When Project Time Approval is enabled, project owners can review and approve hours from various teams working on the same Cost Tracker Financial Manager project. They can review their project team members' hours with the same cadence configured for Tempo Timesheets. This gives project owners the granularity to approve those hours.
Project hours that are approved in Cost Tracker Financial Manager don’t impact the team members' submitted timesheets. Similarly, the approved hours in the team members' timesheets have no impact on the status of the project hours in Cost TrackerFinancial Manager.
Cost Tracker Financial Manager Project Time Approval is a separate layer of approving hours enabled by project owners for the purpose of approving hours that pertain to their own Cost Tracker Financial Manager projects.
Before You Begin
Project Time Approval must be enabled for Cost Tracker Financial Manager by a Tempo administrator. If Project Time Approval is not enabled, you can’t view any tasks or receive emails.
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After users submit their hours in Tempo Timesheets for the active period, Cost Tracker Financial Manager detects the hours that belong to a Cost Tracker Financial Manager project and places them in the Waiting for approval status.
An email request is sent to the project owner to approve the submitted hours.
In Cost Tracker’s Financial Manager’s Approval tab, a project owner can drill down in the Timesheet view to see the logged hours before approving the hours for the specific projects.
When a project owner approves or rejects the submitted hours, the logged hours are marked accordingly. This completes the approval process, and no further action is required.
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