Project time recording for architects and engineers
With ZEP's highly configurable project time recording, you can master even the most complex projects within the planned budget. Manage your entire project management centrally, intuitively and digitally. ZEP lets you digitise quotations, reporting and invoices.
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For 20+ years, engineering firms have been at the core of our 1,800+ corporate clients and are boosting their team performance with ZEP!
Digital project controlling for engineers
The precise & simple recording of working and project times is invaluable for your engineering office. For these reasons:
- Complete and reliable recording of your project times
- Facilitate compliance with official regulations - such as the ECJ judgement
- Convert working time spent into internal costs and external sales
- Ensure the profitability of your projects by means of planned budgets
- Complete projects on time & on budget
- Analysing time data for efficient resource planning
Precise cost recording for complex projects
Don't have time for manual processes? With ZEP you can digitise your project business in no time at all:
- Digital holiday and absence planning with approval process
- Scan travel expense receipts digitally while travelling
- Project-related evaluation & final accounting at the push of a button
- Plan engineers for parallel projects and control their capacity utilisation
- Precise invoicing of different fee types (time-based, results-based, performance-based)
Project management for engineering firms
The following workflows can be realised directly in ZEP for recording project times:
- Plan and track multiple assignments of your engineers on a project-specific basis
- Simple management of your company structure by department or location
- Digitally allocate and charge travel expenses directly to your projects
- Create standardised offer templates & send offers in just a few minutes
- Automated text modules for efficient invoicing
Whitepaper Project time recording for engineers
Do you want reduced effort & increased precision for your project management? In this white paper you can expect exciting insights on the following topics:
- Which engineering and planning offices and use cases ZEP is particularly suitable for
- The path to digitalised project controlling from A to Z
- Presentation of the ZEP add-on modules from quotation to invoicing
- Continuous monitoring of your project budgets for the desired profitability
- Legally compliant time recording of working and project times
- and much more.
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FAQ - Project time recording for architecture and engineering firms
What is ZEP?
ZEP is a software solution for project time recording. With ZEP, engineers can digitally record and manage their working hours, projects, customers and activities. This web-based software offers various modules and functions to organise project management efficiently and centrally.
Why project time recording?
Project time tracking is critical to managing the increasing complexity of projects. With ZEP, engineers can accurately record their billable hours and allocate them to projects, clients and activities. This enables precise invoicing and centralised project controlling.
Can I assign working time to projects or customers?
Yes, ZEP makes it possible to assign working times directly to projects, customers and activities. This allows you to keep track of the working time spent and use it for billing and project analyses.
Can I integrate ZEP into my existing IT infrastructure?
ZEP is a web-based software and can be integrated into existing IT infrastructures. This enables seamless collaboration with other tools and systems your organisation uses - from Hubspot, Personio and Salesforce to our ZEP interfaces (SOAP & REST) for data exchange with the rest of the world.
Can I plan a project from start to finish?
Yes, ZEP offers functions for project-related planning. You can manage projects from planning to final invoicing, create standardised quotation templates and use automated text modules for efficient invoicing.
Can my engineers record travel expenses / receipts via ZEP?
Yes, ZEP enables your engineers to record travel expenses and receipts digitally and allocate them directly to the corresponding projects in ZEP. This simplifies the billing and controlling of travel expenses.
Our engineering office has several branches. Can we use ZEP across multiple locations?
Yes, ZEP offers department-specific analyses of times and costs, enables the assignment of a department manager as an additional user role and allows the use of different currencies depending on the department, which is particularly advantageous for locations in non-euro countries.
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