Timers in Zoho Projects let you automatically track and log time spent on tasks and issues. Once you stop a timer, the entry is automatically added to your timesheet, without needing to work out and enter the duration manually.
Timers can be paused and resumed, so you can step away and pick back up without losing your recorded time. You can add a note every time you pause, and review all your notes once the timer is finally stopped, giving useful context for what happened during each working session.
A Global Timer widget sits in the top-right corner and is accessible from any page in Zoho Projects, letting you manage every active timer across your tasks and issues from a single, central location without navigating to each item individually. Search for a task or issue by name directly within the widget to start or stop its timer on the spot. If you're a project admin, you can also see every active timer across your project users; otherwise, you only see your own.
Time logging is built into the Zoho Projects mobile apps for both iOS and Android, with the same timer controls and timesheet submission flow as the web client, so tracking time on the go doesn't require a different workflow.
At the workspace level, go to Setup, then Timesheet, then Settings, to set the default time format (hours and minutes versus decimal), choose whether new tasks default to billable or non-billable, and cap the maximum hours a user can log in a single day, which is a useful guardrail against a timer being accidentally left running.