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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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Deployment Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Desktop Mac, Desktop Windows, Mobile Android, Mobile iPad, Mobile iPhone
Support 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support
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Languages English
BigTime Features
Billing & Invoicing
Budgeting & Forecasting
Client Management
Client Portal
Collaboration Tools
Contract Management
Customizable Dashboards
Document Management
Email Integration
Expense Tracking
Fee Management
Gantt Charts
KPI Tracking
Milestone Tracking
Mobile Access
Notifications & Alerts
Project Accounting
Project Management
Proposal Generation
Rate Management
Reporting & Analytics
Resource Management
Revenue Recognition
Risk Management
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Task Management
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Timesheet Management
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Last updated: July 02, 2024
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1,332 BigTime Reviews
4.5 out of 5
Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Mar 09, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Nicole B. R. avatar
Nicole B. R.
Senior Manager
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"Great software with prompt support"
What do you like best about BigTime?

I get extensive data on my projects in real time. The dashboard is intuitive and it's easy to stay on top of the administrative tasks. The support team is great! Tyler Gubser has provided quick and clear solutions.

What do you dislike about BigTime?

Some of the reports can be tricky to find at first, but it isn't a problem once you get used to where to look. There are so many reports available that it's just a lot to look through at first.

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

In the past, other programs have made it difficult to collaborate on a project as a team and to see how everyone's workflow comes together. Big time is a great solution for that.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Mar 07, 2023
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Overall Rating:
5.0
DV
Dawn V.
Founder
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"GREAT EXPERIENCE"
What do you like best about BigTime?

Time and billing. Budget and Quick Books integration

What do you dislike about BigTime?

We cannot process monthly/quarterly billings as a one-click option anymore.

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

Big Time has been helping us with reports and making sure the Quick Books integration is working the way it should

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Mar 06, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
SB
Scott B.
Founder
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"Report Creation assistance from Montea"
What do you like best about BigTime?

Chat support is helpful. Online timesheets are relatively easy for employees to fill out.

What do you dislike about BigTime?

Reports are not intuitive and it takes a lot of effort to get setup specific to your business needs. Need someone dedicated to administration, especially in the early stages.

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

At the moment, mostly just with time tracking.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 20, 2023
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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Brandi A.
Project Management
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"BigTime is quick, user friendly, and intuitive"
What do you like best about BigTime?

How easy it is to use. The Knowledgebase has much of the information you need to get up and running ahead of implementation. It is user-riendly and intuitive.

What do you dislike about BigTime?

There is nothing we dislike about BigTime. It fits with all that we need and it's easy and quick to use.

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

Timesheet reporting, keeping projects on track with budget and time allocated, and streamlined billing procedures.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 14, 2023
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Overall Rating:
5.0
BS
Brittany S.
Founder
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"Architectural Firm Use"
What do you like best about BigTime?

We are a small firm, so the syncing ability with Quickbooks is a big selling point for our company. It has been so helpful in verifying information. The sync feature also allows us to create projects in Bigtime that aren't in a billing phase yet and hold them there until we are awarded the project.

What do you dislike about BigTime?

It's a little early for this question for our firm, but my only complaint so far is that the invoice template is not as customizable as the templates in QuickBooks.

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

BigTime saves our admin and accounting department so much time. We previously tracked time in Quickbooks, which was all input by hand. With BigTime, employees log their time, and with a few buttons, we can send all of our employees' timesheet data to Quickbooks for payroll. We are also delighted with its ability to track time spent on phases. We are excited to use the data from our first year using BigTime to reconfigure our fee structure.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 14, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
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Peter S.
Comptroller / Project Manager
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"Good comprehensive time tracking, expence tracking and reporting tool."
What do you like best about BigTime?

The ability to use for time and expense reports, allows us to use these reports to prep payroll and expense checks.

What do you dislike about BigTime?

Its a bit complex and takes some getting used to.

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

We have been able to track time spent on projects better after deploying Big Time and keep a closer eye on resources. The time sheet function has made our payroll reports easier to produce than our previous platform.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 02, 2023
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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Talia V.
Founder
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"Patient and Helpful"
What do you like best about BigTime?

Access to the live Chat and instant responses.

What do you dislike about BigTime?

The option to have a dial in service to be more efficient. Sometimes words cant get through the way we think it.

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

Creating reports that fit my Project Management role.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 02, 2023
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Overall Rating:
5.0
KC
Kristy C.
Founder
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"Big Time has been able to simplify our project management and connect everything to Quickbooks."
What do you like best about BigTime?

The team at Big Time has been the most helpful. Example, Tyler Gubser solved my issue with new projects coming over to Quickbooks today via Zoom after the online chat was insufficient. Big help!!

