Time Tracking Software That's Automatic

Now you can keep track of your billable hours at your PC or on your mobile - automatically.

For a FREE online demo of the latest upgrades to Chrometa, the world’s most advanced time-tracking software for attorneys and other professionals, click here now.

What makes the new Chrometa different? You’ll see it in your free demo, but here’s a quick rundown….

Track time — without wasting time

The problem with most time-tracking systems – including sheets of paper, spreadsheets, and conventional software — is they require you to constantly input or record your time throughout the day.

That’s a pain in the neck, especially when you are busy supporting multiple clients amidst a non-stop barrage of interruptions.

Chrometa automatically captures and categorizes ALL time spent on the computer – with no interaction or data entry required. (You’ll see how this works during your free Chrometa demo.)

Records billable time on your smart phone

Our new mobile app for iPhone and Android turn your phone calls into billable time entries automatically. You can then click these entries to a timesheet, invoice, or billing system.

“As I travel for my work a lot, I find myself using my smart phone more and more while on the go,” says solo practitioner Patricia Lee. “Now that I have the Chrometa Android app, I see that I was losing thousands of dollars of billable time by not categorizing these calls.”

Get paid to send e-mails

Our new time capture plug-ins for Microsoft Outlook and Gmail create time entries for you. They show you the amount of time you spent on each e-mail, along with the e-mail address of whom you sent the e-mail to or who it was from.

Result: you capture billable time spend on e-mail correspondence. No need to hit a timer – all this is done automatically for you.

Simplifies time entries

Previous versions of Chrometa recorded time in increments of one second. Now we’ve changed Chrometa to record time in increments of one minute. This way, we can reduce your time entries to a manageable number, avoiding confusion and complexity.

Integration with existing billing software

No need to manually enter your time sheet into the billing software packages you use. Chrometa automatically transfers your time sheet into Clio, QuickBooks, and other practice management and accounting software, saving you time and effort.

Blazing speed

Our programmers revamped the Chrometa web site to make it 10X faster. That saves you time, especially when viewing and categorizing a week or month’s time at once.

Bill for all your time

We’ve added a new report that makes it easy to identify unbilled time. It shows you which days you have uncategorized time for. You click on the report to go directly to that day.

Get the money your clients owe you

Attorneys and other professionals fail to bill from 10 to 25 percent of their legitimate billable hours due to bad recording habits, being too busy, disorganization, and poor team management.

This means that a firm with $1 million in gross billings could be losing as much as a quarter of a million dollars a year for work they performed but never billed the client for. Yikes!

Chrometa can help you stop the bleeding and make sure you get paid for all the time you put in on every client you have.

Get your FREE Chrometa online demo today!

When you click here now, you can get a FREE online demo showing you how Chrometa can help you save time, increase the accuracy of your time tracking, and help you get paid for every billable minute you work.

Or, if you have questions or want to talk to a Time Tracking Specialist about installing Chrometa on your computer and smart phone, call us at 916-254-0260. You can download it now remotely and get started with Chrometa literally in minutes.

The more you wait, the more billable time you lose. So why wait? See Chrometa in action now.

Sincerely,

Brett Owens, CEO, Chrometa

Tell Your Colleagues About Chrometa

Do your friends and colleagues also need a hand tracking their billable and project time? Please send them our way!  They will thank you, and so will we.

Earn $100 Per Referral With Your Unique Link

Use your unique referral link to introduce your colleagues to Chrometa. This link will track the number of sign ups and subscriptions you refer to Chrometa.

Activate and retrieve your link by going to Account – Refer Us within Chrometa.

As a thank you, we’ll pay you $100 per user who subscribes for at least six months.

Full details on our new Chrometa referral program are here.

By Neil Squillante

Late last year, Business Insider, a publication that breathlessly covers startup companies and new technologies, admitted that the world is not changing that fast. The article noted that every minute people post 695,000 Facebook status updates (impressive), but send 168 million email messages (off the charts). Among lawyers, the numbers are likely even more skewed in email’s favor. Because lawyers spend so much time in email, that’s where they lose the most billable time. Did you spend 25 minutes or 35 minutes replying to your client? Most lawyers are honest so they under-guesstimate, but accuracy is not a crime. The new version of a popular time tracking program can help.

Chrometa 2012 … in One Sentence
Chrometa 2012 automatically captures and categorizes the time you spend working on your computer plus it can track offline time too.

