Understand QuickBooks Time's current pricing, Premium versus Elite features, and how the former TSheets product fits with QuickBooks Online.
QuickBooks Time is Intuit's employee time tracking and scheduling product, known for most of its history as TSheets. TSheets was founded in 2006 in Eagle, Idaho by CEO Matt Rissell and grew into a significant independent time-tracking company before Intuit acquired it in a deal announced in December 2017 and valued at roughly 340 million US dollars, closing in January 2018.
After the acquisition, the product was gradually rebranded from TSheets by QuickBooks to its current name, QuickBooks Time, and it now operates as a dedicated time tracking and scheduling companion to QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Payroll, rather than as a standalone accounting product. It remains focused specifically on time tracking, scheduling, and related workforce management rather than broader bookkeeping.
QuickBooks Time offers GPS-enabled mobile time tracking so field and remote employees can clock in and out from job sites using their phones, along with geofencing that can prompt automatic clock-in and clock-out reminders based on an employee's location. Scheduling tools let managers build and share employee schedules and available shifts, and overtime alerts help prevent unplanned labor cost overruns.
The Elite tier adds more advanced project time tracking and real-time project collaboration features aimed at businesses managing multiple concurrent jobs or projects, while both tiers feed time data directly into QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Payroll to streamline payroll processing and eliminate manual timesheet entry.
QuickBooks Time is sold in two tiers, each combining a flat monthly base fee with a per-active-user monthly fee. As of current 2026 pricing, following a rate increase implemented around July 1, 2026, the Premium plan costs 20 US dollars per month base plus 10 US dollars per active user per month, and the Elite plan costs 40 US dollars per month base plus 12 US dollars per active user per month.
Both plans include one free admin license, and a QuickBooks Online subscription is required alongside QuickBooks Time, since the two products are sold and used together rather than fully independently. The July 2026 price increase raised per-user fees by roughly 2 US dollars per user across both tiers compared to prior pricing.
As of 2026, QuickBooks Time Premium costs 20 US dollars per month plus 10 US dollars per active user per month, and Elite costs 40 US dollars per month plus 12 US dollars per active user per month.
QuickBooks Time was previously known as TSheets, an independent company founded in 2006 in Eagle, Idaho, which Intuit acquired in a deal that closed in January 2018.
Yes, a QuickBooks Online subscription is required to use QuickBooks Time, since the two products are designed to work together.
Premium focuses on attendance tracking and basic scheduling, while Elite adds advanced project time tracking and real-time project collaboration features for a higher price.
Yes, QuickBooks Time offers GPS-enabled mobile time tracking and geofencing that can prompt automatic clock-in and clock-out reminders based on location.
Intuit announced its acquisition of TSheets on December 5, 2017, in a deal valued at roughly 340 million US dollars, and the acquisition closed on January 11, 2018.
Yes, both the Premium and Elite plans include one free administrator license.