What do you dislike about BigTime?

The only thing I dislike about Big Time is the workarounds connecting to Quickbooks. Unfortunately, it is out of their control. As long as they remedy the issues as they come, I will continue to benefit from the program.

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

Tracking projects and fee in an accurate and timely manner.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 18, 2023
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Overall Rating:
5.0
JW
Jennifer W.
Principal
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"Quick and helpful service!"
What do you like best about BigTime?

BigTime has been a game-changer for our small business. Tyler was super helpful during our chat support exchange this evening.

What do you dislike about BigTime?

It's not a great project management tool. Ease of use and functionality could be improved.

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

Resource planning and time management; Invoicing

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 11, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
MK
Maureen K.
Principal
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"Duplicate & terminated staff members keep showing on staff list"
What do you like best about BigTime?

The ease of synchronization with QuickBooks Online now is so much better than it was before. The depth of the uses that the data can provide is fantastic.

What do you dislike about BigTime?

I want BigTime to be able to accept payments so I do not have to use QuickBooks Online. If BigTime could also do banking, it would save one step in the process.

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

BigTime helps us as owners solve our problem of knowing how productive our staff is and how profitable each job is at any given time without spending hours figuring it out.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 12, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
BH
Bill H.
Director
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"Engagements"
What do you like best about BigTime?

The Support and ease of reaching a representative either by chat of via phone. I worked with Brittany Urrutia today, she was extremely helpful in getting me the answers I needed to set up unique engagements and tasks.

What do you dislike about BigTime?

The site can be daunting for a new user.

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

BigTime is allowing me and my company to really track how much time we spend on a specific client task and where we could be wasting time and how we can improve in that area.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Oct 30, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
NA
Nathanael A.
Managing Partner & Ceo
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"Excellent tool for managing our software consulting practice"
What do you like best about BigTime?

It is easy to configure and integrates well with QuickBooks. We can configure a single resource with multiple cost rates and bill rates. Highly configurable.

What do you dislike about BigTime?

They are constantly enhancing the platform, so sometimes there are little bugs. But that isn't too big of a deal since it is so feature-rich in what we need.

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

Better managing a consultancy with better capacity planning, reporting, and dashboards with highly configurable projects, resources and allocations.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Oct 06, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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Laura P.
Operations Manager
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"Great Onboarding training and support:"
What do you like best about BigTime?

Ryan Anderl has been great in taking us through the onboarding and training process with BigTime. He has been patient and clear as we ask him similar questions over and over. As I re-listen to the recordings of our calls, I see what demanding clients we have been. We talk among ourselves and are undecided about what we want to show up on invoicing. We interrupt and talk over Ryan at times, yet he patiently waits. Rather than just quickly show us how it is done, he lets me 'drive' so I can learn the process for the next go around. BigTime is a very robust and flexible program with lots of options and lots of ways to get similar results. Ryan shows us these options but emphasizes the quickest, easiest or most effective way to get the results we want. We are very pleased with BigTime's integration with Quickbooks.

What do you dislike about BigTime?

Because BigTime is a robust and flexible program with lots of options, there is a learning curve for using it.

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

BigTime checks all the boxes for us. It allows contractors to submit time, it integrates with Quickbooks, it can keep track of project budgets and % complete.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Sep 28, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
John P. avatar
John P.
Ceo
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"Review Bigtime"
What do you like best about BigTime?

I like the premier version and Daniel Novak as my customer support manager! Daniel Novak has been outstanding to work with since he joined Bigtime! He truly is an ambassador of customer service, before he joined bigtime we were unsure if we would join back up, but since he has we feel confident in the partnership. I can't say enough good things about Daniel!

What do you dislike about BigTime?

Paying extra for tech support and the Accounts Receivable lack of

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

Timesheets and expense management for our staffing company

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Sep 13, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
Sarah T. avatar
Sarah T.
Worker
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"Great all in one software!"
What do you like best about BigTime?

I love the ability to be able to track my team's time for invoicing as well as do my invoicing and send my invoices all from one place. Having the ability for all the time tracking, invoices, and payments all in one place is extremely helpful as well as being able to access remotely at anytime.

What do you dislike about BigTime?

There are some features that every now and then don't quite work correctly. Sometimes i have to manually send invoices becuase bigtime wont let me send specific invoices. i also wish there were project specific dashboards related to invoicing so i can see budget and billing in one place and not have to have multiple screens open.

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

Right now i'm not sure if any problems haven't been solved. typically when i reach out i get a concrete response from the bigtime team. Today i reached out about read recipets on invoices and that is currently not a feature and made a request for it.