HourSign and Excel

Most people log supervised hours in a spreadsheet, and for a lot of them that is the right answer. Here is what a spreadsheet does well and where it runs out.

Prices checked September 2026

Who should pick which.

Said plainly, before the table. Including when you should not switch.

Pick Excel if

You want something free that you already know how to use.
You want total control of the columns and no account anywhere.
Your board only ever asks for a total and one signature at the end.

Pick HourSign if

You need a supervisor's signature on a record that cannot quietly change afterwards.
Your state voids hours for a missed supervision month or week, and you want to see that coming.
You want the board's own form laid out for you instead of retyping numbers into a PDF.
You are worried about the day a supervisor will not sign, or leaves.

Side by side.

HourSign and Excel, row by row
Feature	HourSign	Excel
Price	Free to log. $29 a year for signatures and forms.	Free
Works offline	No	Yes
Supervisor signature	Yes, inside the app where the board allows it	No. You print it and they sign the paper
Record cannot be changed after signing	Yes. Signed periods are locked and hashed	No. Any cell can be edited at any time
Warns you about a missed supervision month or week	Yes, with the rule and its citation	Only if you build the formula yourself
Board-form PDFs	Oregon, Washington, Florida and California	No
Proof pack when a supervisor will not sign	Yes	No
Export your data	CSV and PDF, free on every plan	It is already your file

Price

HourSign: Free to log. $29 a year for signatures and forms.
Excel: Free

Works offline

HourSign: No
Excel: Yes

Supervisor signature

HourSign: Yes, inside the app where the board allows it
Excel: No. You print it and they sign the paper

Record cannot be changed after signing

HourSign: Yes. Signed periods are locked and hashed
Excel: No. Any cell can be edited at any time

Warns you about a missed supervision month or week

HourSign: Yes, with the rule and its citation
Excel: Only if you build the formula yourself

Board-form PDFs

HourSign: Oregon, Washington, Florida and California
Excel: No

Proof pack when a supervisor will not sign

HourSign: Yes
Excel: No

Export your data

HourSign: CSV and PDF, free on every plan
Excel: It is already your file

Prices change. Prices for other products were read on their own pages and checked September 2026. Check them again before you decide. If a page here is out of date, tell us and we will fix it.

What we will not say.

We will not tell you another product is bad. We have not used them for a year and you would be right not to believe us if we did. Where a company does not state something publicly, this page says "not stated" rather than turning silence into a weakness.

HourSign's own limits are on the states page and in the "what HourSign does not do" list on each state. Read those before you decide.

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