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Time management
Spreadsheet vs. Automated Time Capture: Which Is Right for Your Team?
5 mins
June 13, 2025
Stop Losing Billable Time to Bad Time Tracking
Tired of chasing your team for timesheets or missing out on billable time? With Magnetic, time logs practically take care of themselves, so your team can focus on work, not tracking it.
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The Magnetic Difference
Why Teams Love Magnetic for Time Tracking
Magnetic makes time tracking effortless, accurate, and automatic, so your team can stay focused, bill more, and avoid burnout.
Effortless time logging
With one-click entries and automated tracking, Magnetic makes time logging part of your workflow.
Greater billing accuracy
Track time against scope and budget. Reduce over-servicing and improve billable recovery on every project.
Smarter resource planning
See how time is being spent across your team. Balance capacity, reduce team overload and keep delivery on track.
Built-in accountability
Ensure teams log time consistently with smart prompts and reminders. No more chasing or last-minute updates.
revenue protection
Turn tracked time into invoices - Instantly
With Magnetic, approved time entries flow directly into your invoices. That means every billable hour your team logs is captured, priced correctly and ready to bill - automatically.
Time Tracking That Fits How your Firm Operates
Magnetic connects time, projects, people and tools in one shared system, removing guesswork from how work gets planned, delivered and billed.
One Connected System
Magnetic brings time data together with projects, billing, resourcing and reporting in a single platform. That means fewer handoffs, fewer exports and shared source of truth
Clarity without Micromanagement
Teams stay accountable without constant follow up or system overhead, through shared visibility and smart structure. And leaders get a clear picture of what's happening across workload.
Tools Built for Firms that Bill by the hour
Magnetic makes time tracking simple, helping you log hours quickly so you can focus on real work instead of time tracking. No more manual entries, no more missed hours, just accurate time tracking that fits into your workflow.
Start and stop time capture
Comment on time Entries
Time tracking notifications
Booked vs. tracked time visibility
Billable vs. non billable hour tracking
Allocate time across multiple days
Magnetic vs. generic tools
What Magnetic replaces
Magnetic makes time tracking simple, fast, and fully integrated, so your team logs time accurately, and you get the insights you need to run a profitable firm.
Magnetic gives you
Fast, intuitive timesheet experience with reminders built in
Time entries auto-linked to tasks, projects, and client scopes
Real-time visibility into billable utilisation and time logged
Integrated invoicing that pulls from approved time entries
Full breakdown of where time is going and what it's worth
Smart nudges to help teams log daily, not weekly
Visibility into where time is spent - and why
Generic tools
Delayed or incomplete timesheet submissions from teams
Manual entry tools that interrupt workflow and reduce accuracy
No link between time tracking, projects, or billing data
Limited visibility into billable vs. non-billable hours
Hours lost to untracked internal work or unmanaged scope creep
No prompts or accountability, leading to inconsistent logging
Data too outdated to inform resourcing or billing decisions
See how Exonic uses Magnetic timesheets to drive performance
Exonic replaced disconnected tools and manual tracking with a single system for time, billing and resource data - giving the team faster access to numbers that matter.
