The Time Card is completely accessible, yet tightly controls what a staff member can see and do. Unlike the Time Sheet, they can't add new tasks to job tickets or see cost and billing rates. Plus, time cards always show the staff member what they've done during the day. They can open the Time Card while they're working in Quark, Photoshop, and other programs, enter the job and task they're working on, then let the built-in stopwatch track their time.

Time cards are better because:

1. It's more secure-you can only enter your own time.

2. The built-in stopwatch counts your hours while you work.

3. You can see the total hours you've worked for the week.

4. Other people can't see your cost and billing rates.

5. You can see how many hours you have left to account for.

6. You can easily open the Time Card with a keyboard shortcut.

7. You can easily mark hours as overtime.

8. You can easily change your hours throughout the day.

The Time Sheet is designed for flexibility. There's little someone can't do from a time sheet, such as adding new job tasks, tailoring a billing rate on-the-spot, and entering time for many days at once. This makes the time sheet the ideal place to enter time for people who don't use Clients & Profits all day. Different staff members can share the same Clients & Profits workstation to enter their time by taking turns during the week. This way, you can eliminate the paper time slip-and expensive double-entry.

Time Sheets are better because:

1. You can enter lots more time entries than on a Time Card.

2. You can enter the whole week's hours on the same time sheet.

3. You can add hours for last week, this week, or next week.

4. You can enter someone else's time for them.

5. You can change cost and billing rates (if you're allowed to!).

6. You can enter longer descriptions for each time entry.

7. You can enter time for any accounting period.

8. Job and cost reports are updated instantly (no posting!).