Efficient time tracking and management is one of the cornerstones of a successful workplace. As many of us now, looming deadlines and lengthy to-do lists can serve as a huge stressor in every day life. To compound that, many people are also responsible for accurately tracking and reporting their time to management. The additional effort needed to track this time can lead overwhelmed employees. The best employers never want their employees to feel like there aren’t enough hours in the day to complete their assignments and report their time. Unfortunately, a business cannot function without an accurate log of hours worked. Luckily, there are many tools out there for easily managing time. One such tool is Toggl. Our team has put together an in depth profile of the Toggl solution to show just some of the reasons why it’s been a critical tool for our office.
What is Toggl?
Toggl is an industry-leading time and productivity management tool. We use Toggl here at Stonewall and have personally experienced how the tool sets itself apart from other competitors. Toggl provides its users with a basic promise: Simple Time Tracking. Powerful Reporting. With this slogan, Toggl is promising a user experience that is easily lives up to. A user-friendly and efficient time tracking tool that allows powerful reporting and administrator management. As a time management tool, Toggl checks of all the boxes you’d want in this type of solution. Let’s dig deeper into what those checkboxes should look like.
What should you want from an enterprise time management tool?
Before implementing any time management tool in your organization, you want to make sure that the solution offers some, if not all, of the following features:
How does Toggl stack up?
Toggl meets the key criteria an organization would want from their enterprise time management tool. From a user perspective, Toggl provides a simple tracking page to start a timer for real time tracking. The tool also offers manual time entry for recording time after work has been completed. Additionally, Toggl integrates with calendars to allow automatic recording of calendar entries as tracked time entries.
For administrators, Toggl offers a comprehensive tool for organization wide employee time tracking and reporting. The dashboard component houses important data points and the ability to build and export custom reports allows for an effective audit log. Importantly, the ability to assign rates to users provides a clear picture of billable hours by user and by project.
Conclusion
Although it may feel like there are never enough hours in the day, Toggl is an extremely efficient time management tool that we use at Stonewall daily. There are many benefits of time tracking, including a more accurate look at your workweek, data on the costs of services, and the ability to see how your team is allocating their time. At Stonewall Solutions, we use Toggl for a variety of its features, including design, price, team features, Chrome extensions, and integreations with apps like Asana, Google Drive, Trello, Basecamp, and many more. Some features that are also effective and helpful within Toggl’s system include the ability to create projects that allow time entries by only designated project members, the ability to track billable hours, and comprehensive reporting to see organization-wide hours at the admin level. In addition to the great time tracking features outlined above, Toggl has started to support big picture planning through its tool Toggl Plan. This represents just another new feature that Toggl rolls out to users based on feedback from its customer base. It is clear why over 70,000 companies have used Toggl to maximize their time and productivity, including Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Booking.com, BCG, and Salesforce.