Track time on projects and tasks

Time that is recorded after the fact is time that is under-recorded. The point of a timer inside the task is that it costs nothing to start.

Step by step

1. Open the task or the project and start the timer when you begin.
2. Stop it when you finish. The entry keeps who, when, how long and against what.
3. Add an entry by hand for work done away from the screen. A note explaining it makes the later invoice defensible.
4. Check the project's time view for what has been booked and what is still unbilled.
5. When you invoice that customer, the unbilled time is offered as lines. Add it and it is marked billed.

The other time areas

• Admin → Timesheets — attendance, leave, shifts and shift categories, with reports and settings. This is working time, not project time.
• Admin → Time records — managing timesheets, the timesheet summary and timesheet templates.
• Reports & analytics → Reports → Timesheets — the overview across people.

Hours from connected people

A connected employee records hours in their own account and sends them for approval. That is a different flow with its own approval rules — see Record and approve working hours.