Fishbowl Time · time tracking built into your operation
Every hour on the right job. Every job's real cost, the day you build it.
Your team clocks in from any phone, tablet or laptop. The hours land on the work order beside the material it used, overtime and breaks calculate themselves, and approved timecards go straight to payroll. No spreadsheet between the floor and what the job actually cost.
Why time tracking belongs in the system that runs the job
Labor lands on the work order
Standalone time apps stop at hours by project. Fishbowl Time posts the hours to the same work order that consumed the material, so unit cost and margin are real without an export and a spreadsheet.
One system, one login, one vendor
The operator clocking onto a job is the same user picking, building and finishing it in Fishbowl. No employee list, job list or cost center to keep in sync between two apps.
Scheduled against the plan, not just the shift
Assign people and work orders to hours, then compare scheduled to actual labor per job. Capacity meets the production plan in one place.
Clock in anywhere, from any device, at any time
Any Wi-Fi device becomes the punch clock: a phone, a laptop, or a shared tablet at the door running the Fishbowl Time Terminal. Scan a barcode or enter a PIN, clock in, start a break, switch projects mid-shift.
On the floor
What the operator touches: the punch and the job.
- Time clock
- Clock in and out, breaks and lunches, project switches, from any device or the shared tablet terminal. GPS location tagging and approved clock-in locations.
- Project and work-order tracking
- Track time to the project or work order, even when someone moves between jobs during the day, for project-specific costing.
In the office
What the manager sees before payroll runs.
- Overtime, automatic
- Daily or weekly overtime tracked for every employee across the pay period. No end-of-week math.
- Timecards and approvals
- Managers approve timecards and fix the forgotten punch. Notes on the shift travel with the entry.
- Scheduling and departments
- Assign employees and work orders to specific hours. Organize people and managers into departments for a clean reporting line.
To payroll
What leaves Fishbowl Time, and where it goes.
- PTO and payroll export
- Submit and approve time off, see balances, then export timecards, payroll and PTO totals to QuickBooks Online or Excel with one click.
Clock in at the door. Know what the job cost before the shift is over.
Maria runs Line 2. Her day is punches and jobs; she never sees a timesheet.
Dan runs production. His day is who is on which job, and Friday's payroll.
Clocks in at the door tablet
A PIN on the Fishbowl Time Terminal. The punch is tagged at the shop, an approved location.
Starts WO-2291
Her hours start landing on the work order, beside the material it already drew from stock.
Checks who is on which job
Scheduled against actual labor per work order, live, without asking anyone for a timesheet.
Breaks for lunch
The break comes off by the rule, not from memory on Friday.
Switches to WO-2304
WO-2291 took 4.9 hours this morning. The afternoon starts its own labor line on the next job.
Fixes a forgotten punch
Edits yesterday's timecard. The note travels with the entry to approval.
Clocks out after 8.5 hours
The half hour past eight is overtime by the daily rule. Nothing to calculate.
Approves the line's timecards
Twelve timecards, two with notes, approved from one screen.
WO-2291 cost $18.74 a unit, labor included. Known the day it was built.
Friday's timecards, payroll totals and PTO export to QuickBooks Online in one click.
Why Fishbowl Time beats a standalone time clock app
Most time apps stop at the timesheet. Here is what changes when time tracking lives inside the system that already runs your work orders.
A standalone time clock app
- What it does well
- Clocks people in and out, and exports a timesheet.
- Where it leaves you
- A second employee list and job list to maintain, another vendor, login and bill, and hours that stop at the timesheet.
The export and the spreadsheet
- What it does well
- Gets the hours into job cost, eventually.
- Where it leaves you
- Someone re-keys labor into job cost, and margin is known when accounting finishes the month.
Fishbowl Time
- What it does well
- The hours land on the work order beside the material it consumed, for the same users and work orders you already run, from any Wi-Fi device.
- Where it leaves you
- Labor plus material is what the job really cost, the day you build it, and payroll exports with labor already posted to costing and your books. One support team.
Simple pricing
$10 a month base, plus $2 per user (five-user minimum). Volume pricing from 21 users: $1.25 per user to 50, $0.99 to 100, $0.79 beyond. Works with Fishbowl Advanced Manufacturing and Advanced Warehouse.
$20a month for 5 users
$10 base + 5 × $2.00
- Up to 20 users$2.00 a user
- 21 to 50$1.25 a user
- 51 to 100$0.99 a user
- Over 100$0.79 a user
Five-user minimum. Works with Fishbowl Advanced Manufacturing and Advanced Warehouse.
Questions, answered
Does Fishbowl Time work with my payroll?
Timecards, payroll totals and PTO export to QuickBooks Online and to Excel for any other payroll provider.
Do I need a time clock device?
No. Any phone, laptop or tablet with Wi-Fi works. Most shops mount a tablet by the door running the Fishbowl Time Terminal app for barcode or PIN clock-ins.
Can employees clock in from home?
Only if you allow it. Approved clock-in locations and GPS tagging show where every punch happened.
Know what a job cost in labor, the day you build it.
30 minutes, your operation, no commitment.