On a schedule

Post today's tracked time to your team channel

Every weekday evening your channel gets the hours each person tracked today, split by project.

Runs: On a schedule
Apps: Clockify
AI: Not needed
Access: read

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every weekday at 6pm, post a summary of today's Clockify hours per person and per project to #team-time in Slack.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

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Why use it

Why teams use this automation

Agencies and consulting teams bill by the hour, yet the hours themselves are usually reviewed far too late. A designer forgets to start the timer on Tuesday, a developer logs a full day against the wrong project, and the discrepancy only appears when someone assembles the invoice ten days later and nobody can reconstruct what happened.

Each evening, this asks Clockify for the summary report for today, formats it into a readable message, and posts it to the Slack channel you pick. The team sees who tracked time, on which projects, and how much, while the day is still fresh in everyone's memory.

Small studios and remote teams find it especially helpful, since it replaces the end-of-day check-in with a figure everyone can see. The summary is read from Clockify's own report for the day, so the figures match what ends up on timesheets and invoices, and nobody has to retype hours into chat.

What you get out of it

Correct time entries the same day
A wrong project or a missing timer is easy to fix at 5 p.m. and nearly impossible to fix a fortnight later. The evening post gives people a prompt while the memory of the day is accurate.
Protect billable hours from leaking
Untracked hours are unbilled hours. When the daily total looks low for a client engagement, a project lead can chase it immediately, rather than finding a gap in the monthly invoice. Project leads can see at a glance whether the hours match the plan, and adjust assignments before the week is lost.
Give managers a quiet daily pulse
Leads see where effort went without messaging each person. A glance at the post shows whether the team is on the project that was meant to be the priority this week. Managers learn what the team worked on without sending a single check-in message or scheduling an extra meeting.
Create gentle peer accountability
Posting totals in a shared channel makes timekeeping a team habit. People are more likely to log consistently when colleagues can see the same summary, without anyone being singled out. Because everyone sees the same totals, it feels like a team routine and not a surveillance exercise from management.
Make invoicing less of a scramble
If entries are corrected daily, the month-end invoice run uses clean data. Finance spends time sending invoices instead of asking people what they worked on. Finance spends the invoicing day sending invoices, instead of chasing people to reconstruct what they did three weeks ago.

How it works

What happens, step by step

Every weekday at 6 pm, ClickRuntime pulls today's tracked time from Clockify.
It totals the hours for each person and splits them by project.
The summary is posted to your #team-time Slack channel, one line per person with their projects underneath.

Before it runs live

Connect Clockify

What you get

RunsOn a schedule

Post today's tracked time to your team channeltoday, 9:00Succeeded

Slack · #team-time*Alex Kim*: 7.5 h • Northwind app: 5.0 h • Internal: 2.5 h

Build your own

Need it to work differently?

This template is a starting point. Copy the prompt and change it, or describe a different automation from scratch, with your own conditions, more apps or an AI step. Your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

Your own rules
Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.
Any number of apps
One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.
AI where it helps
Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.
On a schedule or on each event
Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

Changes you can ask for

Run it at a different time, more or less often, or only on weekdays
Add an AI step, for example to summarize, sort or draft a reply
Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
Combine it with other Clockify steps into one automation

Under the hood

The code that runs this automation

This is the Python script that runs each time the automation starts. Your AI assistant writes it for you when you send the prompt, and you allow each step in your assistant. To change how the automation works, describe the change to your assistant and it updates the script for you. For every function it can use, see the script reference.

daily_time_summary_to_slack.pyexample

from datetime import date, datetime, time
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, notify

WORKSPACE_ID = "your-workspace-id"

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    today = date.today()
    resp = http.post(
        f"https://reports.api.clockify.me/v1/workspaces/{WORKSPACE_ID}/reports/summary",
        headers={"X-Api-Key": credentials.secret("CLOCKIFY_API_KEY")},
        json={"dateRangeStart": f"{datetime.combine(today, time.min).isoformat()}Z",
              "dateRangeEnd": f"{datetime.combine(today, time.max).isoformat()}Z",
              "summaryFilter": {"groups": ["USER", "PROJECT"]}},
    )
    resp.raise_for_status()
    lines = [f"Clockify hours for {today:%a %d %b}"]
    for user in resp.json().get("groupOne", []):
        lines.append(f"*{user['name']}*: {user['duration'] / 3600:.1f} h")
        lines += [f"  • {p['name']}: {p['duration'] / 3600:.1f} h" for p in user.get("children", [])]
    notify.slack("\n".join(lines), channel="#team-time")
    return {"lines": len(lines) - 1}

FAQ

Common questions

Which time zone defines today?

It uses the report window for the day on the schedule you set, so the evening time you choose determines the cutoff. Ask your AI assistant to match it to your workspace's time zone if teammates are spread across regions.

Does the summary list each person's hours?

It reports from Clockify's summary report, which can be grouped by project or user. Tell your AI assistant which grouping you prefer, and you sign off first. Grouping by project, user or client is a small change.

Will it post on weekends?

It runs on the schedule you set, so a weekday-only schedule avoids empty weekend posts. If the team sometimes works Saturdays, you can leave it daily and the post will simply show the hours that were tracked.

What permissions does it need?

read. Nothing else in your accounts is used.

Does it need AI?

No. It runs without AI, so it doesn't use your plan's AI allowance.

How many runs does it use?

One run each time it runs (on a schedule). Checks that find nothing to do and stop right away aren't counted.

Can I change how it works?

Yes. Describe the change to your AI assistant, for example a different schedule, channel or filter. It updates the automation, tests it and tells you what changed.

On a schedule