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Effortless Time Tracking & Billing
4.5
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BigTime Reviews & Product Details

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What is BigTime?

BigTime is a cloud-based time tracking and project management software for professional service firms. The platform offers reliable time tracking, invoicing, project management, and reporting. With BigTime, you can easily track billable hours, manage projects and tasks, create professional invoices, and get real-time visibility into project progress and team performance, making it easier to make informed business decisions. Whether you're a consultant, an engineer, or a designer, BigTime is an essential tool that helps you stay organized and productive.

Company BigTime Software, Inc.
Year founded 2002
Company size 51-200 employees
Headquarters Chicago, IL, USA
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Languages English
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Billing & Invoicing
Budgeting & Forecasting
Client Management
Client Portal
Collaboration Tools
Contract Management
Customizable Dashboards
Document Management
Email Integration
Expense Tracking
Fee Management
Gantt Charts
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Project Management
Proposal Generation
Rate Management
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Revenue Recognition
Risk Management
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Last updated: November 17, 2024
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1,332 BigTime Reviews
4.5 out of 5
Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Aug 10, 2016
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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"Great Customer Service"
What do you like best about BigTime?

I like that i can track all invoices and time/expense with this product. The customer support has been quick and attentive from the start and i have had all my questions answered and problems explained to me. I just had a live chat with Evangelina and she solved my issue in about a minute.

What do you dislike about BigTime?

Nothing to dislike thus far. I am new to the site and still learning all that it has to offer.

What problems is BigTime solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are solving a lot of time & expense issues and keeping our employees on track and focused.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Aug 09, 2016
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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"Boosted my business' productivity exponentially!"
What do you like best about BigTime?

This software made it incredibly easy to keep track of my time, as well as the time of my staff members. This saved us from the burden of having to manually input our time.

What do you dislike about BigTime?

Nothing, the software works perfectly fine.

What problems is BigTime solving and how is that benefiting you?

This is helping increase our profitability and cutting down on our expenses because we are able to keep track of our time on projects more accurately. This made it much easier to manage our team and allocate our time efficiently to our projects without any of the hassle.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jun 24, 2016
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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"BigTime makes time tracking simple and fast whether we're in the office or on the road!"
What do you like best about BigTime?

One of our favorite features is the mobile application that makes timesheet entry as simple as making a phone call. Another great feature is the dashboard which allows me to see how much time is being billed against my organizations billability. With BigTime I can define billable rates by client, job, task, and the person performing the work which gives me the ability to track variable pricing for work performed per individual and any combination of client, job, and task. Since this is defined at the start of a job, I don't need to worry about the billing details once it's setup.

What do you dislike about BigTime?

There's nothing to dislike about this product for me!

What problems is BigTime solving and how is that benefiting you?

With a distributed workforce working multiple jobs for multiple clients, trying to figure out how to bill a client based on the associate performing the work for a specific project and task required me to collect timesheets and process them manually into the accounting system for billing. With BigTime, my employees simply enter the hours worked per job and BigTime figures the rest out for me and integrates with my accounting system. This has improved my invoicing (with BigTime Invoicing) and accuracy of accounting. I spend more time making money and less time figuring out how to collect it and where it came from.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jun 22, 2016
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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"Great Time Tracking tool"
What do you like best about BigTime?

Big Time is very user friendly tool to enter work time. Its mobile/ app feature enables to enter the time on the go. Its comparability with different platforms such as Quick Books helps track the budgets as well which comes in handy. They are also providing API access to synchronize it with other platforms such as Salesforce. You can also run reports for Resource Management.

What do you dislike about BigTime?

It does not have time forecasting feature.

What problems is BigTime solving and how is that benefiting you?

Big Time helps the employees to enter work times for WIP projects. It also helps the upper management to run reports and analyse the resource utilization and budget tracking. With the mobile app, employees can fill in the timings on the go.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
May 18, 2016
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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"Big Time is helping us get control of our projects, billings and expenses"
What do you like best about BigTime?

There is so much to like. Creating invoices before use to take an hour or longer for each one now we can do it most times in less than 10 minutes. We can now have easily accessible data for tracking and trending our expenses and payroll. Also, Bigtime gives us really nice project management tools for staying on top of work and expenses.

