The reports for the module are available at several places in ZEP: under Reports > My Reports, Reports > Projects, Reports > Employees, and directly in the menu of individual employees.
My Reports
The following reports can be found under Reports > My Reports > Overtime & Absences.
Absences Overview
Summary of all your own recorded absences in a calendar view. Filter options: department (incl. sub-departments), period, absence reason category, absence reason, status, and employee.
Note: Which employees are visible depends on the permission level. The setting for this can be found in the Basic Settings Absences & Overtime.
Absence Requests
Listing of all submitted absence requests for an overview and tracking of the approval status. Filter options: department (incl. sub-departments), period, period reference (request period or absence period), status, and the option to display planned, non-requested absences.
Submitted absence requests can be changed, withdrawn, approved, or rejected directly via the pencil icon.
Month-End Report
Summary of your own working and absence hours for a specific period. The pre-set period is: until the 15th of the month, the previous month; from the 16th, the current month up to today. The pre-set period can be adjusted at any time.
The report shows per day: target hours, working hours, booked absence reasons, paid absence hours, flextime, under- and over-target, public holiday, public holiday surcharge, and special times. With an active break regulation, start, end, minimum break, observed break, rest period, and break violations are additionally displayed.
A brief explanation of the most important columns:
Target Hours: According to the employee's regular working time, taking public holidays into account.
Effective Hours: Working hours and paid absence (holiday, illness) and surcharge (special times), minus breaks not observed.
Working Hours: Actually worked hours; can be higher than the target hours when overtime is worked.
Booked Absence Reasons: All booked absence reasons per day, incl. planned (but not yet calculated) absences.
Paid Absence Hours: Calculated from absence reasons of the category “Paid Absence”.
Flextime: Minus hours for a booked flextime absence reason, incl. total.
Under & Over Target: Other minus and plus hours incl. total.
Public Holiday Work: Working hours on Sundays and public holidays, if applicable with time surcharge according to settings.
If the option “Show Payable Hours” is activated under Basic Settings Absences & Overtime, the column “Payable Hours” replaces the column “Effective Hours”.
Time Report with Absences
Detailed proof of hours worked including absences and public holidays, ideal for submission to the client. Public holidays and absences are displayed with the number of hours according to the regular working time. Hours recorded on a public holiday or on a day with absences are additionally shown.
Filter options: period, optionally with subtotals, legend, and signature block.
Administrators and department heads can also call up this report for individual employees: Employee > [Employee name] > Time Reports > Time Report with Absences.
Work Break Overview
Day-by-day listing of your own working hours with an evaluation of break compliance. Per day the following are displayed: start and end of working time, minimum break, observed break, missing break, and the net working time adjusted for the break deduction.
Note: This report is only visible if a break regulation is configured under Administration > Settings > Project Times.
Time Report Summary
Can be found under Reports > My Reports > Time Reports > Time Report Summary. Condensed summary of your own project hours for a selectable period, structured by projects and tasks. With overtime calculation activated, absences, effective hours, and overtime are additionally shown.
Time Report Detail
Can be found under Reports > My Reports > Time Reports > Time Report Detail. Individual listing of all your own project hours with date, start, end, hours, project, task, and remark. Filter options: period, projects, billability. Optionally daily totals or a breakdown by projects can be shown, and a signature block can be added.
Administrators and department heads can also call up this report for any employee: Reports > Employees > Time Reports > Time Report Detail.
Projects
Absences Overview
Can be found under Reports > Projects > Overtime & Absences > Absences Overview. Provides an overview of the holiday plan of project employees in order to identify bottlenecks during the project runtime at an early stage.
Filter options: department of the project (incl. sub-departments), period, absence reason category, absence reason, status, project, employee, and sorting.
Employees
The following reports can be found under Reports > Employees > Overtime & Absences and are reserved for administrators and controllers. With the Locations & Departments module, department heads can create these reports for their departments.
Absences Overview
Employee-oriented report of all absences. Filter options identical to the Absences Overview under “My Reports”, supplemented by cross-departmental filtering.
The employee's personnel number is displayed in the tooltip and exported in a separate column in the Excel export. The report can be output as preview, PDF, Excel (incl. optional monthly or annual overview), CSV, or as an automated background task with email dispatch. In addition, the Absences Overview can be subscribed to as an iCalendar.
Applications for leave
Lists all absence requests of all employees according to the set filter criteria. Functional scope identical to the Absence Requests report under “My Reports”.
