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Hubstaff

Hubstaff helps distributed and hybrid teams record work time, review activity, and turn approved hours into payroll calculations and client billing.

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Overview

Teams can record time against projects and tasks using desktop, web, or mobile apps. The product generates timesheets for review, editing, approval, or rejection, and can connect approved hours to payment calculations and client invoices. Optional monitoring includes activity levels, app and URL usage, and screenshots; settings can be adjusted by role, team, or device. Personal-device tracking runs during active sessions, while company-device tracking may be configured to run automatically under organizational policy. Hubstaff does not log keystrokes, monitor email content, or access cameras.
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Product

Demo Url
hubstaff.com/employee-time-tracking
Documentation
developer.hubstaff.com
Solution Kind
Application

Who it is for

Organization Types
  • Business
User Count Range
Basis
documented scale claim: distributed organizations with 1,000+ members
Maximum
1,000

Features

Online Time Tracking

Track time with a start-and-stop timer across desktop, web, and mobile.

Assign tracked time to projects, tasks, clients, or locations.

Categories: Time Tracking

Timesheet Management

Generate online timesheets automatically from tracked time.

Review, edit, approve, or reject timesheet submissions from a centralized dashboard.

Categories: Time Tracking

Vacation/Leave Tracking

Track time off and PTO.

Manage PTO policies and approve time-off requests through the API.

Categories: Time Tracking

Billable & Non-Billable Hours

Set project budgets and track hours against clients and budgets.

Build invoices from approved time; approved hours can be connected to billing workflows.

Categories: Time Tracking

Project Time Tracking

Assign tracked hours to projects, tasks, clients, or locations.

Generate timesheets and connect approved hours to budgets, invoices, or payment workflows.

Categories: Time Tracking

Overtime Calculation

Track overtime and scheduled hours.

Apply overtime rules and holiday policies across locations for consistent pay.

Categories: Time Tracking

Clock In/Out

Employees can start and stop a timer to clock in and out.

For field teams, geofencing with the Locations add-on can start or stop the mobile timer on arrival at or departure from a job site.

Categories: Time Tracking

Employee Activity Monitoring

Track keyboard and mouse activity frequency during active time tracking.

Optionally track app and URL usage and capture screenshots.

Not included
  • Does not log keystrokes or access email content, webcams, or audio.
What you need
  • Monitoring settings and features must be enabled by the organization.
  • Personal-device tracking runs during active sessions; company-device tracking may run automatically under organizational policy.
More details & conditions: Employee Activity Monitoring

Configure monitoring by role, team, or device; blur or disable screenshots.

Categories: Employee Monitoring

Productivity Analysis

Review focus time, utilization, meeting time versus core work time, and productivity reports.

Use AI-powered anomaly detection to identify unusual activity patterns for review.

Categories: Employee Monitoring

Time Tracking

Track time using desktop, web, or mobile apps.

Use a start-and-stop timer, or configure company-device tracking to run automatically under organizational policy.

Categories: Employee Monitoring

Screen Activity Recording

Not included
  • Hubstaff does not record continuous screen video; optional screenshots are captured during active tracking.

Categories: Employee Monitoring

Browsing History

Not included
  • Hubstaff does not log keystrokes or capture typed content.
  • Hubstaff does not monitor email content or access cameras.

Categories: Employee Monitoring

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Idle Time Monitoring

Track periods of no activity and distinguish idle time from active time.

Organizations can remove idle time using a per-user setting; the feature is limited to periods with no activity whatsoever.

What you need
  • The organization must enable the relevant monitoring settings.

Categories: Employee Monitoring

Attendance Tracking

Track attendance, time off, breaks, overtime, and scheduled hours.

Generate timesheets from tracked time and support review, editing, approval, or rejection.

Categories: Employee Monitoring

Remote Access/Control

Not supported

Categories: Remote Work

Collaboration Tools

Delivery method: Integration

Connect workforce data with third-party tools and internal systems through integrations, API, CLI, and MCP.

Use Slack notifications for timer, project, and schedule events.

Categories: Remote Work

Access & availability

API operations and access

Read and write users, projects, time entries, pay rates, clients, invoices, PTO, activity, schedules, and budgets.

Create users, projects, and time entries; approve or deny manual time; manage PTO policies and notification rules.

Send timer, schedule, attendance, and project events through webhooks.

Not included
  • No direct report-export endpoint; reports can be rebuilt from underlying endpoints.
What you need
  • Included
Limits to check
  • API access is included with Team plan and above.
  • OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect; tokens inherit the member's role-based permissions and can be revoked.
  • Rate limit: 1,000 requests per hour per token or OAuth application; up to 500 results per page. HTTP 429 responses include Retry-After; limit increases are reviewed case by case.

Technical details

AI

AI usage conditions
Usage conditions
  • Use requires connecting workforce data to AI tools through the API, CLI, or MCP server.
  • AI access is scoped to the member's role-based permissions.
  • The customer decides what AI tools can read or write; actions are logged and access can be revoked.
Action Permissions
  • Action
    Query and reason over workforce data through the MCP server or CLI.
    Reversal
    Access can be revoked at any time.
    Permissions
    • Access is scoped to the member's role-based permissions.
    • Read or write access is determined by the AI tool permissions selected by the customer.
    Object scope
    Workforce data, including time, activity, projects, and budgets.
Use Cases
  • Team workflow insight analysis
  • Timesheet anomaly detection

API

API access conditions
  • API access is included with the Team plan and above.
  • OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect are supported; tokens inherit the member's role-based permissions and can be revoked.
  • Rate limit is 1,000 requests per hour per personal access token or OAuth application, with up to 500 results per page. HTTP 429 responses include a Retry-After header; limit increases are reviewed case by case.
  • The API supports read and write operations, including creating users, projects, and time entries; approving or denying manual time; and managing PTO policies and notification rules.
  • There is no direct report-export endpoint; reports can be rebuilt from underlying endpoints.
Access
Public
Documentation
developer.hubstaff.com
Outbound webhooks
Yes

Deployment

Client Channels
  • Browser
  • Desktop app
  • Mobile app
Delivery Models
  • Cloud (SaaS)

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