Kimai time-tracker
Rates & Fees
Legacy documentation for Kimai 1
Consider upgrading to Kimai 2, as Kimai 1 is not maintained any longer.
This documentation page exists for version 2 here.
Rates & Fees
Here is the order in which is checked if a rate exists. The first one found is then used:
- my rate of the activity
- my rate of the project
- my rate set via preferences
- rate of the activity
- rate set for the project
Database
See function get_best_fitting_rate in Database class.
If you have a look into the table kimai_rates you may see something like this:
| User | Project | Event | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 5 | 10.00 |
| 2 | NULL | 5 | 20.00 |
| 2 | 2 | NULL | 30.00 |
| 2 | NULL | NULL | 40.00 |
| NULL | 2 | 5 | 50.00 |
| NULL | NULL | 5 | 60.00 |
| NULL | 2 | NULL | 70.00 |
The entries are already sorted. Kimai takes the first row that exists (maybe the one with the most hits).
Explanation of the table:
- user 1 on project 2 and task 5 has a rate of 10.00 € per hour
- user 2 on task 5 has a rate of 20.00 € per hour
- user 2 on project has a rate of 30.00 € per hour
- user 2 has a rate of 40.00 € per hour
- project 2 and task 5 have a rate of 50.00 € per hour
- task 5 has a rate of 60.00 € per hour
- project 2 has a rate of 70.00 € per hour
Some examples:
- User 3 is working on project 2: his rate is 70.00 €
- User 2 is working on project 1 and task 5: his rate is 20.00 €
- User 2 is working on any project except the defined ones for him: his rate is 40.00 €
This table can only be edited with SQL statements or a database-tool (05/03/2010).