You track time in Kimai. But your time data doesn’t stop there. It flows into invoices, payroll, reports, and the insights that help your team get productive. Think of Kimai as the central hub of your business data. It listens to the tools you already use: your project management systems, your accounting software, your team communication platforms (and it speaks their language).

What happens when time tracking is truly integrated?

• For your accounting team: Time entries become invoice line items automatically. No more extracting spreadsheets and manual entry. No more “did we bill for that?” conversations.
• For payroll: Billable vs. non-billable hours are already separated. Tracked data flows directly to your HR system. Overtimes already calculated.
• For project managers: Real time data on where projects stand (budget burn, resource allocation, actual vs. estimated hours) all live and accurate.
• For your team: They log time where they already work. If it sounds positive enough, look at four real examples of how to make your time data work harder.

4 Popular Integrations Your Team Is Looking For

We’ve been tracking what teams are actually searching for when they look for time tracking tools. And there’s a clear pattern: they’re looking for Kimai to play nicely with the systems they already depend on. These integrations pop up again and again.

1. Kimai + Bexio (Hey Swiss teams!)

If you’re running a business in Switzerland, Bexio is probably how you handle invoicing, accounting, and project management. And Klockshift helps you automatically transform your Kimai time entries into ready-to-send Bexio invoices — no copy-pasting, no manual data entry. What teams search for: “time tracking app with Bexio integration” “automatic invoice generation from tracked hours” “Bexio project time billing” “Swiss accounting + time tracking”

2. Kimai + Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams isn’t just how you message your colleagues. It’s where your team collaborates, where deadlines get discussed, The Microsoft Teams Plugin enhances Kimai by synchronizing your customer and project structure directly into Teams. Whenever you create customers or projects in Kimai, the plugin can generate matching teams and channels — ensuring consistent organization across both systems. Designed for companies relying on Teams as their primary collaboration hub, this plugin streamlines document management, improves team alignment, and reduces manual setup time. What teams search for: “Microsoft Teams time tracking integration” “time tracking without leaving Teams” “Teams billable hours reporting” “employee time tracking in Teams”

3. Kimai + Lexoffice

Lexoffice is the go-to accounting platform for German and Austrian businesses. It’s intuitive, it handles invoicing, and teams love it. But teams also love not manually transferring time data from their tracker into their invoices. Lexoffice plugin allows you to automatically create invoices in Lexoffice. By using the Lexoffice API (API key is needed) this plugin can create invoice drafts and finalized invoices in Lexoffice, based on your settings. Furthermore, this plugin allows you to customize the title and description of the items in the Lexoffice-invoice. What teams search for: “time tracking app with Lexoffice integration” “Lexoffice project time billing” “German accounting + time tracking” “automatic invoice from tracked hours Germany”

4. Kimai + VS Code (We do understand developers)

Here’s the integration that surprised us. Developers were searching for something specific: a way to track billable hours without leaving their IDE. They wanted time tracking that wasn’t surveillance. Not screenshots. Not keystroke logging. Just… accurate capture of what they’re working on.

The Visual Studio Code extension integrates with your Kimai time-tracking system, letting you start, stop, and monitor timers without leaving your editor.

What teams and independent professionals search for:

• time tracking for developers without surveillance
• VS Code time tracking
• billable hours tracking software developers
• developer time tracking IDE integration

Choosing the Right Integration for Your Business

Not every integration is right for every team. But the principle is the same: if you use a system to run your business, Kimai should connect to it.

Running a Swiss business? Bexio + Kimai is non-negotiable.

Fully invested in Microsoft 365? The Teams integration means time tracking becomes part of your daily workflow.

German or Austrian SME? Lexoffice + Kimai eliminates hours of admin work every month.

Development shop with billable clients? VS Code integration is the only time tracker that actually respects how developers work.

The companies getting the most value out of time tracking aren’t the ones using the most features. They’re the ones where time data flows seamlessly through the systems they already depend on. Where logging hours takes seconds, not minutes. Where invoicing is automatic, not manual.

What’s Next?

If you’re evaluating time tracking for your team, ask yourself: Does this tool connect to the systems I already use? If the answer is “sort of” or “with manual work,” keep looking.

Kimai’s integration ecosystem is built around one idea: your time data belongs everywhere it needs to go, automatically, securely, and with zero friction.

Whether you’re in Zurich invoicing through Bexio, managing a distributed team in Teams, running a Lexoffice shop in Berlin, or leading developers in VS Code, there’s a Kimai integration that makes time tracking disappear into your workflow.

And when time tracking disappears, your team’s productivity becomes visible.

Ready to make your time data work hard? Take these steps:

• Explore more Kimai integrations
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