Fit
Who each product is best for
Choose Talstor if…
- You need scheduling, PTO, messaging and approvals, not only a clock.
- You want job costing and invoicing attached to the same hours.
- A base fee plus per user charge is expensive for your headcount.
- You do not run your books in QuickBooks, or you do not want your time tool tied to it.
Choose QuickBooks Time if…
- You run QuickBooks payroll and want hours to flow straight through.
- GPS tracking and geofencing on a native app are hard requirements.
- Your accountant owns the tool choice and standardises on Intuit.
- You need nothing beyond timesheets and approvals.
Side by side
How the two compare
| Area | Talstor | QuickBooks Time |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Headcount bands, every feature included, free during beta. | Monthly base fee plus per user charge across two tiers. |
| Scope | Time, scheduling, PTO, messaging, jobs, estimates, costing and invoicing. | Time tracking, basic scheduling and approvals. |
| Payroll | Payroll ready CSV and XLSX exports for any provider. | Native flow into QuickBooks payroll. |
| Location tracking | Not offered. | GPS tracking and geofencing on the premium tier. |
| Invoicing | Included on every plan. | Handled by QuickBooks separately. |
QuickBooks Time details are summarised from their public product and pricing pages and can change at any time, so check their pricing page before you decide. QuickBooks Time is a trademark of its owner and we are not affiliated with them.
Pricing
What you actually pay
Talstor
Priced only by how many people use it. Free up to 10 employees, then $15/mo for 25 people, $30/mo for 50 and $60/mo for 100, with custom pricing above that. Every plan includes the whole platform. During beta every plan is free.
See the full pricing breakdownQuickBooks Time
A monthly base fee for the account plus a per user charge, split across a standard and a premium tier, with the higher tier adding geofencing and advanced reporting. Costs also bundle differently if you buy it inside a QuickBooks payroll subscription.
We do not publish their exact figures here because they change, so price your own configuration on their site.
Honest advantages
The two things we genuinely do better
1. It replaces more than the timesheet
Scheduling with recurring rules, PTO policies and balances, swap requests, team messaging, approvals and audit history all sit in the same account as the clock. Most businesses buying a time tool are also paying for two or three of those elsewhere.
2. Hours become invoices, not just payroll lines
Tracked time in Talstor rolls into job costs and then into an invoice, so billable work reaches a customer without a separate quoting tool. QuickBooks Time sends hours to payroll and stops.
Where they win
Where QuickBooks Time is the better buy
If you live in QuickBooks, the native path from timesheet to payroll is genuinely valuable and Talstor cannot match it today. Their mobile apps with GPS and geofencing are also more mature than our browser based clock. For an accounting led, QuickBooks first business, theirs is the tidier fit.