TSheets pricing: what QuickBooks Time costs per user, and what the base fee covers.
TSheets is now QuickBooks Time. Time Premium lists a $20 monthly base fee plus $10 per user per month, Time Elite lists $40 plus $12 per user, and both need a QuickBooks Online account. If your team bills clients for its hours rather than running hourly payroll, Keito is a flat-price option for the whole workspace.
Quick answer
QuickBooks Time, formerly TSheets, has two time-tracking plans. Time Premium is a $20 monthly base fee plus $10 per user per month; Time Elite is $40 plus $12 per user per month. The base fee covers one admin, and a QuickBooks Online subscription is required on top. For 10 team members, Time Premium lists at about $120 a month and Time Elite at about $160. Keito Pro is $49 USD a month for the whole workspace, with no per-user fees.
Keito Pro and Business are priced per workspace, so adding a team member, reviewer, or finance user does not add a per-user fee
No base fee plus seats
One published monthly price per Keito plan, instead of a base fee plus a charge for every person who tracks time
Approvals included
Timesheet and expense approvals and per-member billing rates are on Keito Pro
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Illustrative approval queue
Example agency
Illustrative billing period
Ready to invoice
Entries approved
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Clients
12
Team members
10
Hours from timers, calendars, and AI assistants
Each entry tied to a client, project, task, and billable status
Example
Approved at each person’s billing rate
A reviewer approves timesheets before they reach an invoice
Example
Invoice and client report from approved time
Stripe payment link on the invoice, copied to QuickBooks Online or Xero on Business
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Built around the work before the invoice
Most people searching for TSheets pricing want to know what QuickBooks Time will cost for their headcount. The answer has three parts: a monthly base fee, a per-user charge for everyone who tracks time, and a QuickBooks Online subscription underneath. That model suits hourly teams that clock in and out for payroll. If your hours turn into client invoices instead, Keito prices the workspace rather than the headcount.
Set up clients, projects, and rates
Create the clients, projects, and tasks you bill against, with per-member billing rates and project budgets by total hours, total fees, task, or person. Keito has no QuickBooks Time importer, so you set the billing structure up once and keep your QuickBooks Time timesheet exports as the archive.
Capture hours with context
Run a timer in the web app, the Mac, Windows, or iOS app, or the Chrome extension, or add completed time. Review Outlook or Google Calendar events before they become entries, track time from Slack or a Trello card, sync linked entries to Jira worklogs, and let AI assistants such as Claude Desktop or ChatGPT log time through Keito’s hosted MCP connector.
Approve, then invoice
On Pro and Business, timekeepers submit timesheets and a reviewer approves them at each person’s billing rate. By default, Keito invoices include only approved billable time and expenses; invoices can be paid through Stripe and, on Business, copied to QuickBooks Online or Xero.
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QuickBooks Time plans vs Keito
A base fee plus a charge per user, or one flat workspace price.
Intuit’s QuickBooks Time pricing page lists two time-tracking plans, and both require a QuickBooks Online account. Time Premium is a $20 monthly base fee plus $10 per user per month and includes the workforce mobile app, time kiosk, alerts and notifications, and syncing time to QuickBooks for payroll and invoicing. Time Elite is a $40 monthly base fee plus $12 per user per month and adds project tracking with tasks and deadlines for the team. Every plan includes one free admin, scheduling, and support, and Intuit often shows an introductory discount on the base fee for the first months. Teams that also want payroll can buy QuickBooks Workforce plans, which bundle time tracking with full-service payroll at a higher base fee plus $13 to $17 per employee per month. QuickBooks Time is built around attendance, scheduling, and payroll. Keito’s case is narrower: reviewed billable hours and the client invoice built from them, at a published flat price for the whole workspace.
Choose QuickBooks Time if you run hourly payroll in QuickBooks and need a time kiosk, crew scheduling, and attendance tracking
Check the headcount: the per-user charge applies to everyone who tracks time, on top of the base fee and your QuickBooks Online plan
Choose Keito when billing clients from reviewed hours is the job and you want one flat price for every team member, reviewer, and finance user
Workflow fit
Pricing model
Keito keeps TSheets pricing connected to client, project, billable status, approval, and invoice context before the work reaches finance.
Choose QuickBooks Time if you run hourly payroll in QuickBooks and need a time kiosk, crew scheduling, and attendance tracking
Check the headcount: the per-user charge applies to everyone who tracks time, on top of the base fee and your QuickBooks Online plan
Choose Keito when billing clients from reviewed hours is the job and you want one flat price for every team member, reviewer, and finance user
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What Keito adds to TSheets pricing
One price for the whole team
Keito Pro is $49 USD/month, or $470 USD/year, per workspace with unlimited licensed users, so the price does not move when you add a contractor, reviewer, or finance user. It includes timesheet and expense approvals, project-scoped approval workflows, per-member billing rates, project budgets, and team capacity and utilization.
