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How does the time tracking feature work?
How does the time tracking feature work?

LSP.expert allows you to track the time you spend on each job, to invoice the client accordingly or to calculate your performance per hour.

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Written by Caroline Bries
Updated over a week ago

➡️ If you're using LSP.expert V1, click here.

In each job, you'll find a Time tracking tab where you can manage your time tracking for this job. You can start and stop tracking time for the job from this tab, but also add, edit and delete time entries.

To start tracking your time for a job from your list of jobs, simply click on the clock at the end of the line of the job.

A live time tracker will then replace the clock.

To stop tracking your time for the job, click on this live tracker. You can also stop the time tracking by clicking on the stop button in the menu (below the LSP.expert logo).

To manually add a time entry, click on the Time tracking tab in the job, and then on Add a time. To enter hours and minutes, you have several options: '30 minutes' can be written '0.5', '0:30' or ':30'. You can then edit or delete your time entries using the three dots at the end of the lines.

To include some or all of your time tracking entries in your invoice, you have to select the 'Time-based invoicing' option in the job details. For this, you have to edit the Billing panel of the job and select "Time-based invoicing" in the Invoicing type field.

If you already tracked time for this job, the system will ask you if you would like alI your existing time entries for this job to be marked as billable.

If only some of these time entries are billable, you can go and manually mark them as billable in the time-tracking tab of the job after you selected the "Time-based invoicing" option in the billing details of the job.

Your time tracking entries will also be used to calculate your performance in the Performance report. To know more about the Performance report, see this article: https://help.lsp.expert/en/articles/728069-what-does-the-performance-report-show.

If you're using LSP.expert as a team (Team subscription), note that several users can track their time simultaneously. Each user indeed has a separate time tracker.


If you're using LSP.expert V1

In each job, you'll find a Time tracking tab on the left. That's where you can manage your time tracking for this job.

To start tracking your time, simply click on the small clock at the right of the job in your list of jobs.

To stop tracking your time, click on the clock again in your list of jobs. You can also stop the time tracking by clicking on the red dot in the menu (which appears when you start a tracker). When you click on this red dot, you see for which job your time is being tracked and how much time you've already spent on it.

To add a time manually, click on the Time tracking tab in the job, and then on Add a time. To enter hours and minutes, you can choose: '30 minutes' can be written '0.5', '0:30' or ':30'. You can then edit or delete your entries using the corresponding buttons on the right.

To include some of your time tracking entries in your invoice, you have to select the 'Time-based invoicing' option in the job details. If you didn't select this option and you click on the little red cross to define an entry as 'Billable' in the Time tracking tab, the system will ask you if you want to select the 'Time-based invoicing' option for the job.

Your time tracking entries will also be used to calculate your performance in the Performance report.

If you're using LSP.expert as a team (Team subscription), note that several users can track their time simultaneously. Each user indeed has a separate time tracker but can see the others' trackers (and stop the tracker of a colleague if he/she forgot to stop it before leaving, for example).

If several users worked on the same job, please note that their time for this job won't be taken into account in the Performance report.

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