Understanding Time Entry

It is strongly recommends that you capture all hours worked whether they are billable or not. This includes vacation, holiday, sick, education, research and other activities. If you do not track non-billable hours, you cannot effectively measure performance, utilization and profitability. Your time entry options include:

• Sheet View – If you enter time for others, often marking overtime, comp time or extra time for a project, or review entries, then use this flexible, customizable spreadsheet-like time entry screen.
• Simple Time Card – If you work steadily on three or four tasks during a day, then use this efficient, quick-to-enter timesheet screen.
• Timer (on-screen stopwatch) – If you switch from task to task through the day – client calls, staff and management requests, emails, impromptu meetings –  then open as many timers as you need. You can easily switch from one timer to another.
• Outlook Add-In – If you track appointments and hours worked using Microsoft Outlook, then use this BillQuick add-in module to save appointments, tasks and emails as time entries right from Outlook.

Settings and rules related to time entries can be set at the global, user and project level. Project-level settings get precedence over the global settings.

• Global and User Settings: Related to time can be specified in the Global Settings and Preferences screen.
• Project Settings: Related to time can be specified in the Project screen.