Employees Timesheet
This feature will allow HR users to monitor and manage employees’ project distributions, timesheets filling, approvals, and reporting.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
How To Setup The Timesheet Feature
As a start, we need to set up the company projects, and the timesheet approvals cycle.
Project Groups
User Menu à System Preferences à Projects à Projects Group
Through this page, you will be able to define the company project groups to be able to add related projects to it as shown in the below figure.
By clicking the button "Add", you will be able to define the new group as shown below:
Projects List
User Menu à System Preferences à Projects à Projects List
Through this page, you will be able to define the company projects list to assign it to your employees as shown in the below figure.
Through this page, the HR admin will be able to manage project data, create new projects, edit it, and delete it from the list.
By clicking the Add button the below screen will appear to allow you to add the new project details.
Timesheet Approvals
User Menu à System Preferences à Approvals
You will be able to define the timesheets approval cycle the same way of doing it for the time-off requests. This approval cycle will be used when the employee created his timesheet and send it to his manager or to the approval committee to be approved, and that based on the selected category from the approvals setup page.
How To Assign A project To Your Employees
Through this page, you will be able to add employee projects and distribute his working hours on the projects by adding the percentage.
Main Menu à Employees à Employees Management à Open Employee's Profile à Projects
Add/ Edit employee project page contains the below fields:
- Projects drop-down list (will be retrieved from the Projects list in the settings list)
- Start date (the time that the employee start working on that project)
- End date (the time that the employee finished working on that project)
- Distribution percentage (total should be 100% for all the employee active projects)
- Active (this flag will only appear in the list page to show the expired projects)
Deleting project:
You will not be able to delete any project if there was any transaction in the employee timesheet.
How Employees Can View Their TimeSheets
Main Menu à Payroll à My Timesheets
Through this page, the employee will be able to check, add timesheets and send it for the manager's approval.
By Clicking the button "Create a timesheet", the below screen will appear to allow the employee to add his daily work hours per project as shown in the below figure.
After creating the timesheet, it will be saved as a draft, and the employee will be able to check his timesheet details and send it to his manager to be approved as shown in the next figures.
How Managers Can Approve TimeSheets
Employee's Dashboard à My Approvals à Timesheets Tab
After sending the timesheet from the employee side, the manager will be able to check and approve it.
Also, the manager will be able to leave a note for the employee and for the approval committee.
Manage TimeSheets
Main Menu à Payroll à Manage Timesheets
Through this page, you will be able to check all the requested timesheets details and their approval status as shown in the following figures.