QuickBooks Time vs. Timely

QuickBooks Time

QuickBooks Time

303 Reviews and Ratings

Timely

Timely

10 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
QuickBooks Time	Score 8.5 out of 10	N/A	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
Timely	Score 7.0 out of 10	N/A	Timely AS, headquartered in Oslo, Norway, offers their automatic employee and project time tracking application.	N/A

Pricing

QuickBooks Time

Timely

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 Time	Timely
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	QuickBooks Time	Timely
Considered Both Products	QuickBooks Time Verified User Anonymous 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose QuickBooks Time It has a better integration with QuickBooks. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose QuickBooks Time we selected the product based on compatibility, but the consistent glitches outweigh any positives. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose QuickBooks Time 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 Incentivized Helpful? SR Sara Ryal Senior Accounting Associate Chose QuickBooks Time N/A Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose QuickBooks Time 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose QuickBooks Time I unfortunately do not have experience with other employee timekeeping systems. Incentivized Helpful? Adrian McConnell Founding Executive Director Chose QuickBooks Time 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. Incentivized Helpful? Matthew Gardner Director of Customer Success Chose QuickBooks Time 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 … Incentivized Helpful? KC Kristin Cole Owner Chose QuickBooks Time 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Nate Shields Marketing Director & Solutions Architect Chose QuickBooks Time 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. … Incentivized Helpful? Gigi Greene Event Sales Manager Chose QuickBooks Time 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Scott Azarnoff Principal Chose QuickBooks Time 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose QuickBooks Time Paymo had a better UI but TSheets is more versatile. Incentivized Helpful? Heather Urban Office Manager Chose QuickBooks Time 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose QuickBooks Time 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose QuickBooks Time 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, … Incentivized Helpful? Paul Ellul Vice President Chose QuickBooks Time We have not tried another solution other than an old-fashioned Excel spreadsheet. This is a superior product compared to Excel. Incentivized Helpful? Rebecca Neilson CEO Chose QuickBooks Time The only other option any of my clients have done in the past is paper time sheets and that was horrible. Incentivized Helpful? Nolan Rohrer General manager Chose QuickBooks Time We looked hard at Exaktime, but they are more costly, and do not have a scheduling feature. Incentivized Helpful? Dennis Grzebien Member Chose QuickBooks Time 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. Incentivized Helpful? Karen Pruett Internal Operations Manager Chose QuickBooks Time Cost effective Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose QuickBooks Time I've not tried any others because TSheets is almost perfect. Incentivized Helpful? FG Frank Gerrits Owner Chose QuickBooks Time 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. Incentivized Helpful? JC Justin Cox Corporate Controller Chose QuickBooks Time 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. Incentivized Helpful?	Timely Verified User Anonymous Chose Timely We haven't tried many options but obviously it is better than basecamp because basecamp doesnt track time. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Timely Timely does not provide recurring event tracking. 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User Ratings
	QuickBooks Time	Timely
Likelihood to Recommend	8.6 (0 ratings)	7.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	9.5 (0 ratings)	5.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	2.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	6.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	QuickBooks Time	Timely
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. Incentivized Jim Livingston Law Clerk Read full review	Timely is well suited for organizing complex projects that require communication, transparency, data access, and monitoring tasks. It also helps with making sure everyone knows the small and day-to-day tasks required from each one, and not only the big picture of the project. In complex projects, it is easy to become frustrated by the amount of work that still needs to be done. Timely breaks it into smaller parts. Incentivized Atlas Vieira Customer Experience Read full review
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. Incentivized Heather Urban Office Manager Read full review	Memory app is certainly useful for Timely. It helps guide me to log time. Multiple platform support, so I could enter my time on my phone, and on laptops. Timely has app integration, the most useful app is Microsoft Office365. I can track my time according to my calendar. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	I really can't think of improvements so far Because, considering the size of our projects, it perfectly matches our expectations. Incentivized Atlas Vieira Customer Experience Read full review
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. Carolina Bellino Founder Read full review	No answers on this topic
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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	For admin its not great but for the team it is fairly straight forward I think. The reports are clunky at times, if I have something pulled up on a tab then go into a different tab and back into the Timely tab, whatever I had up is gone, etc. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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. Curtis Bobsin Chief Executive Officer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating	I wasn't originally helping with the implementation so not sure. Incentivized SR Sara Ryal Senior Accounting Associate Read full review	No answers on this topic
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! Incentivized KC Kristin Cole Owner Read full review	Timely does not provide recurring event tracking. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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. Incentivized Gigi Greene Event Sales Manager Read full review	Helps us stay in budget and make more money that way Helps us see our actual time and can now charge new clients accordingly Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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