busybusy is an excellent solution for business owners looking to track their employee’s time and GPS location of where they worked. What many people may not know is busybusy can also be effective as a free time tracking software for the ‘soloprenuer’ as well.
busybusy was designed and built by construction business owners to help solve the problems they were having in their own business, and coming from the building industry we know how many companies start with just one person. In fact, after talking to many of our customers we learned that many began as an employee in a construction company before they started their own thing. In this blog post, we want to talk about all the benefits busybusy has for a one man business.
Track your Time
Using busybusy is an excellent way to organize work performed for your clients and keep detailed reports of what you accomplished. If you are billing your clients by the hour, then busybusy makes it super easy to keep track of everything. You simply clock in and out of the various projects and busybusy keeps track of the rest.
Tracking Piece Rate
Every time entry has a place for you to enter a description of what you accomplished during that time. If you get paid a piece rate, then you can enter how many units of work were performed during that time. When it’s time to bill your client you can export all this information and add it all up in a fraction of the time it takes from keeping everything on scraps of paper.
Use GPS Tracking
When you submit your hours to your clients, they can also see GPS coordinates, so there’s no question about where you were and what was accomplished. Of course GPS tracking is optional. If you prefer to not have GPS data with your time entries then you can disallow location tracking on your smartphone and computer. By following these simple directions:
If you’re using Android, here’s a helpful tutorial from Lifehacker:
To disable location reporting or history in Android:
- Open the App Drawer and go to Settings.
- Scroll down and tap Location.
- Scroll down and tap Google Location Settings.
- Tap Location Reporting and Location History, and switch the slider to off for each one.
- To delete your phone’s location cache, tap “Delete Location History” at the bottom of the screen under Location History.
- Repeat this process for each Google Account you have on your Android device.
Use Photo Documentation
On top of the free time tracking and task management tools you can use with busybusy, we also offer a photo documentation feature. With photo documentation, you can take pictures of the work you accomplished and attach it to different projects. With this function, you can separate pictures based on your different clients.
Combining Feature Sets
When you combine the power of time tracking, GPS tagging, and photo documentation, you get a very powerful feature set.
