The TIMENTRY Blog
Practical writing on automatic time tracking, billing accuracy and running a profitable professional-services practice.
Automatic Time Tracking for Healthcare Professionals
Healthcare professionals spend hours each week on telehealth calls, patient correspondence, and peer consultations that go unrecorded. Passive time capture logs it automatically from email, calendar, and video — no timers, no end-of-day reconstruction.
problemLegal Time Entry Descriptions: Examples and Best Practices
Vague time entry descriptions get invoices rejected. Here are 20 practical examples of strong legal time entries—plus the rules that keep them out of the e-billing rejection queue.
categoryAutomatic Time Tracking for Consulting Firms
Consulting work spreads across email, meetings, documents, and calls. Passive time capture connects to each platform, attributes activity to the right engagement, and drafts time entries for review — no manual reconstruction required.
guidesHow to Increase Billable Hours at Your Law Firm: 7 Practical Strategies
Most law firms bill only 60–70% of hours actually worked. Learn the 7 strategies—including automatic time capture—that recover lost billable hours without asking attorneys to work longer.
comparisonHarvest Alternative for Law Firms
Harvest is a strong general-purpose time tracker, but it lacks matter attribution and OCG compliance enforcement. Here is how passive capture compares for law firms that need legal-specific billing.
integrationsAutomatic Time Capture from Phone Calls: RingCentral and VoIP for Law Firms
Phone calls are among the most consistently under-recorded billable activities in professional services. A telephony cloud connector changes that.
categoryAutomatic Time Tracking for Accounting Firms
How accounting firms capture billable time automatically from Outlook, Teams, client calls and documents — without manual timers, end-of-day reconstruction or missed write-offs.
integrationsHow Microsoft Teams Meetings Are Captured Automatically in Timentry
Timentry's M365 connector captures Teams meetings automatically and drafts time entries with matter attribution — no timers, no end-of-day reconstruction.
problemBillable vs Non-Billable Hours for Law Firms
How law firms define, separate, and protect billable vs non-billable hours — and why the grey zone between them costs more than most practices realise.
categoryAutomatic Time Tracking for Architecture and Engineering Firms
How architecture and engineering firms capture billable time automatically from emails, meetings, calls and documents — without manual timers or end-of-day reconstruction.
ComparisonIntapp Time Alternative for Law Firms: Passive Capture Without Enterprise Overhead
Looking for an Intapp Time alternative? Timentry captures billable hours automatically from emails, meetings and calls—no timers, no consultants, no six-figure rollout.
IntegrationsAutomatic Time Capture from Google Workspace (Gmail, Calendar, Meet) for Professional-Services Firms
How to capture billable time from Google Workspace — Gmail, Google Calendar and Meet — without manual timers. For legal and accounting firms.
ProblemUtilisation Rate for Professional-Services Firms: The Formula and How to Improve It
What utilisation rate means for law and accounting firms, how to calculate it, and the practical levers — including capturing lost time — that move it.
IntegrationsAutomatic Time Capture from Zoom for Law Firms
How law firms and professional-services teams capture billable time from Zoom calls automatically — no timers, no end-of-day reconstruction, no guesswork on duration.
comparisonBillables AI Alternative for Law Firms: Passive Capture With Matter Attribution
Looking for a Billables AI alternative? See how Timentry compares — cloud-connector passive capture, deterministic matter attribution, and OCG compliance enforcement built in.
comparisonSmokeball AutoTime Alternative for Law Firms: Dedicated Passive Capture vs Suite Add-On
Smokeball AutoTime captures work done inside Smokeball, but law firm work happens across Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Zoom, and telephony too. See how a dedicated cloud-connector passive capture tool compares for firms that want full coverage.
comparisonPointOne Alternative for Law Firms: Automatic Compliance Without Enterprise Overhead
PointOne targets AmLaw firms with an enterprise price tag. See how Timentry compares for small and mid-size law firms that need passive capture and OCG compliance enforcement.
categoryAutomatic Time Tracking for Lawyers: How It Works
Automatic time tracking records billable work as it happens — no timers. How passive capture works for law firms, what to look for, and how it compares to manual timekeeping.
comparisoniTimeKeep Alternative for Law Firms: Passive Capture vs Active Mobile Entry
iTimeKeep is the standard for mobile legal time entry, but it relies on timekeepers actively logging their day. Here's what passive automatic capture adds — and where Timentry fits for legal and professional-services billing.
comparisonMemtime vs Timentry: Which Fits Law Firms?
Memtime captures time passively but lacks matter attribution and OCG compliance enforcement. See how Timentry compares for legal teams and professional-services firms.
free-wedgeHow to Calculate Billable Hours and Realization Rate (With the Formulas)
The formulas for billable hours, utilisation, and realisation rate — worked examples for law and professional-services firms, and how automatic capture keeps the inputs honest.
comparisonToggl and Clockify Alternative for Law Firms: When a Generic Tracker Isn't Enough
Toggl and Clockify are strong general-purpose time trackers, but they weren't built for matter-based legal billing. Here's what changes when your work runs on matter numbers and OCG compliance — and where Timentry fits.
educationOutside-Counsel Guidelines and E-Billing Rejections: Why Invoices Bounce and How to Prevent Them
The most common reasons legal invoices get rejected by e-billing portals — block billing, prohibited task codes, increment breaches — and how to catch them at the desk before the invoice goes out.
integrationsAutomatic Time Capture from Microsoft 365 and Outlook for Professional-Services Firms
How to capture billable time automatically from Microsoft 365 — Outlook email, Teams meetings, and calendar — without manual timers, and why cloud-connector capture beats desktop-activity logging for legal and accounting billing.
ComparisonLaurel Alternatives: Automatic Time Tracking for Small and Mid-Size Professional Services Firms
Laurel targets enterprise BigLaw. Here are the best alternatives for smaller legal, accounting, and professional services practices that need passive capture without enterprise overhead.
comparisonTimely vs Timentry: Which Fits Law Firms?
Timely tracks your day automatically but wasn't built for matter-based billing. See how the two tools compare for legal and professional-services firms that need matter attribution and OCG compliance enforcement.
comparisonLaurel Alternatives for Small and Mid-Size Law Firms
Laurel targets BigLaw and Big Four firms. We compare the best automatic AI timekeeping alternatives for small and mid-size legal and professional-services firms.
educationWhy Law Firms Lose Billable Hours — and How to Recover Them
Law firms lose billable hours to memory-based timesheets, unattributed work and write-downs. See the four leaks and how automatic AI time capture recovers them.