Stintt vs QuickBooks Time
- No timer to start or stop
- Nothing installed on the laptop
- Timesheet drafted from calendar events
QuickBooks Time is built for payroll and crews on site — clock-ins, GPS, geofences. Stintt is built for knowledge work billed by the hour, with no location data at all.
QuickBooks TimeTime tracking inside a bigger suite
- Tracking is one tile of many
- Thin if you bill by the hour
Calendar events, read-only
- The week is already written down
- Chat covers what never got booked
- No agent on anyone’s laptop
Convenient if you already live there, thin if you bill by the hour.
Clock-in usually happens through the mobile app or a shared on-site kiosk.
Stintt vs QuickBooks Time, row by row
The same twelve rows every comparison on this site uses, so nothing is cherry-picked for QuickBooks Time. Where a capability is optional or plan-gated, it is marked partly rather than rounded either way.
QuickBooks Time (formerly TSheets) is excellent at the job it was designed for: getting an hourly, often mobile workforce clocked in and paid, with the payroll side already connected. The design assumptions show as soon as the work moves indoors. Knowledge work is not a shift, the billable question is which client rather than which shift, and GPS on a consultant's phone is a fight nobody wins. Stintt assumes the opposite worker: calendar-shaped days, hours attributed to clients, and no location data collected at all.
Compared August 2026 from each vendor's public documentation and pricing pages. Products change — check with the vendor before you decide.
Three steps, and none of them is a migration.
There is no import from QuickBooks Time, and pretending otherwise would be the first promise we broke. There does not need to be — a connected calendar arrives carrying the history a new tracker would spend months collecting.
Connect a calendar
Read-only access, granted once. It cannot create, edit or delete an event, and there is nothing to install on anyone's machine.
The history is already there
Existing calendar events become a draft timesheet immediately, so the first week is a review rather than an empty grid waiting for data to accrue.
Review, approve, bill
Correct the draft, log anything off-calendar from chat, and approve. Only approved entries reach a client invoice, and discarded time stays on the record.
What QuickBooks Time leaves on the table
Three specific things, not a feature count.
No location data, anywhere
Stintt collects no GPS, no geofences and no location history. For a consulting or agency team that is not a missing feature, it is the reason they will use it.
Hours arrive without a clock
Nobody clocks in. Calendar events become draft entries, and off-calendar work is one chat message.
Billing by client, not by shift
Clients carry their own rates, approved hours become line items, and the tax engine includes Modern and India GST templates.
When QuickBooks Time is the better choice
If you run payroll in QuickBooks and manage an hourly or field-based crew, keeping time in the same stack is worth more than anything Stintt could offer you.
If none of that describes your team, the rest of this page is the case for switching. If some of it does, QuickBooks Time is a reasonable buy and we would rather you knew that here than after a trial.
What people ask about QuickBooks Time and Stintt
No. Invoices are generated in Stintt and exported as PDF for you to send. If a direct accounting sync is a hard requirement, QuickBooks Time keeps that advantage.
No. Stintt is built for billable and non-billable client time, not payroll compliance, overtime calculation or scheduling.
Never. There is no mobile agent and no location collection of any kind — see the data-access page for the full list of what is and is not collected.
