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Time-Assistant User Manual

Time-Assistant is a Web/Intranet tool that enables users to effectively manage working time, expenses and hourly rates of employees/teams/departments, track project status, automatically calculate salaries and generate different time-&-cost reports, prepare project estimates and get invoices via web-interface. The tool can be successfully used for any project-oriented companies where time management is an important issue. Time-Assistant may be used by: employees, who need to carefully track their time spent on certain tasks, projects and work-types; team/project leaders who need to have a tracking tool and accurate and well-timed reports on the time and money spent while doing different tasks and projects; managers, who require structured information to optimize staff management, increase productivity and cope with rates/salaries; time-based consultants like IT specialists, accountants, lawyers, etc, who need a convenient time assessment tool. Time-Assistant is accessed using a web browser and requires no client installation. It includes all the standard timesheet and hourly rate entry functions, project tracking abilities as well as automatic salary calculation and comprehensive time&cost reporting. You may add an unlimited number of employees with no preset limits on the number of tasks, projects, rates, clients, departments, and positions to be tracked and monitored. Time-Assistant Light - the simplest and the most compact of the application versions. May be used by companies that require nothing more than to track working time of their staff members. Time-Assistant Standard - the typical Time-Assistant version. It is capable of tracking not just total working time, but also time spent on particular tasks, projects and work-types. Besides Time-Assistant Standard can generate quality well-timed reports on time and money spent on various task and project performance. Time-Assistant Enterprise - the most complex and feature-packed product version that has got more user categories and allows users to approve upon each other's reports, supports several additional features like database export to QuickBooks, division of projects into tasks, expenses support, etc.