The Timesheet Blog

It’s a signature day: The beta version of Replicon Timesheet for iPhone* is now available in the Apple App Store. If you have an existing SaaS-based version of Replicon’s Web TimeSheet software, you can download the app and start using it. Don’t have a Replicon account yet? That’s not a problem—the app works with trial versions of our software as well. You can sign up for a Free 14-day trial here.

Replicon Timesheet for iPhone makes it easier than ever to enter project time and related expense information. You can do it from anywhere your iPhone works. Just launch the app, enter your project data, and it instantly syncs with your main instance of Web TimeSheet. You can even take pictures of your receipts and upload them on-the-spot. […]

Our goal is to help you get quick time-to-value from our Replicon solutions. The experts on our Implementation Services team are expert at helping you get the most from our time tracking software.

We offer three implementation packages that can be tailored to your unique requirements. Whether you need minimal pointers in the right direction, additional guidance, or comprehensive assistance with a complex implementation, we’re prepared to help. […]

Non-profit research facilities often rely heavily on federal grants to support their missions. The tricky part is being able to keep detailed records of how those funds are being used. […]

The first infographic we created from data in our new Replicon Productivity Index showed how employees used their days-away-from-work. Now we’ve focused on another area of the data, seeing how companies spend their travel dollars. You hear and read a lot about how the current economy is causing companies to look for ways to cut expenses, including reductions-in-force, hiring and pay freezes, and in some cases curtailing or even eliminating business travel. But as shown in our new infographic, companies are not necessarily spending less than they could for travel. In fact, their on-the-road expenses appear to be rising quickly. […]

As we mentioned last month, the Replicon Productivity Index mines a huge trove of data to reveal facts you can use to improve your organization’s efficiency. For example, if you know the percentage of employees who are likely to request vacation days during a given period, you can budget to hire fill-in help. Now, we’ve made it easy to see 5 Fun Findings from the Index: A new infographic takes a playful approach to presenting facts you can use to avoid productivity slumps. (Keep in mind that the Replicon Productivity Index is based strictly on aggregated, anonymized data—we never use any specific company or individual information). […]

Replicon is now a $20+ million company. On one hand you could say it reached that milestone by virtue of 7,300 companies joining our family of customers in the past 16 years. On another, you could say it stemmed from vision and hard work (and yes, learning from mistakes—some of them big ones). That’s probably the case at many companies that started small and took a little time to grow. But rarely do you get to hear a company’s founders describe with detail and candor the significant hurdles, decisions and accomplishments they experienced along the way.[…]

We’ve just released the new Smart Interface for our SaaS-based Web TimeSheet products. And I’m happy to say I think it’s a terrific step forward. It actually does feel faster, look better, and help you get things done more intuitively. Could I have said otherwise? Indeed I could. In fact, I can recall only a few times when I upgraded a computer program and was pleasantly surprised by how well its developers “got it.” I think the key in those instances was that the software’s interface had been redesigned in subtle ways, so I felt comfortable with the changes. New features seemed like natural extensions of the ones I already knew. But I’ve also endured upgrades that—while they were supposed to be improvements—forced me up a steep learning curve. So, when I heard that Replicon planned to redo its timesheet interface, I hoped for the best. […]

Can mining piles of data lead to profitable insights about employee vacations? We reckoned the answer to that (and much more) was hidden in the troves of time-tracking info we host for our customers. Access to this kind of powerful aggregated data is one of the major benefits of being on a SaaS platform. So we obtained anonymized data from willing participants, combed through it to see what insights we could get and packaged it as our first ever “Productivity Index.” We hope this type of visibility will make it easier for companies to look ahead, and make adjustments to sustain their revenue streams. For example, they’ll avoid slumps in productivity by correctly anticipating when employees will request vacation time, and adding fill-in help accordingly. But the helpful insight in this case isn’t about the most-requested time of year for vacation (it’s June through August, which you probably guessed). Rather, it’s learning what percentage of people plan to be away from work: 52 percent more than in the spring. This knowledge can help companies implement productive strategies. […]

Recently, Monster.com projected that the San Francisco Bay Area would be a key region for job growth in the second half of this year. We’re already seeing signs of that upswing. Our home office is in Calgary, but we opened a branch in the Bay Area not long ago. Part of the reason is that there’s a much bigger pool of the talent and experience we need. But even with many more people available, these days it’s a very competitive situation to fill open positions. Our cofounder, Lakshmi Raj, says that typically candidates who get job offers from us already have received two or three others. Why do some of them (and why might you or someone you know) ultimately choose our team over “brand name” companies?[…]

If your company is primarily project-based—deriving revenue by billing clients for work on specific tasks—then no doubt you’re constantly concerned with billable hours. The more of them you can generate efficiently, the more successful you’ll be. A simple measure of that efficiency is utilization: the ratio of billable to non-billable work. But how do you gauge that with minimal effort (which itself, of course, is non-billable)? And maybe just as important: How do you make your employees and contractors aware of how well they’re doing with utilization? Online timesheets have a unique ability to help you see and share utilization rates, and ultimately produce more revenue. […]