Manufacturing Company Setup in Hubstaff

Your business relies on productivity and efficiency. Hubstaff helps you focus more on your production line and takes the day-to-day tasks out of your hands. Our software can help you manage your team by monitoring individual and team activities: such as checking how your team spends their time, ensuring their timesheets are correct for payroll, generating reports, and providing accurate client invoicing.

Below is a step-by-step guide on how to get the most out of your Hubstaff organization:

Table of Contents

1. Setting up your organization
2. Invite your team to join your Hubstaff organization
3. Download the desktop app
4. Installing and signing into the client
5. Setting up projects
6. Assigning to-dos
7. Adding clients
8. Setting up time off and holiday policies
9. Time Tracking
   • Time tracking using the apps
   • Manual time addition
10. Generating reports
11. Invoicing clients

Setting up your organization

Organizations are a critical aspect of Hubstaff.  Think of each Hubstaff organization as one company. It is the structure that houses all your employees, clients, projects, tasks, payroll, and more.

Click on any topic below to learn more about organizations:

• Setting up an Organization
• Edit your Organization Details
• Archiving an Organization (Cancel Subscription)
• Restoring an Archived Organization
• Leaving an Organization

Invite your team to join your Hubstaff organization

To get started, you’ll need to invite your staff as members of your Hubstaff organization. To invite your team, navigate to the People > Members page, then click on the Invite Member button. Click here to view our complete guide to inviting your team.

After successfully inviting your team, the next step would be to download the time tracking app.

Installing and Signing into the Client

After downloading the client, users will be prompted to install it.  Click on an operating system below for a guide on how to install the Hubstaff app:

Desktop

• Mac Desktop Client
• Linux Desktop Client
• Chromebook Client

Mobile

• Android Mobile Client
• iOS Mobile Client

Browser

• Chrome Extension

Setting up Projects

Projects are a way to organize your team’s tracked time. You can organize your team’s time and activities into projects, which can then be invoiced or billed to specific clients. The best way to set up projects is by customer names — this ensures all the time tracked on a specific project can be billed to a specific customer/client later. Click on a topic to get started on setting up your Hubstaff projects:

1. Setting up projects – complete this initial setup guide to customizing your projects based on how you need them to work for your company.
2. Setting project pay rates – add pay rates per team member, based on the project they’re working on.
3. Add project-level budgets – ensures that each project is completed within the allotted time or cost.

Assigning to-dos

Tasks are called To-dos in Hubstaff. To add a to-do, navigate to the Project management > To-dos menu on the sidebar, select a project then click on Add a to-do.

A dialog box will appear where you can choose which team member to assign the task to. Once the to-do is assigned, it will appear on the Hubstaff client so the team member can track time to them.

Adding clients

The Clients feature lets you add specific customers so that you can then invoice after the completion of a project, or on a recurring basis. Additionally, here’s our complete step-by-step guide to setting up your Hubstaff account for clients/customers.

In the examples below, it shows that we have a client who has scheduled a job, and the time spent working on their house will be logged under 1 project when our team tracks time, which you can then add to an invoice. You can also add budgets for each client to avoid overflow costs.

Customer Name/Address:

Project associated with the client:

Setting up time off and holidays

The Time off section allows you to create a policy for each team member around paid or unpaid time off, vacations, and/or sick days, as well as holidays to give your team time off to kick back and relax. You can pay them for that time, too.

If you’d like to know more about how to set these up for your team, click here.

Time Tracking

At this point, your team is now ready to track their time. Once they’ve tracked time, the app will then upload the time and activity data to the web dashboard every ~10 minutes.

Time tracking using the apps

You can track time manually by pressing the start/stop buttons on your Hubstaff application.

Desktop

Mobile

Browser (Chrome)

Manual time addition

You can also opt to add in time manually for your team or let them manually add time for themselves. To do this, Enable the Modify Time setting, then follow this guide on how to add time manually.

Generating Reports

Hubstaff provides a number of reports that display an in-depth look into what your team is working on, as well as how they are spending their time, and how efficient they are being.

We separate data into different reports that are easy to use, filter, and then adjust to provide the exact information you are looking for. Furthermore, you can also display the total amount of time each/all users works, how much time each/all users spend on a project, the total time a specific user spent at a job site, and more.

Additionally, click here to learn more about what reports are available in Hubstaff.

Invoicing Clients

Hubstaff lets you easily generate invoices for your clients and then send them directly, as well as record payments for your invoices. Billing your clients or your employers takes literally seconds when using our invoicing feature. You can automatically or manually generate line items based on time tracked, add clients, tax information, as well as discounts on your invoices. For a complete guide on how to create invoices, please click on the links below:

1. Client invoices
2. Team invoices
3. Invoice settings

You’re all set! Next time, you’ll be able to add more people, projects, tasks, clients, generate reports, job sites, and more. In case you need help with anything, please feel free to reach out to our support team via support@hubstaff.com.