Timesheets provide you with a simple format that looks and functions like a paper timesheet. With timesheets, you can quickly calculate employee pay. If you use Time Billing, you also can automatically create activity slips based on timesheet entries.

• If you do not mark the preference to use timesheets, you cannot open the Enter Timesheets window. You will pay your employees based on their recurring pay and make adjustments to individual paychecks when you process your payroll.

• If you mark the preference and choose to use timesheets for payroll only, you must enter your hourly employees' hours in timesheets; they will be needed to calculate your employees' payroll.
  
  How timesheet use affects hourly employees' pay and salaried employees' pay is very different. See How employee pay is calculated using timesheets to understand these differences.

• If you mark the preference and choose to use timesheets for time billing and payroll, you must enter your hourly employees' hours in timesheets; they will be needed to calculate your employees' payroll, as described above. Additionally:
  
  The hours you enter in an activity slip will appear in the timesheet (if you've made that choice in the activity slip) and used for payroll.
  
  If you select an activity when you make a timesheet entry, an activity slip is automatically created.

If you mark the preference, you must also select the day you want to appear as the first day of the week on the timesheet.

For more information, see Using Timesheets.