What do you dislike about BigTime?

I wish that it could close the loop and not only tell our employees what they submitted for payment but also present to them Quickbook data showing when they got reimbursed and/or paid.

What problems is BigTime solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are getting much better control over the profitability of our projects as well as decreasing the amount of time required to account for and make expense reimbursements.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Apr 15, 2016
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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"Very good experience, intuitive, easy to use"
What do you like best about BigTime?

BigTime gave us the flexibility to configure the way we needed to track time against projects. It is very easy to bring a new person up to speed with very little if any training.

What do you dislike about BigTime?

I really can't think of any dislikes. BigTime performed well for all the functions we used.

What problems is BigTime solving and how is that benefiting you?

We wanted to track actual hours for each project or activity. We were able to set up our project numbers and give our engineering staff the ability to select projects from a list and assign time. We also tracked Paid Time Off, vacation, holidays and bereavement time. Another nice feature is flexible reporting.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Mar 31, 2016
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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"Easy to use"
What do you like best about BigTime?

The Quick Book/BigTime seemless interface.

What do you dislike about BigTime?

BigTime doesn't work with our time clock.

What problems is BigTime solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ease for CAD operators to track billable hours. Doesn't require double entry of job information like previous software we were using.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Aug 16, 2015
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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"WOW! very good!"
What do you like best about BigTime?

Excellent product, does what it said its does and we love using it at work!

What do you dislike about BigTime?

Nothing everything is pretty good - i would say the company would need more investment to grow the product

What problems is BigTime solving and how is that benefiting you?

BigTime is a product that does time tracking, expense tracking, invoicing and project budget tracking to help professionals run their businesses more effectively.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Jan 26, 2024
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Overall Rating:
4.5
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"Our company has been utilizing Bigtime for 5+ years."
What do you like best about BigTime?

We have found customer service and support to be professional and helpful when working through any questions or issues. Top reasons for continuing our BigTime subscription: -User Friendly -Invoice generation -QuickBooks Integration -Live Chat for support -Reporting -Skills Tracking

What do you dislike about BigTime?

-Timesheet lock period has not really worked for us -Ability to export all dashboards would be helpful

What problems is BigTime solving and how is that benefiting you?

Project Time Tracking and Invoicing

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 12, 2023
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Overall Rating:
4.5
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"Trouble Shooting with Andres R"
What do you like best about BigTime?

Digitizing paperwork, entering & saving paperwork,time sheets & employees expenses and syncing the data to desktop Quickbooks.

What do you dislike about BigTime?

Setting up reports are not consistently user friendly.

What problems is BigTime solving and how is that benefiting you?

A payroll report is created from employee time sheet data entry & synced to Quickbooks which enhances the efficiency & accuracy when generating payroll. AP invoices, overhead invoices & employee expenses are digitzed in Big Time & synced to Quickbooks - it improves on managing corporate expenses though it does not save time for processing expenses. Client billing backup & employee labour costs can be attached to Client Billing.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Oct 23, 2023
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Overall Rating:
4.5
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"Made Agency Planning so much easier and time effective"
What do you like best about BigTime?

Begone excel! no more faffing with spreadsheets and multiple tabs. Bigtime was the solution we knew we needed and absolutely delivered in delivering value for us and our clients. billing was so much more accurate and accountability was improved. super easy to get setup, the team took to it well, and life was just so much easier!

What do you dislike about BigTime?

downsides, well it definitely can hack off those who don't like accuracy, but honestly they need their butt's kicked at times. other than that, it's a new system , it takes a little time to get used to, but it's all good!

What problems is BigTime solving and how is that benefiting you?

speed and accuracy, have both improved by at least a bazillion % clients are more clued up and bought in, they know exactly what they are getting and WHEN!

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Oct 02, 2023
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Overall Rating:
4.5
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"Great Product and Support"
What do you like best about BigTime?

I really appreciate having all the features related to employees, vendors, clients and projects all in one place. The product was so easy to implement within our business. The integration with QuickBooks was very easy with the assistance of our implementation contact at BigTime. In the off chance that I need Customer Support they have always been quick to respond. Most issues turn out to be in users errors.

