Never forget to track your time again. Paydirt is the time tracker that automatically determines which client you’re working for, and makes sure you track your time for them.
In Paydirt, you can start a timer from any page in one click. No fiddly menus. No navigating around. Just a start button for each task.
Ever forget to start a timer? No sweat. Paydirt lets you start a timer 5, 10, 20, 30 or 60 minutes ago.
Optional estimates for each task help you keep an eye on your time, and keep on budget.
We're changing the way time tracking works. Paydirt's Chrome extension determines who you're working for automatically, and adds a link to start a timer right there on the page. You won't know yourself.
There's no code to install or integrations to set up -- it works in any web page or application, so you can track time wherever you work. You can track your time managing projects in Basecamp, for example.
Time tracking becomes much more useful when every hour has context. Knowing that you worked for six hours is one thing. Knowing which client, project, and task those hours belonged to gives you information you can actually use.
Paydirt helps organize tracked time around the work your business is doing. Instead of treating time logging as a separate administrative job, you can keep project time connected to the clients and tasks that generated it. That makes it easier to understand where the day went and what still needs attention.
For freelancers, that could mean separating design, development, consulting, revisions, or administration for different clients. For a team, it provides a clearer view of how several people are contributing to the same projects. As your workload grows, that structure can prevent time entries from becoming a long list that needs to be sorted out later or pieced together from different apps.
Good project time tracking also makes project management simpler. You can compare the work being completed with the time going into it, identify tasks that are taking longer than expected, and spot projects that may need a closer look. The way time tracking software is used across the business can also influence how easily managers review workloads, billing, payroll records, and project performance.
This is particularly useful when your business is juggling several deadlines at once. Instead of relying on memory at the end of the week or asking people to punch in details after the fact, your tracked time becomes useful data for understanding:
A consistent tracking process can also help automate parts of the administrative workflow by keeping project and time information organised from the start.
Time tracking software should do more than count hours. It should make those hours easier to understand, manage, and use across the business.
Not every hour has the same value to your business. Some work can be billed directly to a client, while other activities are necessary to keep the business running but never appear on an invoice.
Keeping those categories clear can give you a much better picture of how you are spending your time.
Client meetings, design work, development, consulting, research, or other project tasks may be billable depending on your agreement. Administration, internal meetings, marketing, quoting, and other business activities may be unbillable. Both matter, but they tell you different things.
When your tracking system keeps those hours organised, reports become more useful. You can see how much of the working week is going toward revenue-producing projects and how much is being absorbed by other responsibilities.
That matters for freelancers, agencies, contractors, and small teams because a busy week is not necessarily a profitable week. If a project requires far more unbillable management than expected, or if routine internal tasks are consuming a large share of the team's available hours, you have information that can help you adjust your workflows.
Over time, tracked time can also support better decisions about pricing and profitability. You may discover that a type of project routinely requires more work than your estimates allow. You might find that certain clients need more communication or revisions than others. Or you may see that recurring tasks can be handled more efficiently.
The goal is not to account for every minute simply for the sake of tracking. It is to make the information useful. A clear view of billable and unbillable work can help you understand what projects really require, improve future estimates, and spend more of your time on work that moves the business forward.
A timer tells you what is happening right now. Reports help you understand what has been happening over days, weeks, and projects.
That distinction is important. The real value of time tracking often appears after enough data has been collected to show patterns.
Paydirt includes business reports alongside its time tracking, invoicing, quoting, and team management features. Our broader dashboard is designed to give businesses visibility into areas such as unbilled work, outstanding invoices, and time reporting.
For a freelancer, reports can help answer straightforward questions. How many hours went into a particular client this month? Which projects are taking the largest share of available work time? How much completed work has not yet been billed?
For teams, the same information can support broader management decisions. Managers can look at how time is distributed across projects, which tasks are demanding additional effort, and whether workloads need to be adjusted.
Useful reporting can also improve planning. If similar projects regularly require 30 hours rather than the 20 originally estimated, that history can inform the next quote. If one type of work consistently requires additional revisions or administration, those hours can be considered before setting pricing.
This is where time tracking software becomes more than a digital time clock. The records created during normal work can become practical business data.
Instead of piecing together information from calendars, messages, spreadsheets, and memory, you have a clearer history of the work that was actually completed. That can support decisions about project pricing, scheduling, client management, utilization, and profitability without adding another complicated reporting process.
The more consistently time is recorded, the more useful those reports become.
The best tracking system is the one people actually use.
A feature-packed app does not help much if starting a timer is awkward, time entries are confusing, or team members have to interrupt their work every few minutes to manage the software. Simple tracking matters because consistency is what makes the resulting information reliable.
Paydirt is built around keeping the basic action of tracking time straightforward. That approach can be especially useful for small teams and agencies where people may switch between several clients and projects throughout the day. Instead of relying on separate apps, spreadsheets, or personal notes, teams can use a shared system to keep employee time connected to the right work.
