Minute7

Minute7 is a time and expense tracking tool that syncs directly with QuickBooks Desktop and QuickBooks Online, providing web and mobile entry that flows into the ledger for invoicing and payroll.

How accounting firms use it

It functions as a data entry front-end rather than a time management system. Staff record hours and expenses against customers and jobs from any device, and entries appear in QuickBooks mapped to the correct customer, job, and service item without an export and import step.

That narrowness is deliberate. Firms that have tried and abandoned fuller time tracking platforms often do so because staff found them cumbersome; a simple form that does one thing tends to get completed. Where the requirement is genuinely just capturing time into QuickBooks, additional capability adds friction without adding value.

Key features

Time entry works from browser and mobile with weekly timesheet views, recording against QuickBooks customers, jobs, service items, and payroll items so the mapping is correct at the point of entry.

Expense entry sits alongside time, with receipt attachment, covering reimbursable costs on the same submission.

Approval workflow routes entries to a manager before they sync, and sync runs to both QuickBooks Online and Desktop — Desktop support being comparatively uncommon among cloud time trackers.

Who it’s best for

Small US firms using QuickBooks as their accounting platform that need reliable time and expense entry without complexity, particularly those still on QuickBooks Desktop where cloud tracker support is limited.

Firms needing project budgeting, resource planning, or profitability analysis should use Harvest, BigTime, or BQE Core. Practices on other accounting platforms need Toggl Track or Clockify.