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Understanding Approval Process Workflows

At the end of a reporting period, employees usually submit their Timesheets and Expense sheets to their manager. The manger then reviews each employee’s entries for the reporting period and approves or rejects the Timesheet or Expense sheet. The Office Timesheets approval process allows an employee to electronically submit a Timesheet or Expense sheet to their manager. The manager can then track and manage the employee's Timesheets or Expense sheets in Office Timesheets.

The approval process consists of a series of approval process steps that an Office Timesheets administrator defines. You can make an approval process step follow one or more previously defined approval process steps to create a workflow. The workflow creates a sequence of approval process steps that an employee's Timesheet or Expense sheet must complete before it meets your company’s requirements for final timesheet approval.

The Office Timesheets approval process allows an employee to electronically submit a timesheet to the manager. The manager can then track and manage the employee's timesheets in Office Timesheets.

Office Timesheets allows you to—

• define the steps in the approval process;
• define the order of the steps in the approval process;
• specify whether to lock the entries once a step has been applied;
• send email notifications to the employees and/or group managers;
• set one or more Time Entry Status fields when a step has been applied; and
• set one or more Expense Entry Status fields when a step has been applied.

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