Sell your time-tracking software.

We look for time-tracking and timesheet tools that freelancers and small teams use to record work and bill for it.

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Does Playbook Media buy time-tracking software?Part of our productivity search.

Fig. T.1Short answer

Yes, when customers track time every day, export it to invoices or payroll and renew without a sales call.

Good fit: timers, timesheets, project time and billing exports.
We look for: daily use and data that customers depend on for billing.
After a sale: time records stay accurate and available.

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Why this kind of business can last.Time-tracking software

Time records feed invoices and payroll. A tool in that path becomes part of how a business gets paid.

Daily habits keep people using the tool.

Focused time tools can last next to large suites by being faster to use.

Fig. T.2bWhat a customer gives up to leave: time records, invoices, daily habit

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Strong and weaker signals.What we look for first.

Strong fit

Daily use among paying customers.
Integrations with invoicing and accounting tools.
Low churn among teams.

Weaker fit

Monitoring features that customers’ employees did not agree to.
Most revenue from one large customer.
Unreliable mobile or desktop apps.

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What happens after a sale.Continuity first.

Accuracy comes first, because customers bill from these records.

We do not add employee monitoring to a tool that customers chose for simple time tracking.

We do not buy to resell, and we do not plan around an immediate rewrite or unsupported price increases.

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Questions founders ask.About time-tracking software.

Do you buy employee monitoring tools?

Not in our first search. We look for tools that people use by choice.

What matters in the records review?

Daily use, retention by team size and the support load from apps on each platform.

Is this a separate search?

No. The same search profile applies to every business type: $5k–$20k in monthly recurring revenue and three to eight years of history are preferences, not cut-offs.

1Search preferences for a first subscription acquisition. Not a valuation, offer or guarantee of fit. ↩

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