BambooHR Time & Attendance provides digital timesheets, approval workflows, automated overtime and holiday pay rates, and shift scheduling. Time tracking data integrates seamlessly with BambooHR Payroll and exports to third-party systems. Employees can enter hours from the web or mobile app, while administrators manage pay schedules, work schedules, and permissions.

Go to the employee’s profile > click the three-dot menu > Time & Attendance > Enable Time & Attendance.

If the employee still cannot see the Time Clock, confirm they are assigned to a Time & Attendance Group and an active Pay Schedule.

To learn how to enable time & attendance for multiple employees, check out this help guide.

Yes! You can assign employees to different time-logging settings by creating different time & attendance groups.

Timesheets are generated according to each employee's Pay Schedule. If you change a pay schedule mid-period, BambooHR automatically starts the new schedule at the beginning of the next pay period. During this transition, the following timesheet may be shorter to align dates.

Yes. To change a pay date (for a holiday or special circumstance): Settings > Employee Fields > Pay Schedules > Pay Calendar > Change Pay Date. This change applies to future pay periods.

There is no reset feature. Employees with Edit permissions for timesheets can edit them until approved. After approval, Full Admin users can edit timesheets.

This happens when the time logging method is changed from Start/Stop tracking to Total Hours per Day while an employee was still clocked in.

Clock the employee out on their timesheet; BambooHR will remove all 24-hour entries automatically.

If time was entered on a timesheet using the Single Daily Entry method before an admin switched the time tracking settings to Multiple Daily Entries, that employee's current timesheet remains locked in the old format until the next pay period to protect record accuracy.

Timesheets use the time zone assigned to the employees Location in Job Info. Remote employees default to the company's time zone but can update their own in Account Settings. Local Time appears only when the viewer is in a different time zone.

Timezones are determined when creating a new schedule and can be edited in Schedule Settings.

No, BambooHR Time & Attendance only supports a single-layer timesheet approval workflow. Each employee's timesheet can be approved by either their assigned manager or a specified person, but additional sequential or multi-level approvals are not supported within BambooHR. After approval, only a Full Admin can make further edits.

You can remove an employee from time & attendance in two ways: from the employee profile or via Time & Attendance settings.

Employee Profile

1. Navigate to the employee's profile.
2. Click the three-dot menu on the top right of the profile.
3. Hover over Time & Attendance.
4. Select Disable Time & Attendance.

Time & Attendance Settings

1. Navigate to Settings > Time & Attendance.
2. Choose the Time & Attendance group the employee belongs to.
3. Hover over their name.
4. Click the Disable Time & Attendance button (trash can icon).

If the End Employment button was not used to terminate the employment, the employee may remain active. To fix this, go to Settings > Time & Attendance > Employees. Hover over the employee's name and click the X to remove them.

To make sure this does not happen in the future, check out this guide.

It depends on the feature.

All Time & Attendance features require an initial manual setup and assignment. Additionally, Time & Attendance must be enabled manually for each new employee, either from the employee profile or from Time & Attendance settings.

Some related features can automatically include new employees after setup:

• Meal and Rest Breaks
• Project Tracking
• Shift Differentials

For these features, admins can choose All Employees. When this option is selected, any new employee added to Time & Attendance is automatically eligible for the applicable break policy, project, or shift differential.

However, if an admin selects Only Specific Employees for any of these features, new Time & Attendance users must be manually added to the appropriate break policies, projects, or shift differentials.

Yes, BambooHR supports overnight scheduling when you configure two consecutive shifts that meet exactly at midnight.

To support overnight work correctly:

• The first shift must end exactly at 12:00 AM.
• The second shift must begin exactly at 12:00 AM on the following day.
• Both shifts must be assigned to the same employee.
• The employee must clock into the first shift before midnight and remain clocked in through midnight.

When these conditions are met, BambooHR automatically splits the employee’s worked time at midnight and assigns each portion to the correct shift.

BambooHR does not support individual shifts that span multiple calendar days.

Additionally, BambooHR will not automatically associate post-midnight worked time to a second shift if:

• the shifts do not end and begin exactly at 12:00 AM
• there is any gap between shifts
• the employee was not clocked into the first shift before midnight

In unsupported overnight scenarios, BambooHR still splits the time entry at midnight, but the original shift association continues after midnight.

No. If you schedule back-to-back shifts separated at midnight, the system will treat them as separate shifts. If your state requires that overtime is determined based on hours worked per day rather than per week, the overnight shift option will not automatically calculate overtime for you. For more information concerning overtime rules in BambooHR, click here.