Once more than one person is tracking time, consistency becomes even more important. Clear tracking features make it easier for everyone to follow the same workflow and reduce the amount of cleanup needed later.
A practical team setup might include:
The point is not to turn time tracking into employee surveillance. It is to give teams a useful record of the work being completed.
For managers, that record can help with planning responsibilities and understanding how projects are progressing. For team members, a straightforward tracking tool reduces the need to reconstruct hours later. For the business, consistent time data can make reporting, billing, payroll preparation, and other administrative workflows more dependable.
Paydirt's wider platform also includes team management functionality, allowing small businesses and agencies to keep time tracking connected with the people doing the work. A more organized system can also reduce repetitive administration and support greater automation across related processes as the business grows.
When the system stays simple, tracking can become part of the workday instead of another task competing for attention.
Tracked hours are most valuable when you can do something with them.
For service businesses, that often means turning completed client work into an invoice. If tracking and billing happen in separate systems, the end of a project can create another round of administration. Someone has to gather time entries, check which hours should be billed, calculate totals, and then rebuild the information in invoicing software.
Paydirt connects time tracking with invoicing, helping create a more direct path from recorded work to getting paid. Its invoicing tools can generate invoices from logged time, and the wider platform supports online payments through PayPal and Stripe.
That connection can be particularly useful for businesses that charge by the hour. Rather than treating the time tracker as an isolated app, tracked work can remain part of the billing workflow.
It also reduces the need to remember what happened weeks earlier. When time entries are kept against the correct clients and projects as work happens, there is already a record to work from when billing time arrives.
A connected workflow can look something like this:
Track the work → Review the recorded time → Select the work to bill → Create the invoice → Send it to the client → Record payment
Paydirt also lets businesses customize invoices, while clients can view and pay them online. Its current platform supports Stripe and PayPal integrations for accepting payments.
For small businesses, freelancers, and agencies, reducing double entry can save time and lower the chance that billable hours are overlooked. It also makes it easier to keep billing connected to the work that produced the invoice in the first place.
Good time tracking should not end when a timer stops. It should help make the next business task easier too.
There are plenty of time-tracking tools available, but the longest features list does not necessarily make a tool a better fit.
The right software depends on how you work.
Start with the basic tracking experience. Can you quickly choose the right client or project and track time without navigating through complicated menus? If time logging requires too much effort, users are more likely to postpone it, which makes the resulting data less reliable.
Next, look at how the software handles the information once it has been recorded. Some businesses only need a simple tracker. Others need project management support, reporting, team visibility, billing, invoicing, or online payments as part of the same workflow.
Consider how your business operates day to day:
Free time tracking software can be enough when your needs are very basic. But if tracking is closely tied to client billing, project delivery, or team management, it is worth considering the entire workflow rather than choosing an app based only on price.
Paydirt brings time tracking together with invoicing, payments, business reports, team management, and online quoting in one platform. That makes it particularly relevant for freelancers, agencies, contractors, and small businesses that want their tracked work to remain connected to the rest of the job.
The best time tracking software for your business is ultimately the software that removes friction. It should help you track the hours that matter, understand what those hours mean, and move on to the next task without spending more time managing the tool than doing the work.
Time tracking software records how much time is spent on specific clients, projects, and tasks. Instead of relying on memory or manual spreadsheets, users can create time entries as they work. Paydirt keeps tracked time connected to client and project activity so that the information can also support reporting, billing, and project management.
Paydirt is designed to make tracking quick and unobtrusive. Users can start a timer in one click, add time retroactively if they forgot to start tracking, and use task estimates to keep an eye on project budgets. Paydirt also offers intelligent reminders through its Chrome extension, which can recognize which client you are working for and prompt you to start tracking.
Yes. Paydirt lets users organize tracked time around clients, projects, and tasks. This makes it easier to see where hours are being spent, compare actual project time with estimates, and keep work organized when several projects are active at once.
Paydirt includes team management alongside its time tracking, invoicing, business reporting, and quoting features. A shared tracking system can help teams keep employee time organized consistently instead of relying on separate apps, spreadsheets, or personal notes.
Yes. Because Paydirt combines time tracking with invoicing and payments, businesses can keep tracked work connected to the billing process. This can make it easier to review completed work, identify billable hours, and move from recorded time to client invoicing without rebuilding the same information in another system.
Yes. Paydirt includes a catch-up feature that lets you start a timer 5, 10, 20, 30, or 60 minutes in the past. This helps keep time records more accurate when you begin working before remembering to start the timer.
Paydirt is designed to work wherever you work. There is no code to install or special integration required to track time from different webpages or applications, including project management tools such as Basecamp.
No. Paydirt is positioned for developers, designers, small businesses, and contractors, and its feature set also includes team management. It can work for individual professionals as well as teams that need a clearer way to track project time, manage billable work, and keep client activity organized.
