In Timequip, it’s important to understand the difference between an Account and a Project. These two concepts work together to help you organise your work, your team, and your tracked time efficiently.
What is an Account?
An Account represents your whole organisation or company within Timequip. Think of it as the highest-level container for all your data and activities. When you sign up for Timequip, you create an account that holds everything you and your team will work on.
Your Account includes:
- All your Projects: Every project you create lives inside your account.
- Your Team Members: Invite your colleagues to collaborate under one account.
- Billing and Subscription: Your plan, payment method, and invoices are tied to your account.
- Global Settings: Organisation-wide settings like working hours, time zone, and permissions are managed at the account level.
By managing work under a single account, you ensure consistency across projects and make it easy to maintain control over user roles, access, and data security.
What is a Project?
A Project is a way to group related tasks, time entries, and team activity. Projects help you break down your organisation’s work into manageable pieces. Each project can represent a client, a product, a department, or any other initiative that needs its own space.
Within a Project, you can:
- Create and Manage Tasks: Organise work into clear tasks with deadlines and assignees.
- Track Time: Log hours worked on tasks and monitor progress.
- Assign Members: Control who can view or contribute to each project.
- Use Project-specific Settings: Customise workflows, boards, and permissions to fit the needs of that project.
By using projects effectively, you can keep work focused, track billable hours more accurately, and generate meaningful reports for clients or internal teams.
How Accounts and Projects Work Together
Accounts and Projects in Timequip are designed to complement each other:
- The Account provides a single source of truth for your organisation.
- Projects divide the work within that account into clear, goal-oriented units.
For example, a marketing agency might have one account for the entire company. Inside that account, they create a project for each client campaign. The agency’s team members all belong to the same account but are assigned to only the projects they’re working on. This keeps data organised and prevents accidental access to unrelated work.
Best Practices
Here are a few tips for working with Accounts and Projects in Timequip:
- Use one account per organisation: Don’t create multiple accounts for the same company. Instead, use projects to separate work.
- Structure projects by real workflows: Organise projects in a way that reflects how your team actually works — by clients, departments, or products.
- Manage permissions carefully: Use roles and project-level permissions to make sure the right people have access to the right work.
- Review regularly: Keep your account clean by archiving or closing completed projects.
Summary
In short, your Account is the backbone of your Timequip workspace — it holds your organisation’s people, billing, and overall settings. Projects help you organise daily work into clear, focused units so your team can collaborate and track time efficiently.
Understanding how these two elements work together will help you get the most out of Timequip and keep your work streamlined and secure.