There must be a better way of doing this! (part 2)

If you search online there may be more than fifty software companies offering time tracking softwares. You can also download them for a trial. It seems there is a big market for it. They are not too expensive either, not in the thousands of dollars.
Not sure which one to try, I visited their websites and checked for online product reviews.
Internet (and Google) are amazing tools, aren't they?

I finally settled for one software, called Journyx. (www.journyx.com)
I know it has a funny name. I picked them because of the glowing reviews their received from the customers. And, it is free if you have less than ten employees.

After several months using it, I could not be happier, even after spending a day or two setting it up and customizing the timesheet configuration to fit my needs.

I am not sure why a product this good is given away for free. It is probably part of their marketing strategy.

I can easily enter every single hours, expense and mileage into the same software through my website, that is linked to my journyx database. (You can see it on my website under login/timesheet).

To tell you the truth, now I kind of enjoy doing this type of task - something I dreaded for so long - knowing that it is easy and fun and in many ways much less prone to errors.
My wife, who has been helping with purchasing and invoicing, love the software as well because she can always enter or review billing hours or expenses from her own computer.

At one time, a client who received my invoice wanted to know the details for that billing period. So I sent her the monthly report for the project including task descriptions (see the snapshot on the right side of this blog entry). She seemed very satisfied with that. On my part, I was so glad because I did not have to labor putting together a report or trace back every hour I spent fearing that I made mistakes in billing the client.

If you are interested to know more about Journyx or other time tracking softwares, feel free to e-mail me at basri@b2engineers.com. I may be able to steer you in the right direction.

No more time spreadsheet for me :)