Traditional timesheets: Professionals spend up to 2 hours per week tediously reconstructing their activity for their timesheet. AI-powered timesheets: With Sage Intelligent Time, a personal assistant gathers all activities for the professional and presents it to them to review. It’s easy for the professional to review—it can be done on their mobile device while waiting in line for coffee. The time assistant gets smarter about suggesting projects with every review, saving the professional more and more time. Traditional timesheets: It’s unrealistic to manually capture every minute of time, resulting in reduced utilization, billable revenue, and profitability. AI-powered timesheets: With Sage Intelligent Time, professionals focus on the customer instead of the minutiae of timesheets. Every minute of time is gathered, increasing the professional’s utilization, billable time, and providing a precise picture of project profitability. Traditional timesheets: Homegrown or third-party time solutions are disconnected, limiting scalability because they require extra reconciliations and cause out-of-sync issues. AI-powered timesheets: With Sage Intelligent Time, timesheets are always in sync and reconciled with your financials so you can efficiently scale your business. Traditional timesheets: Weekly, bi-weekly, or late timesheet data delays the close and the necessary insights to manage project profitability and resourcing. AI-powered timesheets: With Sage Intelligent Time, you get continuous insights, allowing you to close on time, bill on time, and enable project managers to make financially minded decisions about their projects.

The short answer is, “Yes.” Most Professional Service organizations track time even if their billing is fixed fee. Capturing time is required to understand project costing, project profit, utilization, resource planning, and just about everything else the business wants to measure. Accurate time tracking provides: Accurate project costing – With an accurate understanding of your project costs, you can make better decisions about additional unplanned work, for instance, whether to require change orders or provide free service. True project profit – Estimating future work is driven from past work. With accurate time entry, you can bid future work with better insights to protect profit. Utilization – Capturing all billable work helps your employees and leadership team truly understand how much value the team is providing. Resource staffing – Knowing the true time spent on projects helps your leaders know how many resources they need based on projected workloads.

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Q: How does Sage Intelligent Time Work?

Step 1: Sync Your Data Sources You can sync different data sources that help give the time assistant an understanding of what you worked on during your day. The data sources are your calendar, email, and computer activity. You choose which sources are used. Step 2: Intelligent Time Privately Processes Your Data Once you’ve successfully synced your data sources, just work as usual. Time assistant gets to work while you work, processing your activity and proposing entries for your timesheet. The proposed entries include the amount of time spent on the activity and associated dimensions, such as clients and projects. Step 3: Review and Submit Your Timesheet Whenever you’re ready to submit your time, simply review the proposed entries to verify they’re correct, allocate any remaining time where dimensions aren’t suggested, and submit. You have the final say as to what you submit, but we make getting there easy, without letting time slip through the cracks.

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Recover up to $10,000* per billable employee annually

AI-powered timesheets built into Sage Intacct Financials provide continuous, accurate, and complete insights to profitably manage your service business. The Time Assistant helps your professional team ensure they account for all of their work, including unplanned activities that can be easily forgotten. With Sage Intelligent Time, your team’s time entry is always fast and accurate.

Use AI to reconstruct the work week across multiple projects to capture every billable moment
Recover up to $10,000* in annual billable time per employee typically lost to human error
Get accurate project costing to improve estimates of future projects

*Based on estimated time savings of one hour per week at $200 per hour multiplied by 50 weeks billing rate.

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No more soul-crushing time entry

With Sage Intelligent Time your finance team can focus on preparing invoices, reviewing key metrics, and closing the books. No more hounding the professional staff for late timesheets, or painstaking time entry reviews looking for errors. Sage Intelligent Time can automatically alert your team of late or rejected time entry, and the Time Assistant helps drive timesheet accuracy even if time entry is delayed by a week or more.

Increase cash flow with faster billing cycles and accurate invoices
Eliminate reconciliation issues you get with disconnected time entry systems
Free professionals from soul-crushing timesheets and finance from playing timesheet cop

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Detailed control and unmatched visibility into project finances to allow faster, informed decision-making.

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Get the power of AI in the palm of your hand

For on-the-go professionals, managing time entry is often difficult. Sage Intelligent Time allows you to enter, submit, and approve time on your mobile device. Your personal time assistant does the hard work of reconstructing your work week for you. You simply review and submit. It’s so simple you can even do it while standing in line for coffee.

Mobile application for Android and iPhone for access on most common devices
Time entry and approval capabilities encourage high productivity for busy teams
Easy-to-use timesheets help to drive faster time entry with less drudgery

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Maintain trust with privacy-first

We designed Sage Intelligent Time with privacy first. We help you comply with privacy regulations and policies as well as maintain user trust. Users control their own data—no one sees their data but them. Privacy features include:

Users decide which data sources to connect to the time assistant, set working hours for data gathering, and can turn the time assistant off at any time.
Only projects and hours are summarized in the timesheet, not detailed activity. No screenshots, keystrokes, or location information are gathered.
The user approves all time entries before submitting.
Administrators set company-wide policies for time and project data retention.

