Whether you work independently or as part of a consulting firm, your success hinges on accurate, reliable time tracking. Achieving this shouldn't sacrifice your efficiency—or sanity. That’s why we developed Timely—the premier consultant time tracking software that automatically captures every minute you spend on multiple clients and projects in the background while you work.
The Time Tracking Tool for Consultants 🛠️
Timely automatically records all your work activities across web and desktop, and even tracks your GPS location. Designed with mobility in mind, it lets you track project budgets and control your time on all devices, making it the ideal time tracking software for consultants. Now, you can track, report, and bill for all clients and projects from one place.
An Accurate Account of All Your Time ⏰
By automating time tracking in the background, Timely ensures no detail is forgotten. In a few clicks, your tracked activities can be transformed into accurate time sheets, or even let Timely's AI handle it. This sets a new standard for accurate invoicing, ensuring you're paid for all your billable work. It’s a game-changer, especially for firm-based consultants focused on hitting accurate utilization targets.
Estimate with Confidence 🔍
Whether you bill by the hour or not, knowing how you spend your time is critical for estimating fixed-price work and retainers to ensure a profitable return. Timely allows you to tag and track specific project phases, providing invaluable insights for setting accurate estimates.
Track Budgets in Real Time đź’°
Timely helps you monitor both time and money, staying on top of retainers and internal budgets from a single powerful dashboard. This consultant time tracking tool gives firms a real-time look at project performance, guiding profitable project delivery.
Work Naturally 👩🏽💻
With Timely, forget about starting and stopping timers. This time tracking software for consultants handles everything for you, so you can focus on what really matters. Interact with the tool as much or as little as you like, and since it captures everything as you work, there's no need to interrupt your flow with manual logging.
Report in Seconds ⚡
Timely lets you create and send custom reports that detail your time on specific projects, proving your value and focus to clients. This feature is also great for quick time sheets and project updates to senior management.
Improve Your Efficiency and Productivity đź’Ş
Timely gives you complete control over your time, allowing you to optimize every second. See where you're spending time, identify distractions, and measure performance against forecasts. For many consultants, seeing their efficiency visualized is a major productivity boost.
Work on the Go đźš…
Designed for the active consultant lifestyle, Timely is available on Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android. Move seamlessly between your devices, ensuring your consultant time tracking is always accurate, whether you're in the office or on the move.
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Why Consultants Love Timely ❤️
Consultants across all industries choose Timely for accurate, effortless time tracking. From billing accurately and estimating confidently to simply wanting to boost personal productivity, Timely is the smart choice for time tracking software for consultants.
Firm-based consultants
“Timley is a great way to track daily activities without writing anything down! And the GPS tracker helps remind me where I’ve been.”
– Clayton, engineering consultant
“Automatic time tracking is huge for me! I was really struggling to add up my daily hours in Toggl, and find Timely to be much more user-friendly.”
– Anissa, clean energy consultant
“Monthly invoicing was always a pain spent trying to remember what I’d done throughout the month. Timely’s AI and automation now collects my time and it backs it up for me, making time sheet reporting so much easier. A definite time saver!”
– Janos, information security consultant
“My firm’s time tracking tools are cumbersome and lack basic integrations. With Timely, I can track work down to the applications used and easily plan time for future weeks.”
– Brandon, software consultant
“Timely makes it so much easier to plan my week, track time for each task, and then click a button for monthly invoicing.”
– Nicole, construction consultant
“Time management is my Achilles heel, but Timely makes it sosimple. It gives me a great overview of how I spend my time and helps meidentify time thieves.”
– Jon, corporate innovation consultant
“I switched from Toggl for Timely’s automation – it provides all the information I need to submit time info into our SAP system.”
– David, management consultant
Independent consultants
"Timely doesn't just track my time; it also encourages me to plan in advance, helps me track budget spend and really simplifies client reporting. It’s saved me time and heartache!"
– Ashley, humanitarian consultant
I tell friends and colleagues all the time that they need to use Timely to track their time. It helps me plan and manage my time, and stop me kidding myself that I'm being productive when I'm just being busy. For colleagues new to WFH during the pandemic, I think it's a great tool to keep them focussed and for their managers to keep them on track too! Aside from tracking billable time for clients, it helps me understand how accurate my quotes are (turns out I’ve been spending way more time than I ever estimated and quoted).
– Cath, textiles and design consultant
“Timely helps me prove how productive I am to my clients.”
– Jacob, IT consultant
“An amazing tool for tracking working hours and comparing budget estimations against the real costs.”
– Guilherme, marketing consultant
“I charge jobs by the hour and found myself just guessing totals. Timely may well double my income and helps me prove to clients why I am now charging more.”
– Anthony, town planning consultant
Timely is the tool I've longed for since the late 20th century. It's a total game changer, not only in business applications, but in gaining perspective on personal priorities as well.
– Jay, marketing consultant
Tracking time across multiple clients was taking me way toomuch time. Once I tried Timely I realized it was precisely what I needed. Youmake my professional life easier to administer – automated time tracking that’seasy, simple and elegant.
– Joe, primary education consultant
“Since I began using it, Timely has kept me focused, on-track and accountable for everything I do each day. I love the ability to track whatever I do!”
– Abigail, marketing consultant
“I started using Timely for my consultancy work, but have started using it for close to everything I value in life. It’s just the best way to plan and track your valuable time.”
– Jens, public sector consultant
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