Plans 💳 : Varies

User Permissions 👥: Varies
​For legacy plans, please refer to the article here.
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Friday arrives and you’re at the end of a week where nothing has gone right. The bathtub has overflowed, your coffee order has been made wrong more than once and you’ve logged all your hard-worked hours under the wrong project with the wrong tags. Visions of precious weekend hours spent transferring each logged hour individually to the correct project and updating tags flash before your eyes.

Not for long. Bulk actions in Timely mean that you can update those projects and tags quickly and easily, leaving the bathtub and coffee as your only concerns heading into the weekend.

The way you gather entries you want to edit in Timely will depend on the way they're grouped. You’ll also have the option of pulling this information from an individual project’s “Timesheet” tab or from within the Reports tab in Timely.

There is an "untagged" preset within your filters which lets you search for all untagged entries. If you need to narrow things down, you can also search for entries against these Timely properties:

You can either click on entries individually or filter by user, project or tag name to select a group of entries. Once the necessary entries have been selected in your report, click the "Update tags" button, search for the tag that needs to be added and click the "Update" button to finish. This will replace all selected entries with the new tags; any existing tags on the entries will be replaced.

Here's how that looks in action:

Within Timely there are a few default time states such as "Billed" or "Unbilled" as well "Locked" or "Unlocked". For those on a Premium or Unlimited subscription plan, you also have the ability to create and define your own custom time entry states.
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Need to go through and update a slate of time entries from one time entry state to another? No problem!

If you need to make sure hours don't get updated without changing their status as "Billed" or "Unbilled", you can assign the "Locked" entry state to time entries preventing further changes.

From the Timesheet tab in Projects, individual user Pages or Reports, or on an individual user's timeline, select individual or hours in bulk then update the state to "Locked":

Note: By default, both Managers and Admins can lock hours but only Admins can unlock previously locked hours.

If you need to update the status of hours as either “Billed” or “Unbillled”, you can use the same steps to group your entries. Either narrow them down using the various filter options. If you are on a Starter subscription plan, you'll see the options to show "Billed" or "Unbilled" entries specifically, those folks on Premium or Unlimited will see a drop down to select and filter more broadly by entry state.

From there, click either "Billed" or "Unbilled" to make your changes, then click "Update" to finish:

You can move hours in bulk from one project to another either from an individual project page or from within Timely’s Reports tab.

From within an individual project, first click the “Timesheets” tab and filter for the user for whom you’ll be moving the hours. Either use the checkbox at the top of the chart to select all hours or check off the individual entries you want to update. Once you have all the hours you need to move selected, click “Update Project” and choose the destination for these hours, then click “Update” to make the change:

If you know that a number of hours have been logged to the wrong project over a period of time, you can also create a custom report in Timely to filter for those specifically by date.

Tip: To make the set-up as easy as possible, we’d recommend filtering for one user at a time.

With your filters set-up, add a new Projects widget to the report as a table. From there, use the checkbox at the top of the table or select individual entries then click “Update Project” to find a new home for these entries and click “Update” to send them on their way:

Timely has rolled out a number of enhancements and improvements directly to your timeline with the goal of making your life easier than ever 🚀.

Need to select ALL the time entries for an entire day? Click the selector checkbox that appears next to that day on your timeline.

You'll also see the option to bulk copy ALL the hours from that day to another day or days of your choosing. Along side this, you can choose to move those same hours to another day if needed as well.
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From the Hours Dashboard, you can now select the specific time entries in bulk that you'd like to re-assign to another project. Simply click the selector box that appears when hovering over these entries and then select a new project from the "Update project" dropdown, before clicking "Update" to confirm.

Similarly to updating the project for a time entry, you can also select the appropriate Tags for multiple entries in just a few clicks. Select the appropriate time entries by clicking the selector box that appears when hovering over, select the needed Tags from the "Update tags" drop down (you can select as many as you'd like), and then finalize by clicking "Update".

The final bulk update option available in the Hours Dashboard is entry state. Need to lock a few entries after billing? Prefer to process and mark down payroll when viewing Hours directly? No problem!
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Similar to the other update options, you'll want to hover over the time entries in question, click the selector box that appears when hovering, then select the new time entry state from the "Update state" dropdown before clicking "Update" to finalize.
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Mistakes can happen to the best of us! If you'd need to bulk delete time entries we've got you covered 🗑️. From the Hours Dashboard, simply hover over the time entries in question and click the selector box that appears. Once you've selected all your time entries, click the "Delete" button, and click "Proceed" to confirm.
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