Enable hourly rate card and time tracking options
Note
Rate Cards are used for estimating and invoicing the costs associated with a translation job.
Important
Some of those costs can be attributed to workers whose job is charged hourly, such as project managers, or to workers such as linguists whose job can sometimes be charged both hourly (e.g DTP) and per word/character.
There are two places where hourly rates need to be enabled. Use the following checklist to track your progress:
Configuration of project settings.
Note
Must be configured by an administrator.
Configure each workflow where hours worked is tracked.
Note
Must be configured globally by an administrator and can be overwritten by a project manager at the project level once the workflow has been assigned to that project.
Configuration of project settings to enable hourly rate cards
From the topmost menu in XTM Cloud click on the Configuration tab.
From the menu just below click on Settings.
From the left-hand side menu, click on Projects.
Go to the Time Tracking session located near the bottom of the screen.
From the Enable Manual Time tracking for drop-down select whether to track time for Project Managers only or Project Managers and linguists.
Configuration of workflows to enable hourly rate cards
Important
This setting can be overwritten in any individual project by a project manager from the workflow tab in the project editor.