Time reporting with scheduled and actual hours on the same row

One row, both numbers

A time report that only shows hours worked answers half a question. The other half is what was supposed to happen, and the useful number is the distance between the two.

Timply puts the scheduled time, the worked time and the difference on the same row, per employee and per day. A shift that ran forty minutes long is a forty minute figure rather than something to be worked out by opening the schedule in another tab.

Approving what differs

The point of the difference column is that a manager reads the days that differ instead of reading all of them. Approval can be given per day or for a whole period, and it records who approved and when.

That record is what the payroll file carries through as an approved period, so payroll can see the basis was signed off rather than taking it on trust.

Corrections keep the original

A time that is edited does not overwrite what was there. The original is kept next to the new value with the change recorded, which means a question about a figure three months later has an answer.

What Timply does not yet have is an approval step for the change itself. An edit is logged, but it does not go out for a second sign-off. That is a known gap and it is planned.

Time against a project

In Pro, a job is set up as a project with participants, and time is reported against the project as it is recorded. The week then reads two ways: as a person's working time, and as hours drawn down on a job.