Pay periods and rules

Set your timesheet week, pay period, rounding, minimum and overtime, and read the pay period's totals and checks.

The Settings tab holds the rules your hours are measured by. The rail on the right, This pay period and Checks, shows where you stand against them.

Weeks and pay periods #

Year: the Timecard's pay year.
Timesheet week starts: Saturday, Sunday or Monday.
Pay period: Every week, Every two weeks, Twice a month or Once a month.
- Every two weeks: set One of your periods starts on to any day a period starts.
- Twice a month: set the day the first half ends on.
Your periods look like shows the first few periods of the year, so you can check them.
Pay day: Days after the period ends, Fixed dates of the month (31 means the last day), or Don't show.

Submitting stays weekly. Totals, the minimum and overtime are per pay period.

Rounding #

Round times to: the minute, or a number of minutes.
Rounding: To the nearest, Always down or Always up. Each choice shows an example.
A full day is: the hours in a normal workday.

Rounding applies to times you type or punch from then on. Times already logged stay as they are.

Minimum and overtime #

Minimum per period: A number of hours, Workdays × a full day, or None.
Overtime: Over N hours per period, Over N hours per week, or None. Set the hours in Over.
Your timesheet calls it: the name of the overtime row on your timesheet, like OVERTIME.

If your periods don't line up with weeks, Timecard reminds you that overtime is usually counted per week then.

Pay types #

Each pay type has three ticks:

Counts toward the minimum
Counts toward overtime
Can be overtime

For example, PTO usually counts toward the minimum but not overtime. A holiday counts toward overtime but can't become overtime itself. Overtime only ever comes out of hours that can be overtime. + Pay type adds one.

Holidays #

Tick the federal holidays your office takes and untick the ones it works. They're named on their day in the Week tab.

Notes #

A free-text box for anything about your codes or rules worth remembering.

This pay period #

The rail on the right shows the current period's dates, and its pay day if you set one.

Logged, or Submitted once a week in the period is submitted, with how far you are from the minimum.
Overtime basis and the overtime hours, if you have an overtime rule.
Logged again beside submitted, when they differ.
No code yet: hours on activities with no timesheet line.

Checks #

Checks, under the period, flag things like:

hours with no code yet
a period short of the minimum, or this one still short with days left
how close you are to overtime
a week that ended and isn't marked submitted
a submitted week that changed afterward, or that was submitted for more than you worked
hours carried on a line
a punch still running from an earlier day, an entry with no hours, or two entries that overlap
a task code not issued yet or unconfirmed
workdays with nothing logged

Where a check is about one week, Go to that week opens it on the Timesheet tab.