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Temponia for Jira is live: timesheets on every Jira issue

Temponia for Jira is on the Atlassian Marketplace: a timer on every Jira issue, worklogs synced both ways, approvals and invoicing in Temponia. A Tempo alternative when only part of your team tracks billable time.

Temponia for Jira is now available on the Atlassian Marketplace. It puts a timer on every Jira issue and turns the time your team tracks there into proper timesheets in Temponia, with approvals, reports and invoicing attached.

The problem it solves

Engineers live in Jira. Timesheets live somewhere else. Every team that bills for its time knows the Friday ritual that follows: reconstructing a week of work from memory, from commit logs, from calendar archaeology. The hours that come out of that ritual are late, rounded and wrong, and the invoices built on them leak money.

The usual fix is to bolt a time tracking suite onto Jira. That works, but the pricing model punishes you for it: Jira apps are typically licensed for every user on the site. If 500 people use Jira and 12 of them track billable time, you pay for 500.

What Temponia for Jira does

Open any Jira issue and the Temponia panel is there. Pick a task, add a note, press start. Stop when you are done, and the entry lands in Temponia on the right project, on the right task, under your own name. Forgot the timer? Log the time manually in two clicks, with duration presets that follow your company's rounding rules.

Every entry is written back to the issue as a worklog, authored by the person who tracked it. That last part matters: Jira's own time tracking field, and every report and gadget built on it, keeps working exactly as before. Edit the entry in Temponia and the worklog follows. Delete it and the worklog goes too. Approve the time in Temponia and it locks: nothing on the Jira side can move it afterwards.

Setup is deliberate rather than magical. A Temponia admin maps each Jira project to a Temponia project once, and every person links their own Jira account to their Temponia user. Explicit, per user, no shared credentials, no API tokens pasted into forms.

How it compares to Tempo, Toggl and Jira's own time tracking

Jira's built-in time tracking gives you estimates, time spent and worklogs on individual issues. That is enough for delivery estimation. It has no weekly timesheet, no submission and approval flow, no rates, and no path from hours to an invoice.

Tempo Timesheets is the established suite on top of Jira, and it is genuinely strong where it is strong: mature capture automation with calendar suggestions, and a wider product family covering capacity planning. If you need those, Tempo is the right tool. The trade-off is the licence: Tempo's size matches your Jira site, so every Jira user counts, whether they track time or not. And when the approved hours need to become an actual client invoice, Tempo's own guidance is to organise billable time and export reports to your invoicing application.

General-purpose trackers such as Toggl connect to Jira through a browser extension. They are excellent standalone timers, but the time typically lives in the tracker rather than on the issue as a native worklog, so Jira's own time tracking field and reports do not see it, and you still need something else for approvals and billing.

Temponia takes the other end of the chain. The panel keeps capture inside Jira and writes native worklogs, and Temponia itself already owns everything after that: rates by project, task and person, billable and non-billable work, fixed fees, retainers with rollover, budgets, expenses, approval locks, and invoice generation with Peppol e-invoicing and accounting integrations. The tracked hour becomes the invoice line without leaving the system. And you licence only the people who track time.

The short version: if most of your Jira site tracks time and you need capacity planning, look at Tempo. If a minority of your Jira users bill their hours and those hours must end up on a client invoice, that is exactly the case Temponia was built for. The full comparison is on the integration page.

What it costs

The app is free. It requires a Temponia account, which is a paid subscription, and here is the part we are most deliberate about: you only pay for the people who track time, not for every Jira user. The 500-seat site with 12 people on billable work pays for 12.

How to try it

  1. Install Temponia for Jira from the Atlassian Marketplace.
  2. Start a free Temponia trial if you do not have an account yet.
  3. Follow the setup guide: connect, map a project, link your account, track.

The whole flow, from install to the first synced worklog, is a few minutes. If you already use Temponia and your team works in Jira, this is the integration to switch on this week.

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