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BigTime Software is a leading provider of pro-level time and billing tools for professional services firms and a market leader in QuickBooks integration.

Super-easy time tracking. Invoicing and reporting. Seamless integration. Mobile flexibility. Scalability as your business grows. BigTime is everything you've been looking for in an online timesheet app. A leading provider of time and billing tools for accountants and a market leader in QuickBooks integration, BigTime Software is a member of the Microsoft Partner Network and an Intuit Gold Certified Developer. BigTime is the only time tracking app embedded within Intuit's own practice management system. BigTime's popular industry-specific solutions are designed to speak the language of more than a dozen business types, from accounting and IT Services to architecture and engineering. Its award-winning mobile app, BigTime Mobile, was named a 2014 Awesome App and is available for both iPhone and Android. Founded in 2002, BigTime today has a growing online community of thousands of active customers throughout the U.S., Canada, U.K. and Australia who rely on BigTime's cloud-based software to streamline their workflow and help make their businesses run faster, better, smarter. To learn more, visit us at bigtime.net. Specialties:

Online timesheet
Time tracking
Task management
Reporting
Expense tracking
Invoicing
Mobile app for iPhone
Mobile app for Android
Free 30-day trial

Website: http://www.bigtime.net

10/30/2026

A timer app can tell you an hour was worked. ⏱️

It can't tell you:

Whether that hour was billable or not 💸

What rate it should be charged at

Whether it's about to blow the project budget

Whether it's synced to your GL, or just sitting in another spreadsheet waiting to be reconciled

Most "time tracking software" stops at the stopwatch. The good stuff turns hours into invoices, margins, and decisions — automatically. 📊

We compared 9 leading time tracking tools for 2026, from free personal trackers to full financial platforms, to see which ones actually carry an hour all the way from entry to insight.

Spoiler: the timer button was never the hard part. ⚡

See the full breakdown 👇

🔗 https://www.bigtime.net/blogs/time-tracking-software/

10/29/2026

Billable utilization fell to 66.4% in 2025, the lowest in SPI Research's survey history. Project margins rose to 37.7%.

A 2027 plan still has to pick one utilization number, and hire against it.

Take two consultants who start in November. The headcount line counts them from day one. They bill in Q2.

So the Q2 capacity line of a 2027 plan is being set this month, in hiring dates, and it is smaller than the headcount line says.

Effective capacity is the check that closes that gap: the hours left once attrition, open roles, and ramp time come out. Don India, CEO of BigTime, puts it and four other checks to a 2027 plan on November 12, and an investor and an operator argue where each one breaks.

How many weeks before a new consultant at your firm bills a full week?

📅 Thursday, November 12, 11:00 AM CT (12:00 PM ET, 9:00 AM PT)

Register: https://www.bigtime.net/webinars/2027-plan-checks/?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=2027-plan-checks&utm_content=company-1

10/26/2026

If your business units each submit their own numbers to central finance every month, here's an uncomfortable truth: 👀

You're not consolidating data. You're consolidating interpretations.

Different billing timing. Different WIP valuations. Utilization denominators that don't even match. By the time it reaches the CFO, it's a patchwork of last month, not a snapshot of today. 📊

The fix isn't a faster spreadsheet. It's a shared data model where every engagement belongs to the org structure from the start — so a "consolidated report" is just a filter, not an assembly project.

See how that actually works 👇

🔗 https://www.bigtime.net/bigtime-enterprise-psa/faq/consolidate-financial-reporting-psa/

10/21/2026

Imagine this: an auditor calls, unannounced. 📞

They want to know what three of your consultants worked on last Tuesday. No warning. Just their memory vs. your timesheets.
That's a DCAA floor check — and it can happen on almost any government contract. The #1 reason contractors fail it? Not fraud. Just late entries and undocumented edits. 😰

Here's what most contractors miss: there's no such thing as "DCAA-approved" software. The DCAA doesn't certify tools. It audits habits.

