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Labour settings

For owners and managers

Open Settings → Labour.

Setting By default What it does
Overtime after (hours a week) 40 Paid work in a week beyond this is overtime. Holiday and sick don’t count towards it.
Flag entries longer than (hours) 12 Longer entries are flagged Unusually long on the timesheet.
Leave year starts in January The month holiday allowances start again.
Default holiday allowance (days) 28 For anyone without their own allowance.
Warn when cost or hours are over the estimate by (%) 10 When job costing warns.

Select Save. Changes apply from then on; approved timesheets don’t change.

When an engineer pauses a visit, they choose a reason. Reasons marked as a break count as unpaid break time on the timesheet, not time on the job. By default the Break reason is one.

To mark another reason, open Settings → Reasons, change the pause reason and tick Break.