Rave's Timesheets Advanced provides a significant number of enhancements to Rave's current Timesheet workflows with the ability to now create and backcost your Labour Budget.  This article steps you through what you can expect with Timesheets Advanced - and to kick things off here are a few of the highlights.

Rave's Timesheets Advanced allows you to:

  • Create a Labour Budget for your project - either manually, via a previously saved Labour Budget template or a CSV upload
  • Easily create a Labour Quote for FMS back costing reporting
  • Backcost your Labour Budget in real-time and easily identify how your Labour Budget has blown out - by task and by your team's timesheet entries
  • Approve your team's timesheet entries - and receive a daily notification for timesheet approvals 
  • Charge your team's timesheet breaks to your client - if required
  • Consolidate your labour timesheet entries to a single labour line, or by task on your Labour Bill(s)
  • Choose whether you want your Labour Bill to be sent to Xero - this is NOW turned OFF by default

The timesheet Task Hours report is a condensed version of our Budget Report in the Timesheets Advanced Module.

Site Managers, Site Staff, and Timesheet users can turn on this report to see the number of hours Estimated per task vs. their Actual timesheet hours.  We then display the variance hours as a + or - .=

The team can then click any 'person' icon to view which staff members made up the hours in the report.

That is,they can:

  • Sign in as a site staff, site manager or timesheet user
  • Navigate to a project
  • And select the Timesheets sub-tab


Then from the Task Hours page:

  • To the left, we display the task name as set on the Labour Budget
  • The next column is the Total Estimated hours - as set by the person loading the labour budget
  • Then the total Timesheet Hours that have been loaded (to date) to each task
  • Rave then displays the an over or under Variation Hours depending on the hours loaded vs estimated
  • Users can click the little person icon, or the person +/- icons to expand the names of each person and how the task hours are made up 


In our example below, both Hermione and Abbigail made up a total of 14.5 hours for the task highlighted.


This page can be exported to PDF or CSV file by selecting the icons to the top left - under the TASK HOURS button

  • The PDF will include the expanded user information
  • The CSV file only has the data on the screen - it excludes the user information