Zoho Projects Time Tracking Integration Setup

Zoho Projects Time Tracking Integration Setup

If you use Zoho Projects for project management, tracking time is possible with Hubstaff. To enable this, you have to set it up in your Hubstaff account.

When the tracked time is sent to Zoho Projects, it will appear under the Log Hours section of the Zoho project’s task page:

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Make sure you are on the correct organization by clicking in the top right corner of the page, then navigate to Sidebar > Settings & Policies > Integrations. Next, select the Zoho Projects logo from the list of available integrations.

Enter your integration’s name and click Next.

You may be presented with the Sign in dialog. Enter the email address (or the phone) of your Zoho account, and press Next. Alternatively, you may use one of the authorization options (Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn accounts, etc.).

Enter your credentials and Sign In.

Finally, you will be presented with the dialog that asks your permission to access your Zoho Projects. Accept it.

Now, it’s time to select your Zoho Portal. If you are unable to select a portal, you’ll have to create a portal on the Zoho Projects settings: https://projects.zoho.com/portal or https://projects.zoho.eu/portal

Click Next.

Next, you’ll be taken to sync your Zoho projects. You can choose to Sync all existing projects, or manually choose from a list of projects you wish to connect.

At this point, you’ll be asked to add your Hubstaff members to your integration. You can select/unselect all users, pick individual users, and/or automatically add new users to this integration in the future. Click Finish to complete the integration setup.

Each individual team member will be sent a confirmation email with a link to connect their Zoho Projects account.

Alternatively, each of them may find a link to do the same in the Hubstaff notifications in the top bar.

After clicking the view your pending integrations link, your team members will need to perform the same actions as described in Step 3 of this guide: sign into their Zoho accounts and allow Hubstaff to access the information.

Hubstaff’s integration with Zoho Projects doesn’t support transferring the membership from Zoho Projects. This means you will need to add members to the linked Hubstaff’s projects. For this, navigate to the Sidebar > Project Management > Projects, and assign members to the projects by clicking the Pen icon. Tasks won’t sync until you assign members to projects.

Your integration will sync in the next 30 minutes or so. Once it has synced, any of your linked members will be able to see their assigned Zoho tasks in the Hubstaff app and be able to track time to them.

Select the project name from the project list located on the left side of the app, then click the Play button next to the task name on the right-hand side. Hubstaff’s integration with Zoho Projects supports task completion, and you can press the Complete button to mark the task as completed.

Tasks might not sync right away and can take approximately 5 minutes after you have added your members, and they have finished the authentication of their accounts. Also, please keep in mind that each time you add a new project or a member to your project management tool, the integration needs to be refreshed in Hubstaff for those changes to take effect, then link those accordingly.
Tasks can be completed outside of Hubstaff in the project management tool to have the time synced as well.
If you delete the integration, the time tracked to projects and tasks will still be available in Reports, the projects will become native Hubstaff’s projects, and the tasks will disappear.