Experience in our 35 Year Company History, never again and learned [QuickBooks] Time has Failed on the easiest Tasks [QuickBooks] Time CEO/ and Executives are clueless about serving their customers, they should ALL Be fired
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We selected QuickBooks Time over Smartsheet or Timesheets.com for numerous reasons. In regards to Timesheets.com, we needed additional features that Timesheets.com couldn't offer like real-time visuals on each employee and email notifications when changes were made. In regards …
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I unfortunately do not have experience with other employee timekeeping systems.
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The cost is better. We are a nonprofit organization. We don’t need a bunch of bells and whistles. We need affordability. We run on a tight budget. Bamboo, from research looked great but TSheets offered exactly what we needed at a fair price.
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We are currently switching to Jira for our time tracking as we've moved into using it heavily to the point where we can estimate well enough time spent for our purposes (government grants). For a contractor or team working on billable hours, TSheets would be superior. For a …
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We used to do all of our scheduling manually or in archaic software that wasn't user-friendly. We researched other software and found that this was going to meet our needs most comprehensively. Staff used to track their hours on a notepad on their phone or on an excel …
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We'd used Freshbooks for a bit, but it wasn't comprehensive enough for all the various project types and time tracking needs we have. Harvest we considered due to its integration with Asana, but our Asana projects don't always line up with how we need to track and bill time. …
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TSheets just seemed like the best bang for our buck. It had all the resources we were looking for, great reviews online, and the best customer service out of all of the options we researched. It was important to us to find a program that would be able to smoothly integrate …
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As TSheets is web-based, it alllowed us to more easily manage our field technicians. There is always the slight concern that the internet may not be available, or TSheets servers may be down, but so far in the last few years, it has been stable and seen good function and …
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Paymo had a better UI but TSheets is more versatile.
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Besides Intuit Payroll (Sage), the only program I've used is WorkBrain through Menards, and it's more as a scheduling guideline for management, employees don't use it to punch in or out or record hours. However, WorkBrain does show scheduling and it matches with a punch clock …
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None of the other systems we looked at provided us with the functionality that we needed and were looking for. Everything that we considered, from using an Excel spreadsheet to software products that were supposedly easy to use, provided us with what we needed...that being …
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TSheets' ease of use for all and ease of syncing with other software really makes it stand out from other similar systems. It is also considerably affordable despite all that it offers to the company. Their customer service is also very helpful and they are available via email, …
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We have not tried another solution other than an old-fashioned Excel spreadsheet. This is a superior product compared to Excel.
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The only other option any of my clients have done in the past is paper time sheets and that was horrible.
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We looked hard at Exaktime, but they are more costly, and do not have a scheduling feature.
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Procas is very cumbersome and much of the configuration/setup cannot be done via web browser. Procas is expensive. Procas support is not 24x7 nor is support more than 8 hours. Deltek is expensive.
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I've not tried any others because TSheets is almost perfect.
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We used a tracking program called OL Time. It has tremendous functionality and reports capabilities but it doesn't integrate with accounting software and has no tablet/phone interface that I'm aware of, nor is it live tracking.
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This is solely based on support, as TSheets support blows these other two out of the water. I HATE online chats from a support standpoint, but TSheets has surprised me each time with the clarity and timeliness of response.
TimeClock Plus
Chose TimeClock Plus
TCP came out on top between the other two we closely evaluated. It replaced isolved for us because of usability and function. It beat out Paylocity because of pricing. The decision really came down to the ease of use for our employees to limit the number of corrections we had …
Chose TimeClock Plus
We have used Rippling as an employee management software that essentially has a cleaner and smaller scale clock-in and clock-out feature that was easier to use for our team. I think the TimeClock Plus beats out Rippling when you have a bigger team that needs to constantly …
Chose TimeClock Plus
TimeClock Plus is extremely easy to use for all employees!!! We want platforms that every employee feels comfortable using. Again, it is effortless to log hours on a day-to-day basis. I love that our employees have the ability to keep track of their hour details, such as paid …
Chose TimeClock Plus
The ease of use and the accommodations that it offers our employees are what sold it to us. People were not complaining about being able to check in and out as they had the capability to do that from where ever they were working.
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We chose it at the time because it was a very affordable solution that we were able to make work with our payroll.
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TimeClock Plus works hand in hand with ADP in keeping our time records correct. We export from our TimeClock Pus into ADP without any problems at all.
Chose TimeClock Plus
We switched to Namely for our HRIS system and they had a time tracking solution integrated within their software which made us no longer need to utilize TimeClock Plus. Namely's time tracking also flowed seamlessly into our payroll which made the process much simpler and …
Chose TimeClock Plus
We chose TimeClock Plus for the lower initial investment. Licensing for Wasp was more costly, and we didn't have to purchase physical time clocks like we would have with Wasp time and avoided running network cable to support the new infrastructure. The TimeClock Plus console …
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User Ratings
QuickBooks TimeTimeClock Plus
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
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9.5
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Likelihood to Renew
10.0
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10.0
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Usability
9.5
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9.5
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Availability
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10.0
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Performance
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10.0
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Support Rating
2.1
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6.3
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Implementation Rating
6.0
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Product Scalability
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10.0
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User Testimonials
QuickBooks TimeTimeClock Plus
Likelihood to Recommend
It would be very useful for certain remote jobs that require a high level of presence, as in the case of web development, or remote maintenance sessions, so that when reviewing the work data it is possible to ensure that there will be no failures. By being able to include files in the management, from the equipment tab, it is possible to fully control the hours in which each change in these files were made.
