Using integrated web-based timers, Intervals users can track how long they spend working on individual tasks and larger projects. This is useful not just for generating accurate invoices, but also for basic task management. Knowing how long you’ve spent on a task helps you determine the ROI for individual client projects and provides you with valuable information that you can use when generating estimates for similar projects in the future.
Before you start on your next task, start the timer and keep track of how many seconds, minutes, and hours you’ve been working. Although most users will find it easy to start a timer each time they begin working on a new task, Intervals offers the ability to add time manually, as well. Intervals can also take your time tracking data and import it directly into your weekly timesheets submissions.
Integrated time tracking section
Intervals’ project management feature enables business owners to evaluate whether their teams are being maximized and see exactly how much work was accomplished in a given week. Project management tools are also valuable for managing budgets and spending on subcontractor fees.
Click the “Projects” tab to view your Projects Dashboard. The data provided on your dashboard is represented in dynamic graphs and snapshots that are based on the data your employees have been entering into the system each day. Users can also generate detailed project activity reports.
Regardless of what type of information you’re looking for, there’s a good chance you can find it contained in your Intervals Reports. Intervals lets you choose between taking a granular or high-level approach to reporting data, with dozens of options for manipulating data to discover key business insights.
Create reports to show weekly business trends and determine which clients or projects are taking up the largest share of your time. You can also break your employees’ workdays down into billable vs non-billable hours, and save your favorite reports for one-click retrieval at any point in the future.
In a workplace that doesn’t use reliable project management tools, employees can waste hours each day searching for the documents and files they need to do their jobs. Intervals cuts down on this type of waste, allowing users to keep all types of work files stored in a centralized, secure, cloud-based environment.
Encourage your employees to upload their files and tasks to Intervals, making sure to include tags for organic classification. Among Intervals’ many useful features is version control, which enables you to keep track of the changes happening to any work document. Intervals has no file-type restrictions.
Intervals allows businesses to work on their own terms. The platform offers a number of personalization features to help users manage their work and experiences in unique ways.
Change the default colors, upload your company’s logo, and set your company’s default work type based on whether you typically bill by hours or projects. With Intervals, you can customize the solution to match your existing business processes and workflows. You can even change the currency, date/time formats, and language of the platform.
Most popular features of all Project Management & Planning apps
Requires iOS 9.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
25 reviewers had the following to say about Intervals's features:
Intervals allows us to follow tasks together, track their status, assign them to each other, set up milestones and timelines, and keep track of everything, including tracking our time, in one place.
Pros
Being able to track time and generate reports in the project management software helps us easily track our projects.
Cons
There is one feature I'd like to see, optionally emailing a team member about a particularly urgent task or one where the team member is a follower vs assignee.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Recommendations to others considering Intervals
Try it out and see how it works for you. Intervals is so flexible that different team members may use it differently, so you might need to come to a consensus.
Alisa, thank you for the thoughtful review and your commitment to our software. We're glad to hear Intervals is a good fit for your business.
We appreciate you sharing your thoughts on how we can make Intervals better.
We've recently launched a new interface, called Modernistic, that makes Intervals even easier to use. It can be found under the Settings & Defaults / Themes section on your account.
Budget management, time tracking, project management, invoicing
Pros
I like the fact that time tracking, project management, task management, and invoicing is all tied together.
Cons
I jump between projects and tasks quite a bit during the day.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Monthly
Likelihood to recommend
We are really looking for request tracking, estimating and resource planning in the same intuitive, simple method as the other features.
Pros
Simple task management and time management in a great web based tools.
Cons
We really would like a simple customer inquiry, estimating and resource planning front-end with the same simple interface, not over featured, but covering the 80% of common requests.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Recommendations to others considering Intervals
I think I have detailed the request for customer inquiry management, project planning and resorce planning needs as well as desired changes to the outstanding balance reporting. Thanks again for a wonderful tool for our business!
Thank you for the review. We appreciate you taking the time to give us feedback. We've been considering some lightweight estimating and resource planning tools, so thank you for sharing how that would be useful. we'll be sure to update our roadmap if we move forward with any of them.
Meanwhile, take a look at the request queue, found under the Tasks tab, for managing customer inquiries. We've also added a lightweight resource allocation report that may help with resource planning.
We were also looking for a tool that uses a Calendar view, because it gives users the possibility to organize themselves in an easy way.
Overall I would highly recommend this tool to anybody looking for a project management/time tracking tool.
Intervals is a web-based PM tool that can be accessed from anywhere by team members. Project creation, tracking, updates, costing etc. are easily and quickly accomplished on this tool.
Pros
Project creation, task creation, duplication and cost-related features are outstanding.
Cons
This is a terrific PM product; so much in fact, that the wealth of other features were almost too overwhelming (and not every feature was used.)
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
I strongly believe I made the right choice going for intervals and its price worth!
