Working time planning & tracking software

Working Time Planning & Tracking Software

You Know What Your Teams Are Working On. Do You Know Where Their Time Actually Goes?

Every manager has an assumption about how their team’s time is split — and it’s almost always wrong. PlanPro tracks planned vs. actual working time by employee, project, department, and process — so resourcing decisions are based on evidence, not estimates. 

You Know What Your Teams Are Working On. Do You Know Where Their Time Actually Goes?

Every manager has an assumption about how their team’s time is split — and it’s almost always wrong. PlanPro tracks planned vs. actual working time by employee, project, department, and process — so resourcing decisions are based on evidence, not estimates. 

You Know What Your Teams Are Working On. Do You Know Where Their Time Actually Goes?

Every manager has an assumption about how their team’s time is split — and it’s almost always wrong. PlanPro tracks planned vs. actual working time by employee, project, department, and process — so resourcing decisions are based on evidence, not estimates. 

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Project Allocation
Infrastructure Modernization
Procurement Team
Vendor Selection Phase
Logged Task (M. Tamm)
Contractual Review
6.5h Logged

How it works

Plan Time. Track Time. See the Difference.

Knowing how many hours were logged is only the starting point.

PlanPro combines working time planning and tracking with the tasks, projects, and processes your teams are already managing. This gives managers a clearer picture of how organizational capacity is actually being used.

Plan & log
Get visibility
Make better decisions

How it works

Plan Time. Track Time. See the Difference.

Knowing how many hours were logged is only the starting point.

PlanPro combines working time planning and tracking with the tasks, projects, and processes your teams are already managing. This gives managers a clearer picture of how organizational capacity is actually being used.

Plan & Log

Plan working time and record actual effort where the work happens.

Get Visibility

See time across employees, teams, projects, and processes.

Make Better Decisions

Use actual data to improve workload, resource planning, and future estimates.

No separate time-tracking tool. No duplicate data entry.

Plan Time. Track Time. See the Difference.

Knowing how many hours were logged is only the starting point.

PlanPro combines working time planning and tracking with the tasks, projects, and processes your teams are already managing. This gives managers a clearer picture of how organizational capacity is actually being used.

Contextual Visibility

A department head shouldn't just see "Team A logged 600 hours this month." They should see "Team A spent 400 hours on strategic projects, 150 on routine operations, and 50 on unplanned incident response — which is 25% more operational time than planned."

The Management Difference

PlanPro's time tracking is built into the same system where projects are managed, strategies are tracked, budgets are planned, and performance is reviewed. The time data inherits all that context automatically, transforming an administrative exercise into a management tool.

Capacity Tracking
Strategic Projects
150h / 200h
Operational
130h / 100h
Development
20h
Actual
Over Cap
Planned

Plan Time. Track Time. See the Difference.

PlanPro makes planned vs. actual time visible across the entire organization. Employees log time against the tasks and projects they’re already working on in the system. Managers see where their team hours go — by project, by process, by strategic priority. Leadership gets the evidence they need to make resourcing decisions that are grounded in reality, not intuition. 

Time Is the Resource Behind Every Other Decision

Understand where the capacity goes and how it supports the work that matters most.

Strategic priorities

See how much time goes to strategic initiatives.

Project delivery

Understand the effort behind project delivery

Budget planning

Use actual effort as input for resource and budget decisions.

Risks & incidents

Understand how unexpected work affects available capacity.

Employee apparisals

Add workload and priorities as context to performance reviews.

One source. Many decisions.

Because PlanPro connects working time with strategy, projects, budgets, risks and people, you get the context you need to make confident decisions.

Are your teams spending their hours on the strategic priorities the board approved, or is operational firefighting consuming the capacity that was earmarked for transformation? PlanPro shows time logged against strategic goals — not just projects.
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When a project runs over schedule, is it because the scope changed or because the team didn't have enough hours allocated? PlanPro tracks planned vs. actual time at the project and task level, so project overruns have an explanation — not just a missed deadline to miss.
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Next year's budget shouldn't be this year's budget plus 5%. PlanPro connects time data to budget planning, so cost projections reflect actual resource consumption — not assumptions from last year's spreadsheet.
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When a critical incident consumes 200 hours of team capacity in a month, that capacity was taken from somewhere. PlanPro connects time tracking to risk and incident management, so leadership sees the operational cost of reactive work.
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Time data gives managers objective evidence for performance conversations. How an employee allocates their time across strategic vs. routine work, planned vs. unplanned activities — this is context that enriches reviews beyond task completion checkboxes.
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Time tracking and logging views

See time from every angle

Individual time entries become much more useful when they can be viewed in the context of teams, projects, activities, and organizational priorities.

PlanPro provides different views for both employees and managers.

Planning & Logging

Plan and Log Working Time

Time tracking starts with having the right structure. PlanPro lets you plan time at the task level and compare it against actual hours logged with the flexibility your organization needs.

Plan Time per Task or Project Estimate the time required for any activity. Set expectations before work begins so actual time has a benchmark to compare against.
Log Actual Time Directly Employees record hours against tasks that already exist. No separate tools, extra spreadsheets, or additional administrative steps.
Compare Planned vs. Actual Identify the gap between estimates and reality at the task, project, department, and organizational level.
Flexible Time Units Track time in minutes, hours, days or FTEs. Use the units best match your organization's internal requirements.
Visibility & Views

See Time from Every Angle

Raw time logs are data. Useful time tracking gives you professional views that turn that data into organizational decisions.

