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TimeTracker has a short guided tour built in. It highlights each part of the app in turn and explains what it is for. It is the fastest way to orient a new person, and it takes about two minutes.

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What the tour covers

The tour walks through the app in this order:
1

The sidebar

Everything lives here. The tour starts by showing you the shape of the product.
2

Time

Where you track hours and see your own entries.
3

Projects

Clients, projects and how work is organised.
4

Tasks

The unit of work you track time against.
5

Approvals

Where submitted timesheets, timecards, expenses and leave arrive for review.
6

Reports

Asking questions about where time and money went.
7

Invoices

Turning approved billable work into a bill.
8

Settings

Where the rest of the product is configured.
9

Your account

Your profile, your preferences and the workspace switcher.
10

Start your first timer

The tour finishes by pointing at the thing you will use every day.

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The tour adapts to you

This is the part worth knowing: you do not see steps that do not apply to you. Each step is skipped unless two things are true:
  1. The app is switched on for your workspace
  2. You hold the capability the step is about
So the tour is different for different people: Nobody is shown a tour of a feature they cannot reach. That is deliberate – a tour that points at a button you do not have is worse than no tour.

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Taking the tour

The tour offers itself when you first arrive in a workspace.
1

Start it

Accept the prompt when it appears.
2

Move through the steps

Use Next to advance, or Back to revisit a step.
3

Leave any time

Dismiss it and carry on. Nothing is left half-configured – the tour only highlights, it never changes anything.
The tour is purely explanatory. It does not create data, change settings or turn anything on.

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The onboarding checklist

Separate from the tour, a short checklist appears in the app with three starting tasks:
  1. Track your first hour
  2. Create a real project
  3. Invite your group
It is there to get you past the empty-workspace stage. Dismissing it is a decision that sticks – it will not reappear on your next device.

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Using the tour to onboard your team

When someone new joins:
1

Invite them with the right role

The tour they see depends on it. See invite your team.
2

Ask them to take the tour

Two minutes, and it answers most first-day questions.
3

Point them at the checklist

Tracking one real hour makes the rest click.
4

Send them one doc link

How TimeTracker works is the best single page for a new person.
The full new-starter routine is in onboard a new employee.

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Common questions

Yes. Look for the help or tour option in your account menu.
Because the tour follows your role and your workspace’s apps. They hold a capability you do not, or an app is on that would otherwise be hidden. See roles and permissions.
The tour follows the apps you have switched on. Switching an app off removes its step for everyone. See apps.
No. It only highlights parts of the screen.
Yes, and it stays dismissed – it is remembered for you, not just for the browser you happened to use.

Quickstart

Do the setup yourself in ten minutes.

How TimeTracker works

The best single page for a new person.

Onboard a new employee

The full new-starter checklist.

Setup checklist

Everything left to configure.