Productive

A thorough guide to tracking, managing, and optimizing time entries and time tracking tools in Productive.

Time Tracking

Learn how to add time entries efficiently using manual tracking and time-tracking suggestions.

Manual Time Tracking

Learn how to enable and use automatic time tracking to simplify your team's time management.

Automatic Time Tracking

Track time on tasks for better project management. Monitor hours spent, improve reporting, and enable flexible logging by any team member.

Tracking Time on Tasks

Learn various time-tracking formats in Productive to log hours quickly and accurately, making you a time-tracking expert.

Time Tracking Tips and Tricks

Time Tracking: Best Practices

Basic Time Tracking

Learn how to easily duplicate time entries from the previous day in Productive, simplifying your time-tracking process.

Duplicating Time Entries from Yesterday

Edit time entries at once by using the bulk edit option. Change billable time in bulk or move time to different services easily.

Managing Time Entries: Bulk Editing and Moving

Automatically lock timesheets after a specific period to prevent changes. Learn how to set up timesheet locking and manage unlocked entries.

Timesheet Locking

If time approvals are on, time can be approved from the Approvals tab by their corresponding budget owners.

Approving Time: Overview

How to request changes to time entries before final approval.

Requesting Changes to Time Entries

Time Entry Management

Day View in My Time

Timesheet View in My Time

Calendar View in My Time

Discover how the Work log feature helps you recall and document your daily activities in Productive.

Using the Work Log to Track Your Daily Activity

Company time shows time tracked for all team members. Use this to see who is tracking less than their capacity at a glance.

Company Time

Time Tracking Views

Easily track real-time work with the timer. Start the timer as you work for current-day entries or use manual entry for past days.

Using the Timer to Track Time

Desktop timer can be used to activate the stop watch when working on certain projects. Desktop timers are available for Mac and Windows.

Desktop Timer

Learn how Productive rounds your time entries when you track time using the timer feature.

How Time Entry Rounding Works When Using The Timer

Customize time tracking reminders in Productive to ensure accurate and timely time logging across your organization.

Setting Up Time Tracking Reminders

Time Tracking Tools

There are a few reasons why you may be unable to track time against a service in a budget. Let's see what they are!

Can't Track Time Against a Budget?

Track time for your team in Productive when necessary, ensuring accurate project insights and flexibility in time management.

Tracking Time For Others

Log time from Jira to Productive projects.

How to Track Time on Productive Projects in Jira

Manage and modify your time entries logged via the Productive Time Tracking widget in Jira.

Managing Jira Time Entries

Special Time Tracking Scenarios

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