Time Budgets

We are evalutating this now for use corporate wide as a contractor/integrator, but we need to be able to track time against budget by task & milestone. Has anyone developed a module to do this yet or has Active Collab been working on this to include in a release? Please let me know as this affects whether or not we will be able to use Active Collab.

FWIW, Planning module for activeCollab allows you to estimate time for tasks, milestones, tickets, checklists and pages. You can the use activeCollab's time tracking feature to add time to these items. Coming back to Planning module will show you the actual vs estimated time for each item.

It will even total up the estimates / actual times.

HTH.

We are due for renew and will not be renewing this year after 4 years with you and are going to have to head to a different software provider if we cannot get this feature added really soon (like the next 2-3 weeks).

As our company has grown, we need much better methods of time tracking and billing. Tracking employees time throughout the day to AC is all fine but could still be better, look at getharvest.com for example. Billing from AC is terrible and the invoicing module is so basic it shouldn't have been released yet.

Take a look at worlflowmax.com. Their interface is shithouse but the functionality is much better that AC's is to date. They also just released a good job scheduling interface that is quite impressive.

IIila, can you take a look at this software PLEASE: http://previewstreamtime.com/au/

Can you please explain to us how close your roadmap is to creating software such as this or are you heading in a totally different direction?

Kind regards,
Sean.

Hi Ilija,

We need to be able to do the following in our business:

- Analyse a project on a milestone level to see how profitable the project was.
- Simplify our billing to clients on a time and materials basis.

Our problems with AC would be fixed with the following added functionality (much of this functionality is available in workflowmax):

Add activity/task management module to AC (e.g. Web Design - Wireframes, Web Design - Concepts, Web Development - front end programming, Web Development - deployment). This would enable us to add our own export functionality to MYOB so that we could streamline the invoice creation for on-going clients whom we invoice on a time and materials basis for each month.

Add tasks to a project with descriptions. e.g. Web Development - Backend Programming - "product module".

Add cost and time estimates and/or fixed budgets to tasks on a project basis, enabling project reporting against time budgets per task.

Add ability for users select which activity they were completing when entering time records against a project.

Currently in active collab we are unable to log time to a set of pre-defined activities/tasks. We would like to be able to add a list of tasks into AC for selection at the time entry point. These activities/tasks would be matched against time estimates or fixed costs that we enter per task per project. This would basically be a copy of our quote for a client, entered into AC. Then we could export the time entries and import them into our accounting platform (MYOB) for billing.

To handle our ongoing work and adhoc updates that we do for clients we would have a project for every client called "Adhoc Services" and we would log our time against our tasks/activities to this project and we would generate our monthly on-going invoices from this data.

We would happily build major components if you can delegate which areas you would need to complete and which we would complete to help get this out the door asap.

Thank you so much in advance. We do love your software and hope we can work together to get these features.

Who else you benefit from this?

Kind regards,
Sean.