Time and Attendance

This section covers the language of time entry and attendance tracking: hours worked, timecards, timesheets, schedules, exceptions, and approvals.

Use it when the term affects payroll before the actual pay calculation starts.

Current pages:

• Time Entry explains the early step of recording payroll-relevant time information.
• Timesheet explains the recorded hours or work-time detail used as payroll input.
• Timecard explains the timekeeping record payroll reviews before calculating pay.
• Missed Punch explains a common timekeeping problem that can block accurate payroll.
• Timesheet Approval explains the review step that clears time for payroll use.
• Timekeeping Exception explains unusual time-record issues that need review before payroll can rely on them.

In this section

• Missed Punch
  What a missed punch means, why it matters before payroll, and how one missing clock event can turn into a pay problem.
• Time Entry
  What time entry means, how it feeds payroll, and why accurate entry matters before payroll runs.
• Timecard
  What a timecard is, how it supports payroll time tracking, and how it relates to timesheets and payroll calculations.
• Timekeeping Exception
  What a timekeeping exception means, why it matters before payroll, and how unresolved time issues affect approval and pay accuracy.
• Timesheet
  What a timesheet is, how payroll uses it, and why it matters before pay is calculated.
• Timesheet Approval
  What timesheet approval means, why it matters before payroll runs, and how it connects to payroll cutoff.