How does Sage Coretime timesheet software benefit consulting engineers?

Sage Coretime time tracking software for consulting engineers has proven to be a huge success, by showing to be an invaluable management tool with specific benefits for the engineering services sector.

With many engineering practices as customers, Sage Coretime is a proven solution helping with:

• Better project and budget control
• Fixed fee contract control
• Forecasting
• Detailed reporting
• Automatic time and material billing

Staying on budget

With fees under constant pressure and fewer but very demanding clients, it has never been harder to deliver profitable and successful projects.

Fixed fee contract control

Keeping costs under control on a fixed fee contract is vital. Breaking your projects down by work stage, Sage Coretime allows you to see straightaway how a project is performing. Combined with this powerful reporting tools and the new dashboard you can see quickly if one stage has overrun. You then have the opportunity to change your budget or resources going forward to recover these overrun costs.

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

This approach is very effective when seeking to reclaim variations. Even reclaiming smaller variations can help the bottom line – things that would have been ‘hidden’ in a more profitable or larger project.

Find out how Sage Coretime time recording software is helping GWP Engineering Consultants (Geotechnics).

Forecasting and quoting for the future

One of the key requirements for keeping a business on track when times are hard is accurate forecasting of future work and project outcomes and the ability to model ‘what if?’ scenarios. Also the need to quote accurately for future projects – getting the pencil very sharp!

Sage Coretime can assist in forecasting quickly and easily – allowing you to get the best possible picture of the coming months’ outcomes. Copying and duplicating projects, allows quotations to be raised quickly.

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

Administration

Sage Coretime can make 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 ensures staff are generating revenue, also when the business recovery appears, a practice can make sure they are 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.

Reducing manual processes in relation to 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 time and material billing and integration to the accounts packages, can improve accuracy and save time.

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

See how Sage Coretime is helping RG Parkins Engineering Consultants. (pdf download)

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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.