how to build a productivity tracking app

Introduction

Time tracking software helps both employees and managers to track the project time along with expenses and other operations of the enterprise effectively. There will be good growth in the time tracking software industry because of prevailing remote work, use of cloud­ based time tracking software, and mobile phones being used for official work

Overview of Market Share

Time tracking software enables managers and employees to manage and track project time and expense, payroll, and other enterprise operations effectively. Furthermore, due to the emergence of cloud-based time tracking software, the prevalence of remote work, and the use of mobile phones for official purposes, it is expected that the time tracking software industry will grow during the forecast period. The Global time tracking software market is expected to register at a CAGR of 20.69%

By the end of 2027, the Time tracking software market size is estimated to be USD 2043.83 billion. The major factors that are driving the market are the improvement in inventory management, asset tracking, and the usage of consumer goods, especially in the North-America

How does Productivity Tracking App work?

Time Tracking

It tracks the time worked by each and everyone on your team and gives you a breakdown by client, project, and task. It helps you to track the time spent working and time wasted and also to identify the inefficiencies

Screenshots

Productivity Tracking app captures Screenshots of employee monitors every 5 minutes (or turned off). It helps you to monitor exactly what your team is doing and how. By this, you can identify time-wasting, distractions, and inefficiencies. Screenshots are only taken when team members indicate that they’re working to eliminate privacy concerns

Time Use Alerts

Employees get a pop-up or notification alerts if they sit idle for too long, or if they are back from sleep mode Sitting idle for too long will be notified as “You are in idle mode for long. Please start the timer to continue”

Best Features to have

Here are the basic key features required for a productivity tracking app to make it more user-friendly and accommodating

Signup and Login

It allows users to have the option of creating their account or if you are running a LARGE ENTERPRISE, it lets you create multiple organizations with multiple users

Users and Projects

Users and projects can be created for each Organization. For each user project can be assigned. This will help to track the user’s activities for that particular project. Track in which project they are working on and how much time they spent on each project

Clients Feature

Give your clients access to the Productivity Tracking app at no extra cost. The client can see the screenshots and can also get reports regarding the tasks that were worked. Your clients will be restricted to seeing only data about work that you’ve done for them, rather than all work done in your company

All Devices

It can be used on desktops, tablets, and mobile phones – wherever the work is, we track it

Activity Monitoring

It helps you to track your employees’ activities during their work time at 0 Cost. So you can easily monitor where they are in the project and how they are working

View Screenshots

You can also find how your employees are spending every five minutes of your workday by capturing the screenshots

Technological Stack

React JS

ReactJs is a toolkit for creating user interfaces introduced by Facebook in the year 2011. To merely put across, React is a solution that helps developers to resolve issues faced when building user interfaces. It enables developers to create intricate user interfaces that have components that will change regularly over time without writing tricky JavaScript codes every time

Angular

Angular is a TypeScript-based free and open-source web application framework led by the Angular Team at Google and our team create a web application using angular with responsiveness and deliver good products

Electron

We create desktop applications using Electron for cross platforms support with UI frameworks like angular and deliver effective user-friendly application