Features and Benefits

Sage Coretime will change the way you collect data; the way you view it and the way you manage it. Essentially, it encompasses everything you need to run your business effectively and manage even the most complex projects more efficiently...

  • Overview


    When it comes to project management, the list of factors to manage can be vast and complex - yet keeping costs down demands flawless accuracy. You need perfect time recording, resource planning, expense management, service billing, budgets and reporting. You may need to collect information from staff working off site or at multiple locations. And you need all of this available at your fingertips. That’s why you need a one-stop project management hub. That hub is Coretime.
     
    Coretime is intuitively designed to make your job easier. Are you managing external projects? Need greater mobility? Access Coretime via your own in-house network, as a web based software or as a hybrid of both. Need real time responsiveness? Enter Timesheets and Expenses data anytime and anywhere and share up-to-the-second information for smoother collaborative work. Are you charging time based units? When it comes to making sense of a vast range of data, Coretime makes sense.
     
    Coretime makes life easier for everyone from managing directors down, to administrative staff up. In fact, it makes life easier for anyone who keeps time in finance, engineering, construction, business services and many more sectors. Coretime frees up time spent on the details of organisation so you can get on with the real job in hand. So take a free no obligation trial and make the most of your resources the intuitive way with Coretime.
     
    Coretime has a dazzling array of functionality designed to help any business run smarter.

    In a world of ever evolving business complexity, Coretime has what it takes. It captures an infinity of different views and reports so you get a complete and absolute understanding of your opportunities and challenges. Coretime’s intuitive interface prompts and encourages better recording the intelligent way, while its boundless customisation capacity means it perfectly matches your needs - and grows with them. With Coretime, scheduling and resource planning are a joy. There are even three ways to access Coretime so nobody misses out no matter where they are or when.
     
    It all comes together beautifully because every feature has been created in response to customer wants. Smart design transcends sectors, so whether you work in finance, engineering or business services, you’ll find that Coretime thinks of everything - so you can sweat the big stuff instead.
     
     

    Effortlessly easy use

     
    Sage Coretime keeps it simple with a Microsoft Outlook™ style interface which everyone is familiar. It’s designed for intuitive, people-friendly navigation.
     
     

    Coretime is web based. Here’s why web based beats desktop:

     
    Software is installed in a single location on a Web Server. No software gets installed on client PCs
    • Up-to-date technology
    • Suitable for hosting in an ASP environment
    • Can be run over an Intranet or the Internet

    So how does it work for your staff?

    Staff Member Specific Benefit
    Finance Director / Managing Director
    • On-line access to individual project data from desktop
    • Easy activity based revenue recognition
    • Better Budgeting
    • Multiple Project Reporting
    • Project reporting by phase
    • Increase return on Labour Costs
    • Profit & Loss Management by Project
    Manager
    • Improve Team Utilisation
    • Improved Team Planning
    All Timekeeping Staff
    • Clear and simple Time & Expense input
    • Outlook style interface
    • Clear feedback on own productivity
    • Productivity Triggers focus users on value of time
    Administration
    • Clear access to information
    • Simple setup and database management

     
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  • Project Management


    Budgets, timelines, resources, multiple teams, multiple locations... project management means keeping your eye on a whole lot of balls. Every day brings fresh challenges and choices which have to be made, so it’s essential that you know what’s happening where, right up to the minute. And of course, real collaboration starts and ends with sharing of knowledge, so you need to get the information in and then disperse it through your team as and when it’s needed - which usually means ‘right now’.
     
    This is where Coretime truly steps up to the mark. For those on the coalface of project work, Coretime helps with on-time and on-budget delivery, while providing executives with a real-time view of performance and profitability.
     

    Benefits to Project Managers

    • Quick and easy to navigate
    • Accessible anytime, anywhere
    • Plan out the execution of your projects
    • Real time view of your project status and P&L position
    • Collaborate with project team members
    • Document management system for uploading documents and links
    • Manage your project by phases
    • Easy approval of each phase online
    • Integrated with MS Project for easy compatibility and importing
     

    Benefits to Finance and Operations Managers

    • Invaluable, real time view of any project status
    • Budget, report and bill your project by phases
    • Easily tailored to your business needs, industry norms or individual circumstances
    • Easy navigation by client, project and activity
    • Intuitive interface
    • Data is fully secure
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    Complete this form to register for a 30-day Free Trial of our hosted version of Sage Coretime, no need to download or install anything.
     
     
     
     
     

    Coretime Overview - View our simple step-by-step video
     
     

  • Time & Expense Management


    Time is money, so every minute matters. With Coretime, keeping track of time is painless. Your staff can record their time and expense wherever and whenever they need to, while management enjoys an expansive view of exactly where the hours are going and how the costs are adding up. Feed Coretime the gritty details and it will feed you back clarity, so you can maximise your chargeable time. Simply do more with less.
     

