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# Planned time

Making informed decisions is key to staying profitable. Timely lets you plan your tasks in advance, track both planned and logged time, and make smarter decisions that keep your projects on track, within budget, and more profitable.

## Refine your estimates, control your project scope, and boost profit margins

Timely’s clear visibility into how your planned vs. logged time ensures you can make accurate time estimates upfront, assess the scope of work, and keep your project budgets on target. By planning ahead and tracking time as you go, you can catch discrepancies early, make adjustments, and improve profitability through better forecasting.

Sharpen your time estimates by comparing planned vs logged time and nail future forecasts.

Control project scope and stay on task delays to prevent scope creep and keeping projects on budget.

Boost profitability by leveraging time tracked data to track overall project performance and cut inefficiencies.

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## Key use cases

From initial estimates to final delivery, Timely helps you make smarter decisions. With Planned Time, you can control costs, stay within scope, and adjust as necessary to ensure that every project contributes positively to your bottom line.

### Perfect estimates

### Perfect your time estimates and avoid overpromising

Plan time for upcoming work and log hours against it to see how your estimates hold up.

Planned time shows as striped entries next to your solid logged time in the Hours tab.

Use what you learn to set better estimates and budgets for the next project.

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### Prevent scope creep

### Keep projects on track and prevent scope creep

Compare planned and logged time on each project's Status tab.  

Get budget notifications when a project reaches 50%, 80% and 100% of its budget.  

Adjust planned entries by hand, or drag them in 15-minute increments as plans change.  

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### Improve decisions

### Planned time reports for better business decisions

Build custom reports that put planned estimates side by side with actual logged time.  

Filter by client, project, user or tag to see where estimates were off.  

Export logged and planned cost to Excel or CSV alongside your hours.  

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### Increase profits

### Optimize Project Budgets and Increase Profit Margins

Quickly spot where projects are veering from the original budget with Planned Time insights.  

Adjust project budgets in real-time as changes occur, making sure you keep on track.  

Drill down into the detail reports you need to fine-tune your business workflows and boost overall profitability.  

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More Timely features

## Explore what else Timely has to offer

- [Invoices · Focus on doing what you do best while ensuring every hour is accounted for and billed accurately. · Discover more](/feature/invoices/)

- [Tasks · Timely empowers your team to manage workloads, track progress, and make informed decisions with accurate capacity data. · Discover more](/feature/tasks/)

- [Project dashboard · Gain complete visibility and make smarter, data-driven decisions in real-time. · Discover more](/feature/project-dashboard/)

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4.8 out of 5

We're consistently ranked top on G2

Scores above 95% in Quality of Performance, Support, Ease of Use, and Setup.

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"Ingenious, efficient and effective time tracking system"

David K.

"Effective tool to help you keep track of time and stay productive"

Jane S.

Digital marketer and strategist

"User-friendly and effective"

Cory (CJ) P.

Co-Founder

"Timely record my time automagically"

Giovanni D.

IT Consultant

"Timely is hands down the best time tracking app available"

**Law S.**

"A great experience which has made my invoicing life much easier!"

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Graphic Designer

"So many valuable uses for Timely & Memory"

Dan K.

Business Coach/ Consultant

"Black box for all your daily efforts"

Anton K.  

Senior SAP ECM Consultant

"Best time tracking app"

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Autor článků

"Unbeatable time-tracking for many clients and projects"

**Laura C.**  

Project Manager

"It's super easy tracking task details on timely without much hassle"

Amrit S.

Software Development Consultant

"Timely - our time management tool"

Cecilia A.

Project Leader

"Best time tracking software on the market"

Jens K.

UX Designer