What do you dislike about BigTime?

There is nothing that I dislike with BigTime. However; I do have a future improvement suggestion. I would love if BigTime could add in time off request and tracking products.

What problems is BigTime solving and how is that benefiting you?

BigTime is working to approve their Analysis tools allowing us to track more details against our clients, contracts and employees.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Sep 21, 2023
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Overall Rating:
4.5
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"BigTime chat feature"
What do you like best about BigTime?

I am new to the BigTime platform and I was presented with a question that I could not find the answer to. I used the chat feature and within minutes I was shown exactly where I needed to go to obtain the answer to my question. It was super helpful....and made me look like a rock star!!!

What do you dislike about BigTime?

I am an administator for BigTime in my company and I wish there was a way that I could see BigTime as a non-administrator. I have provided direction to my co-wokers based off of what I see in BigTime but they did not and it created a lot of confusion.

What problems is BigTime solving and how is that benefiting you?

We only started using BigTime last month so we are still in the process of learning the tool - but the main resolve will be invoicing. Being sure that invoices go out and go out in a timely manner.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Sep 20, 2023
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Overall Rating:
4.5
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"Experience with BigTime"
What do you like best about BigTime?

BigTime has been the solution for our firm for time tracking and ensuring our budgeted hours are monitored and projects are always profitable.

What do you dislike about BigTime?

There can be small improvements made to the back end programming for additional customization for various types of firms and work hours which I know are ongoing.

What problems is BigTime solving and how is that benefiting you?

Real time monitioring of time and projects.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Sep 20, 2023
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Overall Rating:
4.5
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"Great Customer Service"
What do you like best about BigTime?

BigTime customer service is prompt and knowledgable. They helped me create a report needed and walked me through the process.

What do you dislike about BigTime?

Invoicing and reporting are a bit clunky. Still working to format them to our needs.

What problems is BigTime solving and how is that benefiting you?

Automating billing and invoicing of clients.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Sep 20, 2023
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Overall Rating:
4.5
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"User friendly"
What do you like best about BigTime?

It's very easy to use even for beginners, and very easy to configure and forecasting and utilization tolls are also a great feature as it helps us to manage staffer availability.

What do you dislike about BigTime?

Sometimes we felt integration issues to sync with other apps like Quickbooks. Migration is little bit challenging. Customer support is not satisfactory.

What problems is BigTime solving and how is that benefiting you?

BigTime is helping us to track both our expenses and the time spent by the employees for the allocated projects. It expedites the payment process through the utilization of the bigtime wallet.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Aug 27, 2023
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Overall Rating:
4.5
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"BIGTIME Support"
What do you like best about BigTime?

Quickbooks integration and timesheet approval

What do you dislike about BigTime?

Not much, but if anything too many messages

What problems is BigTime solving and how is that benefiting you?

Quickbooks integration

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Aug 23, 2023
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Overall Rating:
4.5
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"The agent was efficient in giving me answers to my questions."
What do you like best about BigTime?

The software is simple to learn and the support is great!

What do you dislike about BigTime?

Is there a place to attach documents and/or links to documents within a project? I haven't found it yet.

What problems is BigTime solving and how is that benefiting you?

Budgeting on Projects

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jun 30, 2023
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Overall Rating:
4.5
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"BigTime Customer Service"
What do you like best about BigTime?

Customer service is always quick to respond. Thank you to Sierra T for helping me with my reports!

What do you dislike about BigTime?

The report edit feature is a little confusing.

What problems is BigTime solving and how is that benefiting you?

Keeps track of staff hours on each task

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
May 31, 2023
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Overall Rating:
4.5
AG
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Founder
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"User-Friendly"
What do you like best about BigTime?

BT is very user-friendly. As a relatively new user, I have found BT to be a logical, very robust system. It handles tracking our time and expenses charged to many different workplans. Invoicing is simple. We utilize the sync feature with QuickBooks.

What do you dislike about BigTime?

Recently, we have encountered numerous little glitches within the system. BT support has helped resolve our issues.

What problems is BigTime solving and how is that benefiting you?

Time tracking and project management.