Rich Blumer

professional software developer

Archive for January, 2008

Web Time Tracking

Posted by rblumer on Jan-18-2008 under Technology

I have been using Paymo time tracker for about two weeks to do all of my project time tracking. I absolutely love it!

There are two parts to this web application:

  1. Paymo Time Tracker
  2. Paymo WebClient

The Paymo time tracker is a free tool for the first 1-3 users. It allows you to enter your time via projects and their associated tasks. Of course, you can add as many tasks as you need to a particular project. This tool also provides time reporting based on the dates entered or canned reports such as current week and previous week. Unfortunately, it does not have a weekly report that has a view by the day.

The Paymo webclient is an unique tool that allows you to start a clock when you begin a particular task. After you complete your task and stop the clock, the time is added automatically for you. I haven’t used this feature much since I usually have a number of people stopping by my cube to check up on a project’s status.

The support from Paymo has been wonderful. There was a bug that recorded the time being 0:59 minutes when I actually entered 1:00 hour. I submitted this bug to Paymo one night and it was fixed by the next day.

There is also a commercial version of this tool that will be released in the future. The commercial version is available for 3 or more users.