Time Tracking & Project Management Software for Archaeologists

Capture time in the field, streamline reporting, and manage archaeological projects with precision using Coretime’s archaeologist time tracking and billing software.

Why Archaeologists Choose Coretime

Whether you’re documenting excavations, managing grants, or balancing academic and commercial archaeology projects, Coretime provides archaeologist time tracking software that simplifies field and office workflows. With integrated professional services project management, real‑time reporting, and accurate billable hours tracking, Coretime helps archaeology teams enhance productivity and ensure reliable client billing.

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Built for Real Archaeology Workflows

Accurate Field Time Logging for Archaeologists

Coretime lets archaeologists log time spent on excavations, site surveys, lab analysis, or reporting immediately whether in the field or the office. By capturing timestamps against tasks and projects, teams eliminate guesswork and improve accuracy in field time tracking and archaeology reporting.

Simplified Billing for Archaeological Projects

Convert billable hours and tracked expenses into professional invoices quickly. Coretime’s archaeology billing software reduces administrative work and ensures that every hour logged and every cost incurred is included in client billing for grants, commercial contracts, or academic engagements.

Archaeological Project Management & WIP Insight

Monitor the progress of your excavations, resource allocations, and work in progress (WIP) in real time. Coretime’s project management tools for archaeologists give teams visibility into budgets and timelines, helping avoid overruns and supporting informed decision‑making.

Expense Tracking & Resource Planning for Field Teams

Track expenses, manage equipment costs, and plan team resources across projects. Coretime ensures that costs associated with permits, travel, and field supplies are recorded and reconciled, supporting stronger financial oversight and more accurate project forecasts.

Key Features for Archaeology Teams

Archaeology projects often span multiple phases, field teams, and reporting requirements. With Coretime, you can track time, manage documents, control budgets, and invoice clients without spreadsheets or manual admin slowing you down.

⏱️Timesheets & Mobile Tracking

Capture field and office time accurately to ensure nothing is lost.

🗂️ Project Management Tools

Organise excavation phases, survey tasks, reporting, and deliverables clearly.

“Key benefits include increased cost control, economic time management, effective cost reporting and financial control of specific projects” – Elisabeth, Deaton Lysaght

📊 Reporting & Insight Dashboards

View utilisation, project profitability, resource costs, and progress at a glance.

“Invoicing is also made much easier….. Coretime automatically assigns the correct hourly rate … while also ensuring that the total is assigned to the correct project.” – Amanda, GWP Consultants

💷 Billing & Invoicing Flexibility

Generate invoices confidently based on the way you charge hourly, fixed fee, or staged.

📁 Document & Email Management

Store permits, site plans, communications, historic records, and client files securely in one place.

📍 Location-Based Work & Resource Tracking

Assign time, expenses, and activities to specific sites or project phases perfect for teams working across multiple excavation locations, client territories, or protected heritage zones.

“With staff based at different office locations and sometimes different parts of the world, having Coretime has brought us all together using one easily accessible web based system.” – Donna, Caulmert

What This Means for Your Team

Coretime gives archaeology practices the structure and transparency needed to:

Keep projects on schedule

Reduce administrative burden

Improve billing accuracy

Make resourcing and budget decisions with confidence

  • Project Management

    As a project management tool, Coretime provides a central source for all the key data on your projects, allowing you to micro-manage projects from every conceivable angle. For architects specifically, RIBA work stages can be applied to projects and new work stages can also be easily added, giving clear visibility of progress on your projects at each work stage.

    Client led variations to the project plan can also be quickly identified and supporting notes entered against unplanned activities, giving you the evidence you need should you need to recover costs from your clients.

  • Effective Costing And Forecasting Tool

    You can forecast new projects using a detailed database of valuable financial data on past projects and fee forecasting can be done using Coretime’s Fee Allocation system and the associated reports. You can even test out various cost scenarios and identify when projects are unlikely to yield a return.

  • Financial Control

    With Coretime you can view profitability measures at any project level, to help ensure that you remain fully in control of all financial aspects of your projects and make timely decisions to help maximise your profits. You can set pro-active email alerts to warn managers when projects are at risk of exceeding budgets and you can give the right people easy access to the financial data held on your projects to help keep your finances in control.

  • Understanding Business Opportunity Costs

    In Coretime, speculative time can be recorded as a separate business activity so that the real costs of winning new business are clearly visible. This feature alongside the extensive reporting Coretime offers are a powerful combination that can help you fully understand the costs to your business and idestify new opportunities for increasing profits.

  • Effective Resource Planning

    Easy access to complete, accurate, real-time data on staff availability and productivity allows you to easily plan recources, maximise the productivity of your team and forecast work to provide a clear work schedule. For  even more detailed planning Coretime can also link to MS Project.

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