Access & privacy - who can see what
When you first sign up to Timetastic you are the administrator and account owner - you get to see everything. Fear not, your staff members will see less of the confidential/ private information.
Admin users:
Administrators can see everything, do everything. This includes:
- Setup of the system
- Adding and amending billing
- View / approve/ decline pending leave requests for any employee, and deleting historical time off.
- Seeing all employee's annual leave
- Booking and cancelling annual leave for employees or departments
Typically a company will have one or two admin users, some larger accounts (in excess of 100 employees) will have 3 or 4.
Account owners:
Admin users can also be given account ownership status. Account owners are the main contacts for billing and general account communications. For security, they're also the only ones who can cancel the company account.
Companies on the Business plan have one account owner and Pro accounts can have up to three.
Users:
A normal user has the following restrictions:
- They will not see the 'Settings' or 'Users' menu items
- Can't change their annual leave entitlement
- Can't cancel any bookings that are in the past - they can cancel their future bookings
- Can't see other employees annual allowances or summarised calendar information
Department managers and approvers:
A department manager or approver is someone nominated to approve leave for a given department or person. They can book and cancel leave on behalf of their employees. They don't get to see the Settings pages, but they do get to see how many days their employees have left.
Department managers can also see 'Users' from the main menu but their access is restricted to only those in their department.
Privacy modes:
You will also find an option for Privacy modes in SETTINGS > GENERAL.
With 'Leave types' switched to 'Hidden' the Leave type information is made private so that it's only viewable by:
- An employee's approver
- Their department manager
- Any admin user
So anyone can see that a given person is off work, but unless they are one of the above, they won't know WHY they are off.
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