Solutions Time tracking
Employee time tracking that gives you accurate hours for payroll, billing and planning
Mera Work records working hours on your computers automatically, then puts those hours to use: timesheets for payroll, project hours for client invoices, attendance for HR and workload for planning. Nobody fills in a timesheet.
What accurate hours give you
The same tracked record feeds payroll, billing, attendance and planning, so hours are recorded once and used across the business.
Recorded
Active and idle time
Minutes on your computers, from the first activity to the last.
Offline time
Recorded on the device when the connection drops, and synced when it returns.
Approved time claims
Meetings and time away from the computer, added once a manager approves.
Used for
Payroll from recorded hours
Logged hours are measured against expected hours by person, with holidays. Export them to a spreadsheet for your payroll run.
Client invoices backed by tracked time
Hours are logged against the project and task a person is working on. When a client asks about an invoice, you can show the entries with their date and times.
Estimates based on real projects
Estimated, logged and final hours sit side by side by project. The next quote starts from how long similar work actually took.
No timesheets to chase
Timesheets are built from the tracked record, and Team Summary and User Summary arrive by email on working days. Managers stop sending reminders on Friday afternoons.
Common time tracking problems and what changes with Mera Work
Most teams come to Mera Work with questions like these. A setting or a report you already have answers them.
The features behind accurate hours
These features record, organise and report your team's hours. Select any card to see how that feature works.
Time Tracking
Active, idle, away and offline time recorded on all computers, including when the connection drops.
Learn more →Project and Task Tracking
Hours logged against projects and tasks, with estimated, logged and final hours side by side.
Learn more →Attendance and Shift Tracking
Attendance from the first activity to the last, measured against expected hours, shifts and holidays.
Learn more →Activity Monitoring
Keyboard and mouse activity counted to separate working time from idle time, with email alerts for long idle stretches.
Learn more →Productivity Dashboard
Hours for the organisation, a team or a person at a glance, scoped to the manager looking.
Learn more →Productivity Reports
Time Tracker, Attendance, Daily Time Entries and Project reports, exported on demand.
Learn more →All features are included in the free trial. Start free →
Set the rules for what counts as working time
Hours are only useful when the whole team trusts how they were counted. You set the rules once, for the organisation, a team or a person.
Decide when a pause becomes idle time
Choose how long without keyboard or mouse activity counts as idle, from 2 to 30 minutes, for the whole organisation, a team or a person. A developer reading code and an agent between calls can both have a fair setting. Where an admin enables the stop timer, a person can pause monitoring for 5, 15, 30 minutes or 1 hour, so lunch is not tracked.
- Idle interval from 2 to 30 minutes, 5 by default
- Set per person or in bulk
- Stop timer for scheduled breaks
- Email alerts for long idle stretches
Add meetings and offline work, with approval
When someone spends time in a meeting, on a call or at a site, they pick the member and date and claim it from that day's time entries with a start time, an end time and a reason. Their manager approves or rejects claims individually or in bulk, and only approved time counts in the reports.
- Claims made from the day's time entries
- Start, end and a reason for claims
- Approve or reject individually or in bulk
- Request status shown against entries
Two people are enough to try these rules with your team. Start free →
Measure the day against the hours that were expected
Set the working days and expected hours by person, and add your holiday calendar. Shifts can be assigned to individual people, a cut off time keeps a night shift in the same working day, and people work in their own time zones. The Attendance report then shows logged hours against expected hours, with holidays and untracked days.
- Working days and expected hours per person, 8 by default
- Holiday calendar
- Shifts and a cut off time for night shifts
- Time zone per person
Who uses Mera Work for time tracking
Teams that pay for hours, bill for them or plan around them.
Agencies and consultancies
Hours per client and per project, ready for the invoice, with the entries to show when a client asks.
IT services and software teams
Estimated against actual hours per task, so the next sprint or quote is planned from real numbers.
BPO and support teams
Hours per shift and per person, with attendance measured against the roster.
HR and finance
Attendance, overtime and working hours for payroll, without collecting a timesheet.
Get accurate hours in four steps
Most of it is set once in General Settings. The first hours appear the day you install.
Install the agent
An installer for Windows, macOS or Linux, or a silent install through Group Policy or Intune.
Set the rules
The idle interval, working days, expected hours per day and your holiday calendar.
Add projects and tasks
Create projects with estimated hours and allocate tasks with start and end dates. Skip this step if you only need attendance and hours.
Share the reports
Export Attendance for HR, the Project Report for delivery leads and Daily Time Entries for finance, whenever you need them.
Ready to see your team's hours? Start your free trial →
Mera Work clearly tracks active time, idle time and away time, allowing a clear distinction between the team's productivity and the team's busyness.
Simple pricing, all features, real people on support
Time tracking comes with your subscription. Here is the rest of what you get.
Priced per user, all features included
Billed monthly or yearly, with nothing extra to buy. Start with two users.
PrivacyPrivacy settings you control
You choose who is captured, who can view and who can download. Mera Work records time, apps and activity levels, and what people type stays private.
HostingCloud, private cloud or on premise
Cloud hosted by default, with private cloud and on premise options for enterprise customers.
SupportCritical issues answered within the hour
Monday to Friday, 08:00 to 22:00 IST, by portal, email and phone.
Results our clients report
What teams changed after rolling out Mera Work, and how they did it.
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33.3%
More average daily active time
A 24/7 travel business gained a clear view of engagement across three shifts and two time zones.
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Full switch
Previous tool removed at rollout
A company already tracking time wanted reports it could trust, and made a complete switch.
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25%+
Productivity gain, as reported
A distributed research firm that ran a proof of concept and moved its analysts across.
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24/7
Shift based operation
A 24/7 managed IT services business whose feedback shaped shift rosters and logout handling.
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Explore further
How the agent works, how the hours reach your other systems, and how the data is protected.
Common questions about employee time tracking
What is employee time tracking software?
It records the hours people work so a business can pay, bill and plan from accurate numbers. Mera Work does this automatically with an agent on your computers, and turns the hours into timesheets, attendance and project reports.
Do team members have to start and stop a timer?
No. Tracking runs automatically while the agent is installed. For project time, a person selects the task they are working on and the hours are logged against it.
Are the hours accurate enough for payroll and client billing?
Yes. All time is recorded as active, idle, away or offline, and time away from the computer is added only through a claim a manager approves. The Daily Time Entries report shows entries with their start and end time.
How is idle time handled?
You set how long without keyboard or mouse activity counts as idle, from 2 to 30 minutes. People can pause monitoring with the stop timer where it is enabled, and meetings can be claimed.
Does it work for remote, hybrid and office teams?
Yes. The agent runs on computers wherever they are, so people are measured by the same rules and appear in the same reports.
Can the hours go into our payroll or HR system?
Yes. All reports export to Excel, and the product team has delivered integrations with HR systems such as uKnowva and KekaHR. Anything else connects through the API.
How quickly can we start?
The same day. Install the agent, set the idle interval and working hours, and the first day of hours appears in the reports. The free trial runs for 14 days with all features.
Get accurate hours for payroll, billing and planning
Install the agent on two computers and see your team's hours in the reports the same day.
