Employees enter timesheet online...

Thanks for such detailed explanation sbickerton,

Let me share some information about time tracking in QuickBooks Online. 

The QuickBooks Online Essentials version has a built-in Time Tracking feature you can use. It allows your employees to fill out their time worked.

All you need to do is enabled this feature in the Company settings. Then, assign a time entry only user access rights to your employees. 

Turning on the time tracking preference:

1. Go to the Gear icon, then select Account and Settings.
2. On the left hand menu, click Advanced. 
3. Click the pencil to the right of Time Tracking 
4. Check the Add Service field to timesheets or Add Customer field to timesheets. When either of these are checked, employees and contractors who fill out time sheets can specify if activities should be billed to a customer.
5. (Optional) Check the Show billing rate to users entering time.
6. To select the first day of the work week, use the drop-down and select the day to begin each work week. Setting the first day of your work week affects how employees and contractors view Weekly Time Sheets.
7. Click Save.
8. Click Done on the bottom right.

To add a Time Tracking user only:

1. Click on the Gear, then select Manage Users.
2. Choose New then select Time Tracking only.
3. Select which vendor or employee you wish to add as a Time Tracking Only user.  

Here's an article for more information:

Turn on and set up time tracking

If you have questions with the process, don't hesitate to leave me a comment below. I'll be here to answer them for you. 

Hello @sbickerton,

Thanks for updating us about this.

As additional reference, you can also send this information through our Feedback button. In your QuickBooks Online account, just go to the Gear icon, then select Feedback.

You can also contact us through this link:

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You'll be notified through email once this issue is resolved.

We appreciate your patience. Feel free to post again in the Community if you have any other concerns that need attention. I'm always here to help.

Is there a way we can have employees sign?

Hello there, Virtus.

For now, we're still unable to set up employees as time tracking users. The investigation is still on-going and our team is doing their best to get a fix.

I suggest getting in touch with our QuickBooks Online Customer Care so you'll get added to the list of affected users. You'll also receive updates regarding this issue.

If you have other concerns or questions. you can always post anytime in the Community. 

sbickerton - I saw you your question regarding having employees enter hours on their timesheets.  This is required in my industry, so if you are still seeking assistance, please send me a message. 

If you are still looking to have employees input their hours to timesheets online, maybe I can help.

Do you know if you can do time tracking in the Quickbooks Online app?

@Anonymous how do you access the weekly timesheet?  where is it?

Good day, @JFstructured.

Let me be the first to welcome you to the Community. I can guide you to where the Weekly Timesheet is located in QuickBooks Online.

Weekly Timesheets is an option available in QuickBooks Online Essentials and Plus. In order to access it, you would need to turn on the time tracking feature from the Account and Settings. Here’s how:
1.    Go to the Gear icon and select Account and Settings.
2.    Choose the Advanced tab.
3.    On the Time tracking section, select the boxes for Add Service field to timesheets and Make Single-Time Activity Billable to Customer to turn it on.
4.    Hit Save, then Done.

Once done, you’ll find the Weekly Timesheet by following the steps below:
1.    Click the Plus icon next to the magnifying glass at the top right of the screen.
2.    Select Weekly Timesheet under Employees.

For more information, check out this article: Fill in the weekly timesheet.

That should answer your question for today. Let me know if you need anything else. I’ll be here to help. Wishing you and your business continued success!
 

interesting idea!

If you have added the app TSheets to your Quickbooks online, you should be able to add users when you are the administrator in TSheets time tracking. TSheets is now part of the Quickbooks family. 

Are you saying to add employees as Administrators in TSheets to input their own timesheets?

Thanks for requesting the clarification - I have updated my reply to avoid this kind of confusion. 

Unfortunately, I have only heard bad things about TSheets not working for those in my industry who require timesheets and project cost accounting when working on Govt contracts. Perhaps there is a way that I'm not aware of since I don't claim to know everything, but based on clients I have who tried to use TSheets before they hired me, and their failure rate of 100%, even after working on it for over a year with people from TSheets and QB, I could not recommend it to any of my clients.  

Does quickbooks inform you that an employee has completed a time sheet? thanks

Hi there, @KatMcMahon. 

Thanks for joining the thread. Yes, you'll be notified when employees submit their time. You'll have to install the approvals add-on to enable timesheet submission and approval reminders. Here's how: 

1. Go to Feature Add-ons.
2. Click Manage Add-ons.
3. Go over to Approvals, then select Install.
4. In the Approvals Preferences window, select the General tab.
5. Make your selections. You can also Customize the message seen when employees submit their timesheets.
6. On the Notifications tab, set employee timesheet submission and manager approval reminders.

For more information, you can also refer to our help article: Set up timesheets submission and approvals. 

Additionally, you can read through TSheets Time Tracking. It helps you learn about the key benefits and how it works with QuickBooks. 

Feel free to post again if you have more questions. We're always here to help. 

Can I track time of an employee, subcontractor or a vendor that is not based on or living in the USA ?

Hello there, jmonteiro,

We're unable to track employees, subcontractors, and vendors living off United States. We can only track US-based employees.

This is a great suggestion. I'll be sure to send this feedback to our product developers. We collect feature update ideas coming from customer's needs.

Don't hesitate to leave a reply if you got other suggestions. 

Thanks for your reply !.

Yes. it would be a great feature... I guess... because Nowadays, your collaboration could come from other countries as the world becomes tech/globalized, we could be in many places at the same place.

In addition we dont have to search and pay for other apps just to track time as the comments /people were asking for.

@VivienJ  Eek!  Just saw this in your post dated 10-15-18.

"5. (Optional) Check the Show billing rate to users entering time."

Can't imagine any company wanting employees to see BILLING rate.

@MaryLurleenM 

It would seem time tracking should not be an issue but payroll definitely would be.

Why is time-tracking an issue - connectivity?