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Switch from overtime feature to time tracking

Timebutler offers a time tracking feature and an overtime feature. Only one of the two features can be enabled at a time, not both.

If you currently have the overtime feature enabled and want to switch to time tracking, proceed as follows.

1. Test time tracking

Go to www.timebutler.com, sign out if you are signed in automatically, then click Live Demo in the top right. Sign in as a fictitious admin user and try out time tracking. For example, you can click Employees > Time tracking > Enter working time or Employees > Time tracking > Working time accounts. Or click 00:00 in the top right to try the virtual time clock. Or click Settings > More… > Time tracking to review the various configuration options.

2. Switch to time tracking

Once you have decided to use time tracking, set a cutoff date on which to activate it. The first day of a month works well.

Download overtime balances
On the cutoff date, sign in to Timebutler with an admin account and click Employees > Overtime accounts in the top left. Download the view as an Excel file: you will need the numbers from the Balance column later.

Activate time tracking
Click Settings > More… > Time tracking. Activate time tracking, set the cutoff date under Start of time tracking, configure the remaining settings, and click the blue Save button at the bottom. The overtime feature will now deactivate automatically.

Enter overtime balances
Click Settings > Working time balance at the bottom left and enter, in the Working time balance at the start of time tracking column, the values from the Balance column of the overtime accounts.

From now on, your employees can enter working times in Timebutler or record them via the virtual time clock or the time tracking terminal, and you can use time tracking with all of its features.