Timetable grid interval: in step with your billing
Until now, the timetable divided your day into fixed quarter hours. If you bill your customers in finer steps, you corrected many time entries by hand afterwards. That changes now:
Choose a grid from 5 to 30 minutes for the timetable to match your billing interval.
An everyday example: Sandra runs an IT services company and bills her customers in tenths of an hour, meaning 6-minute increments. Her employee Jonas draws up his entries using the mouse in the timetable. Previously, every entry snapped to a 15-minute interval, so Jonas had to adjust the start and end times manually. Since Sandra changed the time grid to 6 minutes, his entries now snap directly to the correct intervals.
Instead of a fixed 15 minutes, you now decide how the timetable is divided.
The setting applies to the whole company and is available in the Pro plan.
As long as you don’t change anything, the grid stays at 15 minutes. Your existing time entries keep their exact times and are unaffected by changes to the grid.
How the timetable works with your grid
You can choose 5, 6, 10, 12, 15 or 30 minutes. The 5-minute grid suits short tasks such as phone calls, 6 minutes equal a tenth of an hour and 10 minutes a sixth of an hour. With 12 minutes you bill in fifths of an hour, with 15 minutes in quarter hours and with 30 minutes in half hours.
The grid decides where time entries snap into place in the timetable. This applies when you draw a time entry, move it or change its length. Imported calendar events also line up with the selected grid.
Each interval in the grid always has the same height, regardless of how many minutes it represents. This means that a finer grid makes the daily view longer because it contains more intervals. A day with a 30-minute grid has just 48 intervals, allowing you to see the entire working day at a glance. A 5-minute grid, on the other hand, has 288 intervals, each the same height as a 30-minute interval. The timetable view becomes correspondingly longer, but more details are visible.
Timetable in the familiar 15-minute grid:
The same timetable in the 6-minute grid:
What you should know
The time grid applies to the entire company: Every employee sees the same intervals in their timetable. This ensures that your whole team tracks time using the same grid. Administrators and access groups with the "Edit company settings" permission can change the grid.
Clockodo doesn’t round any time entries. Times tracked with the clock, entered in the form or stored in existing time entries keep their exact length. The grid only helps when you place time entries in the timetable. You can configure rounding for billing purposes in the reports builder.
How to set the timetable grid interval
- Open settings
- Choose the “Timetable grid interval” in the “Customer and project time tracking” section
- Click “Save”
