Tracking Time in MantisHub

Whatever your business may be, keeping a record of the time your team spends on project tasks or issues can help in many areas by providing data to develop efficient, cohesive workflows. It’s also necessary for businesses with specific needs to track time spent on tasks. There can be several reasons why you need your team to record time spent on their tasks.

• Where clients are charged based on tracked hours spent on client services.
• Managers and supervisors are required to regularly report on the efficiency of teams and measure performance.
• Planners need to predict resource needs for future projects by identifying bottlenecks or high demand areas.

So, among our many handy features and integrations, MantisHub has a few options to address your task time-tracking needs.

In-built MantisHub time tracker

Setup is easy: The easiest way to start tracking time is to turn on the built-in time-tracking feature within MantisHub. Turning it on just requires a simple line of configuration, and straight away you’ll be able to enter time details in your issues and run reports on time spent on issues. Full setup instructions can be found in our Setting up Time Tracking support article.

Enter time manually or automatically: Once enabled, your team can record time spent on the issue as part of issue updates. You can either enter these details manually or enable the stopwatch feature. With the stopwatch feature, you can click the start button when you begin working on a task and stop when you’re done to record time automatically.

Report on time spent: When you turn on time tracking, you’ll notice a new menu item on the left-hand main menu where managers can run reports on tracked time within a project for any specified period. Project management and resource planning are easier with the ability to view just how much time your team is spending within each area. It’s also great for client chargeback, as you have the option to turn on time-tracking billing. This feature allows you to specify an hourly cost for time spent, and the total cost per task will be calculated and displayed in your report!

For more information on using MantisHub’s in-built time tracking feature, check out this article or sign up for a free MantisHub trial to test it out.

Time Tracking Integrations

If you already use a dedicated time-tracking service in your organization and want to tap into existing functionality, MantisHub offers integrations with several third-party time-tracking services. Using browser extensions (e.g. Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge), you can connect MantisHub to:

Toggl – Install the Toggl extension here.

TimeCamp – Install the TimeCamp extension here.

Once installed, you’ll see a timer button when you open your MantisHub issues. Just click it, and time starts recording in your third-party application. These integrations also import MantisHub project and issue information, so you can automatically populate fields such as task name, description, and project!

So there are a few options for you to go ahead and try out! If you do have any other application that you prefer to use for time tracking, you can always reach out to your provider to request an integration with MantisHub or reach out to our team. We’re happy to work with them to provide a solution for you.