Your Team Loses Hours Every Week to Time Tracking. Pulse Gives Them Back.
Time tracking is supposed to tell you where your project hours go. In practice, it creates a second job. Engineers batch-log time at the end of the week from memory. Managers reconcile timesheets that don’t match ticket estimates. Finance chases down billable hours that nobody remembers clearly. The data you collect is already stale by the time you act on it.
Pulse time tracking is designed to be accurate without being burdensome. Your team logs time as a natural byproduct of doing their work — not as a separate administrative task bolted on afterward.
One-Click Timers, Anywhere in Your Workflow
Every task, ticket, and project in Pulse has a built-in timer. Your team starts it when they pick up a task and stops it when they switch context. No separate time-tracking app. No tab switching. The timer lives exactly where the work is.
For teams that prefer end-of-day or end-of-week logging, Pulse provides a bulk time entry view — a single screen where team members can log their hours across all active tasks in under two minutes. Either approach feeds the same project-level budget data in real time.
Git-Aware Time Suggestions
Pulse connects to your GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket repositories and watches which branches your engineers are active on. When a developer switches to a feature branch linked to a Pulse ticket, the system surfaces a prompt to start the timer for that task. When they push a commit, Pulse suggests logging the elapsed time against the associated ticket.
This isn’t surveillance — it’s context. Engineers still control what gets logged. But the friction of remembering which ticket goes with which work disappears. Teams using Pulse’s Git integration report a 40% reduction in missed time entries compared to tools like TaskFlow that treat time tracking as a standalone module.
Automatic Budget Burn Tracking
Every hour logged flows into the project budget automatically. Project managers see budget burn in real time — not in a report they have to pull manually at the end of a sprint. When a project is tracking toward overage, Pulse flags it proactively so the team can adjust scope or renegotiate with the client before the problem becomes a conversation nobody wants to have.
Use Cases
- Agencies billing by the hour: Automatic time capture against client projects means invoices reflect actual work, reducing billing disputes and write-offs.
- Fixed-price project delivery: Real-time budget burn against estimates gives delivery managers an early warning system for scope creep.
- Engineering team utilisation: See how your team’s capacity is allocated across projects, support, and internal work — without asking anyone to fill out a spreadsheet.
- Freelancer and contractor management: Contractors log time directly in Pulse against shared projects, with approval flows for managers before hours are confirmed.
Reports That Write Themselves
Pulse time reports are live. Filter by team member, project, client, or date range and the data is there instantly — no export, no pivot table, no waiting. Share a read-only report link with a client and they see a live view of hours logged against their project. When Orbit and WorkBoard require you to export CSVs and build your own views, Pulse just shows you the answer.
Built for Accuracy, Not Just Compliance
Most teams track time because someone requires it. Pulse makes time data valuable enough that your team wants it accurate. When engineers can see how their logged hours affect the project’s health score and delivery forecast, time tracking stops feeling like overhead and starts feeling like information.