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QuickBooks Time

62Judge labels
5First choices
10Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
3Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
5% in Time and attendance for small business buyers
Rank 10 of 90 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 6% of its 17 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In time and attendance · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named QuickBooks Time for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Time and attendanceCore HR and payroll4%10 of 906%17accepted challenger
Workforce management suitesCore HR and payroll0%48 of 950%1under 10 labels · led by ADP Workforce Now at 19%
Workforce schedulingCore HR and payroll0%72 of 940%1under 10 labels · led by Deputy at 26%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for QuickBooks Time yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated QuickBooks Time across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500101
GPT-5.4 mini00213
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar10102
Grok 4.1 Fast01203
Mistral Small01001
DeepSeek V4 Flash10203
Llama 4 Maverick01001
Qwen 3.7 Flash01001
Kimi K201102
GLM 4.7 FlashX10001
MiniMax M2.501001

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct6 labelsNone
Paraphrase18 labels5
Comparative17 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained5 labelsNone
Scale-constrained7 labelsNone
Negative9 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative62 labels in all, every segment counted; 5 of the 7 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“The safest approach is to choose a modern, cloud-based system with strong third-party reviews (like TSheets/QuickBooks Time, Deputy, or Buddy Punch)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Time and attendance · negative prompt · first choice
“I would recommend QuickBooks Time if your priority is dependable employee time tracking with payroll-friendly workflows” Perplexity Sonar · Time and attendance · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“For most mid‑sized B2B firms, ClickTime and QuickBooks Time are strong first choices.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Time and attendance · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“QuickBooks Time is ideal if you want seamless integration with your existing accounting software.” Mistral Small · Time and attendance · paraphrase prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Usually more expensive than the others, so better if integration matters a lot” GPT-5.4 mini · Time and attendance · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as QuickBooks Time, over the 61 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and QuickBooks Time was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Clockify33 of 616Not in the top three
Homebase30 of 617Not in the top three
Deputy25 of 614Not in the top three
Connecteam24 of 612Not in the top three
When I Work20 of 611Not in the top three
Buddy Punch17 of 610Not in the top three
Toggl Track15 of 615Not in the top three
Jibble15 of 613Not in the top three
Harvest14 of 614Not in the top three
UKG Pro13 of 614Not in the top three
A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named QuickBooks Time. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 47 of the 61 answers that named QuickBooks Time and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

forbes.com33
selectsoftwarereviews.com27
peoplemanagingpeople.com22
gartner.com20
business.com16
techrepublic.com16
timetrex.com15
capterra.com13
joinhomebase.com13
myhours.com13

188 of the 188 domain citations in answers naming QuickBooks Time came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as QuickBooks Time

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as QuickBooks Time; a claim can dispute any of them.
QuickBooks Workforce 2QuickBooks 1QuickBooks Time (TSheets) 1QuickBooks Time (formerly TSheets) 1TSheets/QuickBooks Time 1
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