Back end - Reporting

One BIG feature I would like to see soon is the ability to run, in the Pro version, a report on each collaborative developer on my team with the following criteria:

1. The ability for me to determine whether hours spent are productive (and thereby billable) or non productive.
2. The ability to add up productive hours and non productive hours.

I now have to do this manually for each developer in the back end.

Please would you respond to this reques?

We have an interesting setup. I am involved in drug and alcohol rehabilitation taking young failed starters in life, getting them off of substance abuse and then employing them, training them up to develop Joomla sites for our business. So some of the tasks we give them are learning tasks which we do not pay them the same rate for. So they may spend three hours on a task that should only take an hour to do. For this we have an unproductive / training rate. For jobs they are fluent with they get the production rate which is higher. This does not affect what we bill the client, but it does affect what we pay them.

I need to be able to select a project as unproductive and add up the hours and then other projects as productive and add up the hours. We then transfer these totals for the month to the staff member's pay slip which then converts the two to currency and totals it. We then pay them accordingly.

While our situation may seem unique, in reality it is not. Many companies have different rates to hours.

I would even be happy if I was able to select productive hours and just get a total for each staff member on this. The unproductive hours are few so I can single that out.

Does this make sense to you?

Yes it can be a flag on the activity if it is unproductive. Then the tally at the bottom of the activity list would not include these. This would work for me. Right now I have to add up the hours with a calculator.

That could work. But for now it would help to have at the bottom of the Activities screen a total of hours for each of the users when they are selected. We would select user and date search for the period eg. 25 July to 24 August. This could be an easy to add interim measure, don't you think?