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Manage daily unit based timesheets

Available for the following Payroll plans: Standard, Premium

Within your organisation, you may have employees who need to submit a timesheet that lists out what units they have worked and the breaks they took over their last working week. By using an online timesheet submission platform, your employees can submit their units worked wherever they are, be it in the office or the field. With this information sent through to their manager to review and approve.

The Timesheet Management feature allows you to approve or decline employee timesheets either in bulk or individually, and also submit an entry for one of your employees. You can also use this feature to edit a timesheet entry and delete a record if it is no longer required. To use this timesheet type, you need to create the work type within the Payroll classic platform. To read further details on how to enable this feature, refer to the following guide.

  User Access:   Employee         Manager         Admin      

  We base the default access level on a per user basis and whether they have  view,  edit and  delete access and excluding any changes made via our Custom Security feature.

Getting started

The below premises will walk you through how to approve and/or decline an employee timesheet.

Submit daily units for my employee

Important

When you submit a timesheet for an employee, the platform will automatically approve the timesheet.

  1. Click the  Time menu.
  2. Click the Timesheets Management submenu.
  3. Click the Add New Timesheet button.
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  4. Select the Employee that needs a timesheet added.
  5. In the Work Types field select the Units of Work option.
  6. Complete the following fields:
    • Date.
    • Unit of work.
    • Cost centre.
    • Add a comment.
  7. Click the Save button.
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Approve timesheets
  1. Click the  Time menu.
  2. Click the Timesheets Management submenu.
  3. Use the Tick box to select each timesheet that needs approval.
  4. Click the Approve Selected button.
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Decline timesheets
  1. Click the  Time menu.
  2. Click the Timesheets Management submenu.
  3. Use the tick box to select each timesheet that needs declining.
  4. Click the Declined Selected button.
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  5. Type in a reason for declining the timesheet.
  6. Click the Decline button.
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Maintain

The below premises will walk you through how to view, edit and/or delete an employee timesheet.

Filter timesheets
  1. Click the  Time menu.
  2. Click the Timesheets Management submenu.
  3. Use the following fields to filter your employee timesheet requests:
    • Date range.
    • Employee.
    • Cost centre.
    • Work type.
    • Group by.
    • Status:
      • Pending timesheets.
      • Approved timesheets.
      • Declined timesheets.
      • All.
  4. Click the Run Report button.
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View submitted timesheets

Important

The ability to view a timesheet is only available if payroll has processed the timesheet in a pay run. Use the Clock symbol to see the payroll status of the timesheet. You can access further information on the meaning of the clock symbol in this article's section: Definitions: Symbols.

  1. Click the  Time menu.
  2. Click the Timesheets Management submenu.
  3. Click the View Details button.
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    Helpful Hint

    You will now see the details of the timesheet on your screen.

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Edit my employees timesheet

Important

The ability to edit a timesheet is only available if payroll has not processed the timesheet in a pay run. Use the Clock symbol to see the payroll status of the timesheet. You can access further information on the meaning of the clock symbol in this article's section: Definitions: Symbols.

  1. Click the  Time menu.
  2. Click the Timesheets Management submenu.
  3. Click the Action button.
  4. Click the Edit button.
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  5. Make the required changes and click the Save button.
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Delete my employees timesheet

Important

The ability to delete a timesheet is only available if payroll has not processed the timesheet in a pay run. Use the Clock symbol to see the payroll status of the timesheet. You can access further information on the meaning of the clock symbol in this article's section: Definitions: Symbols.

  1. Click the  Time menu.
  2. Click the Timesheets Management submenu.
  3. Click the Action button.
  4. Click the Delete button.
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  5. Click the OK button.
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Further information

Definitions: Timesheet status
Pending A manager needs to approve the timesheet.
Approved A manager has approved the timesheet.
Declined A manager has rejected the timesheet.
Definitions: Clock messages
Created at Provides a timestamp of the timesheet creation date
Synced at Provides a timestamp of when the timesheet tried to sync with Employment Hero Payroll.
Sync successful Determines whether the synchronisation of the timesheet between the Employment Hero platform and Employment Hero Payroll classic has been successful.
Edited at Provides a timestamp of the last edit done to the timesheet after a previous Employment Hero Payroll classic synchronisation attempt.
Definitions: Symbols
Icon Name  Description
  Blue clock Used for approved, pending or declined timesheets that have not synchronised with Employment Hero Payroll classic.
  Green clock Used for approved timesheets that have synchronised with Employment Hero Payroll classic.
  Red clock Used for approved timesheets that has not synchronised with Employment Hero Payroll classic.
  Orange clock Used for pending, approved, or declined timesheets that have had changes made to them after being synchronised with Employment Hero Payroll classic.
  Message This means the employer has left a note regarding this timesheet

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