Add a project
Projects are what timers attach to. Here's how to set them up.
Projects belong to a client. Every timer and every manual time entry attaches to one. Projects let you separate billable streams under the same client (say "Q2 redesign" vs "monthly retainer").
Add a project
Open the client's detail page and click New project. Fill in:
- Name. Shown in the project list and on invoices unless you customize the line item.
- Rate. Optional. If you leave this blank, the project uses the client's default rate. If you set it, this rate overrides the client's for any new entries on this project.
- Currency. Inherited from the client. Projects can't be on a different currency than their client.
Tasks (optional)
Inside a project, you can add tasks: finer-grained labels for what you worked on. Tasks are useful when one project has a few recurring buckets ("design review", "build", "QA") that you want to track time against separately. Tasks don't change rates or invoices; they're organizational.
Budgets (optional)
Set a budget on a project to track how much of it you've used. Budgets can be in hours or money (in the project's currency). When a budget gets close to full, Hourdini sends you a heads-up notification.
You can see budget burn-down on the project's detail page.
Archiving a project
Archive a project from its detail page when the work wraps up. Like clients, archiving hides the project from default lists but keeps its history intact. You can still invoice unbilled time on an archived project.