Feature Requests

We use contractors for that we pay hourly and would like to disable the ability for a user to manually add time. Currently Everhour does this for us but we're looking to use Clickup instead. At the very least, having manual time vs time tracked visible in reporting would be useful. Both of these seem like relatively simple fixes.

🔹 Overview of the Problem ClickUp's current time tracking tool offers a great native capability to log time spent on tasks. However, it lacks active user engagement verification, resulting in inaccurate and inflated time records when users: 1) I/ Team members forgot to stop the timer. 2) Switch tasks without updating the timer. 3) Step away from their computer while the timer continues to run. This leads to a skewed perception of productivity, misreporting of billable/non-billable hours, and difficulty in performance analytics. 🔹 Proposed Solution: Active Engagement Timer (AET) System A feature that prompts users to confirm their ongoing engagement with the currently tracked task at user-defined intervals, with the following characteristics: 🔢 Key Features & Functional Flow ✅ 1. Smart Pop-up Reminder After a user starts a timer, ClickUp will show a non-intrusive pop-up at a configurable interval (e.g. every 5, 10, 15, 30 minutes). The pop-up will ask: "Are you still working on this task?" Options: Yes, continue (Timer continues for the same task) Switch Task (Brings up a quick task search/switch modal) Pause Timer 📊 2. Customizable Reminder Frequency Each user can choose their own preferred interval (e.g., 10 min for developers, 30 min for project managers). Admins can set org-wide defaults. ❌ 3. Auto-Pause After Inactivity If the user does not respond to one/two consecutive reminders, the timer auto-pauses. An optional notification can alert the user: "We paused your timer due to inactivity." 📅 4. Resume with Contextual Time Handling When the user returns, ClickUp will ask: "Welcome back! Do you want to add the previous 30 minutes to the task or discard it?" Options: Add time to the same task. Add to a different task. Discard time. ⚙️ 5. Startup Behaviour Setting Add a setting in ClickUp preferences: "Ask me which task to start tracking at login/startup" Ensures no time is missed or misattributed. 📂 6. Optional Screenshot Prompt (for WorkSnaps-like Accuracy) A feature (if enabled) to optionally capture a screen (blurry preview or timestamp-only) every time confirmation is requested for audit. 📗 Suggested User Journey Example: User: John (Frontend Developer) Logs in at 9:00 AM. ClickUp asks: "What task would you like to work on today?" He selects: "Fix Homepage Layout Bug" Timer starts at 9:01 AM At 9:31 AM, a pop-up appears: "Still working on this task?" John clicks "Yes" At 10:01 AM, John is away from desk. No response 10:06 AM: Second pop-up comes Still no response Timer auto-pauses at 10:10 AM At 10:25 AM, John returns, sees prompt: "Timer paused. Do you want to include the previous 20 minutes?" John chooses "No, discard time" 🔎 Benefits to ClickUp Users Increased accuracy of logged time. Reduced manual error in tracking. Better project costing, billing, and productivity insights. Helps align with privacy-first policies (by not capturing time when user is away). Builds trust with clients through accountable reporting. 🌟 Additional Ideas Add keyboard shortcuts for popup confirmation. Allow teams to bulk-enable the feature across workspaces. Integrate with ClickUp Goals to track focus durations. 🛍️ Final Thoughts This feature draws inspiration from tools like WorkSnaps, but adapts them elegantly within ClickUp's productivity ecosystem. It maintains ClickUp’s flexibility while ensuring higher time tracking integrity — a game-changer for remote teams, freelancers, and managers.

Our team has built custom budgeting and forecasting dashboards using CSV exports and Google Looker Studio. While this provides some visibility, there’s still a significant amount of manual work involved—particularly in updating data, aligning forecasts with timelines, and tracking real-time budget vs. actuals across projects. We’d love to see native budgeting and forecasting tools within ClickUp, ideally integrated with time tracking, custom fields, and dashboards. Key Pain Points: Manual updates to budgeting spreadsheets. No way to easily forecast based on past project data or time estimates. No integration between project timelines, time tracked, and actual financial cost. Difficult to create a centralized, live dashboard showing financial progress per project or client. This would streamline agency operations massively—removing the need to build and maintain external tools—and make ClickUp a more powerful source of truth for project profitability. Thanks for considering this!

I love Clickup, but really miss the time-tacking calendar view in JIRA Tempo where you can add timetracking on a calendar, and also move tracked items around, click and drag to change a duration, and quickly duplicate them. It makes time tracking so much easier. I would absoluitely love Clickup to intergate this!

Some team members, especially those handling a high volume of support requests, may begin tracking time using the timer in the top-right corner of ClickUp without remembering selecting a task. This can lead to incomplete or inaccurate time logs, as we dedicate spaces and lists to clients in order to bill them. We’re proposing one of the following solutions to help safeguard against this: 1) A prompt or warning that appears when a timer is stopped without a task selected, reminding the user to choose one. 2) An automation that notifies the user who triggered the timer if a task hasn't been selected. This feature would help reduce manual corrections, forgotten context, and ensure more consistent and accurate time tracking across the team so that we can accurately bill our clients.

That would be great if there is a desktop time tracker for clickup. that would be a complete time tracking package. which can automatically track time, stop tracking time when users are not in the desk etc.

With a German keyboard layout (no point key on numpad) it would be great being able to enter times with comma as decimal separator.

URGENTLY need some solution to flag/alert for if a task goes over it's estimated time i.e if time tracked exceeds time estimated

It would be great to include an automation like in monday.com where when a task is placed in a certain status, time tracking is started and when the task is removed from that status, time tracking is stopped. This allows for a real record of tasks and avoids forgetting.

A user with custom permissions should be able to get permission from the owner or admin of an organization to record time for other users. Currently, this function is exclusively reserved for the owner or admin. Feature request that made it possible for admins to: https://feedback.clickup.com/feature-requests/p/allow-users-to-time-track-for-other-users