Getting started with Hourseal

Hourseal lets your team track time right on monday.com items, see it in a weekly timesheet, and report on it across all boards. Setup takes about five minutes.

1. Install and connect (admin, once)

1. Install Hourseal from the monday.com apps marketplace.
2. Open the app's settings: your avatar → Administration → Apps → click Hourseal → Settings tab.
3. Click Connect. This lets the app write totals into board columns, send approval notifications and count seats. Time tracking works without it, but those features stay off.
4. Optionally adjust the defaults:
   • General: week start, work days, daily norm, time format, rounding, auto-stop for forgotten timers, required notes, categories.
   • Access & boards: who sees and edits others' time, managers, which boards are tracked, and the board columns that receive total hours or hold estimates.
   • Periods & approval: locking past periods, and weekly or monthly timesheet approval.
   • Email exports: reports sent on a schedule.

2. Track time on an item

1. Open any item, click + next to the item card tabs → Explore more views → Installed Apps, and add Hourseal.
2. Start the timer, or add time with the quick buttons +15m, +30m or +1h.
3. Use Other… to type any duration. All of these work: 1:30, 1.5, 90m, 1h 30m.
4. Add a note, category or billable flag if your team uses them.
5. Edit or delete an entry from its menu. If you delete one by mistake, click Undo within a few seconds.

Only one timer runs per person. Starting a timer on another item stops the current one and saves its time.

3. Fill in your week

1. On a board, click + next to the view tabs → Apps → Timesheet.
2. Type a duration into any day cell. Press Enter or an arrow key to move to the next cell; changes save on their own.
3. Use the item picker under the table to add more items to your week, or Copy last week to repeat last week's rows.
4. If approval is on, click Submit week (or Submit month) at the end of the period. Your manager approves it or sends it back with a comment.

4. Report on your team

1. On a dashboard, click Add widget → Apps and choose Hourseal.
2. Pick a period, step through periods with ‹ ›, and group by person, board, item, category or day.
3. Use Filters to narrow down by boards, category, billable, or approved time only.
4. Click Excel or CSV to download the report. To get it by email automatically, set up Email exports in settings.

What each role can do

Viewers (monday view-only users) can see time but not log it.

Questions? See the FAQ or write to support@hourseal.app.