--- title: "Project time tracking with Clock Clerk — actual hours against tasks and estimates" description: "Track the hours your team actually spends against each project task and its estimate, see an overrun while there is still time to act, and report on the hours by project, person or activity." url: "https://clockclerk.com/project-time-tracking" --- For project-based teams # Track actual hours against tasks and estimates Every task on a project's board carries its estimate, and every hour logged against it counts toward it. See which tasks run over while there is still time to act, and report on the hours by project, person or activity. [Start free trial](https://app.clockclerk.com/signup) [See the whole product](https://clockclerk.com/index.md) Thirty days, every feature, no credit card required. Managers, administrators and finance never cost a cent. Three people or fewer? [Start on Free](https://app.clockclerk.com/signup?plan=free), with no trial clock. How it works ## One task, from the estimate to the report 1. #### 1 Plan Break the project into tasks on its board, each with the hours you expect it to take. 2. #### 2 Collaborate Questions about a task are asked in its thread, so the reason it ran over is written down beside it. 3. #### 3 Track People log their hours against the task they worked on, and its card shows the hours used against the estimate. 4. #### 4 Approve A manager approves each filing, and the approved hours are locked for reporting. 5. #### 5 Bill Bill the approved hours to a client, or report them against the project's cost when the work is internal. Why Clock Clerk ## Estimates you can hold the work to #### Overruns show early A bar on every card fills as hours are logged against its estimate, so the task running over is visible before the project is. #### Hours by task, not by guesswork Hours are typed against a day and a task, with no timer to forget, and a whole week takes about two minutes. #### Reports at price or at cost Group the hours by client, project, person, activity or billing role, and show them at what you charge or at what each person costs. Pricing ## You pay for the people who log time, not the people who manage them Most time trackers charge a seat for everyone who signs in, including the managers who approve and the administrators who run it, and the approvals and reports those managers need often sit on a higher plan that raises the price of every seat. Clock Clerk charges only for the people who log hours that month. Everyone who reviews, approves, administers or reads the reports is free, on every plan. A typical per-seat time tracker - Someone who logs time **A seat** - A manager who approves it **A seat, and approvals often need a higher plan** - An administrator **A seat** - Finance, reading reports **A seat** - Someone on leave all month **A seat** Clock Clerk - Someone who logs time **$3–$6 / month, or $0 on Free** - A manager who approves it **$0** - An administrator **$0** - Finance, reading reports **$0** - Someone on leave all month **$0** A manager who also logs hours counts once, at the same price as everyone else. There is no manager seat and no admin seat. Free $0 up to 3 people Up to 3 people, 10 active projects and 20 clients, with the week sheet, boards, team chat, approvals, rate cards and the standard reports. No card, no trial clock. [Start for free](https://app.clockclerk.com/signup?plan=free) Starter $3 per filer / month Up to 15 filers and no limit on projects or clients. Everything in Free, plus single sign-on, threads shared with your clients and a holiday schedule that takes paid holidays off people's targets. [See what is included](https://clockclerk.com/pricing.md) Team Recommended $6 per filer / month No limit on people, projects or clients; contractors and invoices, task imports, export to QuickBooks, your logo and brand color, cost-basis reporting and scheduled reminders. [Start free trial](https://app.clockclerk.com/signup?plan=team) Enterprise Talk to us Export to SAP, NetSuite, Dynamics 365 and every other ERP, data residency, a named support contact, and the option to run it on your own servers. [Contact sales](https://app.clockclerk.com/contact?reason=sales) Starter and Team are priced per person who files, with no limit on reviewers, administrators or finance. Free holds 3 people in all. [Compare plans in full](https://clockclerk.com/pricing.md) Questions ## Asked before they switch **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 happens at a month end mid-week?** The week is cut where the month is. Each part has its own status and its own submit, and locking follows the days, so the new month stays typable while the old one is being approved. **Does the board replace Jira or Trello?** It can. Where the engineers stay in Jira, Trello, Azure DevOps or Notion, link the project to it instead and import their items as cards, so the hours are still logged against the work they track. ## See where the hours actually go Thirty days, every feature, no credit card required. 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)