Working Times Overview
Overview of the status of working hours of all employees. Filter options: department, period, employees with/without regular working time. Optionally you can restrict the display to employees who have not complied with their break regulation, an hour upper limit, or their core working hours.
If the option “Show Payable Hours” is activated under Basic Settings Absences & Overtime, an additional column “Payable Hours Balance” is displayed.
Resets
Can be found under Reports > Employees > Overtime & Absences > resets. Available in combination with the Revenue & Costs module.
Shows the residual holiday and overtime of an employee at the selected key date, multiplied by the internal hourly rate or the internal hourly rate for provisions.
Overtime: Overtime balance × internal hourly rate.
Residual Holiday: Residual holiday in days, converted to hours according to the regular working time valid at the key date, × internal hourly rate.
Note: Employees with the setting “Calculate and display overtime and time surcharges” = “No” always have an overtime balance of 0 and are not displayed if the holiday balance is also 0. The checkbox “Ignore minus hours per employee” is pre-selected so that minus hours of individual employees are not offset against overtime of others. The report is slower the longer ago the last closed month before the key date is.
Annual Absence Days
Shows all absence days per employee over a year. Filter options: period, absence reason category, department. Two breakdown options are available:
Breakdown by months: Employees as rows, months as columns.
Breakdown by absence reasons: Employees as rows, absence reasons as columns with the respective total of absences in days. When an absence reason category is selected, all absence reasons of the category are output as columns, including those without values.
The report can be scheduled as an automated background task and sent by email.
Month-End Report
Administrators, controllers, and (with the Locations & Departments module) department heads can create this report for any employees. Can also be found under Employee > [Employee name] > Overtime & Absences > Month-End Report. Functional scope identical to the Month-End Report under “My Reports”.
Work Break Overview
Can be found under Reports > Employees > Work Break Overview. Shows per employee and day: start, end, minimum break, observed break, missing break, and the adjusted net working time. Visible only when a break regulation is configured.
Employee Detail View
The following reports are available directly in the menu of an individual employee and are accessible to administrators.
Compensation Overtime and Holiday
Can be found under Employee > [Employee name] > Overtime & Absences > Compensation Overtime, Holiday. Here you can manually add or deduct overtime and holiday days – e.g. for payouts of overtime, compensation of minus hours, or when initially setting up ZEP with existing balances.
For each month the following are displayed: overtime worked, break regulation deductions, contractually compensated overtime, balanced and credited overtime, time surcharges, overtime balance, annual holiday, taken and balanced holiday days, residual holiday, and an optional remark.
Credited: The entered value is added to the overtime or holiday account.
Balanced: The entered value is subtracted from the overtime or holiday account (e.g. for payouts).
Note: Balanced and credited values always refer to the whole month, even if it does not lie entirely within the reporting period.
Annual Holiday
Provides an overview in the absence calendar under Absences & Appointments and under Employee > [Employee name] > Administration > Calendar of: residual holiday from the previous year, holiday entitlement, taken and balanced holiday days, residual holiday for the current year, planned absences, and – depending on the setting – the current overtime balance. Pending approvals can be approved or rejected directly here; the employee is notified by email.
Availability Level
Can be found under Reports > Employees > Overtime & Absences. Creates a report on the availability level of employees in a defined period, structured by months or weeks.
Without the module only the Employment Level is available here (ratio to full-time on a weekly basis). With the module three variants are available:
Availability Level: Calculates the average of all days in relation to full-time – not on a weekly basis but day-precise. If someone works Mon–Fri with 4 hours, the availability level is always 0.5.
Availability Level incl. unpaid absences: Takes unpaid absences such as parental leave or sabbatical into account. Corresponds most closely to FTE (Full Time Equivalent). Paid absences such as holiday or illness are not taken into account.
Availability Level incl. all absences: Corresponds to the actual availability in resource planning, taking all holidays, illness, etc. into account. Overtime is not taken into account.
Receiving Reports Automatically
Several reports of the module can be scheduled as an automated background task. To do this, select the desired file format instead of Preview in the dropdown menu and click Run in background. In the window that appears, set the frequency. The report is sent in the selected format and frequency to your email address. For immediate execution in the background an email is always generated, even if the result table is empty.
In addition, you can send the report to further email addresses (e.g. accounting, tax advisor), separated by comma or the separator configured under Administration > My Company > Email.











