Insighty + Paymo:
time and billing, plus the financial layer
Paymo handles time tracking, project management, and invoicing for small to mid-size agencies. Insighty handles the financial intelligence above and beyond project billing — multi-stream revenue, contract lifecycle, infrastructure tracking, and forecasting.
Paymo
Time tracking & project billing
Insighty
Client management, contracts & financial ops
Paymo
Time tracking and project billing platform
A time tracking and project management platform for small to mid-size agencies, with built-in invoicing that lets teams bill clients directly from logged hours.
Best for
- Agencies that bill by the hour
- Project and task management
- Timesheets and resource scheduling
- Profitability tracking per project
Insighty
Agency Intelligence Platform
The financial and operational intelligence layer agencies need alongside their time tracking tools. Connects clients, contracts, retainers, hosting, domains, invoices, and pipeline into one unified revenue view.
Best for
- Agency owners and operations managers
- Revenue planning and invoice tracking
- Retainer and contract management
- Financial forecasting and pipeline
Paymo is exceptional at time tracking and project billing
This is not a "switch away from Paymo" argument. Paymo is a solid platform for agencies that bill by the hour and need project management built in.
Time tracking and timesheets
Detailed time tracking with timesheets, stopwatch, and bulk time entry options.
Project management with task boards
Kanban boards, Gantt charts, and task lists for full project lifecycle management.
Invoicing from tracked time
Generate invoices directly from logged hours with customisable templates.
Resource scheduling and planning
Visualise team availability and plan capacity across multiple projects.
Profitability reports per project
Compare estimated vs actual time and costs to measure project profitability.
Leave planning and team management
Manage team leave, absences, and availability within the platform.
The questions Paymo cannot answer for agency owners
Paymo knows everything about tracked time and project billing. The financial picture beyond project invoices is invisible.
"Which recurring maintenance contracts need invoicing this month?"
Paymo generates invoices from tracked time. It doesn't manage recurring contract schedules, renewal alerts, or scope ceiling billing independently of projects.
"Which hosting plans and domain renewals are due in the next 90 days?"
Infrastructure renewal tracking and automated expiry alerts are not part of Paymo's feature set.
"What is probability-weighted pipeline value for next quarter?"
Paymo has no sales pipeline or revenue forecasting.
"Which clients have multiple contract types — projects, retainers, hosting — and what is the combined annual value?"
Paymo tracks project billing. Multi-stream revenue intelligence per client isn't its model.
What each tool handles
Different tools, different jobs. The overlap is minimal by design.
Capability
Paymo
Insighty
Time tracking & timesheets
✓
✓
Project management
✓
—
Invoicing from tracked time
✓
✓
Resource scheduling
✓
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Project profitability
✓
✓
Maintenance contract lifecycle
—
✓
Hosting & domain renewal tracking
—
✓
Revenue planning (multi-stream)
—
✓
"This Month" invoice view
~
✓
Sales pipeline & forecast
—
✓
Invoice automation (recurring)
~
✓
Contract scope ceiling alerts
—
✓
Keep Paymo for time and billing. Add Insighty for the full financial picture.
Paymo is a solid choice for agencies that bill by the hour. Insighty adds the financial intelligence layer — multi-stream contracts, infrastructure tracking, and pipeline — that time-based billing tools don't cover.