When we were running our consulting business, we kept running into the same problems over and over again. Time tracking wasn't just about logging hours, it was the base for everything: invoicing customers, managing freelancers, staying on top of budgets.
At first, we tracked everything manually in Google Sheets (yeah, not ideal). As things grew, the problems got bigger: How to track hours properly across different projects? Most tools were either way too complex or way too simple. We didn't need a full ERP, we just needed solid time tracking to send invoices.
How to generate invoices from logged hours without wasting hours doing it? We used Procountor (a popular financial software in Finland) to send invoices. Every month, we had to manually gather hours from every person and project, check prices, and create invoices. It was time-consuming and prone to human errors.