Time tracking for hvac technicians
Track visits throughout your day
Your work can include Checking refrigerant levels, Replacing faulty capacitors, Cleaning condenser coils. You might visit Residential basements, Commercial rooftops, Multi-family apartment complexes in one day. Use your timeline to review each recorded visit before billing.
Common time-tracking challenges
- Difficulty distinguishing between active diagnostic time and transit time when billing for service calls
- Losing track of exact mileage for remote commercial rooftop jobs during tax season
- The 'drift' between finishing a repair and manually recording the end of a job site visit
- Inability to justify labor duration on complex, multi-hour compressor replacements
How TradesTimer handles it
- Automatic stop detection captures every time you pull up to a unit or job site
- Automatic mileage logging for every trip between residential and commercial locations
- Rounded billable hours that reflect actual time spent on-site without manual input
- Eliminates the need to pre-configure job sites or manage complex timers while handling tools
Time-tracking experiences from hvac technicians
Each quote links to its original public discussion.
We tend to have smaller projects every day and we sometimes simply forget to invoice customers. … the solution should be: simple to use, paperless, support me so that I don't forget any services/expenses (if I don't do it right away, it's hard to remember)
He goes on to describe his ideal app: one that 'tracks hours worked using a digital logbook in your car' so the invoice data is just there afterwards — then asks why no app works that way. That workflow is exactly what TradesTimer does.
Five days to try it. Pro to keep tracking.
The upcoming paid release includes five days of tracking without payment details or automatic charges. Continue with Pro, including encrypted backup. Exports remain available after the trial.
- Automatic stop and trip recording
- Unlimited stops, drives, and days
- Review and edit stops and trips
- Rounded billable hours, exported as text or CSV
- Travel log with estimated distances
- 7-day summary view
- History stored on your phone
Canada: CA$9.99/month or CA$69.99/year. Both plans include the same features.
- Continued automatic tracking and timeline review
- End-to-end encrypted cloud backup
- Restore your full history on a new phone
- A backup stored separately from your phone
US prices are shown in USD; Canadian prices are shown in CAD. Your local App Store or Google Play price may differ. Subscriptions auto-renew until cancelled through the store where you purchased.
Control your location history
TradesTimer stores your history on your phone. Address lookups send coordinates to an address provider. You choose where to share your hours and travel exports.
If you enable Pro backup, TradesTimer encrypts your history before uploading it. Your recovery code unlocks the backup. See the privacy policy for details about address lookups, exports, and other data use.