Public holidays on timesheets
26 Jun 2023
26 Jun 2023 by Luke Puplett - Founder
We're now showing public holidays in Zipwire. It's a remarkably unsophisticated solution to an old problem that causes many people to miss getting paid a few times a year.
People often accidently bill for time they didn't really work on public holidays. If caught by their approver, they have to correct and resubmit, else it's hopefully caught later by those processing the timesheets, otherwise the client loses out.
The problem is most acute when a public holiday is at the beginning of the month because, by the time most people submit their timesheets, they've long forgotten it. And by the time they've resubmitted another, perhaps tweaked their invoice and had it approved again, they've missed the pay window with their agency.
You'll see public holidays in three places.
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Your journal, so you'll remember that day and what you did.
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On the timesheet itself, which is designed to mostly help approvers and processors.
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As an alert on the timesheet to draw attention when the full timesheet is collapsed.
Simple but not easy
It feels strange to trumpet such a simple idea but there are two reasons why many will never benefit from such a feature.
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A huge number of people still use a Word document for their timesheet, or physical paper. You'd have to create a document for every week or month and somehow distributed them and enforced their use.
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Some staffing agencies have had their own portal made. The problem is that this one-off commissioned website will invariably lack features and rarely gets updated with new ideas. Moreover, there needs to be a way for non-technical folks at the agency to refresh the dates each year, and to set different dates for different countries, and manage the country for each login, or design a user profile feature.
That's it. A very simple but high impact new feature.
That's lovely and everything but what is Zipwire?
Zipwire Collect handles document collection for KYC, KYB, AML, RTW and RTR compliance. Used by recruiters, agencies, landlords, accountants, solicitors and anyone needing to gather and verify ID documents.
Zipwire Approve manages contractor timesheets and payments for recruiters, agencies and people ops. Features WhatsApp time tracking, approval workflows and reporting to cut paperwork, not corners.
Zipwire Attest provides self-service identity verification with blockchain attestations for proof of personhood, proof of age, and selective disclosure of passport details and AML results.
For contractors & temps, Zipwire Approve handles time journalling via WhatsApp, and techies can even use the command line. It pings your boss for approval, reducing friction and speeding up payday. Imagine just speaking what you worked on into your phone or car, and a few days later, money arrives. We've done the first part and now we're working on instant pay.
All three solutions aim to streamline workflows and ensure compliance, making work life easier for all parties involved. It's free for small teams, and you pay only for what you use.