{"schema":"exacc.help.page/1","url":"https://exacc.au/help/enter-timesheet/","title":"Enter your timesheet","description":"Record time in Exacc on the web or the mobile app: client, activity type, description and time, chargeable or not. Timesheets feed invoices and pay runs.","category":"Payroll","summary":"Open **Payroll › Enter your Timesheet**. For a quick entry fill in **Description**, **Client**, **Activity Type** and **Time Units** and click **Fast Entry**; **Add Full Entry** adds start and end times, site, task, charge and a note. On the mobile app use the **Timesheet** tab.","lastVerified":"2026-10-09","apps":["app","mobile"],"processIds":["enter_timesheet","mobile_timesheet"],"start":{"label":"Open your Timesheet","url":"https://app.exacc.au/{dbId}/timesheet"},"menuPath":["Payroll","Timesheet","Enter your Timesheet"],"before":["Activity types set up (see **Set up activity types**).","The time unit in **General Settings** (e.g. 6 minutes)."],"steps":[{"step":1,"title":"Quick entry","body":["Open **Payroll › Enter your Timesheet**. Fill in **Description**, **Client**, **Activity Type** and **Time Units**, and click **Fast Entry**. Quick entries are always saved for you, whoever is chosen under **User**."],"url":"https://app.exacc.au/{dbId}/timesheet","image":"https://exacc.au/help/enter-timesheet/step-1.png"},{"step":2,"title":"Full entry","body":["**Add Full Entry**:"],"fields":[{"name":"Client, Description, Activity Type","help":"who the work was for, what it was and what kind.","required":true},{"name":"Start Time and End Time, or Time Units / Hours","help":"one or the other (\"Either provide start/end time or non-zero time units\").","required":true},{"name":"Site and Task","help":"optional, for reporting and projects."},{"name":"Chargeable, Charge, Hourly Rate","help":"whether it can be invoiced and for how much; Chargeable follows the client's setting."},{"name":"Mark for attention and Note","help":"flag it for review."}]},{"step":3,"title":"Save","body":["**Save** or **Save & New**. Click a row to change it; **Delete** in its menu removes it straight away."]}],"sections":[{"heading":"What timesheets feed","body":["Chargeable time can be invoiced with **Invoice from timesheets**; once invoiced, an entry cannot be changed or deleted. Employees set to **Use Timesheet to create Payroll** are paid from their timesheets in the next pay event, through the activity type's **Payroll Item**."]},{"heading":"On the mobile app","body":["In the **Timesheet** tab tap **+**: **Description**, **Client**, **Activity Type**, **Time**, and under **More details** the site, task, charge and note. Tap **Create Timesheet**."]}],"related":["https://exacc.au/help/activity-types/","https://exacc.au/help/invoice-from-timesheet/","https://exacc.au/help/run-pay-event/","https://exacc.au/help/general-settings/"],"linkNote":"Links containing {dbId} open that screen in the business file whose id is dbId. A person can also open this help page with ?db=<dbId> to get the same links as buttons."}