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Release Notes: Contractor Billing Reconciliation - BI Template (GA)

Critical information:

Status

  • General Availability (GA): Fully released and available to all eligible customers.

 

Availability

  • Plans: All ActivConnect subscription tiers
  • Rollout schedule: Immediate

 

Requirements

  • ActivConnect (Add-on): Required ActivConnect subscription
  • BI platform: Power BI Pro or Premium license (Tableau and Looker support coming in future releases)
  • Data input: Google Sheets access
  • Agent deployment: The ActivTrak agent must be deployed to contractor machines
  • Permissions: Admin role required for setup
  • Report access: Based on Power BI configuration permissions
  • Commercial: ActivConnect subscription required

 

What's new:

Feature description

Turn contractor billing from a trust-based system into a data-verified process. Analytics-based reconciliation compares billed hours to productive hours worked without requiring contractors to change their billing workflows or adopt new time tracking systems.

 

Key capabilities

  • Team-level analysis: Break down excess billing by team to identify problem areas and accountability
  • Financial impact calculator: Automatic calculation of dollar impact and annualized costs to build business cases for action
  • Utilization analysis: View unrealized capacity by fulfillment rate bands to optimize contractor allocation and spending
  • Trend visualization: Monthly trending of excess costs and user percentages to monitor improvement and seasonality
  • Export capabilities: Export data for further analysis, dispute documentation, and vendor negotiations

 

Use cases

Organizations with significant contractor spend (100+ contractors, $5M+ annual spend) can identify and recover up to 30% in excess costs due to contractor overbilling and billing errors. Finance and operations leaders gain visibility into billing accuracy while automating manual validation processes that typically take days to complete.

 

How to access:

Request access

Contact: Our Customer Success Team
Activation timeline: Within 48 hours of request
Access requirements: Active ActivConnect subscription

 

Implementation

Standard setup: Less than 30 minutes

  • 5 to 10 minutes: Power BI template installation
  • 5 to 10 minutes: Google Sheets configuration
  • 5 to 10 minutes: Initial data load and validation

 

Resources:

Documentation

 

Additional information:

Known limitations

  • V1 Data Entry: Manual data entry via Google Sheets required. Direct integration with ADP, Workday, and other HRIS systems is coming in future versions.

 

Coming soon

  • Direct HRIS integrations (ADP, Workday)
  • Tableau and Looker BI platform support
  • Advanced analytics custom packages

 

Support

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