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Creating teams in Timely

Create teams and delegate team management in Timely

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Written by Lisa
Updated over a week ago

Plans 💳 : Everyone*

User Permissions 👥: Admins

For legacy plans, please refer to the article here.


Creating teams in Timely makes it easier to manage and report on a specific group of users. Instead of trying to remember which users belong to which projects or departments, Admin and Manager users and Team Leads can quickly view grouped team data by choosing a team from the People or Reports tabs.

Create a team

To get started, head to the People page and click “Manage teams”:

From there, click “New Team”. Give it a name, add an emoji for quick reference, add users and then hit “Create Team” when you’re done!



🔄 Heads up! Once you’ve created a team and assigned it to individual projects, all users within that team will automatically gain access to those projects. If a user is later removed from the team, their access to those projects will be removed as well.

Assign a Team Lead

You can enable Employee level users to manage people in Timely without giving them full access to account-wide data by making them a Team Lead.

You can do this while creating teams in Timely, or by adding them to existing teams. Just click a team, expand the Team Lead section and select the user(s) you want to manage projects:

Manager and Admin users assigned as Team Leads can access all permissions associated with their user role, which includes seeing the activity of all users in Timely.

Employee or Manager-level users assigned as Team Leads can:

  • Access data for their team on the People page

  • View all logged and planned hours for members of their team in Hours and Company view

  • Log and plan hours for team members that are assigned to the same projects

  • Report on their team's activities

  • Send reminders for their team to log hours

Employee-level users assigned as Team Leads cannot:

  • Create new projects

  • Log and plan hours for team members

  • View project status for projects they are not part of

  • See logged money for users with hidden rates

  • Invite new users to Timely

Manager-level users assigned as Team Leads cannot:

  • View project status for projects they are not part of

  • See logged money for users with hidden rates

  • Invite new users to Timely

Learn more about tracking time with your team and reporting on their activities from our Help Center. 




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