Clockify

· #177 most-used

Track every billable hour — automatically, across every project

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Clockify is the world's most popular free time tracker, trusted by teams who need accurate attendance, productivity, and billing data without paying per seat. Once connected, your agent can start and stop timers, log time entries retroactively, manage projects and clients, and react to new time data the moment it lands — turning manual timesheet discipline into automatic, always-on coverage across every project your team runs.

Average time saved
12 hours
per person · per month
2 workdays back

Eliminates manual work. Clockify automation removes the discipline of opening the tracker to log time — from retroactive timesheet entry to end-of-week catch-up sessions and the monthly CSV export ritual before invoicing.

Schedule

What your Clockify agent runs on autopilot

A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.

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Multi-app workflows

Clockify × every other app you use

End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.

6Workflows
9Apps spanned
~60 hrsSaved / week
6Personas served
For customer success
Featured4 apps

Auto-log client support hours and close tickets faster

Every time a client emails about an open issue, the agent checks whether a Clockify timer is already running for that client project and starts one if not. It then posts a Slack update to the account team so everyone knows the clock is ticking — and logs a Google Calendar follow-up 48 hours out. No more under-billed support time, no more clients feeling ignored.

~10 hrs / week

Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot

The flow
Trigger·A new client email arrives in Gmail for an active project
Result
Start Timer — begin tracking support time against the client projectPost a message to the account team channel with the client name, subject line, and active timer linkCreate a follow-up event 48 hours out to check the issue is resolved
The win
Saved per run
1 hrs
Runs / week
~10×
Zero under-billed support hours, every client interaction tracked
Driven byCustomer Support Agent
ROI

Savings

What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.

Without Actionist

What you do manually today

With Actionist

What your agent runs for you

  • Sales
    21 min / week
    Manual pre-sales hour logging

    Reps log demo and proposal time at end of week from memory, often missing 30–60 minutes per deal.

    Sales Agent
    0 min
    Auto-tracked deal time from first touch

    The agent starts a Clockify timer when a demo is triggered and stops it when the meeting ends — every pre-sales hour is captured without the rep touching the tracker.

  • Marketing
    15 min / week
    Campaign hour reconciliation

    Campaign managers export Clockify reports and manually paste hours into client decks and agency invoices each month.

    Marketing Agent
    0 min
    Live campaign hours pushed to billing

    The agent pushes billable campaign hours to the CRM deal record in real time so invoicing is pre-populated when the billing cycle closes.

  • Customer Support
    21 min / week
    Unbilled support time

    Support engineers handle client emails and calls without starting a timer, losing 20+ minutes of billable time per incident.

    Customer Support Agent
    0 min
    Timer starts on every incoming client message

    The agent detects incoming client emails and starts a Clockify timer immediately — support time is captured from the first second of every interaction.

  • Human Resources
    8 min / week
    Attendance report compilation

    HR exports Clockify attendance data weekly and manually formats it for payroll, taking 8 minutes per pay cycle.

    Human Resources Agent
    0 min
    Attendance data auto-pushed to payroll

    The agent reads Clockify attendance entries and appends them to the payroll spreadsheet automatically — HR reviews, not compiles.

  • Finance
    15 min / week
    Monthly billable hours export

    Finance manually exports Clockify reports per client, checks budget ceilings, and pastes figures into invoice templates each month-end.

    Finance Agent
    0 min
    Invoice-ready hours delivered automatically

    The agent fetches billable hours per project at month-end and pushes them to the billing system, flagging any project over budget before a single invoice is sent.

  • Operations
    33 min / week
    Resource plan to Clockify copy-paste

    Ops teams maintain resource plans in spreadsheets and manually recreate the same tasks in Clockify, duplicating effort across two systems every sprint.

    Operations Agent
    0 min
    Clockify tasks created from the resource plan

    When a deliverable is added to the capacity plan, the agent creates the matching Clockify task with the estimated hours — the tracker and the plan stay identical without manual duplication.

  • Legal
    7 min / week
    Matter time entry reconciliation

    Legal ops reconciles attorney time entries against matter budgets weekly, manually cross-checking Clockify exports against billing software.

