Does Planner Premium have timesheets?
No. There is no timesheet module in Planner Premium, and the capability Project Online provided is not replaced by anything inside the product you are being moved to.
For most of the feature comparison that would be a line item. Here it is not, because three separate things stop working at once.
First, what Planner Premium does track
This is not a tool that ignores progress. It absorbed Project for the Web in August 2025 and it records a good deal:
- Percent complete on a task, and who it is assigned to
- Task history, so a change to that percentage is attributable
- Baselines, so planned dates can be compared to actual ones
- Dependencies, a critical path and portfolio roll-up above the plan
What is absent is narrower and more specific than "time tracking": recording that a named person spent a number of hours on a given day against a given task, and having someone approve it. Progress and effort are different measurements, and only one of them can be invoiced.
Three things break together
A timesheet looks like one feature and is doing three jobs. That is why its absence is hard to work around with a spreadsheet: each of these needs the same record, and needs it to be the same record.
Billing evidence
An invoice line backed by approved hours is the artefact a client disputes against. Percent complete on a task is not that, and it is not something a finance team can put behind a purchase order.
Actuals feeding cost
Cost variance needs actual effort, not estimated progress. Without hours there is nothing to compare a budget against, which is also why earned value cannot be computed downstream.
The approval trail
Submitted, reviewed, approved, by whom and when. That chain is what an auditor asks for and what a chargeback model rests on, and it is a workflow rather than a field.
Absent from Microsoft's Basic versus Premium comparison, checked 23 August 2026. Microsoft ships Planner monthly, so check the current position before you plan around it.
Microsoft does sell time capture, elsewhere
It is in Dynamics 365 Project Operations, which has time entry and approval. Anyone evaluating this seriously will find that, so it is worth saying plainly rather than leaving it for them to discover and wonder what else was left out.
The precise part is what it costs. Project Operations is a separate product with its own licensing and its own implementation, not a setting inside Planner Premium. If your reason for moving is that Project Online is retiring, arriving at a Dynamics implementation is a materially bigger project than the one you started.
How Onplana handles it
Timesheets with a submit and approve workflow, per-project billability so internal work is separated from client work, and rate cards that hold a cost rate and a billable rate separately rather than assuming they are the same number.
Those hours are not a parallel system. They feed earned value, so cost variance is computed from what was actually spent, and compliance tracking shows who has not filed before the invoice run rather than after it. Pro and above.
Common questions
Does Microsoft Planner Premium have timesheets?
No. There is no timesheet module in Planner Premium. It is absent from Microsoft’s own Basic versus Premium comparison, checked 23 August 2026, and the capability Project Online provided is not replaced by anything inside the destination product.
Can I track time in Planner some other way?
You can record how far along a task is, and that change is attributable through task history. What you cannot do is record that a named person spent a number of hours on a specific day against a specific task, then have someone approve it. Progress and effort are different measurements and only one of them can be invoiced.
Does Microsoft sell time tracking at all?
Yes, in Dynamics 365 Project Operations, which includes time entry and approval. It is worth knowing about and worth being precise about: it is a separate product with its own licensing and its own implementation, not a feature you switch on inside Planner Premium. Moving there is a larger decision than completing a migration.
What happens to the timesheet history already in Project Online?
That is a separate question from whether the destination has timesheets, and we are not going to answer it from inference. What the product lacks and what a migration carries are different claims, and conflating them is how comparison pages end up wrong. Export your timesheet data before the service retires regardless of where you land.
Is this a problem for every organisation?
No. A team that plans work and reports progress may never miss it. An organisation that bills clients by the hour, runs an internal chargeback model, or capitalises project labour depends on it structurally, and for them this single gap outweighs most of the feature comparison.
What does Onplana do here?
Timesheets with a submit and approve workflow, per-project billability, rate cards that separate the cost rate from the billable rate, and compliance tracking that shows who has not filed. Available on Pro and above. Those hours also feed earned value, so cost variance is computed from what was actually spent.