Time Tracking That Syncs to Your Books

Most time trackers do one job well: they log hours. Getting those hours into your accounting system — matched to the right client, the right project, the right invoice — is usually left to you.

That gap is why so many firms end up paying for a time tracker and still doing manual work at month-end.

The usual setup, and where it breaks

A typical stack looks like Harvest or Toggl for time, plus a separate capture tool for bills, plus the accounting platform itself. Three systems, three logins, and hours that have to be manually reconciled against invoices at the end of the month.

The timesheet itself is often the weak link — filled in late, filled in from memory, or not filled in at all until someone chases it.

Keeping time and capture in one place

Sumext tracks billable hours against clients and projects in the same workspace where bills and receipts get captured. Log time with a timer or manual entry, submit the week, and an approver reviews it alongside everything else waiting for sign-off — not in a separate app.

Once approved, time syncs natively to Zoho Books. For Xero and QuickBooks, approved weeks export as a CSV — worth being precise about, since it's not the same one-tap native sync Zoho gets today.

Why this doesn't exist elsewhere

Dext, Hubdoc and Tofu are capture tools — none of them track time at all. If you use one of them today, time tracking is necessarily a separate subscription, with its own login and its own reconciliation step. Sumext replaces that second subscription rather than adding a third system to the stack.

Getting started

Set up a project, log a week of time against it, and submit it for approval. See how it looks once it reaches Zoho Books — or the CSV export, if you're on Xero or QuickBooks.

See time tracking →

No credit card. Setup takes 2 minutes.