Better reporting tool than Tempo

[Biswash Lamsal]

Hello! I have been using Tempo to record my worklog and generate my reports. I have fields like User, Date, Billable, Start Time, End Time, Project, Issue and the Worklog in my report. There is no separate start time and end time field in Tempo. So, I create them in excel and use a formula to calculate these fields. Also, every time I export the report in excel, there is one blank column and the key field column which I remove. I have to move the columns as well to get in the way I want. Moreover, there are so many rows that are reductant and I clear those manually.

Is there a way where I save my template of how I want my report and the report is generated in the same template every time. I am happy to try some other tool than Tempo if that does the job like I want.

[Anastasiia Maliei SaaSJet · Accepted solution]

Hi @Biswash Lamsal 👋

I totally get your frustration - doing the same cleanup in Excel after every export can be exhausting. We actually built our app Time & Cost Tracker for Jira exactly to solve these kinds of reporting pains.

Here’s how it helps:

✨ Log time directly on issues - with all the details you need.

✨ Customize your report just once - choose the fields you need, rearrange columns, hide redundant data — and save that layout as your personal template.

✨ Once you set up the report structure you like, you can reuse it anytime without repeating the edits, just duplicate this report.

✨ Clean export with no extra work
No blank columns, no redundant rows — the export already comes in a clean, ready-to-use format.

So you set it up once → and then enjoy the time saved every time.

If you’d like to try, here’s the link on Atlassian Marketplace

If you have any questions — happy to help anytime! 

[Biswash Lamsal]

Thank You for the response @Anastasiia Maliei SaaSJet . Does this app have the field to show start time and end time as well. Also, can I record my expenses in this app?

[Anastasiia Maliei SaaSJet]

Thanks for your question @Biswash Lamsal ! In Time & Cost Tracker, we currently track only the total time spent on a task — there aren’t separate Start Time and End Time fields. You can log the number of hours or minutes worked, and the app will calculate the total automatically.

Regarding expenses, yes — you can record costs or expenses per task or project, so you can track both time and budget in one place.

[Biswash Lamsal]

Thank you @Anastasiia Maliei SaaSJet . Is there a way to tweak this fields in my report because these are really important for me and I do not want to calculate these in Excel. While recording the time for a task, it does not have to update start time and end time.  But while I export it, I want to see it in my report. If there is a way I could add these fields in my report, I would be really happy to try the app. 

[Valerie Knapp · Accepted solution]

Hi @Biswash Lamsal , thanks for your post.

For my customers, I have recommended different apps for this kind of requirement.

JXL might be a good fit, because here you can do a lot of this cleaning / ordering of columns inside of Jira and then export - https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1224710/jxl-sheets-hierarchy-structure-sum-up-time-in-status-table?hosting=cloud&tab=overview 

Another app which is dedicated to reporting is eazyBi, but this might be too much in terms of what you explained - https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1211051/eazybi-reports-and-charts-for-jira?hosting=cloud&tab=overview 

As with all apps, you can have a free trial for a month. I would install a few, reach out the vendors if you have specific questions and see what you think.

Best wishes

[Biswash Lamsal]

Thank you @Valerie Knapp
I will check bunch of these apps and also contact the vendors