Managers with assigned direct reports can review, edit, and approve employees’ reported hours after an admin has set up and added employees to time tracking. This needs to be completed on a desktop computer.
In order to see the Time tracking tab, this feature first needs to be enabled by your payroll administrator—reach out to your employer if you don't see this option. If you're an employee, head to this article to learn how to track your hours.
Make sure the employee is enrolled in time tracking. You can approve and edit hours at any time up until payroll for that pay period has been run.
Important: At this time, approving hours is purely a visual-aid to identify hours that have been approved. Unapproved hours will still sync to payroll, and it's up to an admin to overwrite/correct hours that are synced.
Edit approved hours
To revise hours that had previously been approved, but before payroll is processed, simply follow the same steps above and click Edit next to the hours you wish to change. Once hours have been processed on payroll, they cannot be edited.
Review edit history
You can view what changes have been made to an employee’s timesheets and by whom in two different ways:
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You can also add contractors to Gusto Time Tracking and sync their hours to contractor payments. At this time, managers are not able to approve contractors' hours.