---
title: Hour counters
description: Track overtime, night and weekend hours and time accounts; adjust, pay out or convert an hour balance.
url: "https://illizeo.com/en/centre-aide/attendance-hour-counters/"
updated: "2026-11-01"
category: "Attendance & Badging"
---

# Hour counters

Hour counters accumulate, month after month, each employee's special hours: overtime, night, weekend, public holidays, on-call, bridge days and time accounts. This article explains how they are fed, how to view them and how to adjust, pay out or convert a balance.

## Before you start

| Permission | Level | Roles supplied |
| --- | --- | --- |
| View time counters (balances) | Access | Administrator, HR Manager, Manager, Payroll Manager, Auditor |
| Adjust a time counter | Execute | Administrator, HR Manager, Payroll Manager |
| Pay out a time counter | Execute | Administrator, Payroll Manager |
| Convert a time counter | Execute | Administrator, HR Manager, Payroll Manager |
| View overtime | Access | All |

With the roles supplied, employees do not see the counters tab in their own timesheet: grant them "View time counters (balances)" if you want them to follow their balances.

## The counters

| Counter | What it accumulates |
| --- | --- |
| Overtime | Hours beyond the profile's threshold, with their surcharges. |
| Night hours | Hours within the profile's night brackets. |
| Saturday hours / Sunday hours | Hours worked on those days, if the profile tracks them. |
| Public holiday hours | Hours worked on a public holiday, or the compensation credit if the company compensates in time. |
| On-call | On-call periods (counted in periods, not hours). |
| Bridge-day compensation | The share set aside each planned day, minus non-working days. |
| Time account | The month's worked − owed balance, or progress towards the annual target. |
| Bonus time account | The time bonus earned in the ranges defined in the profile. |

Counters are recalculated when the month's timesheet is **approved**. Hours from months not yet approved are shown separately as "pending".

## Viewing the counters

1. Open the employee's profile, **Presence** tab, then the **Hour Counters** tab.
2