VIDEO: BigTime Review – Top Features, Pros & Cons, and Alternatives

Finding the right project management software to keep your projects on time and on budget can be tough. Luckily, BigTime aims to do just that. Hey everyone, I’m Meredith, and in this video, we’re reviewing BigTime, a project management software with a focus on time tracking and budgeting. If you’re looking for more information about project management software, check out our website at project-management.com for our list of the best project management tools.

Click the link in the description below to learn more. BigTime is project management and billing software targeted at professional service firms such as engineering, legal, or IT services. The project management tools allow PMs to track time, expenses, project status, and task assignments. Resource management tools help keep teams on the same page and see how project plans fit together. BigTime includes billing and invoicing features with a variety of industry-standard billing scenarios to fit users’ (and their client’s) specific needs.

BigTime is priced per user per month, billed annually and offers 3 plans with increasing prices and features: Express, Pro, and Premier. The bulk of BigTime’s features start with the Pro plan with Premier adding items like resource allocation, revenue projections, and unlimited API access. While there is no free version of BigTime, there is a free trial available. BigTime is web-based and accessible via modern browsers, but is also available for download on both Mac and Windows.

BigTime also has a mobile app on both iOS and Android. BigTime comes with a number of features to help you manage Project management functions. BigTime features project management tools to keep projects running on time and on budget. Time tracking is customizable with multiple layers of security, ensuring that time sheets only show what users want to see to the right people. Expense tracking gives PMs insight to reimbursables, mileage, service fees, and more from a dashboard view.

Gannt charts and task assignments allow project managers to organize projects, set milestones, see how all tasks and resources fit together. Speaking of resources, BigTime features resource management tools to help get the right people assigned to the right projects. The Allocation WIzard syncs up resources with projects based on the budgeted hours of the project and the resources’ availability. BigTime includes a utilization dashboard where management level users can get a birds eye view of their teams utilization.

This dashboard reports where resources are currently assigned and for how long, allowing users to forecast utilization and plan ahead for bigger projects. Billing and invoicing with BigTime is highly customizable. Users can set bill rates on staff, project tasks, or work codes and can modify those bill rates with up to five different variables per staffer. BigTime wallet is an additional feature that allows clients to pay invoices online with whatever payment method they prefer.

Now that we know what BigTime is and what it does, let’s dig into some of its pros and cons. BigTime is often praised for its ease of use. The training BigTime offers is well received, with users citing the staff and support team as being especially helpful. And, the mobile timesheet app is convenient for tracking time on a granular level However, data import from previous systems can be cumbersome, with some users citing data not matching up after the import.

Also, integration with QuickBooks can prove difficult with some users complaining that the systems have a hard time syncing up. BigTime is a great option for many companies, but it’s always a good idea to look into other options. If you’re interested in BigTime, you might also want to consider monday.com, Accelo, Scoro, or Asana. That does it for today’s review on BigTime. For more information about project management software, tips, and tricks, visit our website at project-management.com.

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