Settings for admins
Open the settings from your avatar → Administration → Apps → Hourseal → Settings tab. Only monday.com account admins can change them. Changes apply to the whole account right away.
General
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Week start | Monday or Sunday. Used by timesheets, reports and weekly locking. |
| Work days | Days shown as working days in the timesheet. |
| Daily norm | Expected hours per day, from 0 to 24. The timesheet highlights days below the norm. |
| Time format | 1:30 or 1.5 hours. |
| Rounding | Off, or 5, 6, 10, 15 or 30 minutes, rounded up or to the nearest step. Entries are stored exactly; rounding applies to what is shown, reported and exported. |
| Auto-stop | Stops a forgotten timer after 1 to 24 hours. The entry is marked as auto-stopped. |
| Required note | People must write a note for every entry. |
| Categories | Up to 100 categories, such as *Development* or *Meetings*. Archived categories stay in old entries and reports. |
| Billable | Shows a billable flag on entries, with the default you choose. |
| Custom fields | Up to 3 extra fields on each entry: free text or a list of options, optionally required. |
Access & boards
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Who sees others' time | Everyone, or only managers and admins. |
| Who edits others' time | Nobody, managers, or admins. By default people edit only their own time. |
| Managers | The people who count as managers in Hourseal. |
| Tracked boards | All boards, or only the boards you choose. |
| Total hours column | Per board: a number column that receives each item's total hours. |
| Estimate column | Per board: a number column with planned hours, used for estimate vs. actual in reports. |
These rules are checked on our server for every request, so they can't be bypassed from the browser.
What each role can do
| Member | Manager | Admin | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Log and edit own time | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| See others' time | If allowed | ✓ | ✓ |
| Edit others' time | — | If allowed | If allowed |
| Approve timesheets | — | If an approver | ✓ |
| Change settings | — | — | ✓ |
monday.com viewers can see time but not log it.
Periods & approval
Timesheet approval, manual and automatic locking, and reopening. See Approvals and period locking.
Email exports
Reports sent by email on a schedule. See Reports and exports.
Connect
The Connect button gives Hourseal permission to write totals into board columns, send monday.com notifications about approvals, and count seats. Time tracking works without it, but those features stay off. Hourseal stores the access token encrypted on monday.com's own infrastructure and never sends it to the browser.