RISE UP · TIME TRACKING

The hours you track should be the hours you pay

Tracking time is a solved problem — there are a dozen good products that do it. What is not solved is the gap afterwards: the export, the spreadsheet, and the month-end transfer where the hours that were worked become the hours that survived being re-typed. Rise Up closes that gap by sending them straight into payroll.

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What happens between tracking and paying

Almost every team has a time tracker and a payroll system, and almost nobody has them connected. What sits in between is a person, a spreadsheet and a deadline.

  • Somebody exports a CSV at month end, and somebody else reads it into a payroll sheet.
  • The hours that get paid are the hours that survived that transfer, not the hours that were worked.
  • A correction after payroll has run is a manual adjustment that nothing else knows about.
  • For client work, the hours billed and the hours paid come from two different places and quietly disagree.

None of that is anybody being careless. It is the predictable result of asking a human to copy numbers between two systems once a month, under time pressure, with no way to check the result against anything.

Agents for the machines your team actually uses

Linux

Agents for Linux are uncommon in this category. Most trackers cover macOS and Windows and leave Linux users filling in a form, which means the engineers are the ones guessing.

macOS

A native agent rather than a browser tab that has to stay open to count.

Windows

The same agent, so a mixed team is measured one way rather than two.

Web

For anyone who cannot install software, or should not have to — contractors, occasional users, a borrowed machine.

What it records, and what it admits

A timesheet is only worth the confidence you have in it. Rise Up is built so that the measured hours and the remembered hours stay visibly different from each other.

The Rise Up timer running, showing the project, a what-are-you-working-on field, a Stop button, and a status line reading Connected, Queue empty, Last shot 19:36:50.
The timer will not run on nothing, and the status line is honest about the rest: connected, what is queued, when the last capture was taken.
A Rise Up notice reading: Timer on again. You were away for about 10 minutes, so the timer stopped and started again when you came back. The time you were away has not been counted.
Idle time is subtracted and then announced, rather than quietly left on the clock.

A project and a task, first

The timer will not start on nothing. Saying what you are working on before you begin is what makes the hours worth anything afterwards.

Away time is not billed

Step away and the timer stops; come back and it starts again, and it tells you plainly that the gap was not counted.

Honest manual entries

Forgotten time can be added, but it is stored as manual, with no screenshots and a stated reason, so an approver can tell it apart.

Periodic capture

Screenshots on an interval rather than a continuous recording, with the time of the last one shown in the window.

Nothing hidden from the person

A “what is being recorded right now” panel, a log you can open, and a Go private control — in the same window, not buried in an admin setting.

Works offline

Time recorded while the connection is down is queued and sent when it returns. Work on a bad network is still work.

It stops being a timer about ten seconds in

Because the other end is an ERP rather than a reporting dashboard, the window you leave open to track time is also where your work queue lives. No other tracker can do this without owning the system the work is in.

Your tasks, with a play button

Open tasks come through from Orbis. Start the timer on one directly rather than retyping its name into a tracker.

What is waiting on you

Tasks past their date, follow-ups due, leave requests to approve, overdue invoices — in the window you already have open all day.

Apply for leave from the timer

Leave type, dates and a reason, sent for approval. It lands in the same Orbis that runs the payroll the hours feed.

Hours arrive in payroll without anyone carrying them

Tracked hours sync into Orbis, where the Team module runs payroll with the Indian statutory rules — PF, ESI, PT and LWF computed with their ceilings and slabs rather than as flat rates.

An Orbis pay run showing payable days, required hours, worked hours and the shortfall for each employee, with an Import hours action on the run itself.
The Orbis side of the sync: required hours, worked hours and the shortfall sit on the pay run itself, next to gross and net.

Because it is one record rather than two systems and an export, there is no monthly reconciliation to do. The hours that drive the pay are the hours that were measured, and a correction made afterwards is visible to everything that reads them — including, for client work, the project costing.

Orbis itself runs as a macOS and Windows desktop app as well as in the browser, so a team that works in desktop software all day is not pushed back into a browser tab to approve a timesheet.

More on the payroll side in Orbis HRMS, and on why the statutory detail is the part that goes wrong in PF, ESI, PT and LWF: Indian payroll without the March panic.

Frequently asked questions

Desktop agents for Linux, macOS and Windows, plus a web version. The Linux agent is the one worth noting — most time trackers cover macOS and Windows only, which leaves the engineers on Linux estimating their hours into a form at the end of the week.

See it tracking, then see it paying

The demonstration worth asking for is the whole chain: hours recorded on one machine, arriving in a payroll run, without anybody exporting anything in between.

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