Track labor hours across jobs, work orders, and cost centers with flexible timesheets. See what every production job costs, catch budget overruns early, and plan capacity with real data instead of guesswork.
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Labor hours are often collected after the work is already complete. By the time managers review them, the data is out of date, making delays harder to spot, resources harder to adjust, and labor costs harder to control.
Hours get recorded, but without linking them to a specific job, work order, or cost center, nobody knows what the job actually cost in labor. By the time those numbers are available, the work is already complete and the next quote is already underway.
A job can look on budget while labor hours quietly drift away from the plan. By the time the overrun becomes visible, there's nothing left to do but absorb the extra cost—or pass it on to the next quote.
Every completed job should make the next estimate more accurate. Instead, the same assumptions get reused because planned hours are never compared with how long similar jobs actually took.
From production time tracking to labor cost and budget control, actiTIME gives every role the visibility needed to plan work and keep projects on budget.
Oversees labor costs, capacity, and work progress across the plant to keep production on schedule and within budget.
Tracks labor hours against projects and work orders, compares actual time with estimates, and keeps projects on budget.
Reviews labor hours by job, balances team workload, and plans future work using actual labor data.
Logs labor hours against the right job or work order using a weekly timesheet, mobile app, or browser with just a few clicks.
Workers can log hours from a weekly timesheet, the mobile app, or the browser, whichever works best for them.
Recorded hours are available in one place the same day, so managers can review labor costs, spot delays, and respond while work is still underway.
Organize work around jobs, work orders, or cost centers, and assign a labor rate to every worker.
As hours are logged, labor costs are calculated automatically, so you always know what a job has cost long before it's time to prepare the next quote.
Set a time or cost budget for every job, work order, or cost center.
As hours are logged, you can see how much of the budget has been used, spot overruns early, and adjust plans before costs get out of control.
Compare estimated and actual labor hours for every job, work order, or task to see how long similar work actually took.
Use that history to improve future estimates, plan staffing, and quote similar jobs with greater confidence.
Create your jobs, work orders, or cost centers, assign them to the right team members, and import existing data from a CSV file if needed.
Team members log hours against the right jobs and work orders using the mobile app, browser, or weekly timesheet—whichever works best for them.
Review and approve submitted timesheets, then use the recorded hours for job costing, budget tracking, capacity planning, and reporting.
See labor hours, project costs, and profitability broken down by job, department, or plant location. Detailed time tracking reports help production managers and financial controllers monitor labor costs, improve estimates, and compare performance across teams, departments, and locations.
Your plant could recover up to
$ 682 500
a year by tying labor cost accurately to every job.
* Default value assumes around 10% of weekly working time is logged against the wrong job or work order, or can't be reliably attributed to production work.
It didn't take long for everyone to get used to logging their time. The interface is straightforward, and we were able to start using the reports almost immediately.
One thing we've found especially helpful is comparing estimated and actual hours. It's made planning similar jobs much easier than before.
We have several projects running at the same time, and it's much easier to see where hours are being spent without putting everything into spreadsheets.
We use the reports quite often to review completed projects and compare them with our original estimates. It's been useful for planning future work.
As time tracking software for manufacturing companies, actiTIME is best suited for engineering, production, maintenance, quality, operations, and other teams whose work is organized around projects, jobs, work orders, or internal initiatives. Unlike a traditional factory staff time tracking system, actiTIME helps manufacturing companies understand labor hours and labor costs across projects, jobs, and work orders, giving managers better visibility for planning and decision-making.
Yes. actiTIME supports manufacturing labor tracking across multiple production sites within a single account. Employees can be organized by department or location, while each location can have its own work schedule. Managers get a single view of labor hours and costs across all sites.
Each employee can have their own labor rate, allowing actiTIME to calculate labor costs based on who performed the work. Separate rates are also available for overtime and different types of leave, so labor costs remain accurate across different pay rates and leave types.
Absolutely. Supervisors and managers can review, approve, or reject submitted timesheets before they're finalized. This helps catch missing or incorrect entries before labor hours are used for reporting, costing, or invoicing.
actiTIME Online runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure and protects customer data with SSL/TLS encryption, role-based access controls, separate databases for each customer, daily backups, and regular security updates. European customers can keep their data in AWS data centers in Germany. Organizations that prefer to keep all data on their own infrastructure can choose the self-hosted version of actiTIME.
As time tracking software for production companies, actiTIME focuses on labor hours, job costing, and workforce reporting, while an MES is designed to manage production processes and shop floor operations. It's often used alongside an MES to give managers better visibility into labor hours and costs.
actiTIME integrates with QuickBooks Online for payroll and invoicing, works with more than 2,000 apps through Zapier, and offers an open API for custom integrations and data exports. This makes it easy to share factory time tracking data with your accounting or ERP system.
Yes. actiTIME offers a permanent free version for teams of up to three users, with no credit card required. It's a practical way to test actiTIME with a small team before rolling it out across the organization. Teams that need more than three users can start with a 30-day free trial of the full product, including budgets, approvals, and reporting.
Start your 30-day free trial or book a demo to see how actiTIME helps manufacturing teams track labor by job and cost center, spot budget overruns early, and understand what every job really costs.
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