Goal

A goal in Sandtime.io is a time target that tells you how many hours you are expected to log in a given period. Goals are calculated automatically from your core hours setting - the work start and end times you configure in Settings. You do not enter a goal number directly.

Goals appear as progress bars on the dashboard: a bar fills as you log time, turning green when you reach the target.

The Three Goal Types

Sandtime.io tracks three time horizons from the same core hours setting:

  • Daily goal - the span between your configured work start and end time. If you work 09:00 to 17:00, the daily goal is 8 hours.
  • Weekly goal - the daily goal multiplied by 5 working days. An 8-hour day produces a 40-hour weekly goal.
  • Monthly goal - the daily goal multiplied by the number of working days in the current calendar month.

All three update instantly when you change your core hours. There is no separate setting for each.

Quarterly Goals

The dashboard has no quarterly goal. For a quarter, open a custom report, set its date range to the quarter, and add the Goal metric. It shows the expected working time of the members in the report over the quarter, with weekends and public holidays counted as zero, next to the time they reported. See Create and customize reports for how the Goal behaves in each grouping.

How to Change a Goal

Go to Settings > Time tracking > Core hours and adjust your work start and end times. The daily, weekly, and monthly goals all recalculate at once.

See How to set your weekly goal for step-by-step instructions.

Undertime and Overtime

When you log fewer hours than the goal, the unfilled portion of the bar represents undertime. When you log more than the goal, the extra hours are overtime. Both show on the dashboard - overtime pushes the bar past 100%.

  • Weekly Goal - the specific weekly target and how it is displayed
  • Core hours - the setting that drives all goal calculations
  • Dashboard - where goal progress bars are shown
  • Overtime - hours logged above the goal
  • Undertime - hours logged below the goal

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A short path from a fresh workspace to usable projects, members, and reports, with the settings worth changing first and the steps that follow.

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Core hours and goals

Define expected work hours and let daily, weekly, and monthly goals update automatically.

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Set core hours

Set the default start and end of the workday in Settings > Time tracking > Core hours. The window length becomes the expected day behind every dashboard goal.

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