We compared the 7 systems contractors trust most to build those habits in. 🗂️
See how they stack up 👇
🔗 https://www.bigtime.net/blogs/dcaa-compliant-timekeeping-software/

10/15/2026

It's Friday afternoon. ⏰

Someone on your team is staring at a blank timesheet, trying to remember what they actually worked on Monday and Tuesday.
That memory gap isn't just annoying; it's expensive. 📉

Here's the thing: a timesheet on its own doesn't fix this. It just records the guess.

The real fix is connecting that hour, the moment it's logged, to the right rate, the right budget, and the right invoice. No separate system. No manual reconciliation. No "we'll clean it up at month-end." ✅

We broke down what actual PSA time tracking should do (and compared how the top platforms handle it) 👇
🔗 https://www.bigtime.net/blogs/psa-time-tracking/

10/06/2026

What happens between "invoice sent" and "invoice paid" 💰?

For a lot of firms: manual re-keying, mismatched records, and a payment gateway that doesn't actually talk to QuickBooks.
We compared the top payment tools that claim to integrate with QuickBooks in 2026. Some sync beautifully but can't collect a dollar. Others collect payments fine but leave QuickBooks out of sync the moment something changes. 🔄

Turns out "integrates with QuickBooks" means very different things depending on who's saying it. 👀
See how they stack up 👇
🔗 https://www.bigtime.net/blogs/quickbooks-payment/

09/28/2026

Revenue leakage isn't one big failure. It's four small ones, happening quietly, all at once: 👇

1️⃣ Hours logged late (or never) and written down before anyone notices
2️⃣ A rate card update that reaches three project managers but not the fourth
3️⃣ Scope that quietly expands with no change order and no invoice to match
4️⃣ WIP that just... sits there, aging past the point anyone will bill it

None of these show up as one dramatic mistake. They show up as a gap between what your firm delivered and what it actually collected — and most finance teams only see the total once it's too late to fix any single piece of it. 📉

We broke down where each of these leaks actually starts, and what closes them structurally instead of just tracking them after the fact.
🔗 https://www.bigtime.net/bigtime-enterprise-psa/faq/enterprise-psa-prevent-revenue-leakage/

09/23/2026

Myth: there's a list of "DCAA-approved" accounting software out there. 🚫

Reality: the DCAA doesn't approve or certify any software. Never has. What it audits is your process - your timekeeping, your cost segregation, your internal controls.

So if you're a government contractor Googling "DCAA-approved accounting system," you're actually looking for the wrong thing. 🔍

The right question is: can your system be configured to meet DCAA standards without turning your finance team into full-time auditors?

We compared 7 systems contractors evaluate most - from budget-friendly options to enterprise GovCon ERPs - on exactly that. ✅

Where does your setup land?

🔗 https://www.bigtime.net/blogs/dcaa-approved-accounting-system/

09/15/2026

3 signs your "project controls" are actually just a task board in disguise: 👇

1️⃣ Budget overruns show up as a surprise, not a warning

2️⃣ "Are we on margin?" turns into a scramble through three different spreadsheets

3️⃣ Nobody knows a project is bleeding until the final invoice tells them

Sound familiar? You're not alone - plenty of teams run project controls out of software that was only ever built to track tasks. 📋

Project management keeps the work moving. Project controls keep it profitable. They are not the same job. 💡

We ranked 9 platforms, from enterprise scheduling giants to spreadsheet-style tools to financial-first systems, to see which ones actually connect cost, schedule, and resource data in real time, and which ones just look organized. 🔍

See where each one lands 👇

🔗 http://bigtime.net/blogs/project-controls-software/

09/10/2026

Your revenue forecast probably isn't wrong because of bad assumptions. 🎯

It's wrong because the data was already stale before the model was even built.

Utilization numbers from last week's timesheet export. Completion percentages a PM emailed over based on a gut feeling. Pipeline probabilities pulled from CRM with a weighting nobody remembers agreeing on. 📊

By the time finance builds the forecast, delivery reality has already moved on.

The fix isn't a better model. It's grounding the forecast in something that updates itself: the hours your team is actually scheduled to deliver, right now. 🔍

We dig into how finance teams are closing that gap 👇

🔗 https://www.bigtime.net/bigtime-enterprise-psa/faq/psa-revenue-forecast-accuracy/

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