The Killer Feature
Previous versions of Chrometa would tell you how much time you spent in Outlook or in Gmail throughout the day, enabling you to capture all that time. But it didn’t list the time per message so if you read 25 work-related email messages, and sent 10 you’d have to look back at your messages and apportion the time among them — a fair amount of work.

Chrometa 2012 now shows you the time spent per message, identifying each message by subject line, to/from/cc fields, and if applicable even the email folder name.

Chrometa achieves this feat via two free plugins for Microsoft Outlook and Gmail respectively. The Outlook plugin works with Outlook 2007 and 2010, while the Gmail plugin works with Google’s Chrome browser on Mac and Windows.

“Our new Chrometa plugins for Microsoft Outlook and Gmail close the loop on email,” Chrometa CEO Brett Owens told us. “Once you install our email plugins, you’ll never lose another minute of billable email time or waste time reconstructing that billable time.”

Other Notable Features
Chrometa captures time on Macs and PCs. It notices when you stop using your computer such as for a phone call and can ask you about it so you can also track offline time. You access and manage your captured time using a web browser.

Chrometa can automatically categorize the time it captures. For example, now that Chrometa can capture time spent per email message, you can create a rule for each client or even matter. Then Chrometa will place all email time per client or per matter into that category. The rules work for all the time Chrometa captures (e.g., time spent in Word documents). When you log into your Chrometa account, you can convert all the time captured in a category into time entries with one click.

Also new in Chrometa is the ability to create bills (invoices). In other words, Chrometa can now serve as your billing program, not just your time capture program. You can send bills directly from Chrometa via email or export them into DOC, PDF, or XLS formats.

If you already use a billing system, Chrometa offers a growing number of integrations, including Clio, FreshBooks, QuickBooks, PCLaw, and Timeslips. You can also export Chrometa time entries and import them into virtually any billing system.

What Else Should You Know?
You can choose from three versions of Chrometa (all single user) or from two versions of Chrometa for Teams (for multiple users). Pricing for Chrometa starts at $19 per month, whereas pricing for Chrometa for Teams starts at the same price per user per month.

Please download Chrometa’s automatic time tracking software here.

We’ve been busy working on Chrometa upgrades and enhancements – here’s a quick update on what’s new (and a preview of what’s coming soon, too!)

New Integrations – Clio and Rocket Matter

Our new integrations with Clio and Rocket Matter have been a big hit with solo and small firm attorneys. Both exports are setup so that you can send your time across the wire with a single click of the mouse.

And here’s our full list of integrations and exports.

Faster Site

We rolled out some big performance upgrades to make the site faster – hopefully quite a bit faster. These upgrades should especially help when viewing and categorizing a week’s worth, or even a month’s worth, of time at once.

Upgraded Time Collector

We have new and improved time collectors for Windows and Mac. They have been thoroughly battle tested for accuracy and reliability, and you’ll notice that we sync time entries faster (now every 15 minutes).

Firewall and network issues should also now largely be handled without a problem.

To upgrade your data collector, just exit the version you’re running locally on your PC or Mac. Then you can download the latest from our homepage at www.chrometa.com.

(Note for Mac users: You may need to delete previous Chrometa applications, which are likely stored in your Downloads folder).

New Reports for Finding Unbilled Time

We replaced the previous Dashboard with new Reports that we think will be more useful. Click the Reports tab to view them.

We’re especially excited about the Find Unbilled Time report, which will allow you to view which days you have uncategorized time for – and click to that day directly by clicking the bar in the report.

Coming Soon: Automatic “Noise” Filtering for More Continuous Time Entries

As you know, Chrometa literally tracks time down to the second. While this is a big strength of our product, it also poses a serious challenge to all of us, as we have many little “transition” entries that need to be handled.

So, we’re working on a way of handling these, with the goal of attaching these “transitional” entries onto larger “real” ones. For example, if you’re typing an email, and you skip over to Pandora for a few seconds, you may just want that Pandora time grouped into the email. We’re working on a way to do this for you.

(Until then, you can currently Annotate multiple entries, which will then combine them for exports and invoices).

If you haven’t yet taken a spin through our new Help section, which contains many how-to articles and videos, please check it out here.

Questions and Feedback

Since launching Chrometa 1.1 in March 2009, we’ve always received our best product ideas from you. (As an aside, it’s probably a good thing we didn’t know then how tough it would be to engineer passive time capture – oh the ignorance and excitement of youth!)

If you have specific questions or feedback, please reply to this email. While we of course don’t implement every single feature request, we do listen to all requests and feedback (implicit and explicit) to gear our future development.