Custom TimeChimp integration development
Appfront builds integrations with TimeChimp, the time tracking and project management software. TimeChimp has standard integrations with well-known accounting and payroll packages, but not with every system. For organisations with their own ERP, CRM or planning system, we build the link via TimeChimp's API, so projects, hours and budgets are not entered twice.
What is a TimeChimp integration?
TimeChimp is software for time tracking, project management and invoicing. Employees log their hours against projects and tasks, and the organisation can see how much time and budget has been spent on each project. TimeChimp has standard integrations with, among others, Exact, Moneybird, SnelStart and Loket, and a REST API that lets other systems read and write data.
A standard integration doesn't always fit. Those who create projects in their own ERP or CRM often re-enter them manually in TimeChimp. Logged hours are exported to planning or reporting tools. And anyone who wants to see budgets and project post-calculation alongside data from other systems keeps combining spreadsheets.
We build custom because organisations differ: which system is leading for clients and projects, which hours need to go where, and who needs to see what. We look at what data TimeChimp's API offers for your situation in the first step, together with you.
Projects in one place
Clients, projects and budgets from your own system into TimeChimp.
Hours flowing back
Logged hours and costs written back to your ERP, planning or reporting.
Via the API
An integration built on the TimeChimp REST API.
How we build your TimeChimp integration
We start with your administration: which system is the master for clients and projects, where each set of hours needs to go, and where the most re-typing happens today. We often begin with projects and hours, because that's where most of the time goes. Budgets and invoicing follow once the first integration is running well. That way you quickly see whether the integration saves time, before the rest is built. Afterwards, we maintain the integration as TimeChimp or your own systems change.
Your systems, your data and which system is the master.
What the TimeChimp API offers for you.
Projects sent across, hours and costs returned.
Go-live, monitoring, and maintenance when things change.
What a TimeChimp integration actually does
The components below come up in almost every TimeChimp integration. Which ones you need depends on your systems.
Clients
Clients from your CRM or ERP.
Projects
Projects, tasks and budgets.
Hours
Logged hours written back.
Budgets
Spent against budgeted.
Invoicing
Hours ready for invoicing.
Audit log
Every message recorded.
Who we build TimeChimp integrations for
The integration is intended for organisations that use TimeChimp alongside other systems. The more projects and employees you have, the more time an integration saves.
Consultancies
Many projects at once. Budget per project matters most.
Engineering firms
Projects in an own ERP. Avoiding double entry is the core.
IT companies
Hours through to planning and invoicing. Post-project costing matters.
Software suppliers
A product alongside TimeChimp. The API is the core.
Technology and integrations
This page is about integrations with TimeChimp. If you want custom time tracking software, see our page on time tracking software. For accounting, see our pages on the Exact Online integration and the AFAS integration. You can read about how we work under getting software built.
Why choose Appfront for your TimeChimp integration?
A project created twice, and hours that carry on through export, cost time every week and create errors. That's what we build around: projects in one place, hours flowing back automatically, and an integration with the TimeChimp API.
No manual re-keying
Projects come into TimeChimp automatically.
Hours on time
Logged hours carry on straight through.
Budget in view
Spent versus budgeted, per project.
Security and privacy for a TimeChimp integration
The integration processes data about employees, clients and hours. The API key is stored encrypted and used only by the integration, and every message is logged.
The integration runs in a European data centre, with encrypted storage and daily backups. We record the processing in a data processing agreement, and you decide who has access to the log.
Frequently asked questions about a TimeChimp integration
Questions organisations ask before they get started.
TimeChimp is software for time tracking, project management and invoicing. Employees log hours against projects and tasks, and the organisation can see how much time and budget has been spent on each project.
Yes, including Exact, Moneybird, SnelStart and Loket. If your package is on the list and the integration does what you need, custom work is not necessary. A custom integration is for a system that is not on the list, or for data that the standard integration does not include.
Via TimeChimp's REST API, using JSON messages and a key per account. We'll look at which data can move in each direction in the first step. We build the integration so that a change on TimeChimp's side doesn't cause errors unnoticed: the integration checks what it receives and reports when something doesn't add up.
Yes. A project created in your ERP or CRM arrives in TimeChimp with its client, tasks and budget. If the budget changes, it is updated. A project closed in your own system is also closed in TimeChimp, so no further hours can be booked against it.
Yes. Hours and costs return to your ERP, planning or reporting tools, by project and by employee, so you see the post-calculation in one place. You choose whether this happens immediately or only once hours have been approved, so that only checked hours move on.
The integration reports it and records what went wrong. The message is retried or set aside for review, so no project or hour is lost.
For organisations with their own ERP, CRM or planning system alongside TimeChimp, and for software vendors who want to connect their product to TimeChimp. If you work with a package that already has a standard integration, we'll first check whether that is sufficient.
Want TimeChimp connected to your own systems?
Tell us which systems you use alongside TimeChimp and which data is currently transferred by hand. We'll show you what the integration would look like.