UpStream Time Tracking and Budgeting

Description

The Time Tracking and Budgeting addon adds elapsed time, budget, and amount spent columns to UpStream tasks and bugs, allowing manual hour entries or via an embedded timer that counts work time in real time. Designed for those managing projects with a defined financial scope (agencies, technical consultancies, and development teams), the component cross-references logged hours with budgeted amounts and shows how much each task consumed from the planned budget.

Main Features of Time Tracking and Budgeting

• Embedded timer in tasks
  Starts and pauses a timer within the task or bug screen, recording time automatically.
• Manual hour entry
  Accepts typed entries with responsible user, duration, budgeted amount, amount spent, and internal notes.
• Multiple entries per item
  Each task or bug accumulates various time and budget entries, organized in history.
• Aggregation in the task list
  Sums individual entries and displays consolidated totals in the project listing columns.
• Visual time and money reports
  Generates pie charts and aggregated views together with the UpStream Reporting extension.

Benefits of Time Tracking and Budgeting

• Project financial control
  Compares the budgeted amount with the amount actually spent, avoiding surprises at closing.
• More accurate entries
  The timer reduces the margin of error for those who forget to record hours at the end of the day.
• Consolidated project view
  Filters by elapsed time, budget, and amount spent help identify tasks outside expectations.
• Data-based billing
  The hour log becomes a concrete basis for client billing in man-hour models.

Who Is Time Tracking and Budgeting For?

• Digital agencies charging projects by worked hour and needing to prove entries to clients.
• Managers of development teams who want to monitor hour consumption versus contracted scope.
• Consultants running multiple projects in parallel on UpStream and requiring budget control per task.
• Users already using UpStream for project management who want to add a financial layer of hours and budget.

How to Download Time Tracking and Budgeting

Time Tracking and Budgeting is available for download here on Ultrapack. After saving the .zip file, access Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin in the WordPress dashboard, select the file and click activate. With UpStream already installed, the time and budget columns appear within the task and bug screens of each project.

Bringing hour control and budget tracking into the same UpStream interface shortens the path between performing the task and justifying the time spent. Time Tracking and Budgeting transforms the project management plugin into a financial auditing tool, connecting the team’s work to the numbers that matter for billing and planning the next cycle.

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