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Locked time

Timely’s Locked Time safeguard your records from accidental or unauthorized changes, providing peace of mind and confidence in your data. Ensures that your team’s timesheets remain accurate and secure.

Accurate, reliable time tracking with locked time

Locked Time delivers a hassle-free solution to ensure the integrity of your time tracking data. With the ability to lock time entries for specific days, weeks, or months, you ensure that your records stay complete, allowing you to focus on important tasks without worrying about data inaccuracies. ‍ This simple but powerful feature protects your payroll, billing, and performance analysis by safeguarding your time records from errors.

Prevent accidental changes or unauthorized edits to timesheets.

Ensure reliable and accurate time data for payroll, billing, and analysis.

Save time and reduce administrative effort by securing your records with ease.

Key use cases

Locked Time is a game changer for teams needing control over their time entries. It simplifies workflows, streamlines billing processes, and enhances the accuracy of project profitability analysis.

Accurate payroll, every time

Lock a day, week or month once hours are final, so payroll runs on numbers that won't change.
Locked days show a padlock and a gray background, so everyone can see what's final.
Prevent accidental or unauthorized edits to the hours your payroll depends on.

Invoice with confidence

Once a day is locked, no one can edit entries, add new ones or move entries in or out.
Mark invoiced hours with "Billed" or "Locked" time entry states.
Send clients invoices based on hours that stay the same after the invoice goes out.

Profitability Power

Keep historical time data intact for reliable project profitability analysis.
Make sure the hours behind your cost and profit reports can't be changed after the fact.
Lock a whole month at once from the Month view of the Hours Dashboard.

Streamlined Time Management for Teams

Lock time entries for multiple users at once using Company View.
Control who can lock or unlock time, customizing permissions across your team.
Gain complete oversight over team time entries—no manual admin needed.