Pros
Easy time tracking.
Cons
There are some issues with reporting tools however the support team gives fixes in a day or two. The resource allocation report isn't working at all.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Thank you for taking the time to give us a review. We sincerely appreciate it. With the resource allocation report not working please feel free to submit a bug from within your account and start a ticket with our support team. We can do some troubleshooting and hopefully get the issue resolved.
We were looking for a simple solution, easy input, and time tracking. Intervals had all of the feature that we needed.
Pros
I will often send emails to this as a reminder and has made tracking projects and submitting projects very easy.
Cons
It is hard to get everyone to always change statuses and track time - but I think that is a people training issue.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Recommendations to others considering Intervals
Maybe make it easier to create tasks that are based on templates. Easier way to manage users. Color coding for status updates.
Thank you for taking the time to review Intervals so thoroughly. We truly appreciate it. We know what it's like to outgrow Excel. It's part of the story behind how Intervals was born. As for adaptability, we've got some ideas brewing on how to add more collaboration features in the future. If you have any more ideas you'd like to contribute, feel free to reach out to us at support@myintervals.com
Intervals helped our team organize our projects and keep the scope under control by accurately tracking our time and comparing it to estimates.
Pros
Speaking of time, the time tracking feature is very complete and allows us to accurately invoice without shocking our clients with unexpected billings.
Cons
The UI looked like it was designed purely by developers, but the team has been working hard at revamping the entire thing and it now looks a lot cleaner and professional.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Free Trial
Frequency of use: Occasionally
Likelihood to recommend
After trying several time booking and project management software this is the best one that brings together these two things.
Pros
1. Time tracking, easy to track time 2.
Cons
Mobile client for easy time entry would be great 3.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Recommendations to others considering Intervals
I really recommend to anybody who wants fast an easy way to manage projects and track the time.
Zsombor, thank you for the thoughtful review and your commitment to our software. We're glad to hear Intervals is a good fit for your business.
We appreciate your feedback. We've added your ideas to our feature development notes. But I also wanted to let you know we are in the early stages of developing a mobile client.
We've recently launched a new interface, called Modernistic, that makes Intervals even easier to use. It can be found under the Settings & Defaults / Themes section on your account.
We've tried so many time tracking systems and Intervals has been meeting our needs for our software development, project manage and support teams for about 3 years now.
Pros
easy of use and flexibility to really address our needs in time tracking.
Cons
would like ability to tie specific tasks together to be able to show A needs to be done before B. there are workaround using task statuses, due dates and milestones, though.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Recommendations to others considering Intervals
Support at intervals is great! Response is fast and they take suggestions for adding new features. We've seen many things we've suggested added into the system.
Cynthia, thank you for the thoughtful review and your commitment to our software. We're glad to hear Intervals is a good fit for your business.
We appreciate your thoughts on tying tasks together and we can see how that would help with your workflow. We've made note of this idea.
We've recently launched a new interface, called Modernistic, that makes Intervals even easier to use. It can be found under the Settings & Defaults / Themes section on your account.
We looked at a lot of cloud-based time tracking and project management solutions before choosing Intervals.
Pros
Customizable so it works with our workflows. Mobile version is also great when we're on the road.
Cons
If Intervals had more robust file sharing capabilities, it could replace another service we use, which would be great.
Rating breakdown
Michael, thank you for the thoughtful review and your commitment to our software. We're glad to hear Intervals is a good fit for your business.
We appreciate your feedback about reports and file sharing. We can see how better organization and file sharing would be an improvement, so, we've made note of these ideas for future development possibilities.
I've seen our average "active" Intervals projects double in less than two years from around 20 to about 40 at a time.
Pros
Intervals offers us the ability to set custom statuses, priorities, worktypes and SO much more.
Cons
Other than not having a mobile phone app yet, this project management tool rocks!
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Brian, thank you for the thoughtful review and your commitment to our software. We're glad to hear Intervals is a good fit for your business.
We appreciate your feedback and wanted to let you know we are in the early stages of developing a mobile app.
And, we've recently launched a new interface, called Modernistic, that makes Intervals even easier to use. It can be found under the Settings & Defaults / Themes section on your account.
I hope the next evolution of this tool will allow for improved PPM (Project Portfolio Management) so the project managers can see where we have gaps in our schedule and an opportunity to shift work around or accept more.
Pros
Reliable up time, easy to learn, variety of reports available
Cons
Can't really manage the portfolio of projects (seeing across team members and tasks to understand where we have capacity).
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Thank you for the review and feedback. It's great to hear how Intervals is helping your agency.
I wanted to point out a relatively recent report we created, called the Resource Allocation Report. This report will provide some lightweight resource planning help.
It works by dividing up the task estimates across the days its scheduled and the people assigned to complete it. This should help seeing current capacity across tasks and projects.
