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Time Tracking Software for Remote Teams

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What Is Time Tracking Software for Remote Teams?

Time tracking software for remote teams is a digital tool serving as a bridge between being “logged on” and “work done.” It keeps accurate time records for users, lets you analyze hours spent on tasks, and helps with precise client billing. Distributed team management is almost impossible without remote work monitoring via time-tracking software like Flowlu!
Flowlu - What Is Time Tracking Software for Remote Teams?

Key Features of Quality Time Tracking Tools

The best time tracking tools for remote teams have features that actually help your workflow, rather than interrupting it with unnecessary clicks. The Flowlu team truly believes that software should reduce tension during your workdays, not add to it.

Work Activity Monitoring

Flowlu lets your staff hit “start” on a task and get to work. This real-time recording makes hour tracking accurate because it captures the exact moment work happens. Hit stop, and a time entry appears where you can add a description for more context.
Flowlu - Work Activity Monitoring

Billable Time & Hourly Rates

Flowlu stands out among the best time tracking tools for remote teams because it links time straight to money. You can set hourly rates for each user, create tasks, and project expenses will be calculated based on time spent. Billable hours can be tracked just as easily, converted to invoices with a click, and sent to your clients.
Flowlu - Billable Time & Hourly Rates

Team Dashboards

When you can’t see your team, you need more visible data. Flowlu’s widgets and reports provide instant team visibility, showing who is working on what, who is overloaded, and where idle time is accumulating. After all, good time tracking software for remote teams helps with workload management.
Flowlu - Team Dashboards

Automated Timesheet Generation

Nobody likes filling out spreadsheets on a Friday afternoon. Flowlu handles timesheet automation by pulling every timer entry into a clean, approval-ready format. This allows you to view time spent with custom filters, so there is no more chasing people down. The data is accurate and ready for export, streamlining billing and payroll and making Flowlu easily one of the best time-tracking tools for remote teams.
Flowlu - Automated Timesheet Generation

Productivity Analytics

Our productivity analytics give you the power to compare planned work hours against actual logs. Just estimate the time for tasks and see a clear breakdown of what you thought vs. what it takes to do the job. With a report like Estimated vs. Spent Time, you can spot efficiency leaks instantly in a table view and via a colored graph.
Flowlu - Productivity Analytics

Workload Management

For hands-on workload management, check the Workload report to instantly see the distribution of tasks across your remote team. Understand who’s overloaded with handy colored markers and exact task counts, then redistribute the load. This is productivity monitoring for remote workers done right, as it’s focused on output, not micromanagement.
Flowlu - Workload Management

Time Off & Leave Management

You can’t plan a deadline if you don't know who is available to work and who’s on a long-awaited vacation. Flowlu integrates attendance tracking directly into the portal, so you can add and monitor leaves, absences, and business trips in a colored chart for instant visibility and efficient distributed team management.
Flowlu - Time Off & Leave Management

Unified All-In-One Ecosystem

Stop paying for a separate CRM, PM, invoicing tool, and remote employee time tracking app, and consolidate your tech stack with Flowlu. Time tracking comes in native and talks perfectly to your sales and project tasks, calendar events, invoices, and expenses, all without costing you more. Forget about extra third-party subscriptions and fragile integrations that break when you need them most.
Flowlu - Unified All-In-One Ecosystem

How to Choose the Right Tracking Tool

The proper tracking tool must not be invasive. Instead, choose software that delivers the data required while allowing staff to log work hours without feeling micromanaged.
  • Define Your Tracking Requirements
    Begin by thinking about what you really need to track. Is it simply attendance and time spent on tasks, or do you want to use logged time to bill your clients for project work? If you decide on time tracking software for remote teams that supports all your business processes, a standalone timer won’t do you any good. List your non-negotiables first!
  • Prioritize Team Autonomy
    Trust is fragile. Flowlu proves you don’t need to be invasive; rather, you should focus on collecting performance metrics in a reliable and predictable way. A team member clicks a timer once they start, pauses when necessary, then clicks to stop. The admin sees all time entries in a table with custom filters.
  • Evaluate Work Features
    Your time tracking needs to play well with and benefit your other business areas. The best time tracking tools for remote teams provide more features than simply capturing minutes and hours. With Flowlu, you can track time spent on tasks within a project and convert it into an invoice for billing your clients.
Flowlu - How to Choose the Right Tracking Tool

Implementation Best Practices

Setup & Configuration Guide

Get your workflow right from day one. Configure your workspace settings, define custom user roles, and invite employees to the portal. If you want to manage billing and payroll based on time spent, set billable hourly rates and pay rates for individual users.
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Team Training & Adoption Strategy

Show, don’t just tell. Explain that this is a remote employee time tracking app designed to protect their time, not spy on them. Show them how to use Flowlu for work-from-home or on-the-go tracking and how accurate logs ensure they get credit for every minute of performance.
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Monitoring Performance

Use the data to make decisions. Dig into Spent Time Weekly and Estimated/Spent Time reports regularly to understand how you can reduce the idle time of your remote employees. Check the Workload report to manage all ongoing tasks by easily spotting who has too much on their plate and who does not.
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Danijel Bićanic
Danijel Bićanic
Sales Trainer, Owner of Bićanić Consulting
"We chose Flowlu because it centralizes our operations, sales, and project management in a single platform. It gives us a clear overview of events, deadlines, and tasks at a glance, so everything is clearly organized in one place."
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workspace for the entire team
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less internal back-and-forth
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faster project delivery
30%
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Frequently Asked Questions
You will find the answers in the knowledge base or write to us in the online chat.

Without time tracking software for remote teams, you lose sight of actual team performance. It also provides the structure required for distributed team management while ensuring fair payroll management and accurate client billing.

Forgetfulness and resistance. Flowlu solves this with an easy-to-use app that allows manual editing of time entries. We also avoid the morale issues associated with screenshots, focusing on trust instead.

Yes. Flowlu serves as a portable app (iOS & Android), allowing staff to log work hours from anywhere.

No. We provide productivity monitoring through task and event timers, which is more effective than screenshots for professional teams.

By using time-tracking software, you identify bottlenecks. Our features highlight where processes get stuck, allowing you to fix workflows and improve efficiency.

Absolutely. Flowlu allows you to track expenses and labor costs in real time

Not at all. We offer onboarding support to get your app running in minutes.

They combine time tracking with project and finance management. Flowlu integrates task dependencies, Gantt charts, and invoicing in one place.

Yes. From CRM pipelines to recurring tasks and invoices, Flowlu saves you time.

Yes. Flowlu scales from small startups to large enterprises needing advanced permissions and department management.

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