By default only admins can approve timesheets per week. But if needed you can also allow project managers to allow the timesheets from their projects. On this article we show you how to active it.

You need to activate “Enable project managers to approve all of their project timesheets” on the Preferences/Approve Timesheets. Please make sure that approve timesheets is active.

Then, the project manager can see all the approvals of his projects on the approval overview…

…and on the weekly timeheet

Note that project managers now can also unapprove timesheets. If you don’t want them to do, go to Settings/Preferences/Approve Timesheet and active “Only admins and account owners can unapprove weeks”. If active, only Admins and Account Owner can unapprove timesheets/weeks.

Overview

Every project manager only sees timesheets that where tracked on a project where he/she is manager of. Admins still see all timesheets of the whole company. In the following figure you see what the single project managers are see and what the admin sees:

For a deeper understanding, you can see in the following flow chart who is able to do which actions within the approval process: