Hourglass is a web-based time & expense tracking and project management application, developed by Canadian company High-Touch Communications Inc.
Hourglass is highly flexible and provides simple and efficient solutions, thus accounting for employees, projects, clients, rates, and work-codes, and hence driving productivity and profitability.
Hourglass Features
→ Timesheet Tracking
- Allows employees to enter and filter time by Client, Project, Start and End Dates, and hence produce detailed reports
- Enables employees to modify or delete entries, and change preceding entries from past 30 days
- Ensures high compliance rates through an intuitive interface
- Enhances productivity through appropriate reporting to employers, and increased employee accountability
- Helps in recapturing lost hours through real-time web-based updates
- Checks compliance through a system of triggered emails
→ Expense Tracking
- Allows employees to enter and filter expenses by Client, Project, Start and End Dates, and hence produce detailed reports
- Enables employees to modify or delete entries, and change preceding entries from past 30 days
- Ensures expenses are quickly reimbursed with the help of a clear division between billable and non-billable logs
- Categorizes expenses by type, by Project, and by Client, and enables employers to stick to pre-defined budgets
→ Project Management
- Allows employees to view tasks allotted by project, hours allotted to complete them, due dates and priorities
- Enables employers to assign projects to employees and contractors, create milestones and tasks, and use dashboards to view status
- Monitors project budgets to ensure they stay within allotted estimates
- Integrates seamlessly with MS Excel to upload tasks
Hourglass Pricing
Hourglass Pricing starts at $10 per month, per user. Pricing packages are as follows –
- Monthly payment - $15 per user
- Annual payment - $120 per user, that is $10 per month.
The Hourglass website offers a free 30-day trial period, post which users can opt to purchase the software at the price mentioned above. Also, post the trial period, customer queries that qualify as “technical support requests” are charged at $60 for every incident.
Hourglass Demo
The Hourglass website offers the users a free fully-functional, data-filled demo, and hosts useful content in the form of videos, and frequently asked questions.