Although this concept may seem difficult, taking small steps to reduce waste produced by the organization may have a significant impact. There is no rule that says to be aware of the environment should be a sacrifice. Using environmentally friendly procedures, such as eliminating paper and using web-based timesheets and expense tracker, can be a financial savings. Web-based time and expense tracking applications provides a way to maintain and automate your expense record keeping, which saves time and money. It’s also an excellent way to help your company “go green”.
There are many options for “Going Green” in the workplace. For companies that want to make an extra effort to reduce the total amount of waste paper, using a time and expense tracking software solution is an easy option. Companies can save time and money while maintaining the work of changing the procedures that currently use a large amount of paper.
So, look at the top 5 Web-Based Time and Expense Tracking Solutions which can make your workplace green.
1. Invoicera
Go green and stay organized with Invoicera’s Time & Expense tracking feature.Invoicera’s time tracking enables you to keep track of time spent on each project and allows you to keep frequent monitoring of all tasks performed. This guarantees of how your work progresses, regardless of deadlines.
Invoicera Expense Tracking is amazing. With this, you can keep track of all project expenses with ease and precision. In Invoice, you can add the entire cost to authorize you to get paid in full. Invoicera also provides you an option of importing your expenses into your account and with this, it will be possible to know the profitability of business and whether it is updated or not.
2. Mindsalt
MindSalt’s web-based solutions offers timesheet reporting, expense reporting, and project tracking for all types of businesses. It will enable you to be up and running within a matter of minutes.
Online timesheets makes tracking time easy for employees and vital for managers and mindsalt’s expense reporting allows you to systematize and observe all of your expense reports from anywhere. You can enter expenses while you are out of the office and as the expenses are acquired.
3. Freshbooks
Freshbooks is in fact a well accomplished online billing, expense and time tracking application. FreshBooks’ time log allows you to detail a project’s timeline and have all those working on the project log their hours and with Freshbooks’s expense tracking feature you can keep track of your expenses, for both projects and yourself, in an perceptive, simple to use interface and also, you can re-bill expenses acquired on a client’s behalf back to the client when you create an invoice.
4. Syncd
Syncd is trusted by thousands of businesses around the world to track and analyze their time and expenses. Freelancers and large corporations alike use Syncd to improve accountability, productivity and profitability.
Whether you want to track every minute of your work or you desire to enter hours at the closing of the week, Syncd is there for you and get compensated by your clients for expenses used on the job, and reimburse your team for any expenses salaried out-of-pocket.
5. Harvest
Time Tracking is simple and quick as lightning with Harvest. Set up takes seconds and there is nothing to install. They have simplified timesheet and approval process of the timesheet and work table so you can stay focused at work and the cost of monitoring is also easy to apply and with Harvest you can simply add an amount and description and also assign a category to the expense.
By choosing any of the above online time and expense software to decrease the amount of paper used in day-to-day business activities, organizations can have a positive impact on the environment.
Author Bio: This post is contributed by Steven Smith, an Editor of smallbusinessfriends.com, a business blog that shares tips and information about various business related topics. You can follow him at @SmallBizFriends.





Did you ever heard of cronsync?
http://www.cronsync.com
cronsync supports time tracking and invoicing on a time and material or on a flatrate basis. Invoices are automatically generated based on time tracking and project data. You choose what level of invoice detail you want to grant your client.
There is a demo and a video tour.
We have launched cronsync this year. I look forward to your feedback!
Best, Jakob
I will try it Jakob and even refer to my friends.
A nice tool to complement the above — Worksnaps (http://www.worksnaps.net) for tracking time for a virtual teams, such as remote contractors, offshore programmers or virtual assistants. It captures not only time, but also work activities for time verification, something traditional self-reporting time trackers cannot do.
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An initiative by Green Yatra (An NGO).
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