How to Get Timesheets in monday.com?
Who does not love monday.com? It is a useful management tool that helps to run everyday affairs in many companies. However, much as monday.com is a powerful platform that enables both collaboration on projects and organization of work, it does have some areas that need improvement. One such area is time tracking and subsequent timesheet generating. What to do then? Obviously, you do not want to sit around and wait for improvements releases, while wasting your time on manual recording of time spent on projects. Moreover, you definitely do not want to work on an alternative in the form of special boards or views, when you have a ready time-tracking solution at hand. What is it? Integration with the right software that will track time and generate your monday.com timesheets. Today we are here to give you details regarding such a solution.
Let us start from the beginning, and explain what actually monday.com is. This project management software was created to aid businesses and freelancers with completing tasks, measuring progress, and even managing customer relations.
The software offers a wide variety of features and tools to assist many company departments, such as HR, sales, and marketing. What exactly does it do? It redefines and optimizes your workflows. As a result, you can enjoy smooth project progress and efficient collaboration.
There is no end to praises for monday.com abilities and features. However, as with every software, it also has its flaws. Monday.com does not have an extensive function of tracking how employees spend their time at work. However, such a function is not only needed for monitoring the employees. Apart from all other benefits, it provides timesheets, that simplify many processes within your business.
Tracking time and generating timesheets is crucial not only for boosting accountability but ensuring accurate pay based on the actual work completed.
Monday.com is a powerful tool with many features so it is obvious its creators included time tracking in this project management suite. However, their main aim was not to create software that tracks time and generates timesheets. Therefore, we will find native time tracking within monday.com, but whether it is sufficient for your business needs is a different story. How does it work?
The platform offers a time-tracking widget that can track how long a given team member spends on tasks within various boards that are set up in monday.com. Even though it does not offer many fancy features, it is designed to satisfy basic tracking needs. It may turn out useful for monitoring how your team spends company time within the app. monday.com can then generate a time report for individual team members or the whole team. Such a report is useful in tracking performance, and time management and ultimately can boost productivity.
This is how you can set up monday.com time tracking:
You must first choose the monday.com board you wish to track time for.
In the dashboard screen, find a dropdown menu at the top left-hand side which says ‘add widget’.
Next, click on ‘Widgets Center’ and type in ‘Time Tracking Widget’.
Once monday.com finds the widget, you can click on 'add' and the feature will be added to your dashboard.
The good news about the time-tracking widget is that you can tailor it to your project's needs. So you can choose whether the time will be grouped in columns or on boards. It is also possible to set up time tracking for specific employees or the entire team, choose the timeframe, turn on notifications, and so on.
If you feel that native employee time tracking offered by monday.com is not addressing your business needs, we have an alternative solution. How about getting a third-party tool that is dedicated to time tracking, and timesheet generating and has plenty of useful time tracking features? Thankfully, monday.com allows their users to get integrations corresponding to more advanced features the software simply does not cover. How to get a time-tracking integration?
Visit monday.com’s website and locate a 'features' menu located at the top of the screen.
Click on the dropdown menu and click on ‘integrations’.
The displayed page will show you a long list of the apps that integrate with monday.com.
However, the full list of time-tracking integrations you can find on the monday.com Apps Marketplace. There, you will not only see the time-tracking integrations but also all other types of third-party apps.
To find the ones dealing specifically with time and timesheets, type in 'time' in the top search box. The website will display all relevant apps and integrations. You can also choose the relevant time-tracking category from the sidebar on the left.
Undeniably, one of the biggest advantages of time tracking apart from getting detailed reports is the ability to generate timesheets. Regardless of whether you use a weekly or monthly timesheet system, creating them and inputting time manually becomes a thing of the past thanks to time tracking software. But how else can timesheets help in your day-to-day business? Let's analyze the pros based on the integration with TimeCamp.
Firstly, with TimeCamp with automatic timesheets, you can get timesheet approvals. There are plenty of benefits of using the software for the above process. To start with, such a simplified timesheet approval process ensures making an accurate record of your team members' worked hours. The approval function promotes transparency and raises employees' accountability. Automatic timesheet approval in TimeCamp also reduces the administrative part of the process that preoccupies managers. Time saved up that way can be better spent on other major processes that need managerial attention.
Furthermore, automatic timesheets are also of great advantage in the company's processes. Firstly, they significantly reduce the number of errors in processing hours due to an increased accuracy of time tracking. Again, the automation brings significant time savings, because there is no need to record hours manually. In this situation, time is saved on both sides, the managers' and employee's sides. It generates better productivity just because the time can be devoted to completing tasks, projects, and duties instead of timesheets. Thanks to the accurate timesheets, managers can also better allocate resources. Timesheets show work patterns, how much work can be done at what time by whom. This helps the organization optimize the staffing processes and boost efficiency.
Anyone who works hard is focused on the task at hand. Having to take care of the timer that tracks the time of activities is not only problematic but also counterproductive. TimeCamp’s timer is a simple and visible tool that only needs one click to start measuring the time of the activity. The same way goes for switching it off. All time entries are saved on TimeCamp's account, and, based on them, the timesheets get created.
The TimeCamp timesheet option also gives you a handy feature of recording work in real-time. It gives you an idea of the tempo at which the project progresses. Whenever you start working on the task you can click the green 'START TIMER' button, which will automatically start tracking time from the current moment. To stop recording time you can simply click the 'STOP' button.
Settings
You can also adjust the settings to your preferences and needs:
Round entries to 15 minutes - manually created new entries on a given day can be dragged down - every horizontal movement will move the entry in the Timesheet by 15 minutes. It helps to precisely mark the end of the entry.
Continue measurement - you can stop recording whenever you wish and then resume at a convenient time. The time will start recording for the same project as before.
TimeCamp offers different views of the timesheets. You can work in a weekly, daily, or a calendar view. You can easily switch between them and see the overview of hours worked within a space of different periods. It helps you plan and prepare further steps of your project management.
TimeCamp knows that many times in your business your employees spend the same time on similar tasks. That is why, you do not have to create a brand new timesheet every time that happens. TimeCamp allows for copying timesheets or time entries in case of recurring tasks or responsibilities.
Finally, there are times when you need to get back to basics and add some work hours manually. TimeCamp understands such instances, when you are simply unable to track your time spent on tasks. Therefore, it has an option of adding a manual time entry.
Of course, timesheets are not the only TimeCamp's advantage (however, some claim they are the crème de la crème of our software!). Getting TimeCamp integration gets you many features that can greatly enhance your work with monday.com. By getting TimeCamp for your business you take advantage of:
Keyword-based time tracking - tracking time with the use of a selected word.
Project import - automatic import of all monday.com projects imported to the time tracker upon the integration.
Website and app monitoring - easy monitoring of time spent on work (tracking all open windows, browser tabs, and apps).
Idle and private time tracking - enables billing clients appropriately for the time spent on projects. Private time feature classifies time spent on personal activities as nonbillable hours.
Attendance monitoring - monitors the start, finish, and breaks for your teams during the workday
Productivity reports - valuable insights from detailed reports that help boost efficiency, productivity, and performance.
You can get TimeCamp for free by signing up for our free forever plan. It provides time tracking for unlimited projects and users. Get one of our premium plans if you need more features (use a 14-day free trial).
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