Time Trackers, practical examples

Updated 6 months ago by Leigh Hutchens

Time Trackers can be used in several different ways, depending on your needs.

Earned vacation, depending on the length of employment

Employees earn 0.068493 holiday days per day of employment if they have been employed for less than 3 years.

From 3 years onward, they earn 0.082191 days per day of employment.

First off, a Time Tracker named Vacation is created under Account settings > Agreements > Time Trackers.

Secondly, a Time Tracker is created on the agreement template of the relevant employee under Account settings > Agreement templates > Time Trackers with the following settings:

  • Accrual driver: Every anniversary of the employment date (assuming that the employee has at least one active agreement throughout the entire employment period).
  • Factor level regulator: Years since employment began.
    • Factor level 0, adjustment factor 0.068493
    • Factor level 3, adjustment factor 0.082191

This Time Tracker will start counting up at 0.068493 per day for which the agreement is active until the employment time is greater than 3, at which point the factor will start to be counted up at 0.082191 per day for which the agreement is active. If the number of earned days is to be influenced by the employment level, e.g. if an employee working on a 50% part-time basis is to earn half as many vacation days, you must check Multiply accrual factor by employment rate.

Flextime balance reset every month

  • Linked to a Time Tracker for Flextime.
  • Accrual driver: Every month after the specified date in the agreement's start year.
  • Operator: Set to new value - 0 
  • Accrual factor: 0

Add new vacation days and carry-over saved days

  • Time tracker must be set to Balance as of: Next occurrence under Tables
  • Accrual driver: Every year after specified date in the agreement's start year
  • Specified date: 01-01 (1 January)
  • Operator: Set to new value
  • Keep up to: 5
  • Factor level  regulator: Years since employment began
  • Factor level = 0,  adjustment factor = 25
  • Uncheck Multiply adjustment factor by value from value adjuster

25 new holiday days on 1 January, save up to 5 days for 5 years

Set the Time Tracker under Account settings > Time Trackers as follows:

Create a periodized Time Tracker with the standard deduction order = Current year first, then the oldest.

This option periodized breaks up the balance per year, the default order indicates how many days are to be taken. In the example – the year's holiday days are cleared first, followed by the oldest year. 

Quinyx does not display 0 (zero) values from previous years in the Time card.

Create 3 Time Tracker associations in an agreement template

25 new days every year

Carry-over up to 5 days

Reset saved holiday after 5 years

Holiday, reduction for Saturdays

A value adjuster makes it possible to reduce the holiday balance for every holiday and with an option for Saturdays, even though there is no salary type outcome for this day.

This example is most common in Finland.
  • Time Tracker: Select which Time Tracker is to be updated.
  • Accrual driver: Select Each vacation leave day.
  • Operator: Select Add
  • Accrual factor:  Select 1 or -1, depending on whether you want to increase or decrease the balance.
  • Check the checkbox Reduce for Saturdays
This accrual adjuster deviates from others in that it is only applied if it is linked to the main agreement, and in that it looks at holidays taken regardless of the agreement to which the holiday is linked.

The accrual driver Every vacation leave day 

The accrual driver Every vacation leave day can control which day(s) during the leave should affect the Time Tracker value. This function is used mainly in Denmark.

It is possible to set whether Saturdays should reduce the Time Tracker value, regardless of whether or not shifts take place on a Saturday. 

However, you can also select which days should NOT reduce the Time Tracker value, regardless of whether or not shifts take place on a Saturday, by checking the box  "Do not accrue" on the following day counts and checking day(s). This setting is only available to the value adjuster Every vacation leave day.

In the example, the settings are defined so that days numbered 6 and 7 don't increase the Time Tracker value. This means that if a holiday period is set for one week and begins on Wednesday, the value will be adjusted for the first 5 days (Wednesday to Sunday), but not the last 2 (Monday, Tuesday). If the time off in the example above was for 3 weeks, it would continue to calculate on Wednesday and Sunday (but not Monday, Tuesday) for weeks 2 and 3 as well.

The accrual driver uses the same day numbering logic set for the reason for leave. If the leave is set only to calculate scheduled days, the accrual driver's day numbering will also be calculated on the basis of these.

Pre-check vacation leave

It is possible to do an automatic check if an employee has enough vacation days to apply for before the absence request is sent to the manager.

Example:

  • Our example employee has 15 days of vacation balance left
  • The employee creates an absence request for 4 weeks of vacation (with 5 scheduled shifts per week)
  • When employee saves the absence request, the system automatically checks the balance and if the balance is insufficient the request will be denied.

This possibility is based on the Time Tracker functionality and the possibility of associating a Time Tracker with an agreement template. In order to set up a Time Tracker association, you first need to have or create a Time Tracker. Creating and editing Time Trackers is done under Account Settings > Agreements > Time trackers.

In the above example the Time Tracker is named VAC - Vacation and the values for min/max is set to 0 and 30.

To associate the Time Tracker to an agreement template, go into Account settings > Agreement templates > [Desired agreement template] > Time Trackers > Add.

  • Choose the Time Tracker that should be affected: (VAC - Vacation)
  • What should be the accrual driver (reason) for the change of the Time Tracker: Each vacation leave day
  • What should happen when there is a vacation leave day (operator): Add
  • What amount should be applied (factor level regulator): -1
If you are using this accrual method to pre-check a vacation absence, it is very important that the salary types that are attached in the absence panel are not deducting from the Time Tracker balance.

This must be removed on all salary types attached to the absence. Both on the agreement template and global salary types.

"Dutch vacation" configuration

Time Tracker "Dutch configuration"

We have made many improvements and updates to the possibilities of configuring Quinyx in regards to Statutory and Non-statutory vacation hours for the Netherlands.

There is so much information that we have decided to create a new article just for that configuration and logic. You can find that article here.

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