# Hours approval

In Project Flow by Moment, you can configure the system so that project owners are responsible for approving the hours of their project team members, or a designated supervisor assigned as the HR Timesheet Approver.

**Set up:**

In [General - Moment](https://app.moment.team/cloudware/settings/preferences/general) select which role will approve time records.\
The options are:

·    **Project owner**

·      **HR Timesheet approver**

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When the selection is saved, you will be forwarded to the travel & expense settings to complete your setup.\
[Settings - Moment](https://app.moment.team/cloudware/settings/travel/preferences)

If you enable **use time record approval**, every time a co-worker logs in hours, the project-owner will receive a notification in the top righ corner in Project Flow (by clicking on the bell icon)

**HR Timesheet approver:**&#x20;

Assign an approver on the resource:

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**Project Owner:**

Designate a project member as the project owner in the project.

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**Approving hours:**

[Hours approval - Moment](https://app.moment.team/cloudware/projects/timeRecordsApproving)

Go to Projects -> Hours approval

Approvers will have access to approve time records for:

* Resources for whom they have HR responsibility
* Resources within projects where they are the Project Owner.

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**Exceptions:**

Administrators and Economy roles will have access to approve all hours from the Finances -> To be invoiced.

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**Change in function 11/2025:**

·       Removed possibility of approving hours from My pages -> Project management

·       Removed “Approve selected hours” from Project -> Hours report


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