How does Sage Coretime timesheet software benefit the Marketing Sector / Creative Industries?

Sage Coretime time tracking software for advertising agencies, PR agencies and design agencies has proven to be a financial success, by providing an invaluable management tool with many benefits for the marketing sector /creative sector.

With many marketing agencies / creative agencies as customers, Sage Coretime is a proven solution to help you with:

• Budget controls
• Fixed–fee contract controls
• Forecasting
• Reporting
• Automatic time & material billing
• Identify under– and over–serviced clients

As a result you will benefit from:

• Savings on administrative burden and cost
• More control over timesheets
• Instant overview of your staff–time spent and client–time usages
• Easier administration faster billing outputs using automated invoicing
• Improved productivity ensures all your staff–time is used efficiently and they are fully employed
• Better recovery–rate, improve your efficiency and time usage
• Fewer errors – improvements in control, catch those unbilled hours
• Higher profit margin, keep track of your projects through efficient timesheet control
• Better project and budget control

Staying on budget

With client–fees under constant pressure and fewer but demanding clients, it has never been harder to maintain margins.

Keeping costs under control on a fixed fee contract is vital

Breaking projects down by work stage, Sage Coretime allows you to see quickly and easily how your team is performing, combined with the excellent reporting tools and the new dashboard you can see quickly if one stage has overrun. You then have the chance to change your budgets or resources going forward to recover the over–run costs.

Most clients have their timesheets completed daily, directly into Sage Coretime. This means that they can have a real–time overview of what the time, expense and purchase invoice costs are on their projects at any point in time.

Find out how Sage Coretime time recording software is helping Automotive PR Agency.

Forecasting and quoting for the future

A key requirement for keeping a business on track when times are tough is accurate forecasting of future work and project outcomes and the ability to model ‘what if?’ scenarios. The need to quote accurately for future projects can put great strain on your information systems.

Sage Coretime assists you in forecasting quickly and easily – allowing you to obtain the most accurate picture of the coming months’ outcomes. Duplicating and copying projects, allows quotations to be raised quickly.

With access to such detailed reports, you are better placed to schedule resources and plan new projects or business activities, to ensure the success of your business.

Administration

Sage Coretime can facilitate great time–savings of administration or management staff and this enables practices to focus on fee–earning staff when times get tough and minimise admin staff costs.

This can help you make sure that staff are generating revenue, also when the business recovery appears, so a practice can ensure that it is in a position to capitalise on any opportunities that arise.

Coretime provides speed and continuity of information and reporting with the option to reduce administrative overheads and retain your important fee–earning staff.

Removing manual processes in connection with timesheets, expenses, project management, billing and forecasting can save admin costs and also allow staff changes and management of those changes to be much smoother.

Automated material, time billing and integration to the accounts packages, can improve accuracy and save more time.

Sage Coretime can pay for itself in savings on administration costs alone.

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Do You Have Any Questions?

For more information on this job costing software / time and billing software, please download the Sage Coretime Brochure (pdf). Alternatively, for an online or face-to-face demo / intro, or a Coretime support / Coretime training quote, please contact our consultants on 0845 026 2255 or email us.