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title: "Log time directly against project tasks — Clock Clerk"
description: "How people log hours against project tasks in Clock Clerk: a week sheet and a day view, tasks that are the cards on the project's board, estimates against logged hours, and moving a line to the right project. Limitations and plans included."
url: "https://clockclerk.com/features/project-time-tracking"
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Project time tracking

# Log time directly against project tasks

Time is only useful when it says what it was for. In Clock Clerk every hour is logged against a task on a project, the same task that is a card on the project's board, so the hours, the estimate and the work are one record.

[Start free trial](https://app.clockclerk.com/signup) Which plan includes it

Thirty days of the Team plan, no card.

The problem

## Hours logged against "Development" tell nobody anything

When the time tracker and the project plan are separate tools, people log against broad categories because finding the right task is work. The project manager then cannot say which task ran over, and a client who asks what the hours were spent on gets a guess.

The opposite failure is just as common: a tool that demands a timer running all day, which people forget, then reconstruct on Friday from memory anyway.

How Clock Clerk handles it

## The task on the sheet is the card on the board

### A week sheet, and a day view for logging as you go.

One row per project and task, seven days across, a total at the end. Type a number and it is saved. The day view steps a task up a quarter-hour at a time, or adds an hour in one click; a whole week typed at once takes about two minutes.

- **Only your projects.** People book the projects they are members of, and a manager's grant does not add any.
- **A comment, an activity and a billing role** on each line, opened from the cell.
- **Move a line** to the right project or task with its days, comments and rate, and across the later weeks too.

Every plan, Free included

### The card shows the hours logged against it.

Each task is a card on the project's board. When it has an estimate, the card and the week sheet both show a bar of the hours logged against it by everyone, so an overrun shows while there is still time to act on it.

- **A thread on every card**, so the decision about the work sits beside the hours spent on it.
- **Import tasks** from Jira, Azure DevOps, Trello or Notion, as cards ready to log against.
- **Reports by task**, person, activity, project or client, exported as Excel or CSV.

Limitations

## What it does not do

Clock Clerk records hours against a day. If the requirement is one of these, it is the wrong tool or needs a companion.

- #### No timer or stopwatch

  Hours are typed or stepped up a quarter-hour at a time. There is no start and stop button and no idle detection.
- #### No activity monitoring

  No screenshots, keystroke counts, app tracking or GPS. People record what they worked on, and their reviewer approves it.
- #### No clock-in and clock-out

  Hours are a number per day and task, not a start and end time, so it is not a punch clock for shift work or overtime rules.
- #### No mobile app

  It is a web app. The week sheet folds into a stack on a phone's browser, but there is no app to install and no offline mode.
- #### Imports are one-way

  Tasks imported from a tracker are copied once; updates there do not follow, and hours are not sent back to it.

Plans

## Which plan includes it

Logging time against tasks, boards, estimates and the standard reports are on every plan, Free included. Task imports are Team.

| What is included | Free | Starter | Team | Enterprise |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Price | $0 | $3 per filer / month | $6 per filer / month | Talk to us |
| Week sheet and day view, logged against project tasks | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Project boards with your own columns | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Task estimates against logged hours | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Holiday schedule & paid holidays | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
| Import tasks from Azure DevOps, Trello, Jira and Notion | Not included | Not included | Included | Included |
| Friday, month-end and backlog reminders | Not included | Not included | Included | Included |

Reviewers, administrators and finance readers are free on every plan; Starter and Team charge only for the people who log hours that month. [Compare plans in full](https://clockclerk.com/pricing.md)

Questions

## Asked while evaluating

**Does it have a timer?**

No. Hours are typed against a day, which is what a client is invoiced for and what a reviewer can sign off. Most people log each day as they go, in the day view, stepping a task up a quarter-hour or adding an hour in one click; a whole week typed at once takes under two minutes.

**What if someone logs hours on the wrong project?**

They move the line from its menu, and its days, comments and rate go with it; it can carry on across the weeks after it too. Once the month is filed the line is locked, and the reviewer reopens it first.

**Can people log time on a finished task?**

Yes. A task in a done column is marked Done on the sheet, but still accepts hours, because the last fixes often land after the card has moved.

## See which task the hours went to

Thirty days of the Team plan, no credit card required. When the trial ends, your data stays and stays readable. Start with your work email and set a password from the link we send you.

[Start free trial](https://app.clockclerk.com/signup) [See the whole product](https://clockclerk.com/index.md)

Evaluating something else?

[Timesheet approvals](https://clockclerk.com/features/timesheet-approvals.md) [Software agencies](https://clockclerk.com/solutions/software-agencies.md) [Client collaboration](https://clockclerk.com/features/client-collaboration.md) [Engineering firms](https://clockclerk.com/solutions/engineering-firms.md)