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SpotsCC1
Contributor 2
5 days ago

Non billable hour tracking in Jobber (time clock workarounds)

I use Jobber and am finding the Time Clock feature too limited for my needs. While I don’t plan on switching from Jobber any time soon, I wanted to reach out to the community to see what others have done in this situation. I can’t imagine I’m the only one facing this issue.

My main concern is that the "General" time clock category hides too much information. Having only the options for clocking "Job Time" or "General" time leaves a lot of room for error, in my opinion. For example, when a team member has a slow day and completes various "overhead" or "non-billable" tasks, it all gets lumped under "General" time. For our company, these tasks include picking up chemicals from a supplier, fixing a headlight on a truck, delivering door hangers, etc.

Relying on team members to make their own notes after the fact or expecting an admin to remember these details later feels unsustainable. If we see that a team member has clocked 5 hours on a job and 3 hours under "General" time, it could easily be mistaken for them simply forgetting to clock out for the day.

My team is small, but I imagine this issue is even more pronounced in larger teams.

Can anyone suggest workarounds or solutions they’ve found? Maybe I need to put more focus on verifying these manual adjustments, but that feels quite labor-intensive.

Thanks!

  • bedellmgmt's avatar
    bedellmgmt
    Jobber Ambassador

    I'm looking forward to seeing how others tackle this!!

  • danjhu's avatar
    danjhu
    Contributor 2

    I would like to hear from someone about this too! I small team and ask my employees to write down details about how they are accounting their time under "General" but it would be much cleaner to have custom sub categories to improve on time management, accountability, etc. For example, I really should be tracking all of my time spent on the business - sometimes it's on specific jobs but other times it's writing up estimates, etc.  but much of it gets unaccounted for. It would be great to be able to print up reports on this sub categories as well.