Time Doctor review
Bottom line
Time Doctor is a time tracking and workforce monitoring platform that captures hours, tasks, and app activity for managers of remote and outsourced teams. Its clearest strength is that tracked time can feed payroll, client invoices, and audits with a record of the work behind each hour. The main cost to watch is that the most useful reporting and integrations sit on higher plans, and add-ons such as HRIS sync at $200 per integration per month raise the total. Operations and HR leaders who need verifiable hours for distributed teams should consider it.
What is Time Doctor?
Time Doctor is a workforce tracking platform for managers who run remote, hybrid, and outsourced teams. It records when people work, which projects and tasks they spend time on, and how they use apps and websites, so leaders can see where hours go. The core problem it addresses is the gap between paid hours and verified work, which often leads to manual timesheets, billing disputes, and payroll corrections.
Day to day, employees start and stop timers on tasks from the desktop app, and the software captures activity automatically in the background during working hours. Employees can pause tracking during breaks or personal tasks, and they can see the same hours and activity their manager sees. Managers use daily, weekly, and monthly summary reports, a timeline report, and productivity ratings to spot idle time, overtime, and uneven workloads. Time can be edited manually, and the platform works offline and syncs once the connection returns.
Time Doctor serves operations, executive, HR, and IT leaders, and it is used across healthcare, finance, insurance, outsourcing, and technology. Pricing starts at $6.70 per user per month when billed annually. A 14-day trial gives access to the Premium plan with no credit card required. Standard adds scheduling, attendance, time approvals, leave and break tracking, and payroll. Premium adds Single Sign-On, open API access, historical data, and an office versus remote report. Enterprise adds private cloud deployment and custom BI dashboards.
What sets Time Doctor apart is how it links time data to the systems around it. The product connects to more than 60 tools, including project managers such as Asana, Jira, and Trello, payroll and HRIS systems such as ADP and Gusto, and help desks such as Zendesk and Freshdesk. Its Software Cost Insights add-on reports on underused tools and license costs. Certifications include ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2, GDPR, and HIPAA, and role-based permissions control which verification features are turned on for each role.
Who it's for
- Operations leaders managing remote or outsourced teams
- Agencies and firms that bill clients by the hour
- Businesses that need verifiable hours for payroll and audits
Who should look elsewhere
- Teams that want a free plan for a small group
- Organizations that need clock-on and field tracking, which the product does not yet offer
Typical uses
- Verifying hours for outsourced and remote teams
- Billing clients by project and task
- Running payroll from tracked time
- Planning team capacity and hiring
- Auditing how time is spent across departments
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