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TCP is great for timekeeping and tracking. There's a mobile app and a web based clock system. The mobile app works well for most employees, but there are some that have trouble with it. It seems the app has extra steps to confirm clocking in and out that some miss or skip and there's a little bit of UI related items that could use some clean up. Outside of the minor flaws, TCP is a great tool for managing time for employees.
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Pros
  • Allows tracking for billable items.
  • Easy for users to modify their time cards.
  • Very user-friendly for all employees. The employee age ranges from 20 years old to 65 years old.
  • Easily accessible with an app on a tablet/smartphone or at home on a desktop; people can use it anywhere!
  • Responsive and helpful customer service representatives whenever there are issues.
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  • Employees' time goes straight to the database we use. No having to manually enter time.
  • No one can clock anyone else in or out at the time clock. We love that security feature.
  • It exports easily into the payroll system we are using.
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Cons
  • I would like to see more functionality around rounding of time.
  • In the Report Filters, I don't find the "Customer" selection process easy to use.
  • Without "archiving employees" I'd like to see another way to get employees from showing in the selection list...maybe an "inactive" code.
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  • Email notifications for entered requests do not always work, and the system will not send notifications from a manager user to a manager user.
  • We set up schedules to run each morning to populate timesheets, but there have been many times when the schedules did not run, and hours were missing.
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Likelihood to Renew
TSheets tech support people, like Shawn Sommer, from Tsheets. She has been instrumental, after terminating the person in charge of TSheets I was left with a learning curve too high to climb but after 10 mins of her instructions I was able to make payroll in no time. She cleared all errors that nobody had fixed before.
TSheets is not a vendor for me, TSheets is my partner in business. Thank you TSheets.
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It's robust and does what we need it to do in terms of tracking worked time, also unworked time. It has a detailed Employee Profiles section but mostly it's because it keeps track of hours
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Usability
Overall good product. I think some integration issues that are probably on the way would give it a higher score. Easy to use, easy to see how well it connects to current book keeping software we use, and would be easy to adopt by someone who is a QuickBook user that has billable clients or just wants that metric to see how their time is allocated.
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I absolutely love the ability to customize TCP to what you need it to be. There's lots of settings and areas where you get to decide how to want the system to operate. For every situation our team has said "I wish TCP would do it this way" we have been able to find a setting to adjust to make it do that. There are very minor adjustments I would like to make like hiding drop down menu items that we won't ever use.
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Reliability and Availability
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It has never been unavailable when I've needed to use it.
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Performance
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Great performance, pages load quickly and reports generate quickly. They do take some time to complete if they're covering a large Start - Stop date, eg months but that's not an issue, they still complete fairly quickly.
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Support Rating
I have never failed to have an issue resolved within minutes of contacting Support. Jen D recently assisted my with an export issue and I was back on track in less the 10 minutes. She was knowledgable and thought about the current and future contexts of the issue and assured there would be no recurrence next payroll.
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  • The support representatives respond quickly and work hard to resolve every issue. They are always friendly and courteous.
  • The email notifications are our most significant issue, and they are still not entirely resolved.
  • I dislike having to sign forms to allow them access to the databases routinely...it seems this could be an annual document.
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Implementation Rating
I wasn't originally helping with the implementation so not sure.
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Alternatives Considered
We used to do all of our scheduling manually or in archaic software that wasn't user-friendly. We researched other software and found that this was going to meet our needs most comprehensively. Staff used to track their hours on a notepad on their phone or on an excel spreadsheet. There was really nothing else available to us that did what TSheets could do and the price fit in our budget. We have been very happy with our decision!
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We have used Rippling as an employee management software that essentially has a cleaner and smaller scale clock-in and clock-out feature that was easier to use for our team. I think the TimeClock Plus beats out Rippling when you have a bigger team that needs to constantly clock-in and clock-out but for our needs, Rippling was perfect and allowed us to pay them all in the same software.
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Scalability
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It's consistent and easy to use.
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Return on Investment
  • Helps to ensure that employees are being held accountable for their clocked in time and allows us to clock them out if we see they're not where they say they are, saving us money.
  • Decreases time our staffing coordinator has to spend on inputting times after events - when managers can clock staff in and out during the event, it allows our staffing coordinator to use their office time more effectively.
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  • Changing from hand scanning to using badges has cut down on employees unable to clock in and out properly.
  • Records are more accurate. There has been less need for entering employees' time manually.
  • More efficient all around.
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ScreenShots

QuickBooks Time Screenshots

Screenshot of TSheets is the only time tracking app embedded inside QuickBooks. You can easily review and approve employee time cards to run payroll, do job costing, or create invoices--without ever leaving QuickBooks!Screenshot of With accurate employee hours from TSheets at your fingertips, you're always ready to run payroll--without the tedious manual entry!Screenshot of TSheets is more than just a time tracker. It keeps a timestamp for each clock in/out, job code change & GPS location. See who’s on the clock, where, and their assigned schedule—in real-time.Screenshot of Creating a schedule with Excel is costing you more than you think. TSheets employee scheduling software makes it faster & easier than ever to build & share schedules with employees, assign jobs & shifts, & keep your workforce in sync.Screenshot of Track time using devices your employees already use; any computer, mobile phone or landline, iPhone or Android app, smartphone browser, text message or Twitter.Screenshot of Really friendly free, unlimited support by phone, chat, or email. We guarantee you'll be impressed.