Regards,
John
Pros
We really like that it's not just another ticket system, but also can be used as time tracking and project management-tool.
Cons
For example, it would be great to have an option that a project haven't got any modules or milestones and then none of these options would be shown.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Lukas, thank you for the thoughtful review. We're glad to hear Intervals is a good fit for your business.
We can understand how limiting the interface to only what's being used could be helpful. We'll add this idea to our list of potential improvements.
We've recently launched a new interface, called Modernistic, that makes Intervals even easier to use. It can be found under the Settings & Defaults / Themes section on your account.
Records time.
Pros
Reports are easy. The system forces me to record time in an orderly fashion.
Cons
It is cumbersome to get to tasks in projects.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Project management, and ease of putting the hours dedicated to each project.
Pros
it's very easy to use and timers for task it's very comfortable to control this.
Cons
I think it is an application that is growing and there are enough things to be complete, but I think they are in it, for example, there would be a type of cost typology.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Javi, thank you for the review. We're glad to hear Intervals is a good fit for your business. We'd love to hear more about your thoughts on cost typology and defining days and abilities to work.
We've recently launched a new interface, called Modernistic, that might help streamline projects. It can be found under the Settings & Defaults / Themes section on your account.
Also additional PM features such as GANTT charts and sub tasks
Pros
Integrating light PM into a time tracking tool
Cons
Invoicing needs to be fleshed out to include escalation and notifications plus links to portal payment options
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Julio, thank you for the thoughtful review. We're glad to hear Intervals is a good fit for your business.
We can understand how more powerful invoicing would be helpful. Thank you for sharing your ideas on invoicing. We'll add this idea to our list of potential improvements.
We've recently launched a new interface, called Modernistic, that makes Intervals even easier to use. It can be found under the Settings & Defaults / Themes section on your account.
For us, it is a very easy tool to see our multiple projects and track our time across all of them.
Pros
Ease of use
Cons
Not knowing all what it can do
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Recommendations to others considering Intervals
Read the guides and manuals. Watch the videos
Thanks for the review, Phil. We're glad that Intervals is a good fit for your organization. In case you haven't noticed, we've launched a new look. it's called Modernistic and should make Intervals even easier to use than before. It can be found in the Themes section under Settings & Defaults.
Cheers,
John
Pros
There hasn't been any major issues around missing tasks/data or malfunctioning.
Cons
Since my marketing team has switched around, there are inconsistencies within Milestones/tasks, but I suppose that's more of a user con (i.e. there is no way to fix if old tasks do not follow the same format as new projects/tasks).
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Monthly
Likelihood to recommend
Project planning, task management, time tracking, graphical presentation, tables and lots of useful tools; It's all here.
Rating breakdown
Leif, thank you for the thoughtful review and your years of commitment to our software. We're glad to hear Intervals is a good fit for your business. And we appreciate the recommendations!
We've recently launched a new interface, called Modernistic, that makes Intervals even easier to use. It can be found under the Settings & Defaults / Themes section on your account.
Moreover I was able to adjust pricing and project cost calculations neatly, having great statistics and overviews of previous projects at hand.
Pros
Timers at the bottom of the page counting every single second needed for a certain task. Task management with calendar.
Cons
Total rates inside projects are always calculated based on time and hourly rate.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Recommendations to others considering Intervals
Work types and modules are copied or need to be created project by project. It would be nice to have a list of all previously defined worktypes to choose from when creating a new project.
Thomas, thank you for the thoughtful review and your commitment to our software. We're glad to hear Intervals is a good fit for your business.
Wow! 30%! That is great news. We've heard this from other customers as well and it never ceases to make our week.
We appreciate the feedback on tracking project costs and we've added this idea to our notes.
We've recently launched a new interface, called Modernistic, that makes Intervals even easier to use. It can be found under the Settings & Defaults / Themes section on your account.
We use this every day to track time and set project alerts.
Rating breakdown
Jeff, thank you for the thoughtful review and your commitment to our software. We're glad to hear Intervals is a good fit for your business.
We've recently launched a new interface, called Modernistic, that makes Intervals even easier to use. It can be found under the Settings & Defaults / Themes section on your account.
My company is using TimeTask for more than 7 years. Its not completely adequate to our activity, but we take advantage form lots of features.
Cons
Our business management uses some concepts that are not available (yet) in Time Task. We use cost rate and billing rate to manage our projects.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Thank you for the review. We appreciate your feedback on cost rates and billing rates. We can see how these features would help your business management needs. We're always looking for ideas on how we can improve our software, and we'll make note of these suggestions. Thank you, again, for reviewing Intervals.
The cost-effectiveness of Intervals is the best for time tracking and project management tools.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Guilherme, thank you for the glowing review, and for your years of continued business. We wanted to let you know we've launched a new look. Check out the Modernistic theme in the Settings & Defaults section of your account. The new interface makes Intervals even easier to use than before.
