Project Tracking
Once I had a project successfully created, I created another one with a shorter period of time, just for demonstration purposes. I then headed over to the projects tab, which had now been populated with my two demo projects.
From here, you get an overall view of all your projects, as well as a status bar that shows the percentage of your budgeted time on a specific project that has been completed. In this case, my project where I only budgeted a hour was at the 50% completion mark.
Clicking on an individual project title brings you into that projects own page, which consists of a breakdown of the amount of time spent, and who has done what if you have multiple users. Once again, some useful ajax allows you to chose a username and expand even more to see what they themselves had done.
The Timecard
But how exactly did it know who did what and how much time I spent doing something? That’s where the timecard comes in. From the timecard panel you can select a client, then a project, and finally a task that was listed for that project. You can then input the amount of time you spent on that task, as well as notes. Below the timecard is an overview of your time spent, as well as a place for you to review your notes you saved along with your timecard entries.
Reports
The final tab of Tick we have yet to visit is Reporting. The reporting page allows you to specify a date range, and then see how much time everyone of your users have spent on various projects during that time range. In our case, there wasn’t much to go on, so the reporting page was pretty bare. With enough time clocked into tick, the reporting page could become pretty useful. Just consider yourself the boss and all your users the staff.
Conclusion
Tick is an interesting new project. While today there are trackers galore in the web 2.0 app building world, tick allows you to track something different – budgets. While, at least at the moment I have no use for tick, it could become very useful, especially to those managing multiple projects and clients with many staff members. And by many staff – we mean it, because tick does not limit you to any amount of users.
Tick is due to launch early this fall. The project is the first of a new web 2.0 start-up company called Molehill. You can learn more about Tick from their site.
App Comparison: Now compare Tick to Harvest.
