Time tracking for the academic sector

Managing time in higher education brings unique challenges, including lecture and class scheduling, research project tracking, student and faculty time allocation, and time consuming administrative tasks. Effective time tracking solutions can help streamline these processes, allowing educators and researchers to focus on their core responsibilities.

Features for institution-wide time management

Our time tracking solution has been refined through collaboration with multiple universities. Real user feedback drives our development, ensuring features that truly serve academic needs.

Just to name a few of the academic institutes using Kimai: Universität Hamburg, Universität Bonn, Universität Wien, Universität Stuttgart, Universität Frankfurt, University of Fribourg, TU Dresden and the University of Moscow.

Features

Time-clock

Don’t want your users to log arbitrary timesheet records? Switch to the time-clock mode, which only allows “punch in” and “punch out” records.

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Teams

Teams connects users into logical groups, like departments. Limit access to data by assigning customers and projects to your teams.

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Reports and analyses

Analysis of recorded times by users, customers, projects, activities, tags, time periods and more.

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Export data

Timesheet data can be exported and shared with in XLSX, PDF, CSV and HTML format. Exported records can be locked and protected against further changes.

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What our customers say

At Kimai, we've designed our time tracking platform to meet the needs of agencies, teams, and freelancers. Our intuitive interface and powerful features help agencies like yours work smarter and more profitably. You can now “listen” to the reviews of the real users.

We started using self-hosted Kimai - and it works perfectly! We especially like integration with Google Workspace, which is very convenient.

Karol Antczak
CTO

We use Kimai at allroundDigital and are delighted with it. It’s really reliable, works without a lot of explanation and does everything I’d want it to do without being overloaded. Wonderful tool – would definitely recommend.

Niklas Schrötler
Niklas Schrötler
Owner & CEO

Kimai is an excellent time-tracking software that offers great flexibility and a lightweight, intuitive interface. It’s easy to use and has been a valuable tool for tracking work hours across our projects. We especially appreciate the variety of plug-ins available, which allow us to extend the software’s capabilities. Highly recommended for firms looking for a robust yet user-friendly solution.

Alexander Kostadinov
Architect / BIM Specialist

I was testing Kimai several years ago and then I decided to move to different time tracking tools and the last time I was mostly working with Clockify and now I found Kimai back and I’m very impressed how the software is working, How fast it is. And I also really like a lot the approach to host the software on my own so that we keep our confidential data in our own systems. The software is easy to use, it’s fast, and I get all the features that I need, and the possibility to discuss on GitHub also helps a lot to find fast solutions. Thank you very much for your very good work and let’s work together for the future.

Niels Przybilla
Niels Przybilla
CEO

When I started to identify a time reporting software for our medium size enterprise (~30 people distributed all over United States and Canada) in the software service industry for onsite and remote services, I had several programs in my mind. In my specification I had the following things to be covered

  • Customer related time reporting
  • Project related time reporting
  • Time approval
  • Various hierarchies in user and access levels
  • Open data interface for potential interfaces to other software packages (such as various payroll software packages for Canada and US, ERP for invoicing)
  • Time budget for hourly packages
  • Time reporting to customers with time budget
  • The data is mine and I always want to have access to it
  • I would like to create plugins if I need to add features that do not yet exist

I continued my search but always came back to Kevin Papst’s time reporting software Kimai. So I installed it on a shared host. I continued to set up a few users and imported a few customers, projects and finally understood how activities are to be set up (global and local). This is a feature that surprised me even more. Well implemented! I finally rolled it out to a small group and then the entire team. The time reporting is now fully implemented within 2 months from first idea to fully operational.

Then the demands grow with the possibilities: I purchased a few plugins and these were installed as simple as the main software. Then, when I had even more requests that I didn’t find an answer by plugins, I reached out to the developer Kevin asking for help with changing a report and he simply answered to consider this for the entire software, not just a module for me. It may be within some of the next releases.

In summary, Kimai is a flexible time reporting package with active code, modern, responsive and fast user interface and a fast responding support.

Thanks, Kevin, for this nice software package!

Frank
Frank
Service

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We understand that implementing a new time-tracking system in an academic setting requires careful consideration. That’s why we offer a free trial period and demo sessions. Try Kimai for free now and have a more organized day!

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