Kimai Plugin Marketplace
Website: https://www.kimai.org/store/
Category: Time-tracking APIs & integrations
Brand: Kimai
Slug: kimai-plugin-marketplace
Tags: plugin, integration, invoicing
Description
The Kimai Plugin Marketplace is the official catalog of free and paid extensions for the self-hosted Kimai time-tracking platform (with a subset also available for Kimai Cloud). It provides add-ons for integrations, reporting, exports, invoicing, attendance tracking, budgeting, and other extensions so organizations can customize Kimai to their specific time-tracking, billing, and reporting workflows.
Features
-
Official plugin ecosystem for Kimai
- Central place to discover, purchase, and install plugins for Kimai.
- Supports both self-hosted (on‑premises) installations and Kimai Cloud; plugins usable in cloud are labeled “Cloud”.
- Mix of free and paid plugins from Kimai’s core developer(s) and third‑party vendors.
-
Time-tracking and attendance extensions
- Kiosk / terminal mode with barcode, RFID, and Web NFC support for environments where users have no direct Kimai access.
- Attendance-style start/stop tracking for shared devices (e.g., warehouse, shopfloor).
-
Data management and auditability
- Audit trail logs for detailed change histories on timesheets, customers, projects, and activities, shown in per‑item timelines.
- Archive commands to automatically archive timesheets older than a defined time frame via command-line.
-
Data structure customization
- Custom fields for timesheets, customers, projects, activities, and users.
- Fields can be configured as optional or mandatory and restricted via permissions.
- Supports multiple field formats (e.g., text, select, etc., as implied by “various formats”).
-
Expenses, billing, and invoicing
- Expense management tied to customers and projects.
- Categorization of expenses.
- Ability to include expenses in invoices.
- Additional export and invoicing options through various plugins.
-
Planning, task, and approval workflows
- Task planning: create tasks, start/stop/pause them, assign them to users or teams, and record time against them.
- To‑do style management within Kimai using task plugins.
- Timesheet approval workflows (e.g., weekly approval) via dedicated approval plugins.
-
Working time & HR-related features
- Plugins for working hours and overtime tracking.
- Management of vacations, sickness, and PTO.
- Public holiday management and calendar integration.
- Monthly approvals with PDF exports.
-
Budgeting and project control
- Budget watcher plugins to notify when a defined portion of a project’s budget has been consumed.
-
Reporting, client communication, and portals
- Customer email reports that send customers summaries of tracked working hours.
- Customer portal plugins to share client and project statistics and timesheets via secret URLs, optionally password protected.
-
UI and content customization
- Custom CSS plugins to add and manage stylesheet rules via the admin interface.
- Custom content plugins to:
- Add custom stylesheets and JavaScript.
- Show a global warning message.
- Render a custom page with markdown content (e.g., for company news).
Pricing
- The marketplace itself is free to access; plugins are individually priced.
- Available pricing models include:
- Free plugins (e.g., some approval, CSS, or portal-related add-ons).
- Paid plugins, typically priced per plugin (examples from the store range roughly from 9 € up to 299 €, depending on complexity and scope).
- Each plugin listing in the marketplace shows its individual price (or “For free”) and whether it is available for Cloud deployments.
