Timesheets and approvals for any team

Timesheets people will actually fill in.

timesense records the time your people spend on their work, gets it signed off by the right approver, whether they sit in your business or someone else's, and gives you approved hours you can pay and bill with confidence. No passwords, no spreadsheets chasing signatures.

Week ending Fri 16 OctStandard day 7.5 h
ProjectMonTueWedThuFriTotal
Site fit outHarbour Street project7.57.54.07.57.534.0
Safety trainingInternal0.00.03.50.00.03.5
Week7.57.57.57.57.537.5
● Approved by project approver → Locked, ready to invoice
Example data
How a week moves

From hours worked to hours paid, in three steps.

01 Record

People fill in the whole week on one screen

Time goes against several projects at once, in days, hours, or start and finish times with breaks. Save a draft on Wednesday and submit on Friday.

02 Approve

The right person signs it off

Each project names up to three approvers, who get an email the moment a timesheet lands. Approve, reject with a note, or work through the queue in bulk.

03 Bill and pay

Approved hours are locked and ready

Signed off time is locked, so nobody edits hours after approval. Report and export it by person, project or client for billing, and hand it to payroll knowing every hour has been approved.

How it differs

Accounting timesheets are built to run a pay run. timesense is built to get time approved.

Most cloud accounting packages include a timesheet so payroll knows what to pay. That works when one manager signs off everyone's hours. It falls short when work spans projects, sites, teams or clients, and different people need to approve it.

Timesheets in cloud accountingBuilt around payrolltimesenseBuilt around approval
Who approvesUsually an administrator or manager inside your own businessThe person responsible for the work, set per project, including approvers outside your business
Outside approversNo way in without a licence or a login to your booksClients, partners and site managers sign in with an emailed link or code and see only their own company
Organised byEmployee and pay periodProject and approver, with up to three approvers per project
ContractorsOften limited to people set up on payrollEmployees and contractors file time the same way
Sign off trailBasic status on each timesheetReject notes, an audit log of every approval and change, and hours locked once approved
ReportingHours mainly feed pay runsReports and exports by person, project or client, project budgets and day rates, and multi timesheet PDF packs to attach to an invoice
Access to your financesApprovers work inside the same system as your accountsStaff and approvers never go near your accounting system

timesense sits alongside your accounting software rather than replacing it. Your books stay where they are; timesense gives you approved hours you can trust before anything is billed or paid.

What it does

Everything you need around a timesheet.

For any business that needs time recorded, approved and trusted, from a single small team to several companies under one roof.

Time entry

Each company chooses days, hours, or start and finish times, with a standard day of 7.5 or 8 hours.

Approvals

Approve, reject or delete one at a time or in bulk. Reject notes are saved and shown to the person.

Notifications

Approvers hear when a timesheet is submitted. Staff hear when theirs is approved or rejected.

Projects

Sort by approver, people assigned or hours to date. Switch projects off and on as work changes.

Leave built in

Annual, sick and unpaid leave, public holidays and training sit beside project work from day one.

People

Invite by email, set roles, switch access off and on, and see who is assigned to what.

Reporting

Pick a date range, person or project and export to CSV or PDF, including what approved time is worth.

Budgets and day rates

Set a budget and rate per project and watch burn against it as approved hours come in.

Print packs

Choose several timesheets and print them together as one PDF, ready to attach to an invoice.

Audit log

Every project change, assignment, approval and rejection is logged with who did it and when.

Help and support

Every signed in user can raise a support ticket from inside the app.

Use it anywhere

Works in any modern browser on desktop or phone, in light or dark mode.

Two ways in

Your team and outside companies, each behind their own wall.

Every approver gets the same tools. The only difference is how far they can see.

Your teamSingle sign onOutside companiesEmailed magic link or code
WhoYour own staffPeople at each client, partner or subsidiary company
Sign inMicrosoft, Google or your company's own sign in (Okta and other SAML or OIDC providers)One click sign in link or a one time code sent by email, so there is no password to forget or reset
RolesAdministrator, SuperAccount manager, Employee
ReachEvery companyTheir own company only
ApprovalsFull approval tools across every companyAccount managers approve for their company. Employees approve only projects that name them.
SettingsAny companyAccount managers set entry mode, standard day and reject note rules for their own company
Platform and security
Secure by design.

timesense runs on modern serverless cloud infrastructure with an always available database. There are no servers for you to patch and nothing to install.

Built and run by AJQ Technology, an Australian owned, SOC 2 Type II certified consultancy.

No passwords

Microsoft, Google or your own company single sign on, plus emailed magic links and codes. There are no stored passwords to leak or reset.

Company walls on the server

Every request is checked against the caller's company and role. Hiding a button is never the only protection.

Approved hours are locked

They are what you bill and pay from, so they must be reopened before anyone can change them.

Full audit trail

Approvals, rejections and project changes are recorded with who and when.

Seats enforced

When a plan is full the next person is refused rather than quietly billed for.

Plans

Pick the size that fits.

Every plan includes everything timesense does. Plans differ only in seats. Get in touch for pricing.

Starter

One team getting started. Everything timesense does, sized for a small crew.

  • People filing time 5
  • Approvers 2
  • Account managers 1
Enquire about Starter

Business

A whole organisation, with enough account managers to run each group separately.

  • People filing time 25
  • Approvers 5
  • Account managers 3
Enquire about Business
Weekly timesheets, submitted and approved in the app
Approval by project, so the right person signs off
Reporting on hours, days and approved value
Reporting by person, project or client, with CSV and PDF export
Project budgets and day rates
Microsoft, Google or company single sign on, or a magic link for people outside your business

Larger teams and white label setups are also available.

Get in touch

Tell us about your team and we'll set you up.

We'll walk you through a demo, load your projects and people, and have your first week of timesheets running within days.

Self service sign up is on the way. Soon you'll be able to choose a plan, invite your people and start filing time without waiting on us.