Ability to track time on a project itself

Currently in Wrike users can use the time tracking and reporting on tasks but not on projects. Having the ability to track time on the project itself would help us simplify reports to accounting who in our case don't care about the task-level and just care about the project-level in terms of time spent and spend. This is something we can workaround currently, but it would be a big improvement for us.

Find more posts tagged with

Not planned

Status: Not planned

Comments

Deanna Zirbes

I second this! We use a different time tracking tool currently because wrike does not allow you to look at the hours at a project view.

Would love this to change!

Mike Moss

I too vote for a way of tracking hours at the project level.

Wrike Administrator

I vote for this as well. Not everything is task based for us. Adding time to the entire project makes more sense.

Brian Barrus

@Casey How are you working around having this feature? Just making a catch-all task within each project assigned to everyone?

Marko Heikinheimo

Hmm, at the outset (I voted for the ability to track time on a project itself) the feature suggestion sounds good. Tracking time under any specific Task (X:x) within the Project (X) would then pause Project (X) time tracking.

As a workaround we plan to have a Task for Miscellaneous Project work (X:Miscellaneous) to capture all the small and fuzzy stuff not worth turning into Tasks.🙂

Laura Walz

We also greatly need the ability to track time at a project or folder level. Today there are so many strategic conversations, emails and meetings which occur at a brand, rep or customer level - it is very tedious to have to create and manage generic tasks under these folders and projects simply to track time. Please consider adding this ability!

Lastly, at the end of the day, when somebody realizes they forgot to track their time, it's very time consuming to navigate back through all of the various folders and tasks which they worked on. Is there a way to quickly track time AND tag with specific tags without actually digging through all of the various folders and tasks they worked on?

Megan Bethke

It would be awesome if we could track at a project/folder level with our team. We have many tasks that live within our projects that we track on, but there are so many generic things we do that aren't necessarily associated with a task but are very important to capture within our workloads and where our team is spending time.

Tim Cheney

Our team would also like to track time on the project level. We do not always need to track time based on the specific task and adding a task to record time seems redundant.

Swadesh Brojolall

Hello All: Is this functionality available now? Wrike team, please advise

Elizaveta Bogdanova

Hi everyone, thanks for your support for this suggestion! 🙂

Our Product team has plans for this for 2020, so it'll be extremely helpful if you could share more use-cases on why you need this as a feature. That will help our team prioritize and plan!

Swadesh Brojolall

Hello, I need to be able to get the hours spent by team on main tasks behind a project and also at the project level. This information is required for project monitoring and review.

Laura Walz

In order to track time as completely as possible, we need to account for the various work the team does outside of the actual tasks. We have tasks which include design, placing an order, etc., but there are also many strategic conversations, emails and meetings which occur at a brand, rep, customer or project level (which today are our projects and folders) - it is very tedious to have to create and manage generic tasks under these folders and projects simply to track time. With about 40 team members having to do this consistently, we cannot expect them to create a task for every item they work on, we need one simple place, which already exists in the foundation of our Wrike workflows, for them to track all time.

Tobias Zimmermann

I think this should be a thing!

Wrike has a whole section about holding meetings within wrike. But were does the people put the ours on? Of course not on the project, because that is not possible at the moment!

Please make this possible!

Permanently deleted user

Hi everybody, thank you for all of your feedback here! I don't have an update for you at the moment, but I'll let you know as soon as I do 😊

Amanda Houts

Any updates on this? This would be great for our project managers!

Elizaveta Bogdanova

Hi @Amanda Houts, welcome to the Community!

I'm checking with the team now, and if there's an update, I'll get back to you here 👍

Mikkel Siggaard

@Elizaveta Bogdanova Any words on progress?

Our use case revolves around having the ability to compare spend time on customers.

Our structure is:
One customer = One Project.
One project includes several tasks, where time is tracked.

So for us, it would be really nice to get a top view of all the aggregated time tracked pr. project.

Tim Cheney

@Elizaveta Bogdanova our need for this has increased since I commented on this in 2019. Since 2019 we have expanded our Wrike license to our Client Engagement Team. Like @Mikkel Siggaard, our client engagement team uses One Customer = One Project.

Please let us know if this is on the roadmap.

Thanks,

Tim

Elizaveta Bogdanova

Hi everyone! Thanks a lot for your continued support here! Our Product team has researched this suggestion, but for now, they don't have it in their short-term plans. We will continue to pass on your feedback here to them and once this idea reaches 60 upvotes, we will add a Product status here. Please continue to upvote the original suggestion above as the number of votes helps the team understand its popularity.

Natalie Swencki

I second Tim Cheney's last comment. This ability would be crucial for our department on how we manage/track time on projects. It would be very helpful to know if Wrike has a timeline for this. Thank you!

Cansu Yetisgin

Hi @Natalie Swencki, welcome to the Community, and thanks for posting!

As Lisa stated above this suggestion is unfortunately not planned in the short-term roadmap. Please be sure to upvote the original post if you haven't yet. We'll make sure to post here if there are any updates 😊

Meghan Sharer

This would be really helpful, our team finds it a little overwhelming to track in each task associated with a project. Some of them have started creating a time tracking task as a work around but being able to record at the project level would be much more useful. Thanks!

Elizaveta Bogdanova

Thank you for supporting this suggestion @Meghan Sharer 🙌

Lea Labastida

Is there an update on this to be able to track at the project level?

Juan Muttoni

Hi @Lea Labastida, thank you for bumping this suggestion. I'm checking with the Product Development Team for updates, we will inform you in case there are any changes regarding this feature.

In the meantime, please, feel free to upvote the original idea at the top so it gets closer to the 60 votes which are necessary to receive a status. Thank you!

Stephanie Weggeman

@[Deleted User], any updates here? Our team would benefit from this substantially.

Juan Muttoni

Hi @Stephanie Weggeman, thank you for your comment. I'm checking for updates with the Product Team, I'll come back to this thread with an accurate reply soon.

Thank you!

Juan Muttoni

Hi everyone! Our Product Team has confirmed that at the moment the investigation of this feature is on hold, therefore I changed the status of the request to "Not planned" to reflect its current status. I understand this is not the news you were willing to hear, but please rest assured that we are passing your feedback on to our Team and that there are aware of the popularity of this suggestion.

We will get back to you in case we are informed of any changes 👍

Travis Balthes

Putting our $0.02 in here. This would be a really helpful feature for reasons stated above. In my 10 years of experience in marketing, advertising, and product project management, I've never had a team that wants to track time period let alone down to the task. Most of the time they're going in an approximating their time once a week even with the timer functionality, etc. Most of the time you just want to be able to account for (a) how much to bill the client and for which project and (b) which projects are demanding most of resources. Anywho, it'd be great to have this feature.

Juan Muttoni

Thank you very much for your detailed feedback @Travis Balthes, I've passed it on to our dedicated team 👍