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Time Tracking

Hours that flow straight into cost and margin.

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Overview

How Time Tracking works.

Time tracked in a tool disconnected from cost is just data. Time tracked in a tool where each entry knows its bill rate, its cost rate, and the engagement it belongs to is operational infrastructure. PartnerView makes time capture the primary surface for independent contractors and rolls every hour straight into task, phase, and project actuals. The budget comparison happens automatically. Burned cost is visible in real time, not after a quarterly export.

Where it breaks today

The specific problems Time Tracking solves.

01

Time tracked in a tool disconnected from project cost.

Hours log in one place. Cost lives in another. The reconciliation is a separate manual step, and it never quite reconciles.

02

Contractors' hours reconciled by hand.

A contractor sends a weekly hour count by email. Someone enters it in a spreadsheet. The spreadsheet eventually feeds the cost report. Errors compound at every step.

03

Burned cost invisible until someone exports and sums.

By the time a project's labor cost overrun is visible, the hours have already been burned and the margin has already been lost.

Compare

How a standalone time tracker compares to PartnerView.

A standalone time tracker PartnerView
Cost connection Hours logged in a tool disconnected from project budget. Hours roll up to task, phase, and project actuals.
Budget visibility Burned cost invisible until someone exports and sums. Time feeds the Budget Quoted versus Actual comparison directly.
Contractors Contractor hours reconciled by hand against invoices. The contractor's primary surface. Hours flow straight into actuals.
Surface A separate login, a separate export. Time tracking inside the same system as the work.
Purchased hours Nobody knows how many bought hours remain until the invoice argument. Purchased, used, and remaining on the project overview, and again at the point of logging.
What PartnerView does

The capabilities.

Time entries flow to cost.

Each entry carries the task, the hours, the bill rate, and the cost rate. The reconciliation is the entry itself, not a second step.

The contractor's primary surface.

Independent contractors log against assigned tasks. No separate timesheet tool, no email round-trip, no reconciliation lag.

Budget comparison runs live.

Hours roll up to task, phase, and project actuals. Quoted versus actual updates in real time, not at month-end.

Purchased hours, visible where work happens.

Hours purchased, used, and remaining on the project overview, and availability shown at the moment of logging. An over-purchased project says so plainly, in the alert color, never as a quiet negative.

Full capability set

Everything in Time Tracking.

Time capture

Time captured where the work happens.

  • Time entries with task, hours, date, and note
  • Logging against assigned tasks
  • The primary time surface for independent contractors
  • Inline entry, not a separate timesheet tool

Roll-up to cost

Every hour flows straight to cost and margin.

  • Hours roll up to task, phase, and project actuals
  • Feeds the Budget Quoted versus Actual comparison
  • Time, cost, and margin reconcile without manual export
  • Real-time visibility into burned cost
  • Bill rate and cost rate look up at log time from the rate card based on person role and project customer tier
  • Rate-card edits are effective-dated, so historical time entries pin to the rate that was active when they were logged

Purchased hours and availability

The question every services client asks: how many of the hours we bought are left.

  • Hours purchased, used, and remaining on the project overview
  • An explicit over-purchased state in the alert color, never a silent negative
  • Availability at the point of logging: the project's remaining hours, and the selected phase's, before the entry is saved
  • An honest empty state when no purchased-hours cap has been set, instead of an invented denominator

Billable classification and time categories

Every hour knows what kind of work it was and whether it bills.

  • Activity types classify every entry: strategy, build, QA, project management, training, travel, internal
  • Each activity type carries a billable default, and the entry freezes its billable flag when logged, so later category changes never restate history
  • Billable versus non-billable breakdown by work type on the time surface

Time-period lock workflow

Weekly periods that move through an approval and lock chain so billed hours can be frozen.

  • Four period states: open, submitted, approved, locked
  • Submit-own-week from the individual contributor view
  • Bulk approve from the manager view across multiple person-weeks
  • Locked periods reject writes with HTTP 423
  • Unlock requires a written reason and writes to an append-only audit log
  • Period-status report at /reports/time.period_status grouped by person
  • Rollover-history report at /reports/time.rollover_history tracks unlock and re-submit events

Time planning

Planned hours per task, distributed across calendar days, with variance back to actuals.

  • Planned hours per task
  • Four distribution methods: front-loaded, back-loaded, even, custom
  • Skip-weekends and skip-PTO toggles on the distribution
  • PTO integration: distribution skips per-assignee PTO days from the PTO module
  • Planned versus actual variance per task on the task detail
  • Aggregated project plan view: timeline chart of planned hours per week across the project
Where this lives

How this maps to your workflow.

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