Time Tracking
Comprehensive time tracking with detailed insights into how time is spent across tasks and projects.
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Track your team's time, entries, licenses and use that information in your projects
Our comprehensive time tracking features provide you with detailed insights into how time is spent across various tasks and projects. Utilize this data to enhance project planning, allocate resources more effectively, and ensure compliance with licensing requirements.
Why agency time tracking matters
Recover hidden billable hours
Agencies that don't track time consistently leave 10 to 20 percent of billable work uninvoiced every month. That's pure margin walking out the door.
Estimate the next project accurately
Without historical data, every quote is a wild guess. Six months of clean time entries turn estimating into a structured exercise based on real evidence.
Spot the projects that eat your team alive
Some clients always run 30% over budget. You can't fix that pattern until you can see it, and you can't see it without granular time data per project.
Time tracking your team will actually use
Most time tracking tools fail not because they lack features, but because they slow people down. If logging an hour takes more than a few seconds, the timesheet gets filled in on Friday afternoon from memory, which is the same as not tracking at all. Monton is built around quick capture: a calendar-style timesheet, keyboard shortcuts, and integrations that pull events from Google Calendar so most entries are one click instead of typed from scratch.
When tracking is fast and friction-free, agencies get something rare: timesheet data that actually reflects how the week was spent. That data drives margin calculations, capacity planning, and client billing all at once. Instead of three separate tools and two reconciliation meetings, you have one source of truth that the whole team trusts because they were the ones who entered it.
Time tracking FAQ
How do I get my team to actually log their time?
Make tracking fast (under five seconds per entry), valuable (people see their own utilization and project margin), and habitual (a daily 5-minute reminder beats a Friday catch-up). Monton is designed to make all three easy.
Should we track time in 15-minute or 30-minute blocks?
For internal cost analysis, 15-minute granularity is plenty; finer than that adds friction without adding insight. For client billing, follow whatever your contract specifies, often hourly or six-minute increments.
Does Monton do automatic time tracking?
Monton imports calendar events as suggested entries you confirm with one click, which is more accurate than fully automatic tracking and avoids the privacy issues of background screen monitoring.
Can we track non-billable internal time too?
Yes, and you should. Tracking internal projects, training, and admin shows you the true cost of running the agency and where billable utilization is actually being lost.