Is manager a Clockspot role?

No. Clockspot roles are Employee, Admin, and Owner. Help uses manager for the person at your company who reviews time, edit requests, or time off.

Why does help say time off instead of PTO?

Time off is the broader Clockspot term for time away. A time off type can be paid or unpaid, so PTO — paid time off — is only one kind of time off.

No. A time entry is one recorded span of time. A timesheet is the set of entries for one employee and period that can be submitted and approved.

Plain-language definitions for the terms Clockspot uses across help, reports, and setup.

Use this page when a help page uses a Clockspot term that is close to an everyday word but has a specific product meaning.

Employee - the default role. Employees clock in and out, see their own time, request time off, and manage their own profile and notifications.
Admin - a workspace manager in Clockspot. Admins manage employees, time entries, approvals, edit requests, reports, jobs, kiosks, clock locations, time off setup, and workspace settings.
Owner - the one person with full workspace control. The owner can do everything an admin can do, plus billing, API keys, role changes, and employee removal.
Manager - the person at your company who reviews time, edit requests, or time off. Manager is ordinary help wording, not a separate Clockspot role; in Clockspot permissions, that person needs admin or owner access.

Clock-in / clock-out - the action an employee takes at the start or end of work.
Time entry - one recorded span of time, usually from a clock-in to a clock-out. It can include a job, note, custom fields, and clock-location details.
Timesheet - the time entries for one employee in a period. Employees submit timesheets; admins approve, reject, or reopen them.
Approval - the manager review decision on a submitted timesheet. Approved timesheets are locked until an admin reopens them.
Edit request - an employee's request to change an existing time entry. The manager approves or rejects it.

Job - a project, client, cost code, department, or other label employees attach to time entries.
Assigned to - the job setting that controls who sees a job in their clock-in picker. A job can be available to everyone or limited to chosen employees.
Clock location - a saved GPS area, IP address, or device that Clockspot can match against clock-in and clock-out events. If warnings are enabled, unmatched entries are flagged for manager review.
Kiosk - a shared device employees use to clock in with a personal PIN.
Phone clocking - clocking in or out by calling a workspace phone number and entering a phone clock ID and PIN.

Time off - time away from work tracked in Clockspot, paid or unpaid. Clockspot uses "time off" rather than "PTO" because a time off type can be either.
Time Off - the employee page for checking time off balances and requesting time off.
Time off type - a category such as vacation or sick time. Each time off type can have its own paid setting, accrual rule, and balance limits.
Accrual - time off that is added to a balance by a rule, such as annually, per pay period, or based on hours worked.
Time off ledger - the list of accruals, usage, and adjustments that explain a time off balance.

Payroll-ready - reviewed hours and pay-related report data that you can export or copy for your payroll process. Clockspot does not submit payroll for you.
Regular hours - worked hours that are not counted as overtime under your workspace's overtime rules.
Overtime - worked hours that pass the overtime thresholds configured in Time Tracking Settings.
Paid time off / unpaid time off - time off hours grouped by whether the time off type is marked Paid.