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As a Supervisor in FieldTime, you are the second tier in the approval workflow. By the time a timesheet reaches your queue, every individual time entry has already been approved at the Project Manager level. Your role is to review the employee’s complete week — validating totals, checking compliance findings, and confirming that the timesheet accurately reflects the work you supervised — before it advances to Payroll for final sign-off.
Your supervisor queue only shows timesheets for employees who report to you according to the supervisor assignment recorded in Vantagepoint. If an employee’s timesheet is missing from your queue, ask your Admin to verify the supervisor assignment in Vantagepoint and re-sync the employee data.

How Timesheets Reach Your Queue

FieldTime links each employee to their supervisor using the supervisor assignment stored in Vantagepoint. When all PM-level entries on a timesheet are approved, FieldTime automatically sets the timesheet status to Pending Supervisor Review and routes it to the queue of the employee’s assigned supervisor. Project Manager authority does not extend to supervisor approval — these are distinct roles with separate queues.

What You See in Your Supervisor Queue

Your queue lists each timesheet waiting for your approval. For each timesheet you can see:
ColumnWhat it shows
EmployeeThe employee whose week is under review
WeekThe Monday–Sunday pay period
Regular HoursTotal straight-time hours for the week
Overtime HoursTotal overtime hours (over 8 hrs/day or 40 hrs/week under California law)
Double-Time HoursTotal double-time hours (over 12 hrs/day or 7th consecutive day)
PM ApprovalConfirmation that all entries are PM-approved
Compliance PanelAny overtime or meal-break findings flagged by FieldTime
Submitted AtWhen the employee originally submitted the timesheet

Approving a Timesheet

1

Open your supervisor queue

Navigate to Approvals → Supervisor Review in the left sidebar. You will see all timesheets awaiting your approval.
2

Review the week summary

Click into a timesheet to open the full week view. Review each day’s entries — project, phase, task, classification, and hours — along with the weekly totals.
3

Check the compliance panel

Before approving, review the compliance panel on the right side of the timesheet detail page. FieldTime flags potential California-specific issues such as daily overtime, seventh-consecutive-day rules, and missed meal periods. Resolve any questions with the employee before approving.
Check the compliance panel for any overtime or meal-break findings before approving. Approving a timesheet confirms that the hours and rest-period records are accurate — this information feeds directly into California wage-and-hour calculations during payroll processing.
4

Approve the timesheet

Click Approve to sign off on the full weekly timesheet. FieldTime records your approval — including your name, the approval timestamp, and the timesheet — in the permanent audit log, and automatically advances the timesheet status to Pending Payroll Final Approval.

Rejecting or Requesting a Revision

If the timesheet has an error that the employee needs to fix — incorrect hours, a missing entry, a wrong project code — send it back rather than approving it.
1

Choose Reject or Request Revision

  • Reject the timesheet when it contains errors that require the employee to resubmit from scratch.
  • Request Revision when you want the employee to make a targeted correction and resubmit.
Both actions return the timesheet to the employee and require a note from you.
2

Add a note

Type a clear, specific explanation in the note field. The employee sees exactly what you write. For example: “Missing lunch break for Wednesday — please add the meal period, then resubmit.” or “Overtime on Friday looks incorrect — you were on site for 7 hours, not 10.”
3

Confirm the action

Click Confirm. The timesheet status is set to Rejected or Needs Revision, and the employee is notified. When the employee corrects and resubmits, the timesheet restarts from Tier 1 (PM approval) so all PM lines are re-evaluated against the updated entries.

After You Approve

Once you click Approve, the timesheet moves out of your queue immediately. You can still view it — and its full audit history — in the All Timesheets view, but no further action is required from you unless the timesheet is reopened by an Admin after payroll final approval.