Friday afternoon should not be a fire drill.
Platoop runs contractor time tracking, approvals and invoicing for staffing and recruiting agencies placing remote contractors. We built it to run our own agency, and we still use it every week.
3 missing · 2 awaiting approval · invoice blocked
Every agency runs on Friday.
Timesheets chased over WhatsApp. Approvals buried in email threads. Invoices rebuilt by hand in a spreadsheet every cycle, because the hours live in five different places. It works, until you add another ten contractors.
any chance you can send your hours today?
Re: Re: FW: Timesheet approval — Acme, w/e 18 Jul
From submitted to billed, in one place.
Submit
Hours, per client, per week.
Remind
Platoop chases, not you.
Approve
Or send it back, with a reason.
Bill
Approved hours meet your billing rules.
reminders sent · 1 awaiting approval
What Platoop does
Timesheets that actually get submitted
Contractor time tracking by client and by week, logged against real tasks. Managers approve or send a sheet back with a reason, and comments live on the timesheet, so the conversation is where the work is.
Reminders that reach people
Email and WhatsApp. Opt-in per person, with delivery tracking, and one reply to unsubscribe. Contractors ignore email; this is the difference between chasing and not chasing.
Clients and talent in one place
Assignments, contract hours, pay rates, start dates, and who is active this week — for every contractor and every client you place them with.
Billing without the spreadsheet
Per-client billing rules — cadence, overtime policy, net terms — applied to approved hours, so invoicing starts from a defensible number instead of a rebuilt spreadsheet. QuickBooks stays your invoice of record.
What it looks like
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Submit
The week's timesheets, by status
Approve
Review, approve, or send it back
- Time entries, by task and day
- Approve, or reject with a reason
- Comments live on the sheet
Bill
Billing rules, per client
Built by an agency, not for one.
Platoop is made and used daily by Wow Remote Teams, who place bilingual professionals across Latin America with companies in the US. Everything here exists because we needed it on a Friday afternoon. Nothing here is a feature we imagined an agency might want.
wowremoteteams.comWhy these exist
In use this week- Visible to staff
- A manager's note is not always for the contractor's eyes. So the comment box has a switch.
- Client pays time off
- Some clients do. Some do not. Nobody remembers which, so the software has to ask.
- Overtime policy
- A setting on the client record, not a thing someone is trusted to remember on a Friday.
- Reject
- Sending a sheet back without a reason just sends it back again next week, unchanged.
Running your agency on spreadsheets?
Tell us how your week works now, and we will show you where Platoop fits — or tell you honestly that it does not.
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