Idea
It is a common situation that you charge a defined minimum amount of time or that you do not charge your work on the level of minutes, but you charge let's say minimum half an hour. For this purpose, ictime offers the possibility to define rounding rules, and for each project, you can assign one of the rounding rules configured here.
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It is obvious that applying rounding rules does not make much sense (or is not fair) within e.g. a development project, because the rounding rule - of course depending on configuration - adds a time overhead to your real time spent. But this using a rounding rule is fair for certain situations; a three-minute phone call might have a monetary value far beyond three minutes; if you get disturbed a couple of time a day for a couple of minutes, this justifies charging more than the effective time. |
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Create Rounding Rules
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By default, we assume that no rounding rule will be applied for a project. It is not mandatory to set a rounding rule on project level. |
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ictime -> Configuration -> Rounding Rules
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| Field | Description | Remarks |
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| Name | An internal name to identify the rule when configuring the rounding rule on project level. | |
| Minimum Slice | This is the minimum "time slice" used for rounding, i.e. we are always rounding up to e.g. 15 min or 30 min. | You can't configure this. We offer 15 min and a multiple of 15 min. This way, time format can easily be converted into a decimal format for billing purposes. |
| Round Up | This is the limit between rounding down and rounding up. Starting with the value entered, we are rounding up. | |
| Enabled | You can enable/disable rounding rules here. | If a rounding rule gets obsolete, this way you can hide it from the project configuration (as you won't be able to delete it if it had been used already). |
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In general, when displaying or calculating with rounded results, they are displayed as decimal values (0,25; 1,75 etc.) and not in an hour/minute format. |
Modify & Delete Rounding Rules
You can only modify or delete rounding rules not yet used in projects.
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 | Edit rounding rule | only possible if not used in any project |
 | Delete rounding rule | only possible if not used in any project |
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If you need to change a rounding rule that is already used, create a new one and assign the new rule to the respective |
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Assign Rounding Rule to Project
Rounding rules are configured centrally, and for each project you can decide if and which rounding rule you want to use. See Project Rounding Rule.
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