Buckets are used for comprehensive time spent reporting. There are two reporting options: by category and simple.

Reporting by categories allows slicing the total time spent between multiple categories. For example, costs analysis categories can be:

As you categorize items, Quantify will start suggesting a category for new items. Suggestions are scoped per bucket, or in other words, are based on the categorized items within the Bucket.

Simple reporting uses JQL (Jira Query Language) to report time spent based on the items returned by the query.

Each Bucket has a start date and end date. We recommend creating one bucket per calendar or fiscal year. This allows you to archive past reports in read-only mode for record-keeping purposes.

Similarly, every reporting period (month/quarter) can be closed to ensure that the reported numbers don't change.