A daily process employees can follow
Expected hours, work codes, certification and reminders make missing or late time visible without turning time entry into a specialist task.
For government contractors · 10–50 employees
Defensible timekeeping without the weight of a full ERP.
Give employees a clear daily process, preserve the story behind every correction and keep labor, contract and funding visibility connected—without making a growing contractor buy more system than it needs.
Employee-owned daily time Formal corrections and approvals Contract and funding visibility
GovCon overviewCurrent period
LiveTimecards96%complete today
Open funding$418kacross active work
Exceptions3need attention
Needs attentionWhat managers see first
Atlas · CLIN 0017.4 weeks funding runway
Lewis · TuesdayCorrection awaiting approval
Orion · ODC support92% of funded labor used
The operating result
Make good timekeeping the normal way work gets recorded.
Controls matter most when employees can follow them every day and managers can resolve exceptions before payroll or invoicing.
A defensible history of change
Corrections carry reasons, approvals stay attached and locked periods protect the record after review.
Contract context beside the time
Track labor against projects, contracts and funded work so operational risk appears before a ceiling becomes a crisis.
How it works
One connected path from hour to decision.
Employees record and certify
People enter their own time against the right work, see what is missing and certify the period.
Managers resolve exceptions
Approvers review late entries, corrections, missing hours and funding pressure in one operating rhythm.
Finance closes with evidence
Approved labor, correction history and supporting records stay connected for reconciliation and review.
Built around the work
The controls and visibility this team needs.
Best for small and growing federal contractors that need stronger labor-charging discipline, cleaner audit evidence and better contract visibility.
Daily time discipline
Expected-versus-recorded hours, reminders and employee certification.
Formal corrections
Reasoned changes and a clear record of who changed what and when.
Approval and locking
Manager review, status control and protected closed periods.
Labor distribution
Approved time organized by person, project and work code.
Funding runway
See consumption and projected exhaustion while there is time to act.
Audit evidence
Keep time, approvals and change history together instead of rebuilding the story later.
A lighter operating layer
Keep QuickBooks. Add the controls it does not provide by itself.
Timecard Lab is not a general ledger or a full GovCon ERP. It is the focused time, labor and contract-control layer for teams that want to keep their accounting stack lean.
Use approved time as a cleaner input to accounting
Add contract and funding context before month end
Move to a full ERP when accounting complexity—not software pressure—justifies it
Useful before you buy
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See whether Timecard Lab fits your GovCon process.
Bring one real timekeeping or funding workflow. We will show the controls, the evidence and the boundary between Timecard Lab and your accounting system.