What is a timesheet?

The record of hours each guard worked, used for payroll and client billing.

Timesheet: definition

A timesheet is the record of the hours an employee worked over a pay period, with start and end times, breaks and the total. For security companies, guard timesheets drive two things at once: payroll, at each guard's pay rate, and client billing, at each client's bill rate for the hours worked on their sites.

Timesheet explained

Paper timesheets and sign-in sheets are easy to get wrong and easy to pad. Rounded times, forgotten breaks and shifts written up from memory all cost money, either in overpaid wages or in hours the client disputes.

Timesheets built from a time clock are more accurate: the guard clocks in and out, the hours add up automatically, and a manager approves them before payroll. When the clock is geofenced, the timesheet also shows that the hours were worked on site.

Overtime rules for pay and for billing are often different, so timesheets should keep the raw times and let pay and bill rates be applied separately.

How ForceVera handles it

In ForceVera, timesheets build themselves from the geofenced time clock, with hours, breaks and pay rates, and export to CSV or Excel for your payroll system. Manual time entries need approval. With client billing, approved hours become client invoices.

ForceVera does not run payroll and does not connect to accounting software such as QuickBooks or Xero.

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