Time tracking features are available for Pro and Enterprise users of Float.
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Time tracking provides an easy way to measure your team's time spent on their assigned work. You can compare a person’s scheduled time against their actual time to improve your team’s efficiency and forecast future projects more confidently.

Team members can track and manage their individual logged hours. The ability to log time depends on your access rights. If you have editing permission, you can log your time by hitting Log time on the left sidebar.

On the Log my time page, we automatically display the log time suggestions. These are log time recommendations based on the Schedule. For example, if you schedule 3 hours, 3 hours will show as a suggestion for logging. These recommendations can be deleted or edited as needed. To log the suggested time, simply click Log.

You can also create a new log time record by clicking any date and completing the Log time details.

You can also choose to log time for a specific phase and task. If a project already has a task list created, tasks will be displayed in the drop-down. If you see a lock icon next to the Task field, it means that the Project Owner has locked the task list, and you can only log time to one of the tasks from this approved list.

You can log the remaining time for the selected timeframe by clicking on the Log button in the top right corner of the page.

💡 Here's a tip: You can also track your time using the Time Tracking Timer or the Timer app.

To log time for your team or review the log time records, click Log team from the drop-down on the Schedule.

​📝 Note: You can toggle between logged and scheduled hours on the Schedule using the drop-down to quickly see who hasn't logged their hours yet and better understand your team's ability to take on future work.

Similar to Log my time page, the Log team page automatically displays the suggested hours. These are log time recommendations based on the Schedule. They can be edited or deleted as needed.

Your team's total unlogged hours are displayed next to the date range selected. If you hover over it, you can see the total logged hours and the hours that are still to be logged.

The Account Owner or Admins can click on the blue button at the top of the Log team page, which indicates the unlogged hours in the given date range, to log all the hours for the team in bulk. ​

Each person’s unlogged hours for the selected date range are displayed next to their name. Click on any logged time suggestion to adjust the hours and log the time, or if the scheduled time is correct, click the hours next to the person's name to log time for the selected date range.

You can also create new logged time entries and delete logged time suggestions that are no longer relevant. For each log time record, you can leave a Note to add context.

​📝 Note: You can archive a project to prevent your team from logging more time for it. Archiving preserves your scheduled and logged hours and makes the project read-only.

By default, the logged time is displayed in hours and minutes (HH:MM, for example, 2:30) instead of decimal hours (2,5). You can switch the log time display format from your Profile settings.

📝 Note: The displayed time on the Schedule, Project plan or Report will always be in decimal hours. If enabled, the hours & minutes (HH:MM) format will only be displayed on the Log time pages.

Your team's Account Owner and the Admins can manage the time tracking settings in the Time tracking tab of Team settings.

You can choose to enable to disable the ability to log time for your team.

Select the interval and frequency by setting how many days after the week's or month's end to log time for the team automatically. When enabled, all suggested hours will automatically be logged between 6 and 7 am in your team's timezone on the indicated day.

You can lock your team’s logged time to prevent changes and improve reporting and billing accuracy. If enabled, users with Member access rights will be prevented from adding new log time entries and editing the existing ones. 

Select the week, month, or year option, and then enter how many days after the chosen period your team’s logged hours should be locked.

Once the lock logged time is enabled, your team will see a lock icon next to the specific date on the Log my time and Log team pages. Users with Member access rights won't be able to log any time before that date. 
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For the open dates, the open lock indicator will be displayed. For those dates, your team Members can still log and edit logged time as needed. 
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The Report page gives you a true view of both the estimated time that appears on the Schedule and the actual time that your team logs.
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You can view your Logged time and Scheduled time in isolation, your Logged and Future scheduled time together, or compare Logged vs. Scheduled time for both your people and projects.

📝Note: Logged hours do not display in your reporting for past logged time until the date they are logged has passed (e.g., tasks logged for today's date will not display until tomorrow).

To see a full breakdown of each team member's logged hours, check the Time tracking tab while viewing the people report.
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Logged hours are also displayed while viewing your projects. The table data can be sorted by the total logged percentage of a budget in addition to the total scheduled percentage of a budget.

​To see the details of an individual project, click the specific project in the table or use the filter at the top of the page to show the Single Project Report.

Depending on your preference, you can send your team a helpful nudge to log their time daily or weekly.

The Account Owner can schedule reminder emails from the Notifications tab within Team settings.

Individual team members can also set up Slack notifications and schedule their own time-tracking reminders.