Glossary
Manager Approval Workflow
Also known as: Approval chain, sign-off flow
A manager approval workflow is the defined path by which attendance, leave, or time entries are reviewed and approved by the right manager before they become official. It turns self-reported data into an authoritative record. Approvals create accountability and an audit trail for payroll and billing.
Without approvals, attendance and timesheet data is just unverified self-reporting, which is easy to dispute and hard to trust. An approval step inserts a human check so that what flows into payroll or a client invoice has been reviewed by someone accountable for the team.
A good workflow routes each request to the correct approver, keeps it visible until actioned, and records who approved what and when. This prevents entries from sitting in limbo and ensures nothing is silently changed after the fact.
Approvals are also the connective tissue of accurate operations. Comp off, regularization, overtime, and billable hours all become defensible only once they carry an approval, which is why the workflow sits at the centre of both compliance and revenue integrity.
How Workclave handles this
In Workclave, sessions, regularizations, and time entries route to the responsible manager for one-tap approval, and every decision is logged with who and when. That approval trail is what makes payroll inputs and client billing defensible. approval-based project tracking.
Related terms
Attendance regularization is the process by which an employee fixes an incorrect or missing attendance record, and a manager approves the correction. It covers situations like forgetting to mark in, a device failure, or working off-site. The corrected record then flows into leave and payroll calculations.
Read definition →A timesheet is a record of how an employee's working time was distributed across tasks, projects, or clients over a period. It underpins billing, payroll, and productivity analysis in services businesses. Timesheets can be filled manually or generated from tracked work sessions.
Read definition →Billable hours are the units of work time that can be charged to a client under a contract or engagement. They exclude internal activities like admin, training, or bench time that the client does not pay for. For services firms, billable hours are the direct link between effort and revenue.
Read definition →Session-based tracking records attendance as discrete work sessions, each with a start, an end, and a project, rather than a single daily clock-in and clock-out. A day can contain several sessions across different projects, breaks, or locations. This produces a far richer and more accurate picture of how time was actually spent.
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