What do you dislike about BigTime?
We are a 150-person engineering firm running BigTime across 3,500+ active projects, and after more than a year of implementation alongside our client, I can say honestly: we were sold a product that does not deliver what was demoed.
What’s actually broken:
• Critical invoice rounding bug. Invoices generated in BigTime do not post cleanly to Sage Intacct through the native integration. The rounding discrepancies force us to manually re-import invoices into our accounting system — which is the exact workflow the integration is supposed to eliminate. We have been raising this for months. It is not fixed.
• Bugs sit open for 6+ months. Tickets we logged early in our implementation are still unresolved. When we meet with our CSM or executive leadership, we get acknowledgment that the issues exist but no commitments, no ETAs, and no meaningful status updates between meetings.
• Weak access controls. The system does not lock down information well. For a firm managing sensitive client and rate data across thousands of projects, this is a real problem.
• Analytics bait-and-switch. We were sold on the dashboard and analytical capabilities. We were later told the dashboards are no longer being developed and that if we want our own data, we can pay extra for data lake access, export it ourselves, and rebuild everything in Power BI. That is not what was on the sales deck.
• The information architecture is poorly thought through. The Client > Project > Task hierarchy, how bill rates and escalations are entered and maintained, how workflows route — none of it scales gracefully. We are constantly engineering workarounds to make basic operations function at our volume.
On the customer success side:
We have done everything a customer is supposed to do. We escalated to our CSM. We escalated to executive leadership. We were told there is a plan. We rarely hear where our tickets sit. Every meeting is the same conversation: yes, those problems exist; no, we cannot tell you when they will be fixed.
Bottom line:
If you are a small services firm with simple billing and a handful of projects, BigTime may work fine. If you are running real volume, need a trustworthy accounting integration, care about role-based access, or were planning to lean on the analytics, do extensive due diligence and get specific commitments in writing before you sign. We did not, and we are paying for it in workarounds, manual processes, and lost confidence. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.