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This time, fulfill your New Year's resolutions!

January 09, 2017

The year has just started. For many it is the best time to look back and plan ahead. You may have already broken some of your New Year's resolutions by now. According to a British study , only 12% of us are going to stick to our promises until the end of the year. How to have a better chance of succeeding this time? Get yourself a quiet room or go to your favorite coffee shop, prepare a pen and a piece of paper and let's get it together!

25% of your money down the drain – how poor time management affects results

February 26, 2016

A survey conducted by America Online and Salary.com found out that the average worker in the US devotes around two hours of the working day to non-productive activities. This means around 10 hours per week. How do you feel about it? Despite all the effort, getting up early, meeting tight deadlines, a quarter of your hard-earned money disappears down the drain without you even noticing. A year has 52 weeks, so the total is 520 hours per year. This corresponds to more than three weeks of work. If you are a manager you most likely know the hourly cost of an employee and if you do the math... You would better be sitting.

Which pricing method to use?

February 11, 2016

We have picked three different methods by which you can determine a price for your work. Unfortunately, there is no universal solution for it. It depends on the person and on a series of circumstances. However, we think this will help you find the best method for you:

Take this time to stop and think!

December 18, 2015

Check your email, call your colleague, delegate your work, look back at the e-mails, remember that someone is coming to repair the door lock of the building, write up the meeting notes, attend the lunch with the new client, get stuck in traffic due to some demonstrations which block the main street, go back to the office, check your schedule, rearrange your appointment for the next day, write another e-mail, check the budget John sent you 3 weeks ago.. Work! Keep going, no stopping! Don’t waste your time! Go, go go! Ahh ENOUGH! STOP IT! If this sounds all too familiar, stop and pause for a moment if you intend to achieve something effectively while keeping your sanity.

Project Management: Facts which will surprise you

December 10, 2015

Ever wonder why projects fail, how much it costs the company and what the role of the project manager in this is? We were and found these surprising statistics!

How to calculate the price of a project

November 25, 2015

The precise estimate of the costs and the time of a project is crucial to make sure you will stay within the limits of a budget. A miscalculation can lead to financial losses and ultimately make it impossible to complete the project. Therefore it is necessary to dedicate special attention to detailed planning and to try and foresee possible complications. But how to know what price is reasonable and appropriate based on the quality and complexity of the work to be performed? Or how to estimate the time it will consume? Here are some tips to resolve these issues:

10 reasons to use time tracking

September 11, 2015

A time tracking software can assist with measuring both personal and team productivity by providing a more accurate idea of how people deal with their own time. It can only help. So, why not explore its full potential? In this article we have compiled 10 reasons to explain why it is worth it to employ time tracking.

Calculate your costs based on the value of your time

February 23, 2015

Time is money Time is money; that we already know. It can be quite easily quantified: the cost of human time at work can be calculated as the ratio between the total monthly cost of an employee (wage, internet, phone) and average monthly number of working hours (168 if you count 8 hours per day and 21 workdays per month). There is however a „problem“: human aren´t machines, their performance can´t be divided into standardized man-hours. We are the furthest thing from dull manufacturing capacities, processing one task after another. We are influenced by the working environment, weather, time of day, hormones and thousands of other things. As a result we´re fairly unproductive one day and discover gravity or painting Mona Lisa the other.

How to start with TIME TRACKING while BILLING by the hour

December 15, 2014

When you work for your clients on a daily basis, either directly by the hour or indirectly by the fixed price for a project (which more or less reflects your time anyway), tracking your time is basically a must. Typical users from this category are consultancy companies, graphic design and architecture studios as well as most of the freelancers. If you find yourselves in the description above, prima ERP TIME TRACKING is a tool built for you. We have collected the best practices from our users and our own experiences, and put it into this article. We hope it will help you avoid the most common mistakes and learn as much as possible from prima ERP and from your time.

5 reasons why you should use time tracking

December 02, 2014

Do you want to know why you should track your time, who gets more from adapting the whole time tracking concept and which fields find it really useful? Using our experience, we made a quick overview of what most companies and people need to really benefit from tracking their time. We´ve prepared an overview of the needs of people and companies, who can benefit the most from using time tracking .

User story of the language school Hezkyčesky.com

November 20, 2014

We wanted to know how prima ERP has impacted people and businesses since its launch 2 years ago. We asked a young businesswoman, Uljana, who started her language school business the same time as prima ERP appeared on the market, questions on how prima ERP was beneficial for her and how she uses it now. We would like to share her experience, maybe it can help you. :-)

Why you should work for free!

November 12, 2014

You might remember our article from a couple of weeks ago, where we gave you some reasons why you should never work for free. However, there are always more sides to a story and we thought it would be a good idea to see this topic also from another point of view.

The tool which will improve your teamwork!

October 29, 2014

You asked, we answered!For most of us, we think time tracking should be easy to administrate and manage because you don’t want to spend a lot of time with it. Because of this, and thanks to all of our user’s requests, did we take the best part of our time tracking application and expanded its’ possibilities to an all new team overview !

Why you should never work for free

October 16, 2014

No matter if you are coder, graphic designer, photographer or college student, you have probably had a request to work for free. The expected benefits should be the expansion of your portfolio, improvement of your brand or gaining valuable experience you can add to your CV. My advice: don´t accept these requests, no matter if it´s made by a company or good friend. This attitude could be considered as radical, but lets go through it. Is there anyone who will have a financial benefit because of your work? Let him pay for your help! No matter if it will be just a small amount compared to your experience. Still not convinced? Read more…

primaERP BILLING is here!

September 09, 2014

We want to show off our brand new application BILLING , which will be appreciated by anyone who wants to have order in their billing process.

How to make the most out of my time with pricing

April 25, 2014

The Pricing section in BILLING is the perfect place for creating and managing your prices in a flexible way, creating combinations and exceptions that will later affect the way time records are priced in TIME TRACKING. It’s the perfect place to develop your pricing strategy.

Can a time tracking software increase our productivity?

November 04, 2013

The basic principle of project management is to carry out a plan that directs and controls the development of our work in the specific period; and such planning is fundamental to ensure the success in any spheres of our life, both work and personal.