Approve and sign off your timecard

When you believe that your timecard is complete, accurate, and ready for signoff, you approve it. Depending on your access, you may also be able to remove your approval to make edits. Typically, after you approve your timecard, your manager also approves it.

When your timecard is ready for payroll processing, you, your manager, or both of you sign off your timecard. You cannot remove the approval after the timecard is signed off.

Note:

Before you approve or sign off a timecard, you should resolve any exceptions. Exceptions, which are defined for your company, include early punch The entries on a timecard that mark the beginning (in-punch) or end (out-punch) of a work interval, such as the beginning of a shift or transfer. and late punch. For more information about exceptions, see Resolve timecard exceptions (hourly timecard).

If there are any pending changes to your timecard, you cannot approve it until the changes are resolved.

Approve your timecard

Open your timecard and select the appropriate timeframe.
Make sure the timecard is accurate.
Click Tap Approve .

The way that approval is displayed in your timecard differs depending on whether you are using table view or list view.

Table view

You can approve the entire timeframe or part of the timeframe. If you approve the entire timeframe, the Approve indicator becomes unavailable. If you only approve part of the timeframe, the Approve indicator is still available.

The background color of the timecard changes, depending on who has approved it:

Yellow background		Timecard approved by employee but not by manager.
Light purple background		Timecard approved by manager but not by employee. Note: If a timecard has multiple job approvers and your timecard settings are configured to only show shading for approved jobs, then only the jobs that have been approved are shaded. Jobs that have not yet been approved are not shaded.
Green background		Timecard approved by both employee and manager.
Gray crosshatch		Timecard has been signed off.

List view

The approval bar on the left side of the timecard changes, depending on who has approved it:

	All days approved by employee
	All days approved by manager
	All days signed off

If your timecard has been setup with accessible options, the approval and sign-off indicators appear like this:

	All days approved by employee
	Partly approved (multiple managers) This indicates that there are multiple approvers for the timecard and only some of the managers have approved the time that belongs to them on a given day. This indicator only appears if the timecard has been configured to show it. Note: The Partly approved (multiple managers) indicator only appears for daily approval values. The manager approval indicator for the date range will only appear blank (the date range is not fully approved) or solid (the date range is fully approved).
	All days approved by manager
	All days signed off

The approval bar on the left side of the timecard changes, depending on who has approved it:

	All days approved by employee
	All days approved by manager
	All days signed off

If your timecard has been setup with accessible options, the approval and sign-off indicators appear like this:

	All days approved by employee
	Partly approved (multiple managers) This indicates that there are multiple approvers for the timecard and only some of the managers have approved the time that belongs to them. This indicator only appears if the timecard has been configured to show it.
	All days approved by manager
	All days signed off