I recently hired my first subcontractor ( /r/smallbusiness/comments/ypi9ug/hiring_my_first_subcontractor_need_advice/ ) and received lots of good advice from this sub.
This seems to work really well.
However, one thing that I immediately ran into is: How to track time spent by the subcontractors?
I am billing my customers for hours spent on a task.
My subcontractor is billing me for their time spent.
Often I will function as a sort of defacto project manager and is sometimes asked during the project to produce an overview of time spent so far, etc.
I can then turn around and ask my subcontractor to produce that.
This does not scale really well...
So how do you track your subcontractors or employees time?
Do you have them track time in some online system?
If so, can you recommend one?
What I really need is just the amount of hours spent per project or per customer per day.
So something like a table for each week with weekday as columns and projects/customers per row. And then the cells containing hours spent.
For example something like this per subcontractor:
This seems to work really well.
However, one thing that I immediately ran into is: How to track time spent by the subcontractors?
I am billing my customers for hours spent on a task.
My subcontractor is billing me for their time spent.
Often I will function as a sort of defacto project manager and is sometimes asked during the project to produce an overview of time spent so far, etc.
I can then turn around and ask my subcontractor to produce that.
This does not scale really well...
So how do you track your subcontractors or employees time?
Do you have them track time in some online system?
If so, can you recommend one?
What I really need is just the amount of hours spent per project or per customer per day.
So something like a table for each week with weekday as columns and projects/customers per row. And then the cells containing hours spent.
For example something like this per subcontractor:
Code:
Week 42
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
ACME/Project X 0 4 4 7 2
ACME/Project Y 2 0 1 0 0
BigCorp/Project 1 6 0 2 0 4
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Total 8 4 7 7 6