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When you work for others your time is important. When you run your own business, it is even more so. In either case, your time must be carefully apportioned. What you do with it can determine your salary or the success of your business. This is why you rely on scheduling tools, calendar apps, and the like.

What you need most, however, is a time tracking app. It can help you determine how much time you spend on a task and tell you how much time you’ve spent on various activities.

You also want to save time when doing certain tasks. This is where advanced invoicing software tools come into play. These tools do more than simply replace pen and paper to prepare an invoice. They track and account for fees, taxes, payments, manage expenses, and more.

Since finding the best apps can be a challenge, we’re here to help.

FreshBooks

FreshBooks is designed for service-based small businesses looking for a painless way to bill for their time and services. It is ridiculously easy to use, and so effective at what it does that most users have sent their first invoice almost immediately upon starting the free trial.

FreshBooks also handles your time-tracking needs, helps manage your expenses, and simplifies your collaboration with contractors.

A *New* Proposal capability helps you set up and present a project outline, timeline, and scope of work.

FreshBooks will track your expenses, including receipts photographed with your mobile phone.

It takes only 30 seconds to create and send a customized invoice; and you will be notified when the recipient sees it.

When you create and send an invoice, you’ll have a record of the time it took and when you did it.

Try FreshBooks free of charge for 30 days. You can plan on saving an average of 16 hours a month. There’s no learning curve, and should you have a question, FreshBooks’ award-winning customer service team is there to help.

Jibble.io

Jibble.io is a time and attendance tracking application for teams. This cloud-based app’s basic plan is free and can serve an unlimited number of users. The free plan includes up to two months of stored timesheet access, access to multiple system integrations, usage of collaboration powerups, and priority support.

Jibble provides daily timesheets as well as weekly and monthly timesheets to support payroll reviews and activities. These timesheets can be exported and downloaded in a spreadsheet format to support accounting needs. Jibble will also produce personal timesheets that can include staff member entries.

Average daily and weekly employee hours can be tracked and reported (including clocking in and out times with alerts if a time is missing). Jibble integrates with Slack and numerous other applications. The iOS feature allows team managers at a remote location to see who is on site.

Jibble’s collaboration power-up feature helps team managers assign roles to team members and can cover multiple projects. Collaboration security features include the use of pass codes and/or biometric data such as selfies.

Invoice Plane

Invoice Plane is a free, self-hosted, open source application. We suggest taking advantage of the demo to help you decide whether to download. This app is an ideal solution for your basic invoicing and client management needs.

Its design team targeted freelancers, self-employed individuals, and small to medium size companies in need of a reliable and easy to use invoicing system as the app’s primary beneficiaries.

Invoice Plane assists in managing your complete billing cycle, including quotes, clients, invoices, and payments. A selection of different themes and formats allows you to customize the application to best fit your needs.

Invoice Plane is a multi-language app (with more languages on the way) and provides access to 25 online payment providers. We suggest you try it out before installing it on your own server.

AND CO from Fiverr

AND CO by Fiverr is completely and totally free and super simple to use. No credit card required, no free trial, just sign up and go! It’s available on the Web, Android, and iOS. This time tracking and invoicing app is already in use by 100,000+ businesses worldwide. It is ideal for freelancers and creative studios.

AND CO’s other features include expense tracking, task management, proposal generation assistance, and much more.

TimeCamp

This time and attendance tracking app is so easy to work with that members of your team will use and benefit from it. TimeCamp can be used on any device, you can try it for free; and if you’re a busy freelancer or individual user of any kind, the SOLO package is totally free.

TimeCamp boasts of more than 120,000 users. 24/7 livechat support is available.

Minterapp

Minterapp makes it easy to track the time you spend on projects, so you will have a better understanding of your profits. You can easily track billable hours and convert the results into invoices that can be paid online.

This time-tracking tool is ideal for startups and small businesses. Minterapp can be used to send estimates as well as invoices.

Hiveage

This small business invoicing tool is designed to help your business grow. In addition to billing, Hiveage will help prepare quotations for your clients, get their acceptance online, and manage payments through more than a dozen worldwide payment gateways.

Billing can be done manually, automatically, and by auto-billing. Hiveage can easily support multiple projects.

Invoice Ninja

Invoice Ninja is comprised of a suite of apps that were created especially for freelancers. Ninja offers a free online invoicing app, a free proposal creating tool and template, free time-tracking apps (Webapp and Deskapp), and Kanban boards to help you manage your projects.

Ninja also integrates with more than 40 payment gateways.

Scoro

Scoro is the most comprehensive business management software package available for those providing professional or creative services. It will track actual and billable hours and transfer the latter to an invoice. The shared team calendar displays what team members are working on.

Scoro also provides a comprehensive overview of any project; on demand and on a single page. The overview, as displayed on the dashboard, shows time spent and billed, planned tasks, meetings, project expenses and invoices.

Conclusion

Large company, medium to small business, agency, or freelancer; there’s the right app for you. Select an app that focuses on tracking time, tracking people (time and/or whereabouts), or both. You may need one that tracks billable hours and automatically creates an invoice. Or, maybe, the one that automates the entire invoicing process.

It’s simply a matter of finding an app that best fits your business model or can be easily customized to do so.

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