Track time next to the work

Time tracking falls apart when disconnected from the work

When time tracking is disconnected from where work actually happens, accuracy drops immediately. Hours turn into estimates, details get forgotten, and reporting becomes a chore nobody trusts.

• Engineers and consultants track hours across separate timers, spreadsheets, or notebooks.
• Friday afternoons turn into guesswork trying to reconstruct what happened days earlier.
• Time gets retroactively assigned to whatever client or project seems plausible.
• Managers and clients lose confidence in estimates, making reports unusable for billing or planning.

Track effort directly on the work item

Launch a running timer straight from any work item while you focus. When you stop it, Windshift automatically records the duration against that specific task.

If you prefer logging after the fact, enter the date, start time, and duration manually. Both methods feed into the exact same worklog history.

Anyone viewing the item can immediately see accumulated effort, who contributed, and which billing project it belongs to.

Every entry carries full business context

Each worklog preserves complete context: the customer organization, billable project, specific task, and the contributor who logged the hours.

The central Time Entry view consolidates all team activity into a clean table with timestamps, descriptions, and linked items.

Filter by client, project, team member, or date range, and watch summary totals update instantly.

Clear operational and billing reports

Built-in reports aggregate logged hours by customer, project, and timeframe. Total hours, daily averages, and distribution charts give an instant picture of team capacity.

Export any filtered view as a CSV or PDF for client invoices, audit reviews, or internal project retrospectives.

Because every entry traces back to a real work item, clients and stakeholders can verify exactly what work was performed.

What it replaces

Windshift does not try to replace dedicated payroll or invoicing software. Instead, it records precise effort right at the source, feeding accurate data into your downstream accounting systems.

• A standalone time-tracking app with separate logins and disconnected project codes.
• Friday spreadsheet reconciliation sessions.
• Retroactively guessed project and customer allocations.
• Billing reports that cannot be traced back to actual deliverables.

Setting it up

Time tracking is included in the free edition. Projects are global across workspaces, so multiple engineering and operations teams can log time against the same client project.

• Create a customer profile for each organization you bill or report to.
• Set up a time tracking project and link it to the relevant customer.
• Optionally add categories to group related initiatives.
• Define project status and hourly rates if you manage billable engagements.
• Log a test entry from any work item to verify that it appears in the central log.

Track time where the work happens

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