Time Tracking for Your Business

Time Tracking for Software Developers

You don’t forget to do the work - you forget to log it. Sandtime.io makes it fast to start a timer and easy to fill in what you missed, so your Friday isn’t a memory exercise and your client invoice reflects what you actually built. Now you can log time straight from Claude Code, Codex, or any MCP client.

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Software Developers: why they choose Sandtime.io

Track by project and ticket

Start a timer on any project or tag an entry to a specific ticket. Every hour lands in the right bucket, not in a pile to sort at invoice time.

Log what you already did

Opened Sandtime.io at 4pm? Fill in the morning retroactively. No timer needed - just set the time range and you’re done.

Log from Claude Code and Codex

Connect Sandtime.io over the MCP server and create time entries from your editor and terminal - the context is already in your commits and your diff.

See where your hours go

Reports by project, client, or ticket type. Know whether your estimate held up before the invoice goes out.

Common use cases

  • Track time per project and ticket without changing how you work
  • Fill in missed entries after a deep debugging session or code review
  • Track client work and internal work in one account
  • Generate an accurate billing summary for freelance or agency work
  • Review time across projects to understand where your capacity goes
  • Create time entries from your editor with Claude Code, Codex, or any MCP client

Key features

One-click timers

Hit start on a project and stop when you surface. No forms, no friction, no reason to put it off.

Retroactive time entry

Log a session after the fact with a start time, end time, and a note. Works for the sessions where a timer was never the right tool.

MCP integration

Create time entries from commits and your IDE without switching context. Free for eligible teams during early access.

Reports by project

Filter hours by project, client, or ticket type. Export for invoicing or sprint reviews.

Free templates for this workflow

Use a practical file now, then move to Sandtime.io when collecting, approving, locking, and reporting records becomes ongoing work.

Daily, weekly, and monthly timesheets

Start with an editable daily, weekly, or monthly timesheet when a simple file still fits the process.

Client onboarding and project setup checklist

Confirm the client, scope, billing, communication, access, staffing, time-recording, risk, and readiness decisions before work begins.

Project budget and billable-hours tracker

Track budgeted hours, billable value, labor cost, and remaining project budget in a formula-driven Excel workbook.

Invoice and timesheet reconciliation worksheet

Compare approved timesheet hours and agreed rates with invoice lines, adjustments, final amounts, and supporting evidence.

Project time log

Log who worked on a project and for how long, with automatic total, billable, and non-billable hours.

Weekly status report

Share what is done, in progress, planned next, and blocked in a simple, repeatable weekly report.

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Use the browser extension

Install the browser extension for quicker access to timer controls, projects, reports, and timesheets.

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Activity

A single time entry representing work performed. Activities are the building blocks of timesheets and reports.

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Connect Sandtime.io with Slack

Add Sandtime.io to Slack so people can track time without leaving team communication, using slash commands once their Slack user is linked.

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Timer

The built-in stopwatch in Sandtime.io. Start it to begin tracking time, stop it to save the entry automatically to the current day in your timesheet.

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Track time with the built-in timer

Start and stop time quickly, reuse recent activity context, and fall back to manual edits when needed.

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Approval

The process of reviewing and accepting timesheets before payroll or billing. Ensures accuracy and compliance.

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Choose the best next step

Use this workflow page as the starting point, then move to the route that answers the next buying question - proof, product fit, pricing, or immediate setup.

Start with a timesheet template

Download a free daily, weekly, or monthly timesheet for Excel or PDF when a simple file is the right starting point.

Measure lost billable hours

Estimate how much forgotten client work may already be missing from invoices before you change anything else.

Explore time tracking software

See the main commercial overview built for teams that bill, budget, and report against time.

See pricing and plan details

Review the free plan, unlimited-user model, and trust-first approach before you invite the team.

Go straight to free time tracking

Start with the free product if the problem is already clear and you want to capture work immediately.

Related guides

Not quite the right fit? These pages cover the situations teams most often compare before choosing.

Time Tracking for Freelancers

See the path for solo client work, underbilling prevention, and cleaner invoice preparation.

Time Tracking for Software Agencies

See the path for project teams that need tighter retainer control and early margin visibility.

How to Spot and Recover Billable Leakage

Find the gap between work done and work billed, estimate what it costs, and close it without surveillance.

Time Tracking Software

See the broader buyer-focused page for teams that need cleaner billing, project visibility, and client-ready reports.

Billable vs Non-Billable Hours

Learn which hours you can bill, why the split drives utilization and your real rate, and how to track it without surveillance.