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Flexible advanced functionality to automate and streamline key finance and accounting processes.

Advanced FunctionalityFlexible advanced functionality to automate and streamline key finance and accounting processes.
Dynamic AllocationsFully automate allocations
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Inventory ManagementGet the right items in the right place at the right time
Multi-Entity and Global ConsolidationsPowerful, lighting-fast continuous consolidations
Project AccountingStay on-track, on-budget, and profitable
Revenue RecognitionIntelligent, automated, and compliant revenue management
Sales and Use TaxKeep up with rules and compliance requirements
Spend ManagementStreamline purchasing and payables
Time and Expense ManagementMaximize revenue and minimize time and effort
Vendor Payment ServicesMake faster, safer, and accurate payments

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Frequently asked questions

How does Sage Intelligent Time Work?

Step 1: Sync Your Data Sources

You can sync different data sources that help give the time assistant an understanding of what you worked on during your day. The data sources are your calendar, email, and computer activity. You choose which sources are used.

Step 2: Intelligent Time Privately Processes Your Data

Once you’ve successfully synced your data sources, just work as usual. Time assistant gets to work while you work, processing your activity and proposing entries for your timesheet. The proposed entries include the amount of time spent on the activity and associated dimensions, such as clients and projects.

Step 3: Review and Submit Your Timesheet

Whenever you’re ready to submit your time, simply review the proposed entries to verify they’re correct, allocate any remaining time where dimensions aren’t suggested, and submit. You have the final say as to what you submit, but we make getting there easy, without letting time slip through the cracks.

Why does Sage Intelligent Time change the game for businesses that require time tracking?

The professional service industry is constantly faced with challenges of revenue leakage, low utilization, and strained project profit. Accurate and complete time entry is a major contributing factor to these struggles. Sage Intelligent Time is the only AI-powered time entry system built into a full featured ERP solution. Sage Intelligent Time provides each member of your team with an AI-powered time assistant that suggests time entry cards based on that employee’s calendar, email, and other activity. Using machine learning, the Time Assistant gets smarter and continuously improves the speed and accuracy of your teams’ timesheets.

Sage Intelligent Time provides a solution to an age-old problem for service-based businesses. Artificial intelligence and machine learning provide your team with continuous and trusted insights regarding their time. With this insight, your project managers can make better decisions, your project pricing is more accurate, and your invoicing and close processes are faster than ever.

How is Sage Intelligent Time different than traditional timesheets?

Traditional timesheets: Professionals spend up to 2 hours per week tediously reconstructing their activity for their timesheet.
AI-powered timesheets: With Sage Intelligent Time, a personal assistant gathers all activities for the professional and presents it to them to review. It’s easy for the professional to review—it can be done on their mobile device while waiting in line for coffee. The time assistant gets smarter about suggesting projects with every review, saving the professional more and more time.

Traditional timesheets: It’s unrealistic to manually capture every minute of time, resulting in reduced utilization, billable revenue, and profitability.
AI-powered timesheets: With Sage Intelligent Time, professionals focus on the customer instead of the minutiae of timesheets. Every minute of time is gathered, increasing the professional’s utilization, billable time, and providing a precise picture of project profitability.

Traditional timesheets: Homegrown or third-party time solutions are disconnected, limiting scalability because they require extra reconciliations and cause out-of-sync issues.
AI-powered timesheets: With Sage Intelligent Time, timesheets are always in sync and reconciled with your financials so you can efficiently scale your business.

Traditional timesheets: Weekly, bi-weekly, or late timesheet data delays the close and the necessary insights to manage project profitability and resourcing.
AI-powered timesheets: With Sage Intelligent Time, you get continuous insights, allowing you to close on time, bill on time, and enable project managers to make financially minded decisions about their projects.

Does Sage Intelligent Time provide value for fixed price projects?

The short answer is, “Yes.” Most Professional Service organizations track time even if their billing is fixed fee. Capturing time is required to understand project costing, project profit, utilization, resource planning, and just about everything else the business wants to measure. Accurate time tracking provides:

Accurate project costing – With an accurate understanding of your project costs, you can make better decisions about additional unplanned work, for instance, whether to require change orders or provide free service.
True project profit – Estimating future work is driven from past work. With accurate time entry, you can bid future work with better insights to protect profit.
Utilization – Capturing all billable work helps your employees and leadership team truly understand how much value the team is providing.
Resource staffing – Knowing the true time spent on projects helps your leaders know how many resources they need based on projected workloads.