Many organizations have understood and appreciated project time software, timesheets, and time tracking benefits like increased productivity, more accurate billing, handy reports on the hours employees spend on tasks and so on.

However, when it comes to the choice of appropriate software, there are some doubts: desktop or web-hosted. While desktop software is quite costly, which may be the main concern for small businesses or start-ups, online project time tracking applications available for a small fee or even for free. What else online project time software provide as benefits, and are there any downsides.

Web-hosted timesheet software has a number of benefits compared to traditional desktop-based installed software:

• It allows users approach their timesheets from anywhere and input their data from any location, using a Web browser.
• Another great benefit when utilizing online timesheet software is getting updates and add-ons in the real time, i.e. as soon as they appear.
• Many online project time tracking software vendors provide 24 hours support.

However, there are certain downsides compared to desktop time tracking software:

• Most of online timesheet applications are limited in features they provide.
• They don’t offer the same level of customization.
• There is a risk of downtimes, which means that your operations are going to be at a halt for a certain period of time.

So, there are both, bright and dark sides. Business needs should be evaluated first to see, what kind or tome tracking software fits better in terms of cost and functionality.