Understanding Rounding in Timesheets

How It Works Default Rounding Rounding Options Billing Troubleshooting

If you notice small discrepancies between your time totals in different views, the cause may be your rounding option.

This article explains how rounding works in Timesheets reports, why totals may differ depending on your report setup, and how to choose the right rounding method for your needs. You'll find these options in Timesheets settings under "Default rounding."

Overview

How Rounding Works

Rounding is applied at the row level in reports, not the overall total. Each row of your report is calculated in seconds, converted to decimal hours, and rounded according to your selected strategy. The total at the bottom is then the sum of those rounded row values.

📅 Per-day rows Rounding is applied daily, and daily totals are added together. Small "rounding up" differences can accumulate across days.

🗓 Per-month rows Rounding is applied once on the monthly total, which avoids accumulating those daily rounding extras.

Default

Default Rounding

The default rounding strategy is 0.01 hours. This means each row total is rounded to the nearest hundredth of an hour, approximately 36 seconds.

💡 You can change this at any time in your Timesheets settings under "Default rounding."

Options

Available Rounding Options

Precision-based rounding: rounds to the nearest value

0.1 hours	Tenths of an hour (6 minutes)
0.01 hours default	Hundredths of an hour (36 seconds)
0.001 hours	Thousandths of an hour (3.6 seconds)

Minute or hour-based rounding: always rounds up to the next increment

Hour	Rounds up to the next whole hour (e.g., 1.2 hrs → 2.0)
15 minutes	Rounds up to 0.25 increments (e.g., 1.1 hrs → 1.25)
6 minutes	Rounds up to 0.1 increments (e.g., 1.05 hrs → 1.1)

Billing

Note on Billing

If a single row contains multiple billing rates, the total is calculated as the sum of each rate's rounded time in that row. This can make the billed total slightly different from the unrounded raw total.

Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting Discrepancies

It's common to see differences in totals depending on your report setup. Here are the most frequent cases:

❓ "My daily totals don't match my monthly totals."

This happens because rounding is applied each day and then added up. Across many days, those small differences accumulate. When you switch to a monthly view, rounding is applied once to the monthly total, which reduces those discrepancies.

❓ "Why is my total time higher than expected?"

If you use minute or hour-based rounding (like 15 minutes), each row is rounded up. If you have many small entries, the rounding can add extra time to your total.

❓ "My billed total looks different than my raw time."

This occurs when rows include multiple billing rates. Each rate's time is rounded separately, then added together, which can make the billed total slightly different from the unrounded raw total.