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How to Approve Hours for Payroll

Streamline hour approval workflows so payroll and billing teams receive clean, defensible worked-time records.

Last updated February 2026

This guide includes

Product steps, setup guidance, and a final check

You will work in

Scheduling

Prepare

Before you start

Check your access

Make sure you can open the Scheduling area and edit the records used in this guide. If an action is missing, ask an account administrator to review your role.

In the product

Do this in Arcova

  1. 1

    Open time entries

    Go to Scheduling, then Time Entries.

  2. 2

    Narrow the review

    Filter to the pay period, site, or approval status you need. Start with entries that show an exception or missing clock information.

  3. 3

    Review one time card

    Open the time card and confirm the clock-in, clock-out, break impact, worked hours, and any flags. Correct the entry first when your role allows it.

  4. 4

    Approve the hours

    Select Approve time card. For several clean entries, select them and use Bulk Approve; exclude flagged entries until they are resolved.

  5. 5

    Confirm the period is clean

    Verify that the completed entries show Approved and that no unresolved exception remains in the period you are sending to payroll.

Recommended setup

Define approval ownership and cutoffs

  1. 1

    Assign final approval responsibility by site or team.

  2. 2

    Set lock windows for pay periods.

  3. 3

    Publish escalation paths for disputed entries.

Recommended setup

Validate worked-time exceptions

  1. 1

    Review late starts, missing clocks, and adjustment requests.

  2. 2

    Confirm exception context before lock.

  3. 3

    Require manager comments for high-impact overrides.

Recommended setup

Release approved data to downstream workflows

  1. 1

    Approve entries before payroll processing windows.

  2. 2

    Sync approved hours to billing preparation workflows.

  3. 3

    Track unresolved exceptions to improve next-cycle readiness.

Final check

You are done when

Time exceptions are resolved and the selected time entries show as approved for downstream payroll processing.

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