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Oversight

You can check the hours. Most people never need to.

Tracked time, activity, screenshots and a weekly quality review, on our own systems. Not because we think you want to watch someone work, but because you should not have to take an invoice on faith.

The Real Objection

Nobody is worried the work is too expensive.

They are worried they will pay for forty hours and have no way of knowing whether they got forty hours. That is the actual reason people hesitate on offshore hiring, and most providers answer it with a promise rather than a system.

“Am I being billed for real hours?”

You see tracked time per day and per project, not a total someone typed into an invoice at the end of the month.

“Is anyone actually managing them?”

Every VA gets a weekly QA review and a written coaching summary. You have an operations manager on our side, not just a sales contact.

“What if the work quietly drifts?”

We run client feedback cycles that ask you to rate communication, work quality and timeliness, so problems surface as a score rather than as a resignation.

Trckr

The hours, in detail.

Trckr is our own time tracking system. Your VA works on it, and you see what it records. This is the part several of the largest VA services do not offer at all.

What is recorded

  • Tracked time per day, split by project
  • Activity level, from keyboard and mouse input
  • Idle time, separated from active time rather than hidden in it
  • Periodic screenshots through the working day
  • Which applications and sites the work happened in

What that gives you

  • An invoice you can reconcile against a log
  • Early warning when a role is quietly understaffed or overloaded
  • Evidence when you need to challenge something, in either direction
  • A record if your own client or auditor asks how the work was done
  • Manual time requests that need approval, not silent edits
Trckr, The Agent

What your VA runs, all day.

This is the actual Trckr agent interface. Your VA starts it at the beginning of a shift and stops it at the end. Everything on this screen is what produces the numbers you get.

Trckr, Desktop Agent What your VA sees
Arma Tracker
v0.3.26 · Asia/Manila
🔔
1
Tracking, Acme Inc.
02:47:12
📁 Acme Inc. 🎯 Q2 outreach drafts
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Today

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5h 47m
Tracked
88%
Activity
12m
Idle
73%
Vs Goal

Activity Timeline

06121823

This Week

Mon
8.2h
Tue
8.0h
Wed
8.4h
Thu
7.6h
Fri
5.8h
Sat
0.0h
Sun
0.0h

Top Apps Today

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Google Docs, client drafts
productive
2h 12m
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Chrome, CRM and inbox
productive
1h 48m
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Slack
neutral
42m
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Outlook
productive
28m

Recent Screenshots

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✓ All up to dateArmasourcing · v0.3.26
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The timer is per projectYour VA picks the client and the task before the clock starts. If they work for two of our clients, your hours and the other client's hours never mix.
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Activity is input, not outputThe percentage comes from keyboard and mouse input during tracked time. It is a presence signal, not a productivity score, and we say so plainly further down this page. Idle is separated out rather than folded into the total.
3
Applications are categorisedWe tag what the work happened in. It is how a quiet week gets explained before you have to ask about it.
4
Screenshots run on an intervalCaptured periodically through tracked time only. The agent stops when the timer stops, so nothing is recorded outside a shift.
Your Dashboard

What you get, without asking for it.

The same work, from your side. You get a magic link, no password to manage. It updates through the day, so you are not waiting on a Friday summary to find out how the week went.

Client Dashboard What you see
Welcome back, SarahThis week · 23 to 29 March
This week Last week This month
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Hours tracked
38.0
of 40.0 target
Days active
5
of 5 scheduled
Avg activity
86%
▲ 4% vs last week
QA score
92
reviewed 27 March
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Daily hours
Target 8.0h
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
Sun
3
Your team
2 online
MR
Maria R.Executive assistant
94QA
JD
Jerome D.Customer support
90QA
AC
Angela C.Bookkeeping
92QA
4
Recent feedback
You rated 2 weeks ago
★★★★★

Maria has taken the whole inbox off my plate. Turnaround on client emails went from a day to under an hour.

Sarah K. · on Maria R. · communication, quality, timeliness
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Hours you can reconcileTracked hours for the period, next to the agreed target. This is the number your invoice is built from, and you can see it before the invoice arrives.
2
Day by day, not just a totalA short day is visible as a short day. Gold marks a day under target, so a pattern shows up in week two rather than month three.
3
Your team and their QA scoreEvery VA carries their latest weekly quality review score, so you can see which one needs attention without reading a report.
4
Your own feedback, on the recordThe ratings you leave are stored against the VA and feed their coaching. Your rating is the one that counts, not our opinion of ourselves.
Open the live dashboard demo Sample data. On a real account these show your own team, updated through the day.
How It Works

One week, start to finish.

The oversight is not a dashboard you have to remember to check. It is a weekly cycle that runs whether you look at it or not.

