TimeScrub Blog

I’d like to describe the benefits of using TimeScrub, our upcoming product and introduce the team to you.

Overview:

TimeScrub is a tool for manipulating timesheet entries and cleaning them up for easy invoicing. Our tool makes it easy for you to import your time entries from a CSV file (almost like an Excel file). Soon, we’ll be making it easy to import your time logs from Basecamp, Harvest, FreshBooks, and a variety of other time tracking applications including Complete Time Tracking Pro.

We created TimeScrub for our own purposes and realized it would be a handy tool for others. We used to spend several hours every week manually merging time entries in Excel. We had difficulty keeping track of which time entries had been billed and only one person really ever knew what had and hadn’t been billed to clients.

We’re passionate about the value of tracking your time. Our team has used all kinds of time tracking tools. If you are looking for a time tracking tool we’d be happy to recommend one.

We’ve found that while there are many different invoicing tools, there are very few (maybe none?) that make it easy to scrub your time entries before you invoice them. Our goal is to make this process easier.

TimeScrub Features:

• Merging entries with duplicate descriptions
• Rounding time entries to the nearest quarter hour
• Mark time entries as billed
• Copy time entries to QuickBooks
• Format time entries in a consistent way that is easy for people to read
• Quickly take hundreds of time entries and split them into separate invoices and then clean up
• Makes merging entries easy - TimeScrub can automatically add all of the time together and make it easy to adjust the notes
• View past invoices and timesheet records
• Import time entries from CSV file or from Complete Time Tracking Pro
• Remembers what you have imported in the past and doesn’t import it a second time
• Makes it easy for multiple people to review invoices online prior to sending
• Easily see the amount of each invoice (based on hourly rate)
• Create a PDF invoice

Planned Features:

• Import your timesheet entries and categories directly from popular time tracking tools like Basecamp, Harvest, FreshBooks, Minuteglass, and many others
• We’d like to integrate back with FreshBooks, Harvest, and even Blinksale so you can then send out your scrubbed invoices
• History of changes with multiple levels of undo (so if you merge two entries, you’d have the ability to undo)

Who Should Use TimeScrub?

Anyone who struggles with invoicing timesheet entries. If you track your time and struggle with cleaning up your timesheet entries before invoicing your customers, then TimeScrub could be the solution for you.

If invoicing customers is something you put off because it takes too much time, you should try TimeScrub. In addition, if you have a desire to enable anyone in your company to prepare invoices, this tool makes it easy. You can literally have someone unfamiliar with your customers import time records and using the easy step by step process create invoices for review.

Screenshots?

We’re currently working on final build out of functionality and until then keep in mind these screenshots are rough. If you would like to be on our beta testing team please get in touch! During the beta period TimeScrub is free. We are building TimeScrub using Cake PHP and the security of your data is one of our top priorities.

Viewing all time entries and selecting entries to place on an invoice.

Editing a single entry.

Viewing an invoice (easy to copy onto QuickBooks).

Pricing:

We have not determined pricing for TimeScrub, however we will most likely have a one month trial with multiple levels of pricing (based on usage requirements). If you have any questions about pricing please contact us.

Team:

Tom Chapin - Lead Developer
Kent Downer - Designer
Justin Crossman - Developer
Chris Tingom - Designer / Marketing

We are a team of developers and designers who live and work in Phoenix, AZ. We also work and manage Tornado Design, a web design company which we started about 10 years ago. Our other project is called Minuteglass and is a time tracking tool we will be releasing later this year. On this blog we’ll be posting news and product announcements, as well as describing some of the ways people are using TimeScrub. Thanks for reading!