How to Track Your Time

Before you can start tracking your time you will first need to create a “Project” and an “Activity”.

Start tracking your time:

1. Through the “Time Tracking” tab, select the “Time Tracking” option.
2. Determine a specific day on the “Calendar”.
   
3. Click the “New Entry” button at the top right corner.
   
4. Select a “Project” and an “Activity”, and add your time manually in the “Time field” or start the “Timer”.
5. Add any “Notes” related to the task.
6. Click the “Add” button.

How to import a list of time entries from a CSV file.

1. Open the Excel program
2. At the first row add the fields “Project”, “Activity”, “Time”, “Date” and “Description” into the A1…E1 fields.
3. Beneath every field fill out all the details as showing in the figure below.
4. The “Time” Field must be added in either one of these two ways:
   1. 2.5 which means two and a half hours.
   2. 2:30 which also means 2 and a half hours.
5. The “Date” field must be formatted as your system’s date format so in this case, we will use the DD/MM/YYYY format.
6. After you add all your items save the excel file as CSV (Comma delimited.)
7. Log in to your online invoices account.
8. Through the “Time Tracking” tab select the “Time Tracking” option.
9. Click the marked in blue “Import” button at the top right corner.
   

   The importing wizard will start:
   Step 1 Import Options:

1. Determine the file that will be imported (the CSV file we previously saved.
2. Through the Delimiters tab, Select the “Comma Separated” option.
3. Tick the “Import First Row” check box. If your file contains the same field labels at the first row so in this case, we will not tick the check box.
4. Click the “Next Step” button.

Step 2 Fields Mapping:

1. We will map the fields (Columns) on the imported file to the corresponding fields on the system.
2. Select a corresponding field in the file for each system field as showing in the above figure.
3. If you entered a new “Project” or “Activity” then it will be saved on the system.
4. Click the “Import” button.

Step 3 Importing:

1. The system will take a few seconds to import the fields and save them.
2. Refer back to the “Time Tracking” page to check the imported items.