Deputy vs Timely
An alternative to Deputy’s basic manual timers
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What makes Timely the best Deputy alternative?
Offering detail-rich automatic time tracking, Timely is quite a step up from Deputy’s basic time reporting. Alongside accurately capturing all employee work hours, Timely helps teams understand how they actually use their time — and translate time data into accurate invoices for billing. Here are a few reasons why Deputy users switch to Timely.
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An alternative to Deputy’s basic manual timers
Feel Helena’s pain? You’re not alone. Almost every time tracking app currently on the market shares Deputy’s essential design error: manual timer input.
Constantly starting and stopping timers is an unnatural and inefficient way to track time — particularly if you regularly hop between projects or responsibilities. You only log the activities you remember working on, leading to incomplete timesheets . This subjectivity itself breeds extreme inaccuracy — even if you remember to log your hours every day, studies show that timesheets that rely on manual input are only ever 67% accurate.
Deputy is actually designed to be a digital version of a traditional time clock, not fully-fledged time tracking software. As such, you can only track the time you spend at work and on breaks — not the content of those hours. This may be sufficient if you are only looking for a basic employee payroll app, but is inadequate for managing projects and billing clients, which both require a detailed, precise breakdown of how time was spent.