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Time tracking or overtime feature

Timebutler has a time tracking feature and an overtime feature. With the time tracking feature, employees enter their total working time including breaks, and Timebutler calculates the working time by comparing target and actual times. With the overtime feature, employees do not enter their total working time, but only overtime (and overtime reductions), and Timebutler uses that to calculate the overtime balance.

Because the two features determine overtime differently (calculation vs. direct entry), it is not possible to enable both the time tracking feature and the overtime feature at the same time.

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

It is also not possible to enable the time tracking feature for some users and the overtime feature for others. That would be confusing, because the app would need to show different views for the working time account and the overtime account, and some employees would appear in one view and others in the other.

So you need to choose one of the two features, time tracking or overtime. This then applies to all employees and cannot be configured differently, for the reasons stated.

To enable the time tracking feature:

Sign 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.

To enable the overtime feature:

Sign in to Timbutler 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 have various options for managing overtime that you can configure as you wish. Then click the “Activate overtime feature” button to confirm.