{"id":816,"date":"2018-03-29T13:24:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T13:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clockify.me\/help\/?p=816"},"modified":"2025-11-13T14:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T14:51:07","slug":"time-rounding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clockify.me\/help\/track-time-and-expenses\/time-rounding","title":{"rendered":"Time rounding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Round time entries up or down to the nearest minutes or hours so your reports are nice and neat, without all the confusing details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, you can round time to the nearest whole minute in reports so you don&#8217;t get distracted by seconds when looking at a report. Or, you can round time to the nearest 6 minutes and export them to get all time entries displayed as a nice round number with just one decimal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"translation-block note\">Time rounding is a paid feature, which you can enable by <a aria-label=\"upgrading (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/clockify.me\/pricing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">upgrading<\/a> your workspace to <a href=\"https:\/\/clockify.me\/help\/administration\/subscription-plans#standard\">Standard<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/clockify.me\/help\/administration\/subscription-plans#pro\">Pro<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/clockify.me\/help\/administration\/subscription-plans#enterprise\">Enterprise<\/a> paid plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Turn on rounding<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To round time entries, go to any report, and toggle the Rounding switch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To choose a different rounding option, click on the dropdown next to Rounding and choose Settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"446\" src=\"https:\/\/clockify.me\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-21-at-13.22.38-1024x446.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clockify.me\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-21-at-13.22.38-1024x446.png 1024w, https:\/\/clockify.me\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-21-at-13.22.38-300x131.png 300w, https:\/\/clockify.me\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-21-at-13.22.38-768x334.png 768w, https:\/\/clockify.me\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-21-at-13.22.38-1536x669.png 1536w, https:\/\/clockify.me\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-21-at-13.22.38-2048x892.png 2048w, https:\/\/clockify.me\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-21-at-13.22.38-18x8.png 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"note\">Rounding is applied to each time entry. Rounding only affects the reports, meaning that the rounded values will only be displayed in the reports and exports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What rounding affects when it&#8217;s ON<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Time rounding only affects the reports and can be turned on and off as you wish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Calculating duration<\/strong>: Clockify will first round the duration of each time entry, and then add them up.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"translation-block\"><strong>Export<\/strong>: durations and values will be rounded in the export too.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Calculated earnings<\/strong>: when calculating the value of your billable hours, Clockify takes rounded time entries.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Detailed report<\/strong>: you can&#8217;t edit time entries in the Detailed report when the rounding is on.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Time rounding doesn&#8217;t change any data, only how it&#8217;s displayed, which can always be turned on\/off. If you set the rounding to the nearest minute, your 00:10:56 time entry will be displayed as 00:11:00 once you turn the rounding on. And it will go back to 00:10:56 when you turn the rounding off. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rounding options<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You can set the rounding interval and how you want to round time entries in your workspace settings:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Round down<\/strong> (for example: if the interval is set to 30min, a 1-29min entry will show up in reports as 0min)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Round up<\/strong> (for example: if the interval is set to 30min, a 1-29min entry will show up in reports as 30min)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Round to nearest<\/strong> (for example: if the interval is set to 30min, a 1-14min entry will show up in reports as 0min, and a 16-29min entry as 30min)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1326\" height=\"801\" src=\"https:\/\/clockify.me\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/rounding.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clockify.me\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/rounding.png 1326w, https:\/\/clockify.me\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/rounding-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/clockify.me\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/rounding-768x464.png 768w, https:\/\/clockify.me\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/rounding-1024x619.png 1024w, https:\/\/clockify.me\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/rounding-60x36.png 60w, https:\/\/clockify.me\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/rounding-150x91.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1326px) 100vw, 1326px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"note\">If your duration format is set to hh: mm in your Workspace settings, time entry will be rounded up to a minute. For example, if you tracked 0 hours, 1 minute, and 15 seconds (00:01:15), the entry will be shown as 0 hours and 2 minutes (00:02). This is not a part of the time rounding feature and you can change the duration format in the Workspace settings on any plan, including the free plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group related-articles\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Related articles<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list related-articles-list\">\n<li class=\"translation-block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clockify.me\/help\/projects\/invoicing-tracked-time-expenses\">Invoice tracked time &amp; expenses<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"translation-block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clockify.me\/help\/projects\/invoicing\">Create &amp; manage invoices<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Round time entries up or down to the nearest minutes or hours so your reports ar&#8230;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_helpful_status":1,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manage-tracked-time"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"helpadmin","author_link":"https:\/\/clockify.me\/help\/author\/helpadmin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clockify.me\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clockify.me\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clockify.me\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clockify.me\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clockify.me\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":54,"href":"https:\/\/clockify.me\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27375,"href":"https:\/\/clockify.me\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions\/27375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clockify.me\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clockify.me\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clockify.me\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}