No per-user fees on Pro or Business
Per-member billing rates
Budgets by total hours, total fees, task, or person
Invoices built from approved time
Keito builds estimates, invoices, and recurring invoices from approved hours on every paid plan, accepts Stripe payments, and copies invoices to QuickBooks Online or Xero on Business, so the books stay in your accounting tool and clients only see reviewed time.
Only approved billable time and expenses by default
Client-ready reports by project and task
Stripe payments on Solo, Pro, and Business
Less manual entry, with a review step
Reviewed calendar imports pull in up to 50 Outlook or Google Calendar events at a time, the Jira Cloud integration writes worklogs from linked entries, and AI assistants can log time through Keito’s hosted MCP connector, so entries arrive with client and project context and a person confirms them before billing.
Slack and Trello time tracking on every plan
Jira Cloud worklog sync on Solo, Pro, and Business
Asana, Basecamp, and monday.com integrations on Business
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Compare the workflow
The difference is not just recording time. It is whether the record can support billing, project decisions, and client conversations.
AreaKeitoTypical setup
Pricing model
Solo $19 USD/month for one licensed user; Pro $49 USD/month and Business $199 USD/month per workspace, with no per-user fees.
QuickBooks Time: Time Premium $20/month base fee plus $10 per user per month; Time Elite $40/month base fee plus $12 per user per month.
Other subscriptions needed
None. Keito works on its own; the QuickBooks Online and Xero integrations are optional on Business.
A QuickBooks Online account is required to use QuickBooks Time.
Trial
14-day free trial for new signups on Solo, Pro, and Business (card required; billing starts after the trial unless you cancel).
Free trial with no credit card required.
Payroll and attendance
Keito does not run payroll, time kiosks, or shift scheduling; it is built for client billing from tracked time.
Time kiosk, scheduling, and alerts on every plan, with time synced to QuickBooks payroll; Workforce plans add full-service payroll.
Approvals and invoicing
Timesheet and expense approvals with per-member billing rates on Pro and Business; invoices from approved hours on every paid plan, with Stripe payments.
Time data syncs to QuickBooks for payroll and invoicing; the invoices themselves are created in QuickBooks Online.
TSheets is now QuickBooks Time. Time Premium costs a $20 monthly base fee plus $10 per user per month, and Time Elite costs a $40 monthly base fee plus $12 per user per month. The base fee covers one admin, and you also need a QuickBooks Online subscription. Intuit sometimes discounts the base fee for the first few months.
What is the difference between QuickBooks Time Premium and Elite?
Time Premium covers time and attendance: the workforce mobile app, a time kiosk, alerts and notifications, scheduling, and syncing time to QuickBooks for payroll and invoicing. Time Elite adds project tracking, with tasks and deadlines your team can work against, and costs $40 a month plus $12 per user instead of $20 plus $10.
Do I need QuickBooks Online to use QuickBooks Time?
Yes. Intuit’s pricing page states that a QuickBooks Online account is required to use QuickBooks Time, so the real monthly cost is the QuickBooks Time base fee and per-user charges plus your QuickBooks Online plan. Keito is a standalone subscription; the QuickBooks Online and Xero integrations are optional on Business.
How does TSheets pricing compare with Keito for a 10-person team?
For 10 team members, QuickBooks Time Premium lists at about $120 a month and Time Elite at about $160, before your QuickBooks Online plan or any introductory discount. Keito Pro is $49 USD a month, or $470 USD a year, for the whole workspace with no per-user fees, and includes timesheet approvals, project budgets, and invoicing from approved hours.
How do I switch from QuickBooks Time to Keito?
Keito has no QuickBooks Time importer, so plan a clean start. Export your timesheets from QuickBooks Time as the archive, set up clients, projects, tasks, and billing rates in Keito, and start the next billing period there. If you run payroll from QuickBooks Time, keep it for payroll; Keito handles client billing, not payroll.
How does Keito turn approved hours into invoices and client reports?
Each approved entry carries the client, project, task, person, duration, notes, billable status, and billing rate. By default, Keito invoices include only approved billable time and expenses. Keito builds invoices, estimates, and recurring invoices from them, accepts Stripe payments, and produces time and budget reports by client and project; on Business, invoices can be copied to QuickBooks Online or Xero.
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Start solo.Add people when you need them.
Solo includes 1 licensed user, unlimited AI agents, Mac, Windows, and iOS apps, Stripe payments, and standard CSV and Excel exports. Pro adds your team. Business adds integrations, planning, advanced reporting, and stronger controls.
Solo
1 licensed user
For independent consultants, freelancers, and small studios running work with AI agents.
Solo, Pro, and Business can use API keys for agent workflows.
Exports on every plan
Solo, Pro, and Business include standard CSV and Excel data export.
Build a cleaner billing record for agencies, consultancies, accounting firms, and other professional services teams pricing tsheets or quickbooks time, and teams already on it who mainly use the timesheets to bill clients rather than to run payroll.
Start with Solo, add people on Pro when you need reviewers or collaborators, and see how Keito turns tracked effort into clearer reports.