How do you all track your billable hours? Want to move away from an excel sheet I manually update. Do you guys use software?

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I use bailing wire for bailing. I use excel for billable tracking.

We use Deltek T & E. Enter time per project, submit at end of the time period, flows to mgr for approval, submitted to payroll for processing, and bill sent to the client.

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