2. How do I approve or decline time off?

"How do I approve or decline time off?"

When a person requests time off, you'll get an email asking you to approve it, as their manager.

To approve or decline a requested time off:

1. First, as their manager, you'll be the one to receive time off emails from the people you manage.

1. Approving from your email:
   If you'd like to change the request, or you're not sure if you're ready to approve it, tap the "Edit request" link.
2. In those cases where you don't approve of the time off, tap: Declined
3. In most cases, however, to approve the time off, tap: Approved
4. Which is all you need to do to see the "Time off approved" confirmation.
5. Also, in the background, an approval email's sent to the person.

1. What the requesting person sees:
   When the requesting person opens their email inbox, the person sees an email letting them know that their time off has been approved.
2. Then from the "Approved" email, the person can tap See time off to see more details.
3. Alternatively, when it's been declined, the person sees an email letting them know that their time off hasn't been approved.
4. Then from the declined email, the person can tap: Edit for resubmit

1. Approving from the "Time off list":
   Another place to approve time off is on the person's: "Time off list"
2. To see the person's "Time off list", tap: "Menu", then "People"
3. Then tap: "Time off", then "Time off ... list"
4. If there's any time off that hasn't been approved, those time off rows have a yellow "Waiting for decision" circle.
5. To approve the time off, tap the yellow circle.
6. And then tap: Approved
7. And finally, back on the "Time off list", you'll see the time off now has a green "Approved" circle, and an email's been sent.

To approve a requested time off on a day that's also got planned times:

1. First, to see the person's "Time off list", tap: "Menu", then "People"
2. Then tap: "Time off", then "Time off ... list"
3. Any time offs that overlap planned times have an orange warning circle, saying: "Timesheet has planned times"
4. The warning, however, doesn't stop you from approving the time off.
5. And once it slides out on the right, near the top you'll again see a big orange warning, saying: "Time off overlaps with planned times"
6. Then when you tap Approved, the time off's approved, and an email's sent.
7. However, you'll again be shown a warning about the overlap, with a link to the planned time's timesheet.
8. It's highly recommended to delete the planned time now, or assign it to a different person.
9. That way, when the person takes their time off, there won't be a gap in your time planning.
10. To delete the planned time, tap the timesheet link, then tap the yellow planned time.
11. And tap: Delete
12. And finally, now when you update the other pages, the orange warnings have all gone away.

Keep in mind that:

• Time offs can be approved or declined by any person with "Full org admin" permissions.
• Time offs can also be approved or declined by the person's direct manager, even if the manager doesn't have "Full org admin" permissions.
• Supervisors, however, can't approve or decline time offs.

And that's it! That's everything you need to know about approving time off!