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Time Tracking & Compensation

Attorneys, interpreters, jurors, and other third parties check in and out from a branded portal. You configure the rates, rounding, and rules; the platform builds the timesheet and the compensation report automatically. Approved amounts hand off to GovPayPlan or your accounting system for payment.

Paying the people who serve the court is a paper-and-spreadsheet job.

Attorneys, interpreters, and jurors submit hours on paper or by email, someone keys them into a spreadsheet, applies the right rate by hand, and chases approvals before anyone gets paid. Errors and delays are routine, and there is no clean record when someone asks how a figure was reached. Time Tracking puts check-in and check-out in a portal, applies your rates and rules automatically, and turns verified time into a compensation report ready for payment.

What it does

Every capability inside Time Tracking & Compensation: built in, configurable, and connected to the rest of the platform.

  • Portal Check-In & Check-Out

    Attorneys, interpreters, jurors, and other third parties record their time from a branded portal on any device. No paper slips, no email threads.

  • Configurable Rates & Rules

    Set rates by role, task, court, and date, with rounding, minimums, caps, and eligibility rules. The agency owns every rule.

  • Automatic Timesheets

    Verified check-in and check-out times roll into a timesheet automatically, with the correct rate applied to every entry.

  • Approval Workflow

    Route timesheets for review and sign-off before payment, with every change logged.

  • Compensation Reports

    Generate compensation reports by person, role, court, and period, ready to export or hand off for payment.

  • Pay via GovPayPlan or Your AP

    Send approved amounts to GovPayPlan for payment, or export to your existing accounting and payroll systems.

  • Audit Trail

    Every check-in, edit, approval, and payment hand-off is logged, so any figure can be traced back to its source.

From data to outcome, automatically

  1. 01

    Set your rates and rules

    Configure rates by role, task, and court, with rounding, caps, and eligibility. Define who approves what.

  2. 02

    They check in and out

    Third parties record time from the portal when they start and finish. Jurors, interpreters, and counsel each see only what applies to them.

  3. 03

    Timesheets build themselves

    Verified time rolls into a timesheet with the right rate on every line, routed for approval.

  4. 04

    Report and pay

    Generate the compensation report and send approved amounts to GovPayPlan or your accounting system for payment.

Outcomes

Self-service

Third parties record their own time from a portal

Your rules

Rates, rounding, caps, and eligibility fully configurable by the agency

Report-ready

Verified timesheets become compensation reports, ready for payment

Works with what you already run

Time Tracking & Compensation syncs bi-directionally with your case management system. It connects, it doesn’t replace.

GovPayPlanAccounting & Payroll SystemsTyler TechnologiesREST API

Time Tracking & Compensation questions, answered

How do people record their time?
eCourtDate lets attorneys, interpreters, jurors, and other third parties check in and out from a branded portal on any device. There are no paper slips or email threads, and each person sees only what applies to them.
Who controls the pay rates and rules?
Your agency does. eCourtDate lets you set rates by role, task, court, and date, with rounding, minimums, caps, and eligibility rules, then applies the correct rate to every entry automatically. Verified check-in and check-out times roll into a timesheet on their own.
Can we trace how a compensation figure was reached?
Yes. eCourtDate logs every check-in, edit, approval, and payment hand-off, so any figure can be traced back to its source, and timesheets route for review and sign-off before payment. eCourtDate is CJIS compliant and runs on AWS GovCloud.
How do approved amounts get paid?
eCourtDate sends approved amounts to GovPayPlan for payment, or exports them to your existing accounting and payroll systems. It connects to the systems you keep by REST API, so you can modernize at your own pace.

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