Edition: Professional, Business, Enterprise
User-level: All users
Synergy's Timers help you accurately track time spent on tasks, whether internal or project-related. You can run multiple timers simultaneously, pause, play, or stop as needed, and easily add recorded time to your timesheet.
What are timers and why use them?
Timers run in the background, allowing you to track time spent on tasks without interruption. You can pause, stop, and restart them at any time, and even run multiple timers simultaneously to manage different tasks efficiently.
Using timers ensures accurate time tracking and makes it easy to log work directly into your timesheet, saving both time and reducing the risk of errors.
Using Synergy Timers
You can start a Timer no matter where you are in Synergy.
Click the clock icon in the top right hand corner of any page.
A panel will appear, in this panel, add:
A description of what you're working on (this will become a note on your timesheet).
Choose the project this task relates to (this can be an internal project as well).
You can type a project name, or number if you can't find it on the list.
If you have already spent an amount of time on this task prior to starting the timer, you can start with the time you've already spent.
Press play to start the clock.
If you started with time already, it will start with the amount of minutes you added.
When your timer is running, the icon's little clock will start flashing from black to red and - indicating you have an active timer.
Any timer left running will automatically be stopped at midnight.
Adding timers to your timesheet
Now that you've finished for the delay or time being, you can add the time to your timesheet
Organisation dropdown > timesheets
Scroll to the bottom, you will see 'Timers'.
Click the line to add it to your timesheet.
If you have multiple timers here, you can use "Add all".
Fill in the Stage and Task, as well as Rate if it's different to the default.
Save your timesheet.
You will now have a line, with the time accumulated with your timer, and if you added a Description, this will also be a Note under the time logged.
Tips!
You can also start a timer from any previously entered timesheet entry, this will start a new Timer with all of the information (Project, Stage, Task) from the timesheet line you've previously added! Just hit the green Play button at the end of the timesheet entry.
The play button will appear when you hover over the timesheet entry.