    Legal Agent
    0 min
    Budget alerts triggered at 80% of matter ceiling

    The agent monitors logged hours per legal matter project and sends an alert the moment a budget threshold is crossed — no end-of-week reconciliation required.

+ 100s of other Clockify automations
Average monthly
12 hrs / person / month
Average monthly
12 hrs / person / month
Calculator

Calculate what your team saves

Team size
10 people
Hourly rate
$20 / hr
Hours saved / week
30
Hours saved / year
1,500
Annual ROI
$30,000

Based on Clockify's typical team usage — the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~3 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.

Connect

How to plug Clockify into Actionist

Pick the connection method that suits your environment.

Connect Clockify via MCP for instant access to all 37 actions and 7 triggers — no API token hunting, no manual credential rotation, just authorise once and every agent workflow is live.

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Open the Apps tab

Find Clockify in the Apps library and click Connect. MCP is selected by default.

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Authorise in Clockify

A Clockify authorisation window opens. Sign in with your Clockify account and grant Actionist read/write access to your workspace — this creates a secure MCP session without exposing your API key.

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Test the connection

Actionist runs a read-only call to verify the handshake. You're ready.

Actions

37 actions your agent can call

Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.

Triggers

7 events your agent can react to

Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.

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FAQs

Questions about Clockify + Actionist

How do I connect Clockify to Actionist?
Open the Apps tab, find Clockify, and click Connect. The recommended path is MCP — you authorise once via Clockify's login screen and every agent workflow gets instant access to all 37 actions and 7 triggers. If you prefer a direct API key, grab it from your Clockify Profile Settings under the API section and paste it into the credential field.
What credentials does Clockify integration require?
MCP connection requires only your Clockify account login — no keys to manage. For the API key method, you need your personal API token from Clockify's Profile Settings page. The token gives access to everything your account can reach, so keep it private and rotate it if it's ever exposed.
Can I combine Clockify with other apps in agent workflows?
Yes — and that's where the real value is. Pair Clockify with Gmail to auto-start timers when client emails arrive, with Google Calendar to log meeting durations as time entries, with HubSpot to push billable hours into deal records, or with Google Sheets to feed a live capacity dashboard. Any app in the Actionist library can chain with Clockify actions and triggers.
What are the most popular Clockify automation use cases?
The highest-impact automations are: auto-starting timers when tasks are picked up in project tools, logging calendar meeting time as Clockify entries without manual input, pushing end-of-month billable totals to invoicing systems, and alerting project managers the moment a project budget crosses 80%. Each eliminates a recurring manual step that costs 5–15 minutes and compounds across the team.
Does Clockify integration work for teams, not just individual users?
Absolutely. Clockify's free plan supports unlimited users, and Actionist's Clockify integration works across the whole workspace. You can run automations that start timers for specific users, pull all-team time reports, create projects and tasks for every team member, and trigger workspace-level events — making it equally useful for a freelancer and a 50-person agency.
Can the agent retroactively log time entries I forgot to track?
Yes. The Create a time entry and Create Time Entry actions both accept explicit start and end timestamps, so the agent can log past work accurately. Common patterns include logging yesterday's calendar events as time entries each morning, or processing a missed-hours form submission to backfill a specific date — the entry lands in Clockify with the exact times you specify.
How does the New Timer Started trigger help with real-time workflows?
New Timer Started fires the moment any user in your workspace begins a running timer — giving the agent a real-time signal to act on. Use it to flip a task status to In Progress in your project board, set a Slack status to 'In a client session', or notify a stakeholder that billable work has begun. It's the hook that keeps every connected system in sync with what the team is actually doing right now.
What's the difference between 'Find or create' actions and plain 'Find' actions?
'Find' actions return the record if it exists and fail if it doesn't — good for validation. 'Find or create' actions return the record if it exists and create it if it doesn't — good for resilient automations that run across multiple triggers or systems where the record might not exist yet. Use the latter when building workflows that need to work first time regardless of whether a project, client, task, or tag has been set up in advance.