Timing Make integrationAutomate Timing with Make.
Your time tracking can fill itself in when work happens elsewhere. The Timing Make integration gives you 13 modules: 11 actions and 2 searches on projects, time entries and timers. This guide connects your account and walks you through a first scenario.
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What does the Timing Make integration do?
The Timing Make integration links your Timing account to Make so other tools can create, read, change and delete your projects and time entries, or start and stop a timer. You build a scenario, the automation Make runs for you, out of modules, each one a single step such as Create a Project.
A project ready as soon as a deal closes. When your CRM marks a deal as won, Create a Project opens the matching project in Timing, so nobody has to type the client name twice.
A timer that follows your calendar or your task board. A card moved to “In progress” in another app can call Start a Timer, and moving it to “Done” calls Stop a Timer. The hours land where they belong without a click in Timing.
Tracked hours sent to the rest of your stack. Search Time Entries pulls the entries you need and hands them to a spreadsheet, an invoicing tool or a report, one item at a time.
Know the gaps before you start. Timing has no trigger in Make, so Make cannot watch Timing and react when you log time there; the scenario has to start from another app or from a schedule. Make also notes that its Timing documentation is AI-generated and may contain mistakes, so check anything important against Timing itself. If you also look at n8n, the n8n vs Make comparison lays out the differences, and the Make training covers scenario building from scratch. For help with a larger setup, see the Make agency.
How do you connect Timing to Make?
- 01
Generate an API key in Timing
You need an active Timing account. In the Timing web application, open the API Keys section, click the button that generates a new key, then copy the key shown on screen. Keep it in your clipboard for the next step.
- 02
Add a Timing module and open the connection
In your Make scenario, add any Timing module, for example Create a Project, and click Create a connection. A connection is your Timing account linked to Make once, then reused by every Timing module.
- 03
Name it and paste the key
The Connection name field is optional, but a clear name helps when several accounts coexist. Paste the API key you copied, or follow the instructions on screen, and save. Make can now read your Timing projects.
Build your first scenario with Timing
GoalWhen a new client appears in another app, Make creates the matching project in Timing.
- 01
Create the scenario
On the Scenarios page, create a new scenario and click the + to add the first module. It belongs to the app where your new clients show up, such as your CRM or a form tool.
- 02
Add Create a Project
Click the + on the right of that first module, search for Timing and pick Create a Project. Choose the connection you made with your API key, or click Create a connection now.
- 03
Map the client data
Fill the module fields by mapping data from the first module, the client or company name for instance. Each item that flows between modules is a bundle: here, one bundle equals one new client.
- 04
Test with Run once
Click Run once, then create a test client in the source app. Read the bundles each module received, and check that the project appears in Timing.
- 05
Schedule and switch on
Set the schedule on the first module (every 15 minutes by default), then switch the scenario on. Each module run counts as an operation, the unit Make bills on your plan.
What can Make do in Timing?
Timing gives you 13 modules. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.
Create a Project
ActionIn the docs onlyGives every new client or job its own project in Timing, created from data that already lives in another tool. Your time tracking stays aligned with the work you actually signed.
Create a Time Entry
ActionIn the docs onlyWrites a finished block of work straight into Timing, without running a live timer. Useful when the time was already measured somewhere else and only needs to be recorded.
Delete a Project
ActionIn the docs onlyRemoves a project from Timing when it no longer has a reason to exist, keeping the project list clean for everyone who picks a project to log time.
Delete a Time Entry
ActionIn the docs onlyErases one time entry, the fix for a slot that should never have been logged. It acts on a single entry at a time.
Get a Project
ActionIn the docs onlyFetches one Timing project you already know, so later modules can reuse its details. Think of it as reading a single card, not browsing a list.
Get a Time Entry
ActionIn the docs onlyReads back one specific time entry from Timing, handy to confirm what was logged before another tool relies on it.
Make an API Call
ActionIn the docs onlyOpens the rest of the Timing API to your scenario, using the same connection as the other modules. Any endpoint the 12 ready-made modules leave out becomes reachable.
Search Projects
SearchIn the docs onlyLooks through your Timing projects and returns every match, which lets a scenario check whether a project already exists before creating another one.
Search Time Entries
SearchIn the docs onlyPulls a set of logged entries out of Timing so you can total them, copy them to a sheet or feed an invoice. This is how your hours leave Timing.
Start a Timer
ActionIn the docs onlyStarts a running timer in Timing from an event in another app, so the clock is already going when the work begins.
Stop a Timer
ActionIn the docs onlyEnds the timer that is currently running in Timing, so nobody has to open the app to press stop.
Update a Project
ActionIn the docs onlyChanges an existing Timing project so it keeps matching the source of truth, for example a renamed client or a project that moves to a new stage.
Update a Time Entry
ActionIn the docs onlyCorrects an entry that is already in Timing instead of deleting it and creating a new one, so reports built on it stay consistent.
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