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Improve budgeting, efficienty and productivity with bcToolkit

Established in 2007 bcToolkit is a SaaS Basecamp reporting tool that integrates seamlessly with 37signals project management and online collaboration tool, Basecamp.

bcToolkit is available in 3 price plans that are set up to match Basecamp's own pricing system to help you get the best value for money. To get the correct bcToolkit plan simply match the number of live projects you have in Basecamp to the correct plan on the bcToolkit pricing page and the rest is simple.

With Basecamp and bcToolkit you will be able to understand where you are underestimating time on projects or going over budget which means that firstly you can recoup lost revenue by selling the time that you would not otherwise bill or secondly use bcToolkit to learn where to charge more for projects.

bcToolkit provides detailed and accurate reporting services for your Basecamp data. By aggregating and analysing the amount of time spent across users, projects and clients, providing you with a better understanding of how your time, and money, is spent across your organization.

Comparing your estimates of time on projects, or in other words time you have sold, with the actual time you spend is easy with bcToolkit. The sales price of a project is calculated because bcToolkit knows your hourly rate and the amount of time you sold which has been derived from the correctly marked up to-do's in Basecamp (This simple process is explained in the how to use bcToolkit videos). Basecamp data then provides bcToolkit with the time spent on each project and bcToolkit reports on the ratios between these types of data.

bcToolkit allows you to see how efficient your business is by showing hours sold relative to hours taken to deliver a project. bcToolkit also reports estimated recoverable time which is hours sold relative to all hours available as well your true recoverable time which is actual hours spent relative to total hours available. The information bcToolkit gives you about the differences between true and estimated recoverable time could be the difference between profit and loss for your business.

These reports provided by bcToolkit are specifically designed to highlight those key performance indicators (KPI's) described above, demonstrating the health of your business and most importantly give you the information to charge for all the lost and unbilled time that eats away at your profitability.

bcToolkit lets you :

  • Identify inefficient projects, clients and employees.
  • Monitor their progress over time.
  • See your ROI across any expenditure.
  • "Drill down" from the overall outlook, to individual tasks
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