When You Can Log Overtime
You can only start a new session outside your regular working hours if overtime is enabled in your policy.
For a scheduled policy with no overtime enabled, you cannot submit time outside your working days.
Not Everything Outside Hours Is Overtime
Overtime is only counted on top of your regular hours. If you haven't submitted any regular hours for the day, you can't submit overtime for that day.
How Thresholds Work
A threshold defines when overtime starts. How it's measured depends on your schedule type:
Flexible – the threshold is the minimum hours you must submit (per day or week) before you become eligible for overtime.
e.g. Threshold = 5h → overtime starts after 5 hours of submitted time.
Schedule Window – the threshold is the minimum hours you must submit outside your regular window before overtime begins.
e.g. 9AM–5PM, Threshold = 2h → you must submit at least 2 hours outside the window to become eligible for overtime.
Total Hours – the threshold is the extra hours you must submit beyond your regular daily hours before overtime begins.
e.g. 6h/day regular, Threshold = 2h → overtime starts after 8 hours of total submitted time.
Threshold examples
Fixed Contractor, Flexible Working Hours
Daily: Threshold = 5h. Since the policy is flexible, there's no set regular interval, so the threshold is the minimum you must submit before sessions count as overtime. You need to enter at least 5 combined hours in a day before overtime starts.
Weekly: Threshold = 20h. You need to submit at least 20 combined hours in a week before any additional hours that week count as overtime.
Pay As You Go Per Hour, Total Hours schedule (2h Monday, 5h Tuesday, etc.)
Daily: Threshold = 1h. On Monday you'd complete the expected 2 regular hours, then +1 threshold hour, before a Monday overtime session can start.
Weekly: Threshold = 10h. You'd submit your combined expected regular hours for the week, plus the 10h weekly threshold, before overtime is counted.
Session breakdown (EoR / Direct Employee, 9AM–5PM, 8h/day)
Daily Overtime — Threshold 2h, Max Overtime 2h. You submit 5 hours outside regular hours → 2h threshold (not paid) → 2h verified overtime (paid) → 1h invalid (not paid).
Weekly Overtime — Threshold 5h/week, Max Overtime 2h. You submit 3h Mon + 2h Tue + 3h Fri = 8h → 5h threshold (not paid) → 2h verified overtime (paid) → 1h invalid (not paid).