Time bumping

Time Bumping configurations

All time bumping rules are managed in the Billings Data Library menu. Configurations are at the organizational level which can be reused across multiple sites.

You can add new configurations, copy and paste existing configurations, and set configurations as inactive.

Key Configuration Elements

Each configuration includes the following:

Title	Action / Description
Name and Description	Provide a name and code for the configuration so you can easily identify and reuse it.
Calendar	Select a calendar that determines how holidays are handled. You can use the default Canada calendar or create custom calendars for different countries or provinces.
Daily Maximums	You can define how many hours fall into each category per day: Max Daily ST- for example, 8 hours. Max Daily OT- for example, 2 hours. Max Daily DT- Any remaining hours after ST or OT Max Daily DTH – Any remaining hours after DT. If the rules defined for ST, OT, and DT do not handle additional hours defined, all hours that do not fit the thresholds defined in ST, OT and DT will be placed in the DTH hours bucket.
Weekly Straight-Time Threshold	Defines how many straight-time hours are allowed per week when no stat holiday exists. 40 hours for example.
Weekly Straight-Time threshold (Stat week)	If a statutory holiday exists during the week, you can lower the weekly straight-time cap from 40 to 32 hours for example.
Optional Weekly OT/DT Thresholds	You can set weekly caps for overtime and double time. Although these are rarely used, these options are available if your business rules require them.

Title

Action / Description

Name and Description

Provide a name and code for the configuration so you can easily identify and reuse it.

Calendar

Select a calendar that determines how holidays are handled. You can use the default Canada calendar or create custom calendars for different countries or provinces.

Daily Maximums

You can define how many hours fall into each category per day:

Max Daily ST- for example, 8 hours.

Max Daily OT- for example, 2 hours.

Max Daily DT- Any remaining hours after ST or OT

Max Daily DTH – Any remaining hours after DT. If the rules defined for ST, OT, and DT do not handle additional hours defined, all hours that do not fit the thresholds defined in ST, OT and DT will be placed in the DTH hours bucket.

Weekly Straight-Time Threshold

Defines how many straight-time hours are allowed per week when no stat holiday exists. 40 hours for example.

Weekly Straight-Time threshold (Stat week)

If a statutory holiday exists during the week, you can lower the weekly straight-time cap from 40 to 32 hours for example.

Optional Weekly OT/DT Thresholds

You can set weekly caps for overtime and double time. Although these are rarely used, these options are available if your business rules require them.

Project (Site) Setup

Time bumping is not automatic; it must be enabled at the project level. Sites are project specific and connect directly to Billings.

In the sites Time Bumping tab, you can:

Enable time bumping for the project

Set the week start date

Select the default time bumping configuration

Personnel Types and Exceptions

Personnel types come from your organization-wide configurations in Suite Administration. They are part of each resource profile and determine which time bumping rule applies to that person.

When you enable time bumping at the site level, you can set exceptions by personnel type. For each personnel type, you can either exclude them from time bumping or assign a different configuration than the project default. For example, if someone is tagged as an employee in their resource profile, their hours follow the configuration assigned to the employee personnel type.

If salaried employees shouldn't be bumped, you can set the employee personnel type to no time bumping.

Apply time bumping

Go to Project administration >Sites.
Chose the Site and select the Time Bump tab.
Select the Enable time bumping option
Select the start day of the week
Select the time bumping configuration from the drop-down
Click Ok or Apply

Create new Process for Time Bumping

Time bumping is not automatic. You must request it after making sure timesheet hours already exist in Billings for the target week.

Go to Process>Adjustments >Time bump.
Select the Create Process option.
Select the project.
Select the start date (This determines the Sunday-Saturday week range).
Add a description.
Select Submit.

After the request is submitted, the system applies the configured rules to all timesheets for that week.

If changes to timesheets have occurred after the process was originally generated, a new process can be generated to correct timesheets and can be ran as many times as required to update hours as changes are made.