Does Zoho People track time against client projects?
Zoho People tracks client project time through Timesheets, which sort hours by job, project and client and mark each job billable or not. Invoicing runs in separate apps such as Zoho Books. PeopleMuster logs project hours daily and feeds them straight into utilisation and a capacity plan, for $3 per person per month.
Zoho's own timesheet page, read on 24 September 2026, describes the feature plainly. You can "add new jobs, classify them as billable or non-billable, create new projects, and manage multiple clients efficiently." So the answer is yes: hours in Zoho People can sit under a client.
Turning those hours into an invoice is a separate step. Zoho points billing to its sibling apps, Zoho Books and Zoho Invoice, or to QuickBooks. If you already run Zoho's suite, that hand-off is familiar.
The better question for an agency is what happens to the hours next. Logged time is only useful when it tells you who's busy, who's free and which project is eating the week. That's utilisation and capacity, and it's where you'll spend your Monday morning.
PeopleMuster starts from that question. Your people log hours by project each day, a manager approves them, and an admin sets how long the logging window stays open. Projects carry billable, fixed-price and hourly flags, plus milestones and a health score.
Those same hours power the reports. You see utilisation and hours by project and department, with a week-over-week trend, and you can post the report to a Slack channel. Deltek's Clarity study of architecture and engineering firms, published 12 May 2026, put staff utilisation at just under 60%. It's a number worth watching every week.
Planning runs off the same data. The capacity plan shows each person by day in under, full and over bands, and approved leave and company holidays already sit inside it. When someone's leave is approved, their slot opens up in the plan straight away.
Clients live beside the work. Each client record holds several contacts and the client's local time, so your team knows when to call. You pay $3 per person, per month, from the first person, with every module included.
Related questions
Can Zoho People mark project time as billable?
Yes. Zoho People Timesheets let you classify each job as billable or non-billable, as its timesheet page states in September 2026.
Does Zoho People need a minimum number of users?
Zoho People's paid plans need at least 5 users, per its pricing page in September 2026. PeopleMuster has no seat minimum, so a team of any size pays $3 per person.
How does PeopleMuster turn logged hours into utilisation?
Every approved daily log counts toward that person's project hours. The reports screen then shows utilisation and hours by project and department, with the trend against last week.