Employee Time Tracking

Easily record work and project hours with a single, intuitive solution – all in time cockpit.

Obligation to Record Working Hours

In many countries, employers are required to digitally record their employees’ working hours. This regulation aims to protect employees and ensure compliance with labor laws. In Germany, the Federal Labor Court (Bundesarbeitsgericht, BAG) ruled on September 13, 2022, that employers must implement a system for digital time tracking. This obligation is based on a European Union-compliant interpretation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act (§ 3 Para. 2 No. 1 ArbSchG) and a ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on May 14, 2019. Employers are therefore responsible for properly recording working hours and can be held liable for violations.

Features of Employee Time Tracking

Graphical Calendar - Everything at a Glance

The graphical time-tracking calendar provides all key information at a glance: you can easily view your target and actual working hours, planned vacations, time compensations (TCs), sick days, or home office days in a clear layout. Additionally, the calendar shows the current status of your time balance account (overtime account) and your remaining vacation days.

Time entries can be effortlessly created by dragging with your mouse or copied via drag-and-drop.

Office365 appointments are displayed directly in the calendar and can be converted into time entries with a double click.

If you use the Activity Tracker, you gain even deeper insights into your workday. You’ll know exactly when you started your workday—making traditional punch clocks unnecessary in the era of remote work. The Activity Tracker also automatically records inactivity times such as breaks, ensuring seamless tracking of your working hours. It further captures activities like opened applications, edited files, or sent emails, which can be converted into accurate time entries with a single click.

Calendar overview

Efficient Time Tracking for Recurring Tasks

Template entries are perfect for tracking recurring tasks that are not directly tied to a specific project, such as mailing, administrative duties, HR, or marketing. These tasks can be saved as templates and quickly added to the calendar as needed. This allows regular activities to be recorded efficiently without the need for manual input each time. Template entries save time, ensure seamless documentation, and guarantee that non-project-related working hours are tracked transparently and comprehensibly.

Configurable Working Time Model

Define the target working hours per day for individual employees or entire teams—including flexible part-time models. Changes to working time models, such as a switch from full-time to part-time, are automatically logged for historical tracking, allowing you to trace how target working hours have evolved over time. Additionally, you can manage overtime allowances to integrate compensated extra work directly into the working time model.

Working hours per day

Clear Booking Lock for Your Time Tracking

Time cockpit enables the automatic locking of time tracking for past months to ensure clear and audit-proof documentation of working hours. After the defined booking lock date, neither time entries nor absences can be edited for the locked period. This rule ensures that finalized periods remain reliably protected.

Flexibility for Exceptions

If changes are required in a locked period, the booking lock can be individually lifted for specific employees. This exception is valid for a defined timeframe, after which the general rule automatically re-applies. This approach ensures that time tracking remains flexible while maintaining organizational security.

Booking lock

Vacation, Time Compensation, and Sick Leave

Create and manage vacation entitlements, leaves, time compensation, and sick leaves for your employees. Time cockpit calculates absences down to the exact hour, based on the daily working hours defined in the working time model. Vacation entitlements are calculated in weeks, allowing seamless adjustments for transitions between part-time and full-time work—or vice versa. This ensures an accurate and flexible overview of actual, target, and absence hours.

Vacations

Public Holidays and Holiday Calendars

Does your company have branches in multiple countries or need to account for different public holiday regulations within a country, such as varying state holidays in Germany? With Time Cockpit, you can create holiday calendars for different countries, regions, or religions and assign the respective holidays. You can then link each employee to the appropriate calendar to accurately reflect local holiday regulations.

Public holidays

Overtime at a Glance

Time cockpit calculates an hourly balance for your employees by factoring in absences, public holidays, and planned working hours from the working time model. Recorded time entries are automatically compared against target hours, and overtime is calculated to the exact hour. Overtime allowances are also included in the calculation to ensure accurate representation of working time models. Clear working time statistics and the hours account are displayed directly in the time tracking calendar, providing maximum transparency and easy monitoring.

Working time statistics

Stay Compliant - Working Time Limits and Violations

With Time cockpit, you can set working time limits that align with your organization’s requirements. Define maximum hours per day or week and specify when an employee should take a break after a certain number of working hours. By default, Time cockpit includes working time limits for Austria and Germany, helping ensure compliance with applicable labor laws. Additionally, you have the option to define your own working time limits to meet specific organizational or legal needs.

Working time violations

Timesheet

Create a comprehensive timesheet that shows the total worked hours, break times, as well as public holidays and absences for each day. Additionally, the timesheet includes information on whether work was performed from home on a given day—an important factor in meeting legal requirements, such as the correct application of the home office allowance in Austria. At the end of the report, you will find a summary of the current status of vacation days, overtime, and home office days worked so far. This ensures that employees can keep track of all relevant data.

Time report

More Features

Extend and Customize Functions

With time cockpit, we have already done the groundwork for you. Standard tasks such as input validation, user interface layout and styling, and object-relational mapping (ORM) for database interactions are seamlessly integrated. This allows us to focus entirely on customizing the platform to your specific needs, without reinventing the wheel or spending resources on time-consuming basic development.

Customize It Yourself or Let Us Implement It for You

Our platform is designed so that you can either make the customizations yourself or have us implement them for you. Whether you prefer to design it yourself or rely on our expertise, we offer flexible support tailored to your exact requirements.

A Proven Platform

Time cockpit has proven itself as a flexible and customizable solution in a variety of time tracking projects. Thanks to its flexibility, the platform also serves as a powerful foundation for non-time tracking-related projects.

Reduced Programming Effort

Time cockpit enables a significant reduction in programming effort. Developers can declaratively define data structures, validation rules, business logic, and even the user interface – for quick and straightforward customizations.

Over 15 Years of Experience

Benefit from our expertise of over 15 years in time tracking and best practices. Take a look at how we have tailored time cockpit for other customers.

Frequently Asked Questions

What benefits does customization offer for my company?

Time cockpit ships with a rich features set but customizing allows you to tailor time cockpit to fit your specific requirements and business processes. This means your business can work more efficiently and effectively, saving time and money in the long run. You won’t have to worry about using a system that doesn’t quite work for your company. Instead, you’ll have a system that is aligned with your company’s unique requirements. A system that grows with you.

Can I customize time cockpit myself?

Yes, you can customize time cockpit yourself using the time cockpit admin workbench. The admin workbench can be downloaded from our website, and it provides a user-friendly interface for customizing every aspect. You can customize data structures, user interface, business logic, reports, and more without the need for extensive programming knowledge. Take a look at our documentation to get started.

Can you customize time cockpit for me?

Absolutely. Our team will help you every step of the way. We’ll start by having a chat to get a feel for what you need, and then work closely with you to create a customized solution that fits your unique requirements. Once we’ve finished customizing, we’ll provide guidance and support to help you make the most of the platform.

How does the customization process work?

We like to keep itagile. The customization process is designed to be collaborative and transparent, with frequent communication and feedback to ensure that the end result meets your expectations. We’ll work with you to define the scope and goals of the customization. Once we have a clear understanding of what you’re looking for, our team will build and test the customized solution. Throughout the process, we’ll work closely with you to ensure that the customization meets your needs and requirements. You’ll get to test the customizations in a sandbox environment first so you can make sure it’s exactly what you want. Once we have received your approval after your tests, we will deploy your new features in your production environment.

How long does it typically take to customize time cockpit?

The time it takes to customize time cockpit depends on the complexity of your specific requirements. Time cockpit has already done a lot of the heavy lifting in terms of development, so customizing it can typically be done faster compared to building a feature from scratch. Our team will work closely with you to understand your needs and provide you with a timeline for the customization process.

What kind of costs are associated with customizing time cockpit? The

cost of a customization depends on the scope of work. You can check our current hourly rate on our pricing page. There are no ongoing, periodic maintenance fees for the customizations made specifically for you. Any future development and maintenance will be done on an hourly basis, and in close accordance with you or your team. Customizations don’t increase your regular pricing fees.

Is there ongoing support available after the customization process is complete?

We offer ongoing support to ensure that everything runs smoothly. If you encounter any issues or have questions about your customizations, just let us know and we’ll work with you to resolve them. Our team is always happy to help and keep your time cockpit running.

What if my time cockpit is customized? Do I still get features updates?

Absolutely! When you customize time cockpit, you’ll still have access to all the standard features of the platform. Our customization process is all about adding new functionality and tailoring the platform to your specific needs, not taking away anything away from you. So, whether you’re using time cockpit out-of-the-box or have customized it to fit your unique workflows, you’ll still be able to take advantage of all the standard features we will provide in the future.