Understanding Team Timesheets Reports

Team reports give you a detailed view of how time is being logged across your organization.

All reports are accessible from Timesheets → Team Reports. They include three views,  View & Export, Calendars, and Approvals, plus Target Summary from the main Timesheets menu. Reports only reflect time that members have actively logged to projects. Raw activity data on the timeline does not automatically appear in reports.

Report Views

View & Export

The View & Export page is where you access the main reports for team timesheets. It shows every logged time entry across your organization as a filterable, sortable table, and lets you export the results. Go to Timesheets → Team Reports → View & Export.

Team Reports View and Export page showing filter controls for Teams, Users, Clients, Projects, and Tasks, display options for Rounding and Only Billable/Reviewed/Finalized, Interval and Group selectors, CSV Excel and Raw export buttons, and a table of logged time entries by team, user, project, client, tasks, hours, billable, and bill amount

Filters

The filter row at the top lets you narrow the report to exactly the data you need. Each filter shows a badge with how many items are selected:

  • Teams: filter to one or more teams in your organization
  • Users: filter to specific members
  • Clients: filter to projects belonging to a specific client
  • Projects: filter to one or more specific projects
  • Tasks: filter to a specific task type across projects

Display options

  • Rounding: sets the rounding strategy for all time totals in this report view (overrides individual user settings for the export)
  • Only: Billable shows only time entries marked as billable
  • Only: Reviewed shows only time that a member has reviewed
  • Only: Finalized shows only time from the days that a member has finalized

Interval and Group

  • Interval: Choose how time is summarized. Total Time shows one row per grouping, or breaks down by day, week, or month.
  • Group: Control how rows are organized, e.g., by Team + User and then by Project, giving you a hierarchical view of where time went.

Report table columns

Interval The time period for the row — shown when Interval is set to a period other than Total Time
Team The team the member belongs to
User The member who logged the time
Project The project the time was logged to, shown with its color indicator
Client The client the project is assigned to
Tasks The task type selected when the time was logged
Hours Total time logged for that row
Billable Billable hours and the percentage of total logged time that is billable
Bill Calculated billing amount based on the applicable rate (task → project → client → user). Shows "---" if no rate is set or the project is not billable

Exporting

Three export formats are available:

  • CSV: a comma-separated file for use in spreadsheet apps or billing tools
  • Excel: a formatted Excel workbook
  • Raw: unfiltered data for a selected time period, useful for custom reporting pipelines

Set your filters before exporting. The export reflects exactly what is shown in the report at the time you click export, including all active filters, the selected date range, interval, and grouping. Double-check these before downloading, especially if you're exporting for invoicing.

Calendars

The Calendar view shows a weekly timeline of each member's logged time, laid out by day. It's useful for getting a quick visual read on how the week was spent—who was active when, and which projects took up the most time. Go to Timesheets → Team Reports → Calendars.

Team Reports Calendars view showing a weekly timeline from Monday to Sunday with two members (Bianca and erin) shown as rows, each with color-coded project blocks across the days, filtered by Teams and Users with a Finalized and Billable Only option in the top right

At the top, a summary bar shows the total time logged across all visible members for the week, broken down by project in proportion to time. Each row represents one member. Color-coded blocks represent logged project time within a day.

Use the Filter by controls to narrow to a specific team or individual. The Only: Finalized and Only: Billable checkboxes let you focus on finalized or billable time only.

Hovering over a time block in a member's row shows a tooltip with the project name, the exact time range, and a Device Activity percentage:

Calendar block tooltip showing Marketing project, 1h 5m from 11:40 AM to 12:45 PM, Device Activity 92 percent, Client RescueTime

Device Activity reflects how actively the keyboard and mouse were in use during that block. A high percentage means near-continuous typing or clicking throughout the period. A lower percentage might mean reading, thinking, or participating in a call without screen interaction. It adds useful context to a time block, but it's not a measure of effort or output.

Hovering on the summary bar at the top shows an aggregate tooltip for that project across the week, with total duration and overall device activity for the whole period:

Calendar summary bar tooltip showing Customer Support project, Duration 5 hours 30 minutes, Device Activity 80 percent

Approvals

The Approvals view is where owners and admins bulk-approve (finalize) member timesheets. It shows a weekly grid (one row per member, one column per day) with the submission status for each day. Go to Timesheets → Team Reports → Approvals.

Approvals grid showing two members (erin and Bianca) across a week, with erin having Submitted status on Monday and Not Submitted on other days, and Bianca showing Not Submitted across all visible days

Each day cell shows one of two states:

  • Submitted: The member has finalized that day. Their time is submitted and can be approved.
  • Not Submitted: The member has not yet finalized that day. Their time can be finalized by clicking the circle.

When one or more days are selected to approve, a banner appears at the top of the grid showing how many days are pending. Click the checkmark in the banner to bulk-approve all eligible time at once:

Approvals view with a dark banner at the top reading 2 member days ready to approve with a checkmark approve button

Only reviewed time can be approved. Approvals cover time that members have reviewed for the day, not unreviewed suggestions. If a member's day shows Not Submitted, remind them to review and finalize their timeline.

Target Summary

The Target Summary shows progress toward any hourly targets set on team projects. It's accessible to both admins and members via Timesheets → Target Summary. Each row shows a project, its target hours, how much has been logged, the percentage complete, and the number of days remaining.

Target Summary page showing Team Targets table with Customer Support project at 80.58 of 80.00 hours, 101 percent progress, and 0 days remaining

Targets are set when creating or editing a project; see the admin setup guide for details. Members only see targets for projects they're assigned to. A checkmark icon next to a project name indicates the target has been met or exceeded.


Timesheet States Explained

Understanding where a member's time falls in the workflow helps you know what's ready for approval and what still needs action. There are four states a time entry or day can be in:

State What it means Who acts
Suggested RescueTime has auto-generated a project assignment, but the member hasn't confirmed it yet Member reviews (accepts, edits, or deletes)
Reviewed The member has confirmed the time entry. It's accurate and assigned to the correct project Member finalizes the day when ready
Finalized (Submitted) The member has locked the day using the lock icon on their timeline. No more autocompletions will be generated for that day. The day shows as Submitted in the Approvals grid Admin or owner approves
Approved The admin or owner has approved the finalized time in the Approvals view. This time will show when the Only: Finalized filter is active in View & Export No further action needed
💡 Build a weekly rhythm. The most useful reports come from teams that review and finalize their timelines consistently. Encouraging members to review daily and finalize at the end of each day, rather than catching up at the end of the week, keeps the Approvals queue clean and reports accurate.
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