The timesheet period

A timesheet period is one week — Monday to Sunday. The period gathers the week’s entries with total hours, and carries the status that governs what can change: Draft, Submitted, Approved, or Rejected.

The lifecycle

1. Draft — you record freely. The week is created automatically on first entry.
2. Submitted — you’ve sent it for review; the period is locked for you. Reopen for editing undoes the submission as long as the manager hasn’t decided.
3. Approved or Rejected — the manager’s decision, with a banner and an optional note. A rejected week reopens for correction.

Self-approving days

Before submitting, you can vouch for individual days with Approve my hours — the day is marked Self-approved. It’s a signal to the approval queue that the day is ready, and can be undone with Un-approve. The manager’s approval shows as Manager approved.

Two layers of locking

Submitting locks the period; on top of that, payroll periods lock their dates independently of the week’s status. If both are open you can edit — if either is locked, you can’t.

Reviewers see their team’s periods here too — but the queue work happens in the approval queue.