Guide
Timesheet record keeping
What makes a timesheet a record you can defend: entered close to the day, never overwritten, corrected with a reason, and approved.
A timesheet is evidence twice over: of what a client is charged for, and of the hours an employer paid somebody to work. In both cases it is worth most when it was written close to the day, has not been overwritten since, and shows who approved it.
Australia’s Fair Work Act sets a demanding standard: employee records kept for seven years, altered only to correct an error, and never in a way that makes them misleading, with start and finish times kept for casual and part-time staff. It is a useful bar for any firm whose records may one day be read by a client, an auditor or a court.
In practice that means a correction is a new entry that says why, the original stays, and an approved week is locked so it cannot change quietly afterwards.
In ReliTime
ReliTime was built to that standard: time entries are never deleted or overwritten, a correction carries a reason and a name, and approved weeks lock in the database itself.
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Questions people ask
Can I edit last month’s timesheet?
A record you can defend is corrected, not edited: the correction is added with a reason, and the original stays visible.
How long should timesheets be kept?
It depends on the law that applies to you. Australia’s Fair Work rules require seven years for employee records, and tax rules set their own periods for anything an invoice relied on.
See it on your own kind of work
We set ReliTime up with a walkthrough rather than a sign-up form. We will take you through a working organisation, from a week of timesheets through approvals and work in progress to a GST invoice, answer your questions as we go, and set up yours.
Or write to hello@relitime.com.