Editor's Note: February's editorial focus is on Time-tracking. This is part of a series of articles covering almost 60 apps for QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Desktop this month. Stay tuned!
Monitask
Monitask is not your typical time-keeping app, but it does track time. In today's pandemic and post-pandemic environment of remote workers, and a broader interpretation of freelance personnel, Monitask may be the time monitoring solution that some employers or organizations seek. This software solution provides time tracking and employee monitoring with screenshots.
Monitask allows employees and freelancers to manually start a clock when they begin working on an assignment for an employer. The application then randomly—or at intervals specified by the employer—takes screenshots of the computer to record the work being performed by the employee/freelancer.
In other words, the application provides a form of surveillance that documents the work as part of the digital time record.
Monitask can be used for remote environments when employees or freelancers work anywhere other than the employer's worksite. It also can be employed on computers to monitor the employment team at an employer's workplace. Employers can use an administrative dashboard to determine in real-time what is happening with each team member, regardless of location and how long a team member has been working on a designated project.
In addition, they can look back at the progress of the work over the time frame the team member has been logged on.
In case you are wondering, Monitask claims its solution is absolutely legal employee monitoring, and that it is non-intrusive and includes no record of keystrokes or other sensitive data capture.
Monitask purports to integrate with QuickBooks Online so time tracked within Monitask can be synchronized with QBO. As part of the synchronization, employees in both systems match up and Monitask Projects map to QBO Customers.
Unfortunately, even though it has a landing page in the Intuit QBO App Store, I could not find a single reference to QuickBooks Online on its website, even on its Integration page, which mainly spoke about Zapier (it may intend to make use of Zapier for integration purposes.)
We have included Monitask in our series because of this time tracking app's unusual nature.
If you want more information, visit its website.
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