Time tracking blog

We love all of the great feedback we receive from our customers!  It helps make TSheets a more relevant tool for how you conduct business. 

Based on some recent feedback received, we made some minor adjustments to the summary area of our reports.  You’ll now see a line that indicates the ‘Straight time’ that an employee worked.  This is just a combination of the Regular hours and PTO hours that an employee worked.  The breakout of Regular and PTO hours is still available right underneath (see the image below).  Being able to easily distinguish between ’straight’ time and overtime made sense, so we’ve adjusted it for everyone.  This change is reflected on the HTML report, the PDF report, and the regular .csv report.

We also tweaked the pie charts so that they show the jobcode with the biggest percentage first on down to the smallest percentage last.  The layout of the time breakouts is also improved in the details for each employee.

Hope you like the changes! let us know if you have any questions.

Does your organization process payroll on a semi-monthly basis?  Do you also have to calculate overtime?  Then you’re going to love this new feature.

Now within your TSheets account preferences you may specify what day you want your week to start on, and what you want your payroll period to be.  For example, you could specify that you have a semi-monthly payroll period – the first period ending on the 14th and the second payroll period ending at month-end.  And you can specify that your week starts on Monday.  How these settings affect reports is best illustrated by some pictures.

As you can see, overtime must be calculated based on the total hours for a given work week, and should be independent of what your payroll period start and end dates are.  Most companies process their payroll on a bi-weekly basis specifically so that they can avoid this kind of confusing calculation.  But if you have semi-monthly pay periods – or you want the ability to put in an arbitrary set of reporting dates, set the ‘Week Starts On’ appropriately for your account and TSheets will make sure that overtime calculations are handled appropriately.

You access these new settings by going to My Account -> Advanced, and then clicking on the Report Options tab