vs BigTime

BigTime Alternative — Accurate Hours for Your Billing Reports (2026)

BigTime combines time tracking, billing, and PSA reporting with deep QuickBooks integration. Rize supplies the part its reports depend on — complete, AI-categorized hours by client and project — captured automatically instead of typed in.

BigTime is a solid fit for QuickBooks-centric firms — time, expense, invoicing, and PSA reports in one system, from $20/user/month. Its ceiling is the input: every utilization and project-profitability report runs on manual timesheets, which miss 15–40% of billable time. Firms that keep BigTime for billing can fix the input by feeding it Rize's automatically captured hours — or drop the suite and run reports directly on Rize data.

Key differences

Rize vs BigTime

Rize beats BigTime on scope, time capture, quickbooks, report accuracy, pricing — the core reasons teams switch from manual time tracking to automatic, AI-categorized billable hours.

Scope

Time capture, categorization, and profitability — nothing else to adopt

Time, expense, billing, and PSA reports in one system

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Time capture

Fully automatic — no timers, no timesheets

Manual timesheets drive all reports

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QuickBooks

Exports accurate hours to QuickBooks and invoicing tools

Native QuickBooks sync of manually entered time

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Report accuracy

100% of work sessions captured and categorized

Reports inherit manual-entry gaps

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Pricing

From $9.99/mo individuals, $29.99/seat/mo teams

From $20/user/mo

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Feature comparison

How Rize stacks up

See how Rize compares to BigTime across the features that matter.

BigTime
Rize
Automatic time capture
AI categorization by client/project
QuickBooks integration
Native sync
Export + Zapier
Billing + invoicing suite
Invoices from tracked time
Utilization and margin reporting
Timesheet discipline required
Pricing
From $20/user/mo
From $9.99/mo

Frequently Asked Questions

Rize is the best BigTime alternative when the problem is the timesheet itself. It captures every work session automatically and categorizes it by client and project — the accurate dataset BigTime's utilization and profitability reports need but don't get from manual entry.

Yes. Rize captures and categorizes the hours, then exports them to QuickBooks and invoicing tools via integrations, Zapier, or CSV. You keep the accounting system and upgrade the data feeding it.

No. BigTime's time entry is manual — staff type hours into timesheets, and every downstream report reflects what was remembered. Rize removes the entry step: hours exist because work happened.

BigTime Essentials starts at $20 per user per month. Rize is $9.99/month for individuals and $29.99 per seat per month for teams — priced for the capture and profitability layer, not a billing suite.

For a firm whose pain is unreliable utilization and client-profitability numbers, Rize is better — the reports run on complete data. For a firm that needs billing and expense management in the same system and accepts manual entry, BigTime covers more workflow.

Rize generates invoices from tracked time, but it's not a billing suite — most firms keep QuickBooks or their invoicing tool and feed it Rize's accurate hours. The billing workflow stays where it is; the numbers get trustworthy.

Minutes to install per person, days to reliable utilization data, about 30 days to margin-per-client numbers worth repricing from. There's no timesheet backlog to fix — capture starts at install.

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