Architects and engineers all over the world use BigTime to help them keep track of time, expenses, budgets, assignments, project status and more. It's one of our largest industry segments.

BigTime's AE Industry Skin

A/E firms need a solution that lets them manage the details behind larger jobs without forcing smaller jobs in the same box. BigTime provides that flexibility right out of the box. In addition to work descriptions and labor codes that are custom-tailored to A/E firms, BigTime offers the planning, budgeting and tracking capabilities that your customers demand.

Wide-Ranging Budgeting Capabilities

BigTime lets you setup internal budgets by person/task for larger projects and by person/job for smaller ones.

You can allocate specific tasks to a resource pool (e.g. – a group of CAD technicians) instead of an individual, and your team can see exactly where they should be spending their time: whether you’re billing a fixed-bid job or an hourly one.

Invoice/Billing that fits A/E Industry Standards

BigTime make AIA-standard billing easy and gives you the option to bill each project differently (time & materials, progress payments, partial work, etc.). We also provide a rate calculator that lets you bill by person, work code, labor code, and more.

Integrated with Microsoft Project for complete project management

Create project plans in Microsoft Project, and then import all of your budget, task, resource and scheduling data into BigTime. Our MasterPlan™ product gives Project users an easy way to tie work plans into an overall budgeting/allocation process.

Tools to Manage Direct and Indirect Costs

With BigTime, both employee and vendor/contractor expenses can be linked to projects, so your managers get a complete picture of where each job stands.