Your DeskTime guide

New to our productivity monitoring app? Here’s everything you need to know to boost your team productivity with us.

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Team onboarding made easy

Learn how to get started with DeskTime

But how does it actually work?

With our productivity monitoring tool, you’ll be able to keep track of what your team is working on. No more guessing—you’ll know how much time they spend on specific projects and tasks, and you’ll be able to quickly identify time leaks.

With DeskTime, you can see your employees' arrival and departure times, analyze their productivity, schedule shifts, oversee absences, maintain a healthy work-life balance, keep track of specific projects, and more.

Create an account and download the DeskTime app

Add your team details

Add your employees individually or in batches and sort them into teams

Start tracking!

Need more info? Read this article to learn how to use DeskTime’s time tracking tool and how to communicate it to your employees effectively.

Effortless productivity tracking?

You’re looking at it.

No need to dig through pages of data to get an overview of how your employees are doing. Head over to our DeskTime dashboard to see a rundown of your team’s daily activities—who’s at work, who’s late, who’s productive, or slacking off.

Track what matters, your way

DeskTime is a highly customizable tool, which means you can tailor it completely to your needs.

Whether it's fine-tuning Screenshot settings or integrating DeskTime with your favorite project management tools, you can modify our DeskTime app to fit your exact requirements and give you the insights that really matter to you.

Learn more about how DeskTime settings work and how to tailor them to your needs.

Get your team on DeskTime

Time tracking can be a win-win situation for you and your team—if you approach it right.

How to introduce your employees to time tracking

The key to tracking time is to introduce your employees to DeskTime the right way. Here's a helpful video that'll show your team how they can get started.

Need more inspiration? Read how Skrivanek successfully got their team of 300 employees on board with time tracking.

How to add employees

Not sure how to start adding employees to your DeskTime account? Here’s a quick step-by-step guide.

1. Go to the Settings section in your left-hand menu.

2. Click on the Team Members tab.

3. In the Team Members tab, click on the Add team members button.

4. Add your employee data: name, email, team, and the DeskTime role you want them to have.

What are DeskTime user roles?

When you’re adding a new team member, you’ll have to select their DeskTime user role. DeskTime has five different user roles, each with different levels of permissions.

“Everything depends on how you communicate—you have to be transparent and upfront during the interview stage that this time tracking app is a part of the company culture.”

Arturs, Business development manager at Skrivanek

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Get a sense of your employees’ performance

Who’s working, and who’s just killing time?

With DeskTime performance evaluation features like URL and Document tracking, you’ll get insights into what apps, pages, and tasks take up most of your team’s time. This will allow you to correctly identify time leaks and plan project resources better.

Productivity reports and exports

Dive into your team’s productivity stats with our analytics tools. Once your team is on DeskTime, you’ll have access to analytical insights on your employees’ productivity with our Reports and Exports features. You can also sign up for e-mail reports in your DeskTime profile settings.