    Benefits to Employees:

    • Quick and easy to navigate
    • Intuitive interface
    • Record your time and expense anywhere, anytime
    • Enhanced productivity
     

    Benefits for Managers:

    • Easily tailored to your business needs, industry norms or individual circumstances
    • Capture every chargeable and non-chargeable hour
    • Eliminate paper-based and Excel timesheets
    • Easily tailored to your specific needs and reporting preferences
    • Easy navigation by client, project and activity
    • Real time analysis and approval
    • Invaluable, real time view of all expenses on any project, client or employee
    • Easy navigation by client, project and activity - and by time & expense category
    • Data is fully secure
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    Complete this form to register for a 30-day Free Trial of our hosted version of Sage Coretime, no need to download or install anything.
     
     
     
     
     

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  • Project Budgeting


    Everyone loves transparency. It keeps things simple, clear, deliverable and safe. Coretime helps achieve 100% transparency in real time, so you can keep track of your all-important budget, update stakeholders the easy way, as and when required, and crucially, tailor your budget needs in response to your evolving project-in-progress needs. After all, how you stick to your budget is one of the key factors when it comes to client satisfaction, so get it right first time with Coretime.


    Great for Finance and Operations Managers

    • Real time view of profitability and recovery across any project
    • Completely flexible - customise budgets by time or value
    • Set up alerts and cut-offs for budgets
    • Easily tailored to your business needs, industry norms or individual circumstances
    • Easy navigation by client, project and activity
    • Intuitive interface
    • Export reports to CSV format, or direct to Microsoft Excel or to PDF
    • Data is fully secure
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    Free TrialFree Trial

    Complete this form to register for a 30-day Free Trial of our hosted version of Sage Coretime, no need to download or install anything.
     
     
     
     
     

    Coretime Overview - View our simple step-by-step video
     
     

  • Billing Management


    With Coretime, how and when you bill is up to you. Bill per activity or according to a time line. And while you can choose to have nominal integration with your accounts software, in the spirit of keeping things simple, you can also invoice directly from Coretime.

    Benefits for Accounts & Finance

    • Ability to have nominal integration with your accounts software
    • Integrated debtors ledger with payments status across every project
    • Invoice by specific project phase or activity
    • Full integration with MS Word
    • Multiple types of invoicing - pro forma, provisional, write-offs, credit notes
    • Easily tailored to your business needs, industry norms or individual circumstances
    • Easy navigation by client, project and activity
    • Data is fully secure
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    Free TrialFree Trial

    Complete this form to register for a 30-day Free Trial of our hosted version of Sage Coretime, no need to download or install anything.
     
     
     
     
     

    Coretime Overview - View our simple step-by-step video
     
     

  • Project Reporting & Analysis


    There are a hundred ways to look at any one thing. That’s why Coretime has one hundred standard management reports straight out of the box. Of course, your project is like no other, and may require special information or a tailored report or invoice layout. That’s where our highly economical Customization Team step in. Select a different angle to bring more to your project.
     
    All reports can be exported to CSV format, or direct to Microsoft Excel, or to PDF.
     

    Business Reports

     
    • Aged Work in Progress
    • WIP Control Account detailing all movement on WIP between 2 dates
    • Client Reviewing detailing WIP and Debtor balances by client
    • Projected Cash Flow
    • Employee Reports
    • Staff Productivity
    • Staff Utilisation
    • Employee Margin
     

    Project Reports

     
    • Contract Margin Reports
    • Budget v’s Actual Reports
    • Work Report by Employee
    • Work Report by Activity
    • Debtor Reports
    • Aged Debtors Ledgers Report
    • Statements
    • All Day Books to support Control Account Movement
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    Complete this form to register for a 30-day Free Trial of our hosted version of Sage Coretime, no need to download or install anything.
     
     
     
     
     

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  • R&D Tax Credits


    When investing in R&D, careful documentation of project time, wages and activities is vital to realize the full value of the R&D tax credit.
     
    Coretime helps track the documentation of these vital areas as follows:
     
    • Solid documentation and expense reporting that qualifies for the R&D tax credit
    • Record time spent and costs incurred for each task or project
    • Enter time and expenses at user-defined levels, including employee, department, project, and individual task
    • Powerful reporting provides detail or summary reports for insight into the portion of wages applicable to the R&D tax credit
    • Customized reports provide substantiation for R&D credits
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    Free TrialFree Trial

    Complete this form to register for a 30-day Free Trial of our hosted version of Sage Coretime, no need to download or install anything.
     
     
     
     
     

    Coretime Overview - View our simple step-by-step video