Difficulty with Zoho Projects and Hours

Difficulty with Zoho Projects and Hours

Hello,

I am brand new to Zoho Projects and evaluating to see if a fit for my company.

We deal in Projects that have many small Tasks that are completed within minutes or hours.  Due to the amount of detail of each Project and the number of Projects we engage in at one time, using Templates is absolutely necessary otherwise the time to manually setup a Project and its details would outweigh any efficiency gain benefit from using this application in the first place.  Projects for us act as a to-do list but also a checklist to ensure critical steps are not missed or skipped.

I have adjusted in settings the ability to manage duration by hour.  However, when setting up each Milestone, I am forced to enter a duration in days (required).  It does not allow hours or fractions of a day.  Cannot set to zero.  So I may have 10 milestones, all of which can be completed within 1 8 hour day, but Zoho Projects forces this to look as if a 10 day Project.

I would have thought I could setup a Template that would contain all of my Milestones and Tasks with each Task having a duration of anywhere between 3 and 30 minutes.  Then when said Template is applied to a new Project and a start date is set, it would fill in the start and finish date for all Tasks based on duration.  This does not seem possible in this application.

Am I missing something or is Zoho Projects just not a suitable tool for managing entire projects that are completed within a few days?

Thanks,

Keith


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