1
Monday to Friday

The work is tracked

Your VA runs Trckr through each shift. Hours, activity, idle time, applications and periodic screenshots are recorded against your project as it happens.

2
Through the week

You see it live

Your dashboard updates during the day. You are not waiting for a report to find out that Thursday was short. Nothing is required of you here.

3
End of week

QA reviews the work

Each VA gets a weekly quality review and a written coaching summary. It goes to them, so the correction lands with the person doing the work rather than in your inbox.

4
Periodically

You rate us back

We ask you to score communication, work quality and timeliness. That score is attached to the VA and drives the next round of coaching.

When It Goes Wrong

What happens before you have to chase it.

Every arrangement has a bad week eventually. The question worth asking a provider is what happens on that week, so here is ours in full.

Activity drops
You seeThe activity percentage falls below the usual band on your dashboard, on the day it happens.
We doYour operations manager checks the app and screenshot record first, then talks to the VA. Often it is a tooling problem, not an effort problem.
Same day
A shift is missed
You seeA day shows zero or partial hours against a scheduled day.
We doWe contact the VA, tell you the reason, and arrange cover or make-up hours. You are not billed for time that was not worked.
Same day
Quality slips
You seeThe weekly QA score drops, or you raise it yourself in a feedback cycle.
We doA written coaching plan with specific corrections, and a follow-up review the next week to confirm it moved.
Within a week
It is not working
You seeCoaching has not fixed it, or the fit was wrong from the start.
We doWe replace the VA. Recruiting, screening and onboarding the replacement is on us, and we do not restart your commitment because we got the match wrong.
We replace

The trigger for all four is the same: a number moved on a system you can see too. That is the entire reason we run our own tracking rather than asking you to trust a timesheet.

Quality

Managed by us, rated by you.

1

Weekly QA review

Each VA gets a weekly review of their week and a written coaching summary. It goes to them, so the correction happens with the person doing the work.

2

Client feedback cycle

We periodically ask you to rate communication, work quality and timeliness, and to leave a comment. Your rating is the one that counts, not our opinion of ourselves.

3

Operations manager

A named person on our side owns your account. When something needs fixing, you tell them once rather than re-explaining it to a queue.

Being Straight With You

What we do not do.

Monitoring is easy to oversell and easy to abuse. Here is the line we hold, and we would rather you know it before you buy than after.

We do not

  • Log keystrokes or capture what is typed
  • Use webcams or listen through microphones
  • Track anyone outside their working hours
  • Hide the tracking from the person being tracked

We do

  • Tell every VA exactly what is recorded before they start
  • Treat activity level as a signal to ask a question, not a verdict
  • Give the VA the same visibility of their own data that you have
  • Expect you to manage a person, not a dashboard

An activity percentage is a blunt instrument. Deep work, calls and reading all look quiet to a tracker. We use it to spot patterns over weeks, not to judge an afternoon, and we would push back on any client who wanted to use it that way.

The Rest Of The Stack

What else your VA runs on.

ArmaOPS+

Claude AI and VS Code, set up and trained before your VA starts, included at no extra charge. That is the output side of the story.

See what ArmaOPS+ does

Payslips and payroll

We run pay, so you do not. Your VA gets a formal payslip they can use for a loan or a visa, which is a bigger deal for retention than most clients realize.

Support and help desk

Our team has an internal community and a ticketed help desk, so a blocked VA raises it and gets unblocked instead of going quiet on you.

Questions

The things buyers ask about oversight.

Do I have to use the tracking?

No. Some clients watch the log weekly, most look at it in the first month and rarely afterwards. It is there so that trust is a choice rather than a requirement.

Does the VA know they are being tracked?

Yes, always, and they see their own data. Covert monitoring is both a legal problem and a retention problem, and we will not run it.

What is a normal activity percentage?

It varies enormously by role, and anyone quoting you a single target number is selling you something. A researcher on long reading tasks and a data entry VA will look nothing alike. We read it as a trend against that person's own baseline.

Can I see screenshots of my own work only?

Yes. A VA working across more than one client is scoped so each client sees only their own project, never another client's.

What if the tracked hours and the output do not match?

Tell your operations manager. That is exactly the conversation the data exists to make possible, and it usually ends in a scope or training fix rather than a replacement. If it does need a replacement, the 110-Day Perfect Hire Guarantee covers it.

Do other VA companies provide this?

Some do, several of the largest do not. It is worth checking before you sign anywhere, including here. We compare the terms in detail on our Wing Assistant comparison.

See it on a real account.

Book a free 15 minute call and we will walk you through what the log actually looks like, using a live account rather than a screenshot in a deck.

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