This page will show you how to link Time to Time Product Sales in Gold-Vision and log the time used for this.

Prerequisites

Before you go ahead and start using this functionality, make sure the following items have been screen designed on the required Gold-Vision records:

1. You need to set your Time Settings to define how many hours are in a Day see Configuring Time page for more details.
2. Products have been Linked to Purchase Time and/or Units see Configuring Time page for more details.
3. You also need a Quote with Products that have Time and the State, Closed – Won.

There are 2 options on how to link the purchased Time to the Gold-Vision records: 

Link Time From the Quote

• Using the Link Time Button

Click on the Link Time Button

• From the Actions Menu

Click on Actions then select Link Time

From here you can choose the items you want to link to:

• Link to parent account –  Click to select the parent record i.e. Account – this will link the purchased time at Account level
• Choose an item to link to: Select to link to an existing Opportunity or Project – this will link the purchased time to either a existing Opportunity or Project
• Create a new item to link to: Select to create a new Opportunity or Project – this will give you the options to create a New Opportunity or Project and link the purchased time to the new records

Once you have chosen the record you want to link the Quote items to click Confirm. This will link the items to the Gold-Vision record, e.g. Project, then when users log in their spent time they can choose the product they are linking their time against:

Link Time From the Time Section

Click on Link Time /Unit Sale

Select the Time Product Sales required and click on the Select button to link the sold product to the Gold-Vision Record:

How to Log Time against a Time Product Sales

You can log Time against an Account, Account Activity, Contact Activity, Project, Project Activity Opportunity, or Opportunity Activity that are linked to Time Product Sales.

There are 3 options to Log Time:

Log Time From the Gold-Vision Record

Open the record required and you will see a Log Time / Unit button at the top right.

Log Time From the Gold-Vision record Actions Menu

Open the record required click on the Actions Menu and select Log Time/Unit:

Log Time From the Time Section

Find the Time Section the Gold-Vision record and click on the Log Time option:

The Log Time / Unit screen will be displayed for completion

Log Time Details

Users will then have to complete the required fields as following:

Assign to (optional)

Select a Time Product Sale to link Time spent against.

Summary / Work

enter the summary of the work carried out

Description

you can enter additional description details if required

User

this will automatically default to the User who is logging the time. If the user is logging time on behalf of an other user they can select a different user from the list.

Select a Date

Todays date will automatically selected but users can retrospectively enter the date required.

Time spent

Enter the time in 1d 10h 10m format i.e. 1 hour – 1h

Once the details have been entered by the users, click Save and the Time will then be logged against a linked Time Product Sale: 

Entering a Estimated Time without Products You can manually Edit a record to enter the Estimated Time against the record required see Simple Time Management page for more details.

Viewing Time logged linked to Time Product Sales

Go to the Time Section on the Gold-Vision record and view:

Summary breakdown

• Allocated – this represents the linked Time Product Sales e.g. you have sold 1 day
• Logged (This) – this represents how much time has been logged for each Time Product sales
• Logged (Total)- this represents how much total time has been logged for each Time Product sales
• Remaining – this represents how much time is remaining for each Time Product sales

Time logged by User

• Summary – represents the name of the User that logged time
• Allocated – represents the Time logged that has been linked to a Time Product Sale
• Unallocated – represents the Time logged by the user that hasn’t been linked to a Time Product Sale
• Total – represents the total Time logged by each user Allocated or Unallocated

Example of Using Time with Paid Services

In this example we will see how you can use the Time functionality by log in Time against Projects linked to purchased services. As a company you are selling one day of Training and your Project Consultants will log time against a specific Project for this training

You will need the following:

1. A Gold-Vision Quote that has the Training product added to it
2. A Gold-Vision Project for the Training required

Steps to follow: 

1. Change the Status of your Quote to Close – Won
2. Link the Quote to the specific Project

3. Log your time against the Project 4. View and Report on your purchased and spent Time