Track your progress toward time targets and project budgets automatically as you log Time Entries. Goals update in real-time, helping you stay on track without extra work.
This overview covers the basics of how Goals work. For detailed setup and management guides, check out our guides for Goals and Budgets
What are Goals?
Goals help you track whether you're hitting your time or revenue targets or staying within project budgets. Your progress updates automatically each time you log time - it happens behind the scenes.
You'll find all your Goals on the Goals screen. Pin important Goals and they'll also appear on your Time screen while you're logging time.
Types of Goals
MinuteDock offers two types of Goals to match different scenarios:
Target Goals are for objectives you want to reach or exceed, like monthly billable hours or quarterly revenue. You'll want to reach or exceed these.
Budget Goals help you stay under a limit, perfect for fixed-price projects where you need to control total hours or costs. You'll want to stay under these limits.
Creating and Managing Goals
Find your Goals screen: Click the Goals button on your MinuteDock page
Create a new Goal: by clicking Add Goal and choosing your Goal type (Target or Budget)
Set up filtering: by Contact, Project, Task, and date range to create targeted Goals like "billable hours for Client ABC this month"
Pin important Goals by hovering over them on the Goals screen and clicking the pin icon - they'll appear on your Time screen while you're logging time
Here's what your Goals look like on the Goals screen. You can see progress bars that fill up as you log time, plus status indicators that show whether you're on track:
Your Goals update automatically each time you log a Time Entry, so you can see your progress in real-time without any extra work.
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See our guide on how to set up and manage your Goals and Budgets for complete configuration details.
See our guide on how to add a new Goal with step-by-step instructions for Goal creation.
See our guide on how to pin, edit or archive Goals to keep your Goals organized and relevant.
See our guide on how to monitor your Goals and understand progress indicators.