Absence Types5

Absences12

API Keys6

Audit Logs1

Automation6

Contract Templates5

Contracts12

Document8

Employment Models29

Expense10

Export2

Holiday Collections6

Holiday Countries3

Holiday Events4

Holiday Templates7

HR Warnings1

InvoiceSeries8

Leave Balances3

MFA2

Note9

Organization13

Overtime Balances6

Password Weak3

Pause6

Profile7

Project14

Project Public Page11

Public Page3

Rate6

Reminder5

Report Render1

Rest Period Violations3

Settings2

Substitute Rest Days2

Tag6

Task12

TaskActivity6

Team16

Timer6

Todos6

User Absences1

User Holidays1

User Leave Balances1

User Overtime1

Webhook8

get/v1/employment-model-templates

Timer

Start a new timer

Changed on Oct 25, 2026

Starts a new timing session for the authenticated user on the specified project. Creates a new task for the timer and sets the timer to running state. Returns the updated timer information.

post/v1/timer/start

Request

Base URL
https://api.timesheet.io
URL
https://api.timesheet.io/v1/timer/start
Auth
- HTTP bearer
- or API key in header Authorization

Request body

projectIdstring

startDateTimestring

validboolean

Response

Timer started successfully

idstring

statusstring

userstring

lastUpdateinteger

createdinteger

pausedboolean

runningboolean

stoppedboolean

Changes

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  added the optional property /// to the response with the status (media type: application/json)
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Operation history

Start a new timer

Request

Request body

Response 200OK

Changes

Response