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Time tracking or overtime feature

Timebutler offers a time tracking feature and an overtime feature. With the time tracking feature, you enter the total working time including breaks, and Timebutler calculates the working time by comparing target and actual times. With the overtime feature, you do not enter the total working time, but only overtime (and overtime reduction), and Timebutler uses that to calculate your overtime account.

Because the two features determine overtime differently (calculation vs. direct entry), you cannot enable both time tracking and the overtime feature at the same time.

If you enable the time tracking feature, the overtime feature is automatically disabled — and vice versa.

You also cannot enable time tracking for some users and the overtime feature for others. That would be confusing, because different views would then be needed for the working time account and the overtime account, and some employees would appear in one view and others in the other.

So you decide on one of the two features: time tracking or overtime. This then applies to all employees and, for the reasons stated, cannot be set differently.

Enable the time tracking feature

Log in to Timebutler as an admin and click Settings > More… at the bottom left, then Time tracking on the right, and enable time tracking there.

Enable the overtime feature

Log in to Timebutler as an admin and click Settings at the bottom left, then More… below it, then Overtime feature on the right. Click the Activate overtime feature button. On the page, you find various options for overtime management that you can configure as you wish. Then click the Activate overtime feature button again to confirm.