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Open Time, check the period total, and click Submit timesheet. The whole period goes for review and locks from edits until someone acts on it.

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What submitting does

Submitting is a single action on a whole period, not on one day or one entry.
  • Every draft entry in the period flips to submitted.
  • The period freezes. You cannot add, edit, or delete entries in it.
  • A reviewer is notified.
  • The period shows a Submitted badge and the date you sent it.
A zero-hour period is submittable. If you tracked nothing, you can still submit the period and it follows the same review flow.

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How to submit

1

Open the period

Go to Time and use the period navigator to land on the period you want to send.
2

Check the total

The Tracked figure on the right shows the period total as H:MM:SS. The badge next to it reads Not submitted.
3

Click Submit timesheet

The submit dialog opens.
4

Review the summary

The dialog lists Member, Period, and Total time – shown in hours and minutes, with the decimal hours in brackets.
5

Check who reviews it

The dialog names your reviewer, or several reviewers, or tells you it goes to your workspace admins.
6

Add a note (optional)

Note for the approver takes anything the reviewer should know. It shows on their review screen.
7

Click Submit for approval

You get a confirmation – Timesheet submitted for <period>.

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What the dialog tells you

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Who reviews it

A reviewer is eligible when they hold time.approve and they supervise you. Every eligible reviewer sees your submission in their queue. You do not choose one person and hide it from the rest – that would let someone route around their manager.

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Withdraw a submission

Changed your mind, or spotted a mistake before anyone reviewed it? Pull it back.
1

Open the period

The button on the right now reads Withdraw submission.
2

Click Withdraw submission

A confirmation opens – “Withdraw <period>? This pulls the timesheet back from approval and returns it to draft so it can be edited.” It shows the total you submitted.
3

Confirm

Click Withdraw timesheet. You get Timesheet withdrawn – the period is editable again.
Withdrawing sends every submitted entry back to draft and tells your pending reviewer the review is off. The period status becomes Withdrawn, and the meta line reads “Withdrawn – edit and resubmit when ready.” You can only withdraw while the status is Submitted. Once it is approved, you need a reviewer to reopen it.

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Resubmitting

A period that comes back to you – whether you withdrew it, or a reviewer asked for changes – can be submitted again. Fix what needs fixing, then click Submit timesheet exactly as before. The review starts fresh: the previous reviewer verdict is cleared, and the activity log records a Resubmitted event.

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Example

Sarah Lin finishes her week at Northwind Studio with 32 hours tracked. She opens Time, sees 32:00:00 and a Not submitted badge, and clicks Submit timesheet. The dialog reads “Goes to Priya Raman” and shows 32h 0m (32.00h). In the note she writes “Wireframe round two took longer than estimated.” She clicks Submit for approval. Ten minutes later she remembers she forgot Thursday’s 90 minutes on Harbor Logistics. She clicks Withdraw submission, confirms, adds the entry, and submits again. The activity log on Priya’s review screen shows Submitted, Withdrew, then Resubmitted.

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Permissions

If you do not hold time.submit, the Submit timesheet button is not shown at all. A Finance role, for example, does not submit timesheets.

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Plan and app gating

Submitting is free on every plan. Approving is Pro. If your workspace is on Free, your submission still lands in the queue and keeps its totals. Nothing is lost while it waits. The Timesheets app must be on in Settings → Apps.

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What happens next

  • Your reviewer gets a notification and sees your period in Approvals → Timesheets → Awaiting approval.
  • If nobody acts within 24 hours, the reviewer gets a nudge. After 72 hours the workspace owners and admins get one too.
  • When the reviewer acts, you get a notification telling you the outcome.

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Common questions

Hover it. The tooltip reads: “This period isn’t ready to submit. Stop any running timer and make sure every entry has the details your workspace requires.” Stop the timer, then fill in anything your time policies require.
No. Submission is always the whole period.
Withdraw it while it is still waiting. If it is already approved, ask an owner or admin to reopen it.
It goes with the submission and shows on the review screen for whoever reviews it.
Nobody who can approve also supervises you. The submission goes to the workspace owners and admins instead, so it never gets stuck.
Yes, with time.submitOnBehalf. See Submit on behalf of someone.

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Troubleshooting

  • “This has already been submitted.” Someone submitted the period while your screen was open. Refresh to see its current state.
  • “Someone else changed this while you had it open.” Refresh and try again.
  • “You can’t submit a timesheet.” Your role does not hold time.submit.
  • “That period doesn’t line up with your workspace’s timesheet weeks.” Use the period arrows rather than a hand-typed range.

Timesheet statuses

Where a submitted period can go next.

Edit a submitted timesheet

Change something after you have sent it.

Submit on behalf of someone

Submit a teammate’s period for them.

Approve a timesheet

What your reviewer sees and does.

Fill in a timesheet

Get the hours right before you submit.

Timesheet reminders

The nudges that go out when a period is not submitted.