Employment Hero supports different types of timesheet entries. You can choose the one that best supports your employees' activities in your Company Settings.

The different timesheet entries are:

• Start and end times based on daily entries: Stand and end times, including any breaks.
• Daily hours based on daily entries: Total hours worked for the day.
• Daily hours based on weekly entries: Total hours worked per day for the whole week.
• Start and end times based on weekly entries: Stand and end times per day for the whole week, including breaks taken per day.

There is also an option for Overnight timesheets, which supports timesheets that extend past midnight.

Please note: Overnight timesheets are only available to customer whose HR platform are connected to the payroll platform.

Follow these steps to set the right timesheet type for your organisation.

1. On the left-hand side menu, click Settings.
2. Click on Timesheets on the left-hand side navigation menu.
3. Under Timesheet Entry, choose the type of timesheets you would like your employees to use.
4. Under Overnight Timesheets, click Yes or No.
5. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Save.

Once you have selected the timesheet type, you need to update the pay details for your salaried employees. This will enable your employees to submit timesheets whilst still being paid their normal working hours per week. The steps on how to undertake this are:

1. Click the People menu.
2. Click the Employees List submenu.
3. Under the Employees tab, select the employee that needs timesheets enabled.
4. In the employee file, scroll down to the Pay & Compensation section.
5. Click the pencil icon for Work Hours.
   
6. Click Standard Daily Hours according to your needs. You can also select Custom Work Hours to tailor it to your business needs. See this article for the steps. 
7. Enter their Ordinary Work Day.
8. Click the Save button.
   
9. Now, click the pencil icon for Pay Run Details.
10. (Optional) For full time employees, select the Pay Employees their Normal Working Hours by Default checkbox. For more information about this selection and the other menu options, see this article.
11. Select the Synchronise with Payroll checkbox.
12. In the Timesheet Type dropdown, select the appropriate option:
    • Do not use timesheets: the employee does not need timesheets.
    • Use timesheets to submit all time worked: the employee needs to submit timesheets to record all their time worked.
    • Use timesheets for exceptions only: the employee only needs to submit timesheets in certain situations.
13. Select the relevant work types.
14. Click the Save button.
    

Please refer to these articles to guide employees when submitting timesheets based on the timesheet entry enable for your organisation:

• Submit my daily start and end hours based timesheets.
• Submit my daily hours based timesheets.
• Submit my weekly hour based timesheets.
• Submit my weekly start and end hours based timesheets.

Managers will be able to use the Timesheets feature to approve submissions when it is enabled for their employee reports.

If there is an employee in your organisation who is not a manager but you need them to be able to use the Timesheets feature, you can enable this through Permissions. To do this, follow these steps:

1. On the left-hand side menu, click Settings.
2. Under the Security and access control menu, click Permissions.
3. Click the Add permission button.
4. Enter the following information:
   • Group name.
   • Description.
   • Set permissions for - for whom you want to enable the feature.
5. Click the Employees tab.
6. Scroll down to Timesheets and click the Use checkbox.
7. Click the Create button.

For more information, please refer to this article: Grant feature access to employees through Permission settings.

Employment Hero sends out the following Timesheet notifications:

To manage employee timesheets, please refer to this article: Approve, decline, and edit employees' timesheets.

Once a timesheet is approved, it will sync to the payroll classic platform. This is indicated by a green clock, which you can hover your cursor over to view sync details.
A red clock indicates that the timesheet has not synced to payroll.

To view your timesheet reports, please refer to the following articles:

• Run a report on employee timesheet submissions.
• Run a report on Roster vs Timesheet comparison.