ehour

Nov 23 2007

Going Proprietary again

So while shopping for a new Timesheet application, last month we tried to use eHour. We tried, and have already stopped our evaluation.

Our requirements are pretty simple. A bunch of consultants need to be able to book their time on different projects. We need to be able to print out these timesheets for a customer to be able to sign and our financial department needs to be able to print invoices based on the time we spend for the different customers.

Apart from a rather itchy user interface, a really non straightforward way to add projects or even try to modify them it were mainly
little annoyancies such as not being able to print a timesheet if you only have 1 project you worked on that month, made us look again for alternatives.

Then we ran into this posting on the eHour blog. eHour indeed had fixed some of the annoyancies we had but decided to close their source again. Right end of story for us there.

So rather than being able to help out and contribute to a better product, we are now once again in the market to try our next Open Source timesheet app.