How to create time entries in Memtime

You can create time entries in Memtime based on your automatically captured activities.

 

You will not be able to create time entries unless you have an ERP or Memtime Projects connected. Please, make sure you have at least one of them before moving on with this article. 

To create time entries in Memtime, you first need to create your projects, customers or tasks. You can also import projects and customers from your ERP or project management software if we already have an integration for it.

Attention! If you have purchased a Basic user license, please stop here and read this article before carrying on. 

To learn more about creating projects, click here.


Once you have your projects and clients set up, you can create time entries for them based on your automatically tracked activities.


1. One way to create a time entry is to right-click on a specific activity and click "Transform to Time Entry".


When you create time entries this way, the information from the tracked activity is automatically added as a comment for that time entry.

The video below shows how you can this:

 

2. The second way to create time entries is to select several activities with Ctrl+click, right-click on one, and select "Create Time Entries for Selection".


When you create time entries this way, the information from the tracked activity is automatically added as a comment for that time entry.


3. The third way to create a time entry is to click and drag on the time entry column on the right side.

This way you can create larger time entries that contain multiple tracked activities. When you create such a time entry, the information from the activities is not automatically added as a comment to the time entry.


4. The fourth way to create a time entry is to click the "Plus" button at the top of the time entries column:

Besides all of this, you can also create rule sets for automatic time entry suggestions.

If you want to learn more about how to automate the creation of your time entries, click here.

In the following video you will find a step by step guide explaining the 4 different methods to create time entries: