How do I add paid time off to an employee timecard?

[ptunstall]

how do I add PTO to an employee timecard?

[TheRealChipA · Accepted solution]

Hey there, @ptunstall.  You don’t add it to the time card.  Rather, when you run your weekly payroll, you specify any PTO hours the employee is using there.  That will add it to their paycheck as well as deduct the hours used from their PTO bank.

[kinos_coffee]

Hi, is there any update on how this works this is a real pain to have to do this employees cannot request or Submit PTO requests making them extremely difficult to track and manage. 

[TheRealChipA]

@kinos_coffee I am not aware of any changes to PTO flow, currently.  Basically.....

1. We can add hours to any team member accounts, manually.
2. PTO requests are not automated, yet, so we have to manually track them.
3. PTO hours are reduced whoever we add them to payroll.  This, too, is manual since Square does not have automated PTO requests we can approve, etc.

As a small shop with only a few employees eligible for PTO, I don't find this extremely difficult, at all.  But I can see where it might be in larger shops.  Honestly, I am not sure I have ever seen a feature request to automate PTO requests, etc.  So, if you feel strongly about needing more from this, you need to head over to the feature request board and submit a few.

One word of caution.  Be sure to only request ONE feature in each post.  So, it sounds like you'll have a couple of requests -- one for automate replenishing PTO every year (or month or whatever), one for team members to request PTO that we can approve and then is automatically added to the next payroll run, and maybe one for PTO status for our businesses.

Good luck.