Working with hours package

[Eloy Roa]

Hello, 

I am new in jira and Not sure if this is the apropiate forum but I would like to rise this question. 

We work with customer maintenance projects with hourly packages. This way a customer has contracted a package of 20 hours of maintenance in a specific project. Every incidence reported is consuming hours from this package. And arriving to a certain point (let's say 5 hours) we should receive a warning that the package is about to be consumed to contact the customer.

I am testing in a trial version, but I can't see how to assign hours to a customer project, and how to check hours consumption.

Is that possible in Jira?

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,
Eloy

[Angélica Luz · Accepted solution]

Hello Eloy,

Welcome to Atlassian Community!

On Jira Service Desk, the options to add hours are the SLA and Log Work. 

The SLA is fixed and it will start counting depending on the trigger the admin select on Project settings > SLA. 

The Log Work will be added according to the time the agent works on the ticket, so it's possible to add the estimation, for example, 20 hours and the agent will log a time every time they do something on the ticket and the total time (20 hours) will decrease. In this case, it will be specific for the ticket, so if they have 17 hours left, for example, it's necessary to manually add the information on the next ticket they created.

I'm afraid both of the options won't help you achieve the configuration you need.

There is a feature request suggesting the implementation of this ability:

•  provide ability to do accounting of support hours for clients

Please, click on vote and watch to receive updates about the feature.

I've searched for add-ons with a similar option, but I didn't find anything that could help us.

Regards,
Angélica

[Eloy Roa]

Hello Angelica,

Many thanks for your answer and your reasear work, I really apreciate it.

As you are suggesting, I'm afraid current functionality is not covering our requirements. The feature requested is exactly what we need, I will be watching the feature in case it will be developed.

Thanks and have a happy 2020.

Eloy

[Angélica Luz]

You are welcome, Eloy!

Happy new year!