Time tracking is an important aspect within vPlan. It gives you and your team insight into the progress of your work. You learn from the past and you can anticipate the future.
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To make time analysis successful, it is important that time registration can be carried out easily. Fortunately, this is a piece of cake in vPlan!

Tracking time is done on work you need to perform. You can find the tasks you need to perform in the vPlan app. This can be in the dashboard of the app, or in the list view. You can read how these different views work in the section Different views.

Here you will see one or more activities that have been added to this card. You also see here the estimated time and remaining time at the activity.
You can track time in two ways, with the start-stop system, or manually.

If you want to track time using the stopwatch system, you can press the blue Play button. The time will start running immediately. You will see a clock running live with the elapsed time.

When you finish your activity, there are two ways you can stop the time again. You can search for the card in your list, open the activity and click the Stop button to stop the timer. The time will be saved automatically. However, there is also a faster way. In the menu bar at the bottom, all current time entries are tracked in the Timesheets

overview.
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The red dot with a number in it indicates active timers (in this case, 1).
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Clicking on this menu item will take you to the timesheets. This section will be explained in more detail later in this article, but this is where you can view and turn off all your running timers.
You can stop the timer by clicking the Stop button next to the time entry.

It can happen to anyone. You've started a task and after a while you find out that you haven't started the time tracking. Fortunately, you can also enter time manually in vPlan Go.
For this too, you first need to look up the card. You can find the tasks you need to perform in the vPlan app. This can be in the dashboard of the app, or in the list view. You can read how these different views work in the section Different views.
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Instead of pressing the Play button next to the activity, you now first open the activity by clicking on it. Then press the green Add manual time button. You will now see the following screen:
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The circle visualizes a clock. By placing your finger or thumb on the green circle (which is at 12 o'clock) and moving clockwise you manually enter time. If you do not need to record to the minute you can also use the gray +30 min or -30 min buttons to easily add half an hour each time to your time tracking. A combination of both methods is also possible. When you have finished your time recording, press Save at the top right.
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If you do not want to work with this clock you can click on the blue pencil icon in the middle of the page. You will be redirected to a form where you can enter your time manually in various ways.
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In this screen you can enter time in different ways. You can choose between duration and time frame. With the duration you enter the total time. Under time frame you enter the start date and time, and the end date and time. vPlan then calculates the intermediate time and when you click Save your time is saved.

In addition to tracking time on the cards themselves, we have an overview in the vPlan app where you can track time per week on all your assigned cards. This overview can be found under the fourth tab in the app, the timer icon. This is also where all current time entries are tracked.
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The red dot with a number in it indicates active timers (in this case, 1).
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In this overview, you can click the Stop button next to the running timers to stop and record the time. This way you don't have to search for the card in your planning every time to stop the time recording.
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Below the running timers you will also find previously recorded time. Do you want to adjust the time tracking? You can do so by clicking on the line next to the tracked time. You will be redirected directly to the time registration you have already entered. You can then change it and save it.
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In the time registration tab you will see an overview of all cards to which you have been assigned and to which an estimated time applies. Here you can choose a daily or weekly overview. These two views show other available, planned and tracked hours, and the cards for just that day or the cards for the entire week. In the top block you see the days of the week, with a gray bar underneath. This bar indicates how much you are planned on that day. When you track time, these bars fill in blue. Below the bar you can also see in blue how much time has been tracked that day. A little further below the bars you see the available time, the planned time and the tracked time. As indicated earlier, you can choose whether you want to see the hours per day or per week.

Below this block you see all the cards, at the daily or weekly level. Here you see the card and the planned date. You will also see the activity and below it a gray bar with the estimated time. When time is recorded, this bar will also turn blue. Below this bar you will see all the days of the week. In the white squares below you can register time, as explained later.
When a time tracking is saved you will see this registration under the card.
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If you look at the overview by day, you will see all cards to which you are assigned that day, to which an activity with time duration is attached. The estimated time is automatically divided over the planned days. To track time follow these steps:

The tracked time is now saved. Below the card you will see a line with the time tracking.
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If you look at the overview by week, you will see all cards to which you are assigned that week, to which an activity with time duration is attached. Again, the estimated time is automatically divided over the planned days. To track time follow these steps:

Because the estimated time is automatically distributed over the planned days, you can also track everything at once based on the pre-filled hours. You then only need to click the blue button.
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You can quickly and easily modify tracked time in this overview. Below a card you see a line with the tracked time. You can click on this line. If you click on it you will see a wheel. Here you can change the tracked time in steps of a few minutes. In the center below the wheel you will see a blue pencil. If you click on it you can manually change the start and end time of this registration. You can also place a note here or delete the entire time tracking.