Time
Start. Tag. Stop. That's it.
Time tracking that matches how accounting firms actually bill. Start a timer, tag the client, stop when done. Everything else is reporting.
The Promise
A stopwatch with a client tag.
That's the core. Everything else — reporting, rates, rounding — is configuration, not complexity.
Time tracking designed for how accounting firms actually work — client-by-client, engagement-by-engagement. Start a timer, tag the client, stop when done. Enter hours manually when you forget. Set up quick-entry favorites for the tasks you do every day. Daily and weekly views that are clean, scannable, and editable. No learning curve, no complexity you don't need.
How It Works
Timer or manual. Your call.
Running
Tuesday, Mar 10
6h 15mConfiguration
Your rules. Your rates. Your categories.
Time adapts to how your firm bills — not the other way around.
Hourly Rates
Configurable per user, per client, or per work category. Your rate structure, your rules.
Rounding
Quarter-hour rounding — nearest, up, or down. Configurable to match how your firm bills.
Work Categories
Tax Prep, Bookkeeping, Advisory, Payroll — categories that match how your firm actually operates.
Billable Classification
Tag time as billable or non-billable. Internal meetings, admin, PTO — tracked but not billed.
Part of the Stack
Track time. See where it goes.
Time pulls client lists from across the suite for unified search when tagging entries. Every hour tracked will soon feed into Insights for utilization and profitability analysis.
Cairn Insights
Feeds time data for utilization and profitability analysis.
Cairn Books
Pulls your full client roster for instant search when tagging time entries.
Cairn Returns
Tag time against households and entities from Returns for tax-season tracking.
Part of the Cairn suite
Time works best alongside the rest of your stack. See what else Cairn offers.