Time
Start the timer, tag it, stop it, that is the whole interaction.
Time tracking that matches how accounting firms actually bill. Start a timer, tag the client, stop when the work is done, and everything else in the app is just reporting.
The Promise
A stopwatch with a client tag.
That is the core of the app. Everything else, including reporting, rates, and rounding, is configuration the firm sets once rather than complexity the team has to manage every day.
Cairn Time is built for how accounting firms actually work, client by client and engagement by engagement. Start a timer, tag the client, and stop when the work is done. Enter hours manually when a timer was missed. Set up quick-entry favorites for the tasks the team does every day. Daily and weekly views are clean, scannable, and editable, and there is no learning curve to absorb before the team can start tracking.
How It Works
Timer or manual. Your call.
Running
Tuesday, Mar 10
6h 15mConfiguration
Your rules, your rates, your categories.
Cairn Time adapts to how your firm already bills clients, rather than asking the firm to adapt to the software.
Hourly Rates
Configurable per user, per client, or per work category. Your rate structure, your rules.
Rounding
Quarter-hour rounding: nearest, up, or down. Configurable to match how your firm bills.
Work Categories
Tax Prep, Bookkeeping, Advisory, Payroll. Categories that match how your firm actually operates.
Billable Classification
Tag time as billable or non-billable. Internal meetings, admin, PTO: tracked but not billed.
Part of the Stack
Track time. See where it goes.
Cairn Time pulls client lists from across the suite for unified search when tagging entries, and every hour tracked will soon feed into Cairn Insights for utilization and profitability analysis.
Cairn Insights
Feeds time data for utilization and profitability analysis.
Cairn Books
Pulls your full client roster for instant search when tagging time entries.
Cairn Returns
Tag time against households and entities from Returns for tax-season tracking.
Part of the Cairn suite
Cairn Time works best alongside the rest of your stack, so it is worth seeing what else the suite offers before you build out the firm's tooling.