The Clockify alternative for when the problem is no longer recording hours
Clockify solves company-wide time tracking at almost no cost, which is why it is everywhere. What usually happens next is that the hours are there but the business decisions still come out of a spreadsheet somebody updates every month.
The same discipline around hours, connected to real cost, project margin, utilisation, invoicing and P&L.
If what you need is for everyone to clock in or log hours at the lowest possible cost, Clockify is a very sensible option and there is little reason to change it. If your question is no longer how many hours went in but what each project left behind and how the year is going, you will need a layer Clockify does not cover in depth.
Why consultancies start looking for a Clockify alternative
The financial layer stays on the surface
There are cost and profit reports per project, but no company-level financial close: no overhead allocation, no projected cashflow and no P&L you could take into a board meeting.
Decisions still come out of a spreadsheet
To decide whether to raise a rate, take a project or reinforce a team you have to export and cross data. The tool you actually manage with becomes the spreadsheet, with its errors and its versions.
Adoption depends on discipline
Reminders exist, but there is no aggregate view of who has gone weeks without completing their timesheet. And with incomplete timesheets, every profitability calculation carries an error margin nobody can size.
It measures attendance more than billable work
Much of its muscle is in attendance, kiosk and presence tracking. For a consultancy what matters is not how long someone was there, but which part of that time is billable and at what margin.
Clockify and Tenki, point by point
| What you need | Clockify | Tenki |
|---|---|---|
| Model | Very generous free plan for company-wide time tracking | Paid product with a 14-day trial, no permanent free plan |
| Scope | Hours and reports; expenses and invoicing on paid plans | Hours, team, profitability and finance on the same platform |
| Profitability | Cost and profit reports per project | Margin in € and % in real time, with traffic lights and negative alerts |
| Indirect cost | Derived from cost rates per person | Direct and indirect costs allocated to show real company margin |
| Month-end close | You export the reports and assemble the result outside | P&L and forecast cashflow generated from data already recorded |
| Team health | Activity and attendance reports | Utilisation targets, worker scores, overtime and active blockers |
| Presence tracking | Kiosk, attendance and tracking: part of its offering | Not our focus: we measure billable work, not presence |
| Adoption | Depends on each person’s discipline | Automatic compliance: the system knows who is missing and flags it |
| Support during rollout | Self-service with documentation and standard support | Audit, setup, training and dedicated support while you get going |
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When to switch and when to stay
Stay on Clockify if…
- Your priority is getting the whole workforce to record hours at the lowest possible cost.
- You need presence tracking, kiosk or attendance more than profitability analysis.
- Your project margin is stable and predictable, and you do not need to watch it week by week.
- You already have an ERP or accounting stack that gives you the P&L and you do not want to duplicate it.
Switch to Tenki if…
- Hours have been recorded for months, but you still make decisions in a spreadsheet.
- You need real project margin, salaries and overheads included, not just an hourly rate.
- You want to know who is above or below their utilisation target, and act in time.
- You keep discovering loss-making projects once they have already been delivered.
- You would rather someone configured the platform around how you work and trained the team than build it yourself.
What migrating from Clockify looks like
Audit of how you work
We look at how clients, projects and tasks are organised in Clockify, and what analysis is happening outside it in spreadsheets.
We add the missing layer
We carry the structure across and add cost per person, overheads, budgets, rates and team utilisation targets.
History import
Clockify exports entries as CSV and we load them with the bulk import, preserving date, person, client and project.
Training and go live
Half an hour of training per person and dedicated support in the first weeks, with adjustments included while the team settles in.
The modules that close the loop
Weekly timesheet, daily timer, bulk CSV import and automatic compliance.
Real-time project margin, burn rate, scope creep and utilisation.
Expenses, invoicing, projected cashflow and automatic P&L.
More than 20 connected modules: team, clients, projects and KPIs.
Pick who we compare ourselves against
Compare it against your real projects, not a generic demo
Tell us how you handle hours and profitability today, and we will walk you through Tenki with your projects, your team and your margins. No commitment, no cost.
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