Kimai
Time tracking for the academic sector
Managing time in higher education brings unique challenges, including lecture and class scheduling, research project tracking, student and faculty time allocation, and time consuming administrative tasks.
Effective time tracking solutions can help streamline these processes, allowing educators and researchers to focus on their core responsibilities.
Features for institution-wide time management
Our time tracking solution has been refined through collaboration with multiple universities. Real user feedback drives our development, ensuring features that truly serve academic needs.
Just to name a few of the academic institutes using Kimai: Universität Hamburg, Universität Bonn, Universität Wien, Universität Stuttgart, Universität Frankfurt, University of Fribourg, TU Dresden and the University of Moscow.
What our customers say
At Kimai, we've designed our time tracking platform to meet the needs of agencies, teams, and freelancers. Our intuitive interface and powerful features help agencies like yours work smarter and more profitably. You can now “listen” to the reviews of the real users.
When I started to identify a time reporting software for our medium size enterprise (~30 people distributed all over United States and Canada) in the software service industry for onsite and remote services, I had several programs in my mind. In my specification I had the following things to be covered
- Customer related time reporting
- Project related time reporting
- Time approval
- Various hierarchies in user and access levels
- Open data interface for potential interfaces to other software packages (such as various payroll software packages for Canada and US, ERP for invoicing)
- Time budget for hourly packages
- Time reporting to customers with time budget
- The data is mine and I always want to have access to it
- I would like to create plugins if I need to add features that do not yet exist
I continued my search but always came back to Kevin Papst’s time reporting software Kimai. So I installed it on a shared host. I continued to set up a few users and imported a few customers, projects and finally understood how activities are to be set up (global and local). This is a feature that surprised me even more. Well implemented! I finally rolled it out to a small group and then the entire team. The time reporting is now fully implemented within 2 months from first idea to fully operational.
Then the demands grow with the possibilities: I purchased a few plugins and these were installed as simple as the main software. Then, when I had even more requests that I didn’t find an answer by plugins, I reached out to the developer Kevin asking for help with changing a report and he simply answered to consider this for the entire software, not just a module for me. It may be within some of the next releases.
In summary, Kimai is a flexible time reporting package with active code, modern, responsive and fast user interface and a fast responding support.
Thanks, Kevin, for this nice software package!
Frank
Roptec GmbHWe use Kimai as a self-hosted instance to manage working times, vacation and illness-days for ~40 employees. We love open source software and the passion Kevin Papst puts into that tool is a real gamechanger for us. There are a lot of features and settings to adjust, but it’s not too complicated to maintain the whole system. Hopefully Kimai will be our mate for the next years to support our own story as a company, that is developing impactful and open source software!
Daniel Kehne
Tür an Tür - DigitalfabrikStart your journey to better time management
We understand that implementing a new time-tracking system in an academic setting requires careful consideration. That’s why we offer a free trial period and demo sessions. Try Kimai for free now and have a more organized day!