In "Basecamp helps "green team" save $2,000 a year and keep a zero carbon footprint" [Product Blog], Martin Carrion, Manager at Creative Field Media, wrote to tell us about how his in-house "green team" uses Basecamp to stay green and save money.
Recently he sent in an example of how his team uses Basecamp's time tracking feature as a mileage log.
In our creative in-house agency, we are constantly running errands for group companies (to the printer for print proofs, to buy supplies for special projects, to the post office, to visit vendors, etc) and each member of my team used to keep an excel spreadsheet as a log for mileage reimbursement purposes.What we are doing now is using a project folder called mileage log and instead of recording time, we record miles. As a manager, it is easier for me to generate reports per person and date range and attach those to the accounting department for reimbursement purposes.
I don't know if somebody else is using the time tracking feature in this way, but may be a good tool for keeping your internal mileage log organized and up-to-date.
Needles to say that as a creative agency we used the time feature to record time in all the projects that we invoice, we only tweak the purpose of this feature for internal use as a mileage log.
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