A time entry represents the time spent doing something for a service. It is defined by a start time, elapsed time, pause time and a finish time. If you work from 09:00 AM until 11:00 AM and you take two 15 minutes breaks, the elapsed time will be 1:30 hours and the pause time will be 0:30 hours.
Depending on how you want to enter time, Fanurio lets you choose how to do it.
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Absolutely: You enter the start and finish times and hen Fanurio calculates the elapsed time by subtracting the start time from the finish time.
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Relatively to start: You enter the start time and the elapsed time and then Fanurio calculates the end time by adding the elapsed time to the start time.
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Relatively to finish: You enter the elapsed time and the finish time and then Fanurio calculates the start time by subtracting the elapsed time from the end time.
Whether you forget to record time or you are not in the front of the computer most of the day, you can always record time manually. Please note that you can only add time to a service item and not directly to a client or a project.
There several ways you can add time to a service item:
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Go to to add time to the currently selected service item. If no service item is selected, you will have to specify one. This is probably the fastest way to enter time in Fanurio.
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Go to the Timesheet view and use the New button. When you use this method and the date filter is set to a specific date, time is added by default to that date. This method is very useful if you need to enter time for previous dates as it saves you from specifying the date for each time entry.
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Open a project and select the service item where you want to add time. Then click the New Time button.
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Edit a service item and go to the Time section to add time to that item.
The major drawback of manual time recording is that you need to remember the times and duration of each task. That's why a better method to track time for your activities is to use a timer.
Here's what you need to do if you saved a time entry to the wrong service item and you want to move it.
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Go to the Timesheet view
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Edit the time entry you want to move (double-click it)
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Click the Service link and choose the service item where you want to move it
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Click Done
Fanurio can help you manage time recorded on multiple computers. You can export time recorded in one instance of Fanurio running on a certain computer and then import it in another instance of Fanurio running on a different computer. Here's how to do this:
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Export time: Go to the Timesheet view and use the filters above the table to specify the time that must be exported.
Go to to export the timesheet to an XML file.
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Import time: For the moment, Fanurio can only import time exported from another instance of Fanurio.
Go to to import a timesheet from an XML file.
Note: Fanurio will not import time to invoiced service items because that would alter existing invoices. Instead, it will create new non-billable services and it will save the time there. Missing clients, projects or service items will be automatically created.
Note: A backup copy will be created before time is actually imported so that you can always revert to the data before the import. Go to to restore a backup copy.
The following two examples show when this feature is useful.
Example 3.4. same user, multiple computers
Many people use two computers for work whether it's a desktop and a laptop or a home computer and an office computer. The time recorded on one computer can be exported and then imported in the other computer for billing purposes.
Example 3.5. multiple users, multiple computers
If you are part of a team, each member could install Fanurio on his or her computer to track time. Team members can then export their time and send it to the team leader to prepare invoices for their clients.
If you want to import time in Fanurio from an application you used in the past, a mobile application (iPhone, Android, Blackberry) or some other application, just go to .
Currently, only several applications are supported (iTimeSheet [iPhone], TimeLogger [iPhone], Time Tracker [Mac OS X], Toggl [web], Freckle [web] and BizTrackIt [BlackBerry]) but others can be added upon request.
When you record a time entry, you need to have a client, a project and a service item. For some people this solution is all they need to organize their time entries but others want more flexibility.
You can associate one or more tags to a time entry in the Tags field. They have to be separated by commas (eg: tag1,tag2,tag3). Once you have one or more entries with tags, you can then filter them in the Timesheet view. Just click the small arrow icon from the search field to tell it that you want to search by tags.
Tags are useful if you want to track time for multiple persons. You could use a tag for each person to know who did what.
To learn more about the time you record in Fanurio, go to the Timesheet view and use the filters above the time entries table. The table will display only those time entries that match the selected filters. Time can be filtered by:
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client status (any, active, not active),
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project status (any, finished, not finished),
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service status (any, invoiced, not invoiced),
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billing status (any, billable, not billable) and
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date.
Once you set these filters, the table footer will display the total of all visible time entries. For instance, you could use these filters to see how much time you've recorded on a date, week or month.
Note: If these time reports are not enough, you can also use project reports to learn more about your services and the time recorded on them.
If you need to do extra calculations on the list of time entries, you can also export it to CSV or Excel from . Fanurio can also export a time report to the QuickBooks .iif format (discussed in a separate section) and to .xml.
The table can also be filtered using a search field that can search by:
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description,
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tag and
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client;project;service.
The last search option (client;project;service) allows you to filter time entries by client, project, or service item name.
If you have a client called Aristotle with a project called Rhetoric and a service item called Proofreading the manuscript, just type Aristotle;Rhetoric;Proofreading the manuscript and it will display this exact service item. If you type Aristotle it will display all time entries for this client whereas if you type ;Rhetoric it will display all time entries for the project. The semicolon is very important as it helps Fanurio distinguish between fields.
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