Let's Talk Time Tracking

The Tick Blog

Tips and recommendations for tracking time and hitting budgets with simple how-tos, articles, and FAQs.


Onboard Tick Team

How to successfully onboard your team to start tracking their time

Our goal at Tick is to help make it as easy as possible to onboard your team, so you can start tracking time towards more profitable projects. Here are a few tips on how to successfully onboard your team to start tracking their time.

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Setting up a project in Tick

How to set up Tick projects to deliver them on time and under budget

With a bit of planning, you can significantly improve the chances that your project will be on time and under budget.

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Time Tracking Software Logos

5 Best Time Tracking Tools for Creative Agencies, Designers, and Marketers

Evaluating the top time tracking software for creative agencies, designers, and marketers.

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Move time entries

Feature Update: Bulk Move Time Entries & in-line editing

Admins can now edit and bulk move time entries right from the projects page.

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Implementing Turbolinks and Russian Doll Caching

Implementing Turbolinks and Russian Doll Caching

How our team implemented Turbolinks, query optimization, and Russian doll caching to speed up Tick.

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Case study

Case Study: My Little Big Web

Being co-founder of a web marketing agency in Montreal is an exciting and ever-changing experience.

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Import time entries

Import data from other time tracking products

Tick’s focus on helping you run more profitable projects makes it a great alternative to other time tracking products.

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Trello and asana

Connect Tick to Asana & Trello!

We’re excited to announce that Tick now integrates with Asana and Trello! Setup an integration to bring time-tracking and budget feedback into your project management workflow.

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Basecamp integration

Time Tracking in
Basecamp 3, 2, & Classic

We’re huge fans of Basecamp, and are excited to announce that as of today Tick integrates with every version of Basecamp.

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Quickbooks online

Tick now Integrates with QuickBooks Online

We’re excited to announce Tick’s new integration with QuickBooks Online - the #1 rated cloud accounting software in the world.

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Mac app update

Introducing the Tick Mac App

The Tick Mac App runs in the background, and timers are automatically updated in the menu bar in real time, so you can focus on the task at hand. Stay focused and check your progress with just a glance.

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Iphone app update

iPhone app update - Create and edit projects

We’ve updated our mobile apps! Now, with Tick for iOS or Android you can...

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New features

New Clients Section in Tick

Managing clients in Tick just became a whole lot easier.

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New features

New Timesheet Date Strip

Over the past couple of months we’ve refined our main Timecard screen quite a bit and thought it would be a fun challenge to see if we could make this iconic date strip even better.

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Basecamp integration

Tick Brings More to Basecamp

Today, we’re very excited to announce some big updates to the integration’s appearance and functionality...

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New features

A New Timecard Experience

We’re getting ready to roll out an update to Tick’s timecard in the next week! The update streamlines the way you select your client, project and task.

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Import time entries

Auto Import of Basecamp To-Do Lists

The improvements to our Basecamp integration continue! We have heard from many of our customers that you like to enter time to your Basecamp To-Do Lists.

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Basecamp 2 integration updates

Tick Time Tracking in Basecamp 2

So when we heard that Basecamp 2 wasn’t going to include time tracking we set out to see what we could do…

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Recurring projects

Recurring Projects

Now when you create a new a new project you’ll see a “recurring project” option at the bottom.

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Freshbooks

Send Invoices From Tick

Tick, the webs best time and budget tracker, has teamed up with FreshBooks, the webs best invoicing application.

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Basecamp 2 integration updates

Advanced Basecamp Integration in Tick

We’ve been working pretty hard on advancing the Basecamp integration within Tick, and last week we rolled out a big update.

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Locking time entries

Locking Time Entries

Tick now includes the ability to lock and unlock time entries. We hope you find many uses for this new functionality, but a couple stand out for sure.

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Why tick matters

Why Tick Matters

One of the recurring themes of our interactions with new users is what makes Tick different? A more direct way of asking some ofthe same questions is...

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