TimeRewards
Audit-ready time and expense tracking with DCAA and grant compliance controls, approvals, and clean payroll and invoicing sync.
By TimeRewards · HQ Austin, US · 4.7/5 Value-Position score (estimate)
Positioning guardrails
Best for
- Consulting, accounting and IT services firms that bill by the hour and need utilization and invoicing in one place
- Small and mid-size government contractors that must produce DCAA-audit-ready timesheets with approvals and signatures
- Grant-funded nonprofits allocating time across funding sources with IRS 990 and Single Audit records
- Teams replacing spreadsheets or a cheap tracker where approval trails and change reasons matter
- Finance teams that want approved hours pushed into QuickBooks, Sage Intacct or SAP without re-keying
Ideal size: 10–250 people · SMB to mid-market with billable, contract or grant-funded work and a compliance owner
Not for
- Teams with no billable hours, no grant obligation and no audit requirement
- Enterprises that need a full GovCon ERP covering accounting, procurement and indirect rate pools
- Buyers who require FedRAMP-authorized hosting; the vendor describes FedRAMP Ready preparation only
- Companies looking for employee surveillance features rather than employee-controlled timesheets
Value metrics scorecard
Time-to-Value
Live within a week
~7 days to first production value
Total Cost of Ownership
$4,500/yr
Starts at $120 · Per user, per month: Team $9.99, Professional $14.99, Enterprise $24.99, billed monthly at your plan rate. Minimums apply. 14-day free trial, no credit card.
Implementation Friction
2/5
Engineering + admin effort required
Value-Position score
out of 5 · model estimate
Full cost breakdown
Mandatory implementation fee
None
Seat tiers
Per-user seats with minimums; no published seat tiers.
Add-on costs
- Other professional services (paid add-on, available on all tiers; price not published)
Company & support
Who is behind TimeRewards, and how your team gets help once it is live.
Company
- Founded
- Not recorded
- Headquarters
- Austin, US
How you get support
- PhoneAll plans
- EmailAll plans
- Live chatNot listed
- Support portal / ticketsAll plans
- Community forumNot listed
- Help centre / docsAll plans
- Dedicated account managerEnterprise only
- In person / on-siteNot listed
- Hours
- 24/7
- Response time
- Not stated
Phone, email and knowledge base on every plan; Slack/Teams support on Professional and Enterprise; dedicated account manager on Enterprise. General support hours listed as Mon–Fri 9:00–18:00 CST, with 24/7 support stated for enterprise.
“Not listed” means the vendor’s public pages don’t mention that channel, not that it is unavailable. Ask about it during evaluation.
Market position
Where TimeRewards sits against its closest alternatives. Pick any two of cost, speed, friction and buyer score, and up to 9 companies to compare.
Quadrant view
Typical annual cost × Time-to-value
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Companies on the chart 6 / 10
- TimeRewards
- HourTimesheet
- CrashPlan
- Cenverity
- Strike Graph
- FutureFeed
Add or change companies
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Stack fit signal
Compatibility with standard B2B ecosystems.
No supported MCP path today, so it cannot be driven from an AI client.
AI & MCP readiness
What TimeRewards ships in AI, and what it asks of your ecosystem.
AI features shipped
TimeRewards Intelligence is sold as AI woven into the platform: smart import of timesheets and project details, rewriting raw entries into client-ready notes, calendar capture, auto-scheduling, predictive allocation and utilization forecasting. AI agents to automate tasks are Enterprise; contract/grant reading is listed as coming soon.
Your data & models
- Trains on your data
- Not recorded — ask the vendor
- Runs on
- Not recorded
- AI pricing
- Included in the plan
In your ecosystem
- AI connection
- Not supported
- Model key
- Not recorded
- AI usage audit
- Not recorded
Compliance attestations
* IAPP AIGP certifies individuals, not products. It means named staff hold the credential — not that the platform does.
Bottom line
TimeRewards is audit-ready time and expense tracking for firms that bill by the hour and must survive a DCAA or grant audit. Timesheets, multi-level approvals with signatures, a change log recording who changed what and why, budgets versus actuals, expenses and one-click invoicing sit in one product, with approved hours pushed to QuickBooks, Sage Intacct, SAP, BambooHR and HiBob. Plans start at $9.99 per user per month and most teams are live within a week.
Frequently asked questions
Is TimeRewards actually DCAA compliant?
TimeRewards supplies the timekeeping controls a DCAA audit expects: daily entry enforcement, a change log recording who edited what and why, employee and approver signatures, labor-category control and an exportable audit trail. The vendor is explicit that DCAA audits contractors rather than certifying software, so the product produces compliant records rather than holding a certificate. One-click DCAA compliance is included on every plan, including the $9.99 Team tier.
What does TimeRewards cost, and what is in each plan?
Team is $9.99 per user per month, Professional $14.99 and Enterprise $24.99, billed monthly with minimums. Team includes DCAA compliance, unlimited projects and tasks, 100+ reports, reminders, geofencing and mobile apps. Professional adds multi-level approvals, invoicing and QuickBooks export, expense tracking, budget versus actuals and API access. Enterprise adds SAP integration, custom SAML, global office configuration, AI agents and a dedicated account manager.
How long does implementation take?
The vendor says most teams are live in about a week, not the months a heavyweight GovCon ERP can take. Guided onboarding is included on every plan, list import brings employees, projects and tasks across, and the 14-day trial needs no credit card. Historical data upload for past entries is available on Professional and Enterprise, and support advises mapping your existing data before import.
Which systems does TimeRewards integrate with?
QuickBooks Desktop and Online, BambooHR and HiBob are on every plan. Sage Intacct, Zapier, Jira, Google Calendar and Outlook, and the REST API are on Professional and Enterprise. SAP and custom integrations are Enterprise only. The vendor stresses that approved hours move without re-keying or middleware and that the audit trail stays traceable to the person who logged each entry.
What AI capabilities are included, and on which plans?
TimeRewards Intelligence covers smart import of timesheets and project details and rewriting raw entries into client-ready notes from Team upward, calendar capture from Gmail and Outlook from Professional, and auto-scheduling, predictive allocation and utilization forecasting from Enterprise. AI agents to automate tasks are Enterprise; contract and grant reading is listed as coming soon. The vendor publishes no detail on which underlying models are used, so buyers should ask directly.
How is customer data protected, and what certifications are claimed?
The Security and Trust centers state SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, PCI DSS Level 1, GDPR and CCPA alignment, AES-256 encryption at rest and TLS 1.3 in transit, MFA and SSO options, and a 99.9% uptime commitment on multi-region AWS hosting. FedRAMP Ready preparation is also described, which is not the same as FedRAMP authorization, so confirm requirements before relying on it.