Your billable hours live in a time-tracking tool. The project they belong to lives somewhere else: a site, a plan, a folder of documents. And once a month somebody sits down and reconciles the two by hand, matching a row in one system to a project in another, so the invoice can go out. The record your firm's revenue stands on is kept in the one place that has no direct connection to the work it describes.
That gap is not an accident of your setup. It is the shape of the whole category. Time tracking grew up as its own kind of software, a product you buy on its own, so the hours and the project they were logged against were never meant to live in the same system. The reconciliation is not a step you do badly. It is a tax you pay for keeping two records of the same afternoon in two different places.
Two records of one afternoon
Think about what a timesheet entry and a project record actually are. Both describe the same hour of the same person's work. One says how long and against what code; the other says what the work was part of, where its documents are, who is on it. Keeping them apart means every number has to be carried across the gap by a person, and the carrying is where the errors, the delay, and the month-end scramble come from. The hours matter most and sit furthest from the project.
One list, in the project's own site
ProjectPoint closes the gap by putting time where the project already is. An entry is a row in a SharePoint list in the project's own site, naming the project it belongs to, sitting next to that project's documents and its registers. It is part of the project record, not a separate system pointing at it from outside.
The way that time gets captured is a shipped browser extension for Edge and Chrome, and it is good at the job. It rides in the browser side panel, so it is present on whatever tab the work is happening in. Start a timer with one click, run several at once when the work genuinely overlaps and watch the wall clock split evenly between them so the total never inflates, or log time by hand when the timer missed it. A week strip shows the days you have and have not logged, and a month view answers the question people actually ask, which is not "what is my total" but "am I on pace", with the projection shown rather than hidden. It captures time well, and every minute of it lands in your own list using the sign-in the person already has.
It holds up against the tools built only for this
The mature time-tracking products, Harvest, Ruddr, Clockify and the rest, are good software, and we will not pretend otherwise. But every one of them is vendor-hosted, so the honest capture they give you comes with the record living on someone else's servers, under someone else's subscription. ProjectPoint gives you the capture, concurrent timers that add up correctly, a completeness view, a pace projection, and keeps the record in your own tenant, because it was never anywhere else.
ProjectPoint's time entry names a project, with a category, and reports against it. Time broken down to individual tasks and sub-tasks, against a full work-breakdown structure, is the relational model at the Platform tier on Dataverse; when that is the job in front of you, it is
the Platform conversation to have.
One component of a platform, not a point tool
The reason the timesheet is not a separate system is that ProjectPoint is not a time tracker that grew a project feature. It is a project management platform on SharePoint, and time entry is one component of its middle tier, alongside the four project registers and the capture of time and budget feedback from both the project lead and the people doing the work. The point of putting time in the project is that it stops being a silo and starts being one more thing the project workspace knows, reported on next to the budget it burns and the risks it carries.
Where it goes when you bill at a rate
For a firm that bills client work, the next step up is the relational model at the top tier, on Dataverse: rates, billable versus non-billable classification, an invoicing-ready export, and row-level boundaries so a contributor sees only their own entries. That is the Platform conversation, and it is the one to have when time to rate to invoice is the job in front of you. The middle tier gets your hours captured against the right project, in your own tenant, and reported on in context; the top tier turns them into what finance sends the client.
Get in touch, and we will show you hours that already know which project they are on.
