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\"\"Are spreadsheets still used for timesheets?<\/p>\n

In 2009, we published a press release saying that financial benefits can be gained from subscribing to an\u00a0out-of-the-box solution for timesheet entry<\/span><\/a>\u00a0instead of using Excel spreadsheets.\u00a0 Would you believe it when I say that it still holds true today?<\/p>\n

Funny thing is though, now we\u2019ve created a really nice\u00a0Excel timesheet template<\/span><\/a>\u00a0that we\u2019re giving away free.\u00a0 But, the existing problems are still present.\u00a0 In fact, in recent case studies where companies used Dovico Timesheet instead of Excel, they were able to reduce their month-end billing time from 4 days to 4 hours after switching from an Excel timesheet! Another company gained in their ability to be more productive, here\u2019s their quote:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we started with Dovico 4 years ago we were a small firm of around 12 employees. We used an excel based time capture and Access database. We had reached the limit of ease of use and had to hire for data input or find a better way. Dovico Timesheet was that better way. Not only did we not hire for data entry but the workload decreased even though our company now has 40 employees\u2026 “.\u00a0Michel<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This makes the math easy when it comes to calculating ROI because you just know that the benefits in time savings, at a price of $12\/month for Dovico, out way the hassle and the time wasted to manually update projects and time in separate spreadsheets, approve time by each individual sheet by email,\u00a0and consolidate reports.<\/p>\n

Diane Doucet\u00a0#TimeCoach
\nCo-founder of Dovico Software Inc.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cGive Time Meaning\u201d every\u00ad\u00adday \u00a0and sign up for your FREE 14-day trial<\/a> at www.dovico.com<\/a> –\u00a0 Project time management and project costing tool<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are spreadsheets still used for timesheets? In 2009, we published a press release saying that financial benefits can be gained from subscribing to an\u00a0out-of-the-box solution for timesheet entry\u00a0instead of using Excel spreadsheets.\u00a0 Would you believe it when I say that it still holds true today? Funny thing is though, now we\u2019ve created a really nice\u00a0Excel timesheet template\u00a0that we\u2019re giving away free.\u00a0 But, the existing problems are still present.\u00a0 In fact, in recent case studies where…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-productivity"],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":["https:\/\/timesheet.dovico.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ACS_0041.jpg",4032,3024,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/timesheet.dovico.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ACS_0041-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/timesheet.dovico.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ACS_0041-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/timesheet.dovico.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ACS_0041-768x576.jpg",768,576,true],"large":["https:\/\/timesheet.dovico.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ACS_0041-1024x768.jpg",1024,768,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/timesheet.dovico.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ACS_0041.jpg",1536,1152,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/timesheet.dovico.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ACS_0041.jpg",2048,1536,false],"thoughts-blog":["https:\/\/timesheet.dovico.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ACS_0041-700x500.jpg",700,500,true],"thoughts-header":["https:\/\/timesheet.dovico.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ACS_0041-1280x1024.jpg",1280,1024,true]},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"

Are spreadsheets still used for timesheets? In 2009, we published a press release saying that financial benefits can be gained from subscribing to an\u00a0out-of-the-box solution for timesheet entry\u00a0instead of using Excel spreadsheets.\u00a0 Would you believe it when I say that it still holds true today? 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