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How our Jira time tracking plugin can help you

Marketplace apps like ActivityTimeline offer more detailed insights into team productivity.

Boost productivity

Is your team frustrated with logging work? Let them focus on tasks, not processes. Monitor the time spent on activities easily, log time efficiently, see where your time goes, and enhance your mastery of project management.

Track Billable vs Non-Billable

When you need to distinguish billable from non-billable hours easily, calculate CapEx and OpEx time investments, and effortlessly generate customer invoices, we’ve got you covered. Keep projects on track and on schedule.

Simplify timesheet reporting

Save time with our custom timesheet dashboards and generate customized, easy-to-understand time tracking reports. With an outstanding Jira timesheet plugin, you can show your team’s performance in a few clicks. The plugin eliminates manual entry, reducing errors and increasing efficiency for your team.

Where accuracy meets simplicity

Start by tracking time using the Activity Timeline plugin

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Track the time

An automatic time tracker allows users to focus on their tasks without worrying about tracking when they begin working on them. Log work by clicking an issue's “Log Work” button and get a clear view of how time is allocated across various tasks and projects. Create worklogs, and monitor progress efficiently.

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Control personal workload

Revolutionize how you track employee progress with our specialized work log charts, providing an intuitive visualization of work based on required and logged hours. With ActivityTimeline, users enjoy the advantage of a Personal Schedule Panel, ensuring no task goes unnoticed. They can also see, edit, and download all Jira tasks with work log details.

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Bill clients for the time

Users can choose what hours are billable and which are not, as well as differentiate between different work categories like CapEx and OpEx, etc., to match their organization's unique needs and projects precisely.

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Get detailed reports

Generate simple reports to review your logged hours and project progress. Get customized approval workflows for individual timesheets and seamless tracking of non-Jira tasks. Group reports by diverse categories: project, epic, and custom fields, so you know where the time is getting spent.

Forget about manual reports in Excel

Categorize time with custom attributes for more insights directly in the app

Progress Timesheet

Individual Timeline Timesheet

Planned vs. Actual report

Planned vs. Actual chart

Custom Detailed Timesheet

Choosing the right time tracking tools for Jira

With over 290+ time tracking apps available on the Atlassian Marketplace, the right choice can make a difference. ActivityTimeline can help you:

Allocate resources

Track billable hours

Manage logged time

Analyze past entries

Generate time reports

Compare actual vs. original estimate

Oversee Project Management Tasks

Get a lightweight and adaptable solution

Join 5,000+ international teams spending their time wisely

Activity Timeline provides brilliant visibility who is doing what and when it's going to be done.

Ivan Avramovic

Onyx Studio

”This app is a lifesaver when it comes to time tracking and resource utilization. We saved a lot of time since we don't have to manually track time spent on different projects, and now we can have all of that in just a few clicks. But all of that is expected and this is not a surprise, what surprised us is their support and how quickly they answer and with the patience of Budha. Kudos to all the support team, I hope people will be nice to you, and management will understand how important your role is in the whole UX!”

Claire Lough

Ascend Agency

"The app is excellent for Project Management and has made scheduling so much easier for my teams. Everything is very customisable too so it's easy to adapt to your individual usage. I have found a huge amount of benefit in the available reports too for reviewing our available resources and estimates. I have to also say, the Customer Service is absolutely fantastic, responses are very prompt, friendly and thorough. Highly recommended."

Elizabeth Johnson

Ipsos

"We were looking for a tool that would help us see the 30/60/90 view of resources and identify over/under utilization; but also answer questions like is the time spent the time expected, are we over are we under.We are just scratching the surface as we just kicked it off, but we are happy so far. Also support has been super, always lead to a resolution of the issue/question.Tons of good documentation out there too by Reliex!"

Frequently Asked Questions

What are all the ways employees can log time in ActivityTimeline?

Employees can log time via six different methods, including a quick "Log Work" dialog from the timeline, a real-time tracking stopwatch, or by dragging and resizing worklogs. They can also use daily bar chart shortcuts, input hours via an inline table, or log directly from native Jira issue pages.

Can managers log time on behalf of other team members?

Yes, privileged users can log time for managed individuals by using the User Selector in the Workspace module. This feature must be enabled in the configuration settings, and if Tempo is integrated, the corresponding Jira project permissions must also be granted.

Can I log time for activities that don't have a Jira ticket?

Yes, you can create non-Jira Booking events for internal work or meetings and configure the system to treat them as active worklogs in timesheets. You can also define custom booking types as billable or non-billable, or import external calendar events from Google or Outlook to serve as worklogs.

Is there a time limit on how far back employees can log work?

While unrestricted by default, admins can enforce a Past Worklog Limit to restrict historical backdating. Additionally, organizations can close weekly or monthly reporting periods to block any unauthorized retroactive additions or modifications once a grace period expires.

How does billable vs. non-billable tracking work?

Every worklog is assigned a category, such as Billable or Non-Billable, which users select from a dropdown when submitting hours. Admins can create up to 100 custom categories for finance workflows or set a default category per Jira project to automate the routing.

Can I add custom attributes to worklogs beyond just the category?

Yes, Worklog Attributes allow you to append extra metadata like Cost Center or Client Name to entries as required, optional, or hidden fields. These attributes act as grouping filters in Detailed Timesheets and can be imported directly from third-party tools like Tempo.

How do I mark time logged via Jira's native time tracking as non-billable?

When ActivityTimeline can be a time tracking provider in Jira, you only need to enable it and then select the category right within Jira’s UI.

What's the difference between the three timesheet views?

Progress Timesheets evaluate logged hours against a user's capacity to check completion percentages, while Timeline Timesheets offer a color-coded grid to spot team-wide logging trends. Detailed Timesheets itemize every worklog entry with comments and approval statuses, making them perfect for audits and client billing.

How does the timesheet approval workflow work?

This optional workflow assigns statuses to worklogs based on whether they are open, closed, or manager-approved. Admins and Team Leads can review entries individually or use Bulk Approve to process a team's entire period at once, locking approved items from further edits.

Can I enforce reporting periods and prevent employees from backdating entries?

Yes, the Time Tracking Period Closure feature lets you lock weekly or monthly intervals to prevent users from adding or editing worklogs. A flexible grace period can be established for late entries, working alongside a flat past worklog restriction for comprehensive control.

How do I stop employees from logging more hours than their daily capacity?

By enabling the maximum allowed worklog restriction, the system will block users from exceeding their defined daily capacity. Managers can bypass this cap when needed by creating an Overtime event type on a specific user's timeline.

How does the Planned vs. Actual report help with estimation accuracy?

This report measures initial task estimates against hours logged plus remaining work to label items as On Track, Underestimated, or Overestimated. It utilizes an acceptable deviation percentage to handle expected variations across issues, epics, or projects.

Can I group timesheet reports by custom Jira fields like client or cost center?

Yes, both Timeline and Detailed views allow you to group worklog metrics by any active Jira custom field, such as Client or Cost Center. These custom grouping views can be saved as shared dashboards for quick future access.

How does ActivityTimeline work with Tempo Timesheets?

On Jira Cloud, ActivityTimeline syncs with Tempo via an API token to automatically import worklogs, teams, attributes, and holiday schemes. On Jira Server or Data Center, all worklogs submitted via Tempo sync natively without additional configuration.

Can meeting time from Google Calendar or Outlook count as logged work?

Yes, connected external calendars will push events to the timeline, which can be configured to automatically count as logged worklogs. Alternatively, users can choose to manually map individual calendar events to specific Jira issues on a case-by-case basis.

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