The purpose of the Time Slips module is to record the amount of time you or your employees spend on activities.  These activities may not always be billable to clients but can be used for employee payroll or statistics purposes.

1. Create an internal customer record in the Receivables module by clicking on the Customers Icon. 
   1. Select to Create a New Customer. 
   2. You could create an internal customer by department (such as Human Resources, Shipping/ Receiving) or you may wish to create your employee as an internal customer. 
   3. Enter the name in the customer field and create as normal. 
   4. You must designate that this customer is internal only by putting a check mark in the Internal Customer box in the bottom left corner of the Address tab in the Customer Record.
      
      Note:  When you create an internal customer you are only able to select the customer in the Time and Billing module.  You will not be able to select this customer in the Sales Journal.  Also, because this is an internal record only you should consider turning off the Statement option for this customer in the options tab of the record.
      
2. Create an internal service record in the Inventory & Services Module by clicking on the Add Inventory & Services Icon. 
   1. First indicate that this is a service item being created by selecting the service radio button in the top right corner of the Inventory & Service Record. 
   2. Name the service (i.e. Data Entry, Manual Labour etc) in the Number field. 
   3. Then put a check mark in the box Activity [Time & Billing].  
   4. Also put a check mark in the Internal Service Activity box in the lower left hand corner of the Units tab.
   5. Enter the information in the Pricing and Linked tabs (* indicates required fields.)
   6. Click on the Time & Billing tab. 
   7. In the Unit of Measure field you can select hour or minute or each;  if you choose each put a check mark in the field Unit is related to time and define the relationship.
      
      Note: When you create an internal service the system defaults to Non-Billable because the purpose of the internal service is to track the time spent on an activity for statistics or payroll and not for billing to clients.  For this reason the fields Charges based on and the flat fee option are not able to be modified. 
      
   8. The last field to define in this tab is to select an account in the Default Payroll Income menu.
   9. The remaining tabs are optional for completion. 
   10. Click Save & Close when completed.
3. Enter in to Time Slips. 
4. Choose an Employee from the drop-down menu in that field.
5. In the Customer column choose the appropriate internal customer.  (There is the option to Create in this look up window.  You can complete step 1 here as well.)
6. In the Item column select the Internal Service Activity.
7. Enter the amount of time spent on this activity in the Actual Time Column.  (Time is recorded hh:mm:ss style.)
8. The total time is recorded in the bottom of the Time Slip and can be recalled for Payroll purposes. 
9. When the Time Slip is complete, click Record. 
10. If you wish to record other activities later you can do so by recalling the transaction and hitting the Adjust option from the tool bar as is standard in Sage 50 Accounting modules.