Question 1

Is time tracking required for salaried employees in Saudi Arabia?

Accepted Answer

The labor law requires employers to keep attendance records at the workplace and sets working hours at 8 per day or 48 per week, with 6 hours per day in Ramadan for Muslim employees and overtime paid at the hourly wage plus half the basic rate. Timesheets are not mandated by law, but they are the record that justifies overtime, supports time and materials invoices and shows where salaried hours actually go.

Question 2

Can Odoo invoice timesheet hours with VAT?

Accepted Answer

Yes. When a service product on the sales order is set to invoice based on timesheets, approved hours flow to the invoice at the agreed rate with 15% VAT applied. Because the customer is a business, the invoice is a standard tax invoice that clears through ZATCA before it is sent, and the timesheet report can be attached for the client's finance team. Naqlah configures the billing policy per service.

Question 3

Can attendance records create timesheets?

Accepted Answer

Yes. For teams that punch in at a biometric device or the kiosk, Odoo can generate timesheet lines from attendance so technicians and site staff do not log twice. The generated hours are assigned to a default project or adjusted by the employee to the right task, then approved by the manager. Naqlah sets this up per team so office consultants use the timer while site crews use attendance.

Question 4

Do managers approve hours before billing?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Timesheets are submitted weekly and the project manager approves them or sends lines back with a comment. Only approved hours are counted on the sales order for invoicing and in the project cost report, so a client never receives an invoice for hours nobody reviewed. Reminders prompt employees who have not submitted and managers who have not approved, which keeps month end billing on schedule.

Question 5

Does the mobile app work offline and in Arabic?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The Odoo mobile app runs in Arabic with a right to left layout, and the timer keeps running and stores entries when a technician is at a site or a client office without coverage, syncing when the connection returns. Task names, project names and approval notifications appear in the language each user selects, so site staff work in Arabic while the project office reviews in English.

Question 6

Do we need Project to use Timesheets?

Accepted Answer

Timesheets is built on Project, since every hour is logged against a task in a project, and installing Timesheets brings Project with it. That is an advantage rather than a cost: tasks, deadlines and the analytic account for cost tracking come from the same place. Naqlah typically installs both together with Sales in the first phase for services firms so that quotation, delivery and invoicing run on one record.

Area	Before	With Odoo via Naqlah
Capture	Hours reconstructed in Excel at the end of the week	Timer and mobile app daily, offline on site
Approval	None, or a manager's signature on paper	Manager approval before any hour is billed
Invoicing	Estimated from memory or a flat figure	From approved hours with VAT, cleared through ZATCA
Profitability	Unknown until the year closes	Cost against billed per project in real time
Attendance	Separate device export for payroll	One source feeding timesheets and payroll
Client disputes	No backing for the hours on the invoice	Timesheet report attached to the invoice

Odoo Timesheets

What this module handles

Built for how business runs in Saudi Arabia

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