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BigTime Software is a leading provider of pro-level time and billing tools for professional services firms and a market leader in QuickBooks integration.

Super-easy time tracking. Invoicing and reporting. Seamless integration. Mobile flexibility. Scalability as your business grows. BigTime is everything you've been looking for in an online timesheet app. A leading provider of time and billing tools for accountants and a market leader in QuickBooks integration, BigTime Software is a member of the Microsoft Partner Network and an Intuit Gold Certified Developer. BigTime is the only time tracking app embedded within Intuit's own practice management system. BigTime's popular industry-specific solutions are designed to speak the language of more than a dozen business types, from accounting and IT Services to architecture and engineering. Its award-winning mobile app, BigTime Mobile, was named a 2014 Awesome App and is available for both iPhone and Android. Founded in 2002, BigTime today has a growing online community of thousands of active customers throughout the U.S., Canada, U.K. and Australia who rely on BigTime's cloud-based software to streamline their workflow and help make their businesses run faster, better, smarter. To learn more, visit us at bigtime.net. Specialties:

Online timesheet
Time tracking
Task management
Reporting
Expense tracking
Invoicing
Mobile app for iPhone
Mobile app for Android
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Website: http://www.bigtime.net

10/15/2026

It's Friday afternoon. ⏰

Someone on your team is staring at a blank timesheet, trying to remember what they actually worked on Monday and Tuesday.
That memory gap isn't just annoying; it's expensive. 📉

Here's the thing: a timesheet on its own doesn't fix this. It just records the guess.

The real fix is connecting that hour, the moment it's logged, to the right rate, the right budget, and the right invoice. No separate system. No manual reconciliation. No "we'll clean it up at month-end." ✅

We broke down what actual PSA time tracking should do (and compared how the top platforms handle it) 👇
🔗 https://www.bigtime.net/blogs/psa-time-tracking/

10/06/2026

What happens between "invoice sent" and "invoice paid" 💰?

For a lot of firms: manual re-keying, mismatched records, and a payment gateway that doesn't actually talk to QuickBooks.
We compared the top payment tools that claim to integrate with QuickBooks in 2026. Some sync beautifully but can't collect a dollar. Others collect payments fine but leave QuickBooks out of sync the moment something changes. 🔄

Turns out "integrates with QuickBooks" means very different things depending on who's saying it. 👀
See how they stack up 👇
🔗 https://www.bigtime.net/blogs/quickbooks-payment/

09/28/2026

Revenue leakage isn't one big failure. It's four small ones, happening quietly, all at once: 👇

1️⃣ Hours logged late (or never) and written down before anyone notices
2️⃣ A rate card update that reaches three project managers but not the fourth
3️⃣ Scope that quietly expands with no change order and no invoice to match
4️⃣ WIP that just... sits there, aging past the point anyone will bill it

None of these show up as one dramatic mistake. They show up as a gap between what your firm delivered and what it actually collected — and most finance teams only see the total once it's too late to fix any single piece of it. 📉

We broke down where each of these leaks actually starts, and what closes them structurally instead of just tracking them after the fact.
🔗 https://www.bigtime.net/bigtime-enterprise-psa/faq/enterprise-psa-prevent-revenue-leakage/

09/23/2026

Myth: there's a list of "DCAA-approved" accounting software out there. 🚫

Reality: the DCAA doesn't approve or certify any software. Never has. What it audits is your process - your timekeeping, your cost segregation, your internal controls.

So if you're a government contractor Googling "DCAA-approved accounting system," you're actually looking for the wrong thing. 🔍

The right question is: can your system be configured to meet DCAA standards without turning your finance team into full-time auditors?

We compared 7 systems contractors evaluate most - from budget-friendly options to enterprise GovCon ERPs - on exactly that. ✅

Where does your setup land?

🔗 https://www.bigtime.net/blogs/dcaa-approved-accounting-system/

09/15/2026

3 signs your "project controls" are actually just a task board in disguise: 👇

1️⃣ Budget overruns show up as a surprise, not a warning

2️⃣ "Are we on margin?" turns into a scramble through three different spreadsheets

3️⃣ Nobody knows a project is bleeding until the final invoice tells them

Sound familiar? You're not alone - plenty of teams run project controls out of software that was only ever built to track tasks. 📋

Project management keeps the work moving. Project controls keep it profitable. They are not the same job. 💡

We ranked 9 platforms, from enterprise scheduling giants to spreadsheet-style tools to financial-first systems, to see which ones actually connect cost, schedule, and resource data in real time, and which ones just look organized. 🔍

See where each one lands 👇

🔗 http://bigtime.net/blogs/project-controls-software/

09/10/2026

Your revenue forecast probably isn't wrong because of bad assumptions. 🎯

It's wrong because the data was already stale before the model was even built.

Utilization numbers from last week's timesheet export. Completion percentages a PM emailed over based on a gut feeling. Pipeline probabilities pulled from CRM with a weighting nobody remembers agreeing on. 📊

By the time finance builds the forecast, delivery reality has already moved on.

The fix isn't a better model. It's grounding the forecast in something that updates itself: the hours your team is actually scheduled to deliver, right now. 🔍

We dig into how finance teams are closing that gap 👇

🔗 https://www.bigtime.net/bigtime-enterprise-psa/faq/psa-revenue-forecast-accuracy/

09/02/2026

🏗️ Most architecture firms don't lose money during design.

They lose it in the gaps: an unbilled site visit here, some scope creep during construction administration there, a project budget quietly drifting across three different spreadsheets nobody's opened since week six.

Sound familiar?

We ranked the top project management tools built for architecture firms in 2026 - from design-friendly planners to legacy A&E systems to general-purpose platforms that were never built with fee phases or utilization in mind.

See how the top platforms stack up (and what actually separates a task tracker from a true financial partner for your practice) 👇

🔗 https://www.bigtime.net/blogs/project-management-software-for-architects/

08/27/2026

Your finance team knows ASC 606. The question is whether your platform does.

Most PS firms running mixed contract portfolios -T&M, fixed-price, milestones, retainers - end up applying recognition rules manually each period. Spreadsheets, judgment calls, and journal entries that nobody can fully reconstruct when the auditors come around.

The standard doesn't care how the work was billed. It cares when the obligation was satisfied.

Full breakdown of how enterprise PSA embeds that logic at the contract level - so the right number flows to your GL without a finance analyst deciding what it should be 👇
https://www.bigtime.net/bigtime-enterprise-psa/faq/enterprise-psa-asc-606-ifrs-15-revenue-recognition/

08/18/2026

The PSA that got you to 100 people might be the thing slowing you down at 200.

It doesn't happen overnight. It's a manual workaround here, a reporting delay there, until your finance team is spending more time reconciling data than acting on it. Month-end close stretches from three days to two weeks. Revenue recognition lives in spreadsheets. Reporting requires an analyst just to answer a basic question about last quarter.

The platform didn't break. You outgrew it.

6 signs it's time to make the move, and what to look for when you do 👇

https://www.bigtime.net/bigtime-enterprise-psa/faq/signs-outgrown-psa-platform/

08/12/2026

QuickBooks is not the problem. What happens between the project and the invoice is.

For most PS firms, that gap is where billable hours go missing, rates get entered twice, and month-end close turns into a two-day reconciliation exercise nobody budgeted for.

Not all QuickBooks invoicing integrations are built the same, though — and picking the wrong one means trading one manual process for another.

Full breakdown of 7 options, what separates a real two-way sync from a shallow connector, and how to match your billing complexity to the right tool 👇

https://www.bigtime.net/blogs/quickbooks-invoicing-software/

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