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Process · Time entry to payroll export

Time entry to payroll export

Log time, submit the weekly sheet, approve it, lock the entries and send them to billing and payroll.

Step by step

  1. Log time Resource

    Resource logs hours against project codes on the web, with a timer, from a phone or by import. Each entry is checked against the person's time policy.

    • Entries recorded and checked
    • Updates Time entries, Timers, Mobile sync queue, Time policy violations
  2. Submit timesheet Resource

    The Friday rollup creates the Draft sheet. Resource reviews and submits it, and the approval chain is built from the active rules.

    • Sheet Submitted, chain built
    • Updates Timesheets, Timesheet approvals, Approval rules
  3. Approve timesheet Resource

    Each approver in the chain approves or rejects their step with comments; a rule may auto-approve a low-variance sheet with no open violations.

    • Sheet Approved or Rejected
    • Updates Timesheet approvals, Timesheets
    ApprovalA person approves before the work moves on.
  4. Lock entries Controller

    Approval locks every entry on the sheet.

    • Entries Locked
    • Updates Time entries
  5. Export to billing Controller

    Billable entries are priced from the override, the project code or the person's default rate and sent to billing once.

    • Billing export stamped
    • Updates Timesheets, Billable rate overrides, Project codes
  6. Export to payroll Controller

    At the pay period end, locked entries are bundled per person for payroll, and the Controller closes the period.

    • Payroll export stamped, period Closed
    • Updates Pay calendars, Time entries, Timesheets

Where it usually breaks

And how to keep it from happening.

  • Time is logged to an inactive project code.
  • A sheet is approved by the person who submitted it.
  • An approved sheet is exported to billing twice.
  • Payroll runs before every sheet in the period is approved.
Resource
, Project Manager, Resource Manager, Time Approver, Controller.

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