Now that you've posted your teams schedule, and people are working those shifts, the next step is to complete your timesheet. You must do this every day (and usually after everyone has completed their shifts).

If any emergency overtime was worked, or if anyone was absent for their shift, you'll also need to log that on the timesheet, but let's come back to that in a moment.

To begin with, let's look at the typical daily process of completing a timesheet:

To recap, the daily process of completing a timesheet consists of opening the timesheet, selecting the shifts for the day and clicking Add Shift to Schedule, and then clicking Save to save the timesheet.

This process usually takes less than a minute to complete.

Occasionally though, you will have staff that are absent, for example if they called in sick and did not arrive for their shift, or if a member of staff worked some of their shift, but went home early. You must log these occurrences in the timesheet.

Let's take a look at how to do this:

To recap:

If a member of your team was absent for the whole of their contracted shift:

• Ensure the shift has a red circle on it - to show they did not work the shift.

• Add a TIme Away From Work entry, detailing the reason for the absence.

If a member of your team was absent for some of their contracted shift:

• You must ensure the shift has a green circle on it - to show they did work some of the shift.

• Add a TIme Away From Work entry, detailing the reason for the absence (which should state "part day"), set the Absence type to "Partial", and type in the start and end times of the absent period.

This might be a little tricky to remember at first, but after you've completed a few of these, you'll be logging absence like a pro!