Calendar View Visualize distribution across days, weeks, months, or years. Understand how time is spread across different activities in a visual format.
Schedule View See planned time blocks across teams. Identify scheduling conflicts, capacity gaps, and overallocation before they become problems.
Department and Team Aggregation Compare strategic project time vs. routine processes for entire departments to see if the capacity matches demand.
Process-Level Reporting Group time by business process (Quality, Reporting, Coordination) to ask whether the allocation matches your true priorities.
Resourcing Decisions

Make Resourcing Decisions Based on Evidence

The real value of time tracking isn't knowing how many hours were logged. It's using that data to decide where people's time should go next.

Identify Misallocated Capacity Visible data shows when routine operations consume 85% of capacity while strategic initiatives are under-resourced.
Justify Headcount and Restructuring Turn "we need more people" into evidence-based requests: "Our team spent 4,200 hours on process X, which is 40% more than planned."
Support Budget Planning Directly inform next year's budget. If an activity consumed 30% more hours than planned, the budget should reflect that in the same system.
Inform Performance Reviews Connect time data to appraisals. Managers have objective context on where an employee spent their effort alongside qualitative assessments.

REAL IMPACT

From tracking hours to measurable results

Working time data helps organizations understand workload, plan resources, and make better decisions.

less time spent on manual reporting and spreadsheets
50 %
years of experience
12 +
countries using PlanPro
10 +
Institutions across Europe trust PlanPro
150 +

Success story

Estonian Courts

Real working time data becomes especially valuable when an organization needs to understand how much effort different activities actually require.

The Estonian courts have used PlanPro to measure the time judges and legal advisers spend on different types of proceedings. The resulting data provides a stronger basis for analysing workloads and reviewing how work is planned.

Elo Kirsipuu
Elo KirsipuuAnalyst at Pärnu County Court
"The goal was not simply to count time. The goal was to create a better basis for reviewing and, if necessary, updating workload methodologies. Court experience shows that well-conducted time measurement helps to make visible work that was previously assessed based on perception rather than data."
Kersti Põierpaas
Kersti PõierpaasHead of the Human Resources Department of the Environmental Board
"Each of us has an impression of how and how much he and his colleague work. However, in order to understand how things really are, there is no other way than to measure it. If you have thought about what you want to know about your employees in your organization and what you will do with the results later, the PlanPro software solution and people are a great choice for working time mapping - simple and secure."
Maarika Kõrm
Maarika KõrmEnvironmental investment Centre, Finance and Administration Manager
"Time tracking used to involve around 50 different Excel files on a monthly basis, but now we use one tool for that. We used to conduct performance reviews using Word tables, but now we do it in PlanPro software."

Built for organizations that manage work and capacity

PlanPro is designed for organizations that need working time data not only for recording hours, but also for workload and resource planning.

More than time tracking

Built into your full management system

Working time becomes more valuable when it can be viewed alongside the rest of your management information.

Strategy execution

Connect goals, activities and indicators with real execution.

Task & project management

Plan, execute and report projects end-to-end.

Risk management

Identify, assess, and manage risks with clear accountability

Performance reviews & appraisals

Run appraisals, feedback, and surveys in one flexible solution.

Budget planning

Build, manage, and monitor budgets by tasks, activities and projects.

Reporting & dashboards

Real-time dashboards and reports for every audience.

See Where Your Organization's Time Actually Goes

Turn working time data into a clearer picture of workload, capacity, and organizational priorities.

Time Tracking Built for Your Sector

Frequently asked questions

What kind of time tracking does PlanPro provide?

PlanPro supports both working time planning and actual time tracking. Employees can record time against tasks and activities, while managers can analyse working time across projects, teams, departments, and processes. Depending on your organization’s planning model, time can be managed in minutes, hours, days, FTEs, or FTE percentages..

Is PlanPro employee time tracking or project time tracking?

Both. PlanPro tracks time at the individual employee level and aggregates it upward to projects, departments, and processes. An employee logs time against a specific task. That time rolls up to the project the task belongs to, the department the employee sits in, and the business process the task is part of. One entry, multiple views.

How does planned vs. actual comparison work?

When creating a task or project, you set the planned time — how many hours or FTEs you expect the work to require. As employees log in actual time, PlanPro compares the two automatically. You see the variance at every level: task, project, department, organization. This is the data that tells you whether estimates were realistic and whether resources were allocated correctly.

Can we track time by business process, not just by project?

Yes. PlanPro supports process-level time tracking, meaning you can see how much organizational time goes to recurring functions like procurement, reporting, quality management, HR administration, or strategic planning. This is particularly valuable for public sector organizations and enterprises that need to understand capacity allocation across functions, not just across projects.

How is PlanPro different from standalone time-tracking tools?

PlanPro is designed as a broader management platform rather than only a time tracker. Working time is managed alongside tasks, projects, processes, strategic objectives, and other management information. This gives managers more context for understanding not only how much time was spent, but also what that time was used for.

Can working time data support budget planning?

Yes. Actual working time provides useful information about the resources required by projects and activities.Because budgeting and working time management can be handled within the PlanPro environment, organizations can use actual effort as one input when reviewing future resource and budget requirements.

Is PlanPro suitable for public sector time tracking?

Yes. PlanPro is used in public sector organizations to support transparent and structured time tracking. The platform handles the specific time-tracking needs that government institutions face — tracking staff hours across EU-funded programs, understanding how department capacity splits between policy work and administrative functions, and producing the time-based reporting that projects monitoring and audits require.

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