Compreendendo estimativas, orçamentos e alertas de projetos
Clockify gives you multiple ways to track progress and stay informed through time estimates, budget estimates, and alerts. These features work in specific ways, and here’s a complete breakdown.
Estimate progress bars can exceed 100% #
When your tracked time or budget goes beyond the estimate, Clockify does not stop tracking. Instead, the project progress bar will go past 100% to reflect overage.
- 125% = 25% over the estimate
- This behavior is intentional and helps you measure how much you’ve exceeded
Recurring budgets reset automatically #
If you’ve set a weekly, monthly, or yearly recurring estimate, the budget will reset automatically at the end of each cycle based on the project’s start date.
What this means:
- Budgets don’t disappear; they just start fresh for the new period
- Project status only shows progress for the current cycle
How to preserve historical data
Before the reset date:
- Ir para a página de Projetos
- Click Export (CSV or Excel)
- The export includes tracked time, budget, estimate, overage, progress, and more
This serves as a backup or a reference if you want to compare performance across periods.

Alerts may not trigger if not configured at that threshold #
Estimate alerts are only sent for thresholds that are explicitly defined.
Exemplo:
If you set an alert only at 80% and not at 100%, you won’t receive anything when the estimate is fully reached.
What to do:
Set alerts at all relevant thresholds (e.g., 50%, 80%, 100%) under workspace settings -> Alerts.

Alerts are not retroactive #
If you create or edit an alert rule after a threshold is already passed, Clockify will not trigger the alert retroactively.
Clockify doesn’t block tracking beyond estimates #
Estimates are for informational purposes only. Clockify will not automatically prevent time tracking on those projects once an estimate or a budget is used up.
What you can do instead:
- Set up alerts to notify when the estimate is near or exceeded
- Use the Project status page to view the current status
- Create clear internal guidelines for stopping work manually
Optional control method:
Once the project reaches its estimate or a budget limit, an Admin or a Project Manager can:
- Ir para a página de Projetos
- Click on the project
- Select Archive
This will prevent team members from tracking additional time on that project, effectively enforcing a soft stop.

Time estimate vs. Budget estimate #
Clockify allows you to track a project’s progress using two types of estimates: time estimates and budget estimates.
- A time estimate refers to the number of hours you expect to spend on a project. It’s based purely on tracked time entries and is ideal when you’re managing internal workload, capacity, or effort.
- A budget estimate, on the other hand, refers to the monetary value you expect to bill for a project. It depends on having hourly rates set up, either at the project or task level.
Task-level estimates also support alerts #
You can assign estimates and alerts to tasks, not just full projects.
You can notify:
- Task assignees
- Gerente de Projeto
- Workspace admin
Only one role can be selected per alert rule, but you can create multiple rules to notify several roles.
Estimate alerts are only sent once per threshold #
You’ll receive one alert per threshold (e.g., 80%, 100%). If the progress jumps over multiple thresholds at once (e.g., from 75% to 95%), only the highest one will trigger.
An alert for a threshold will only trigger again if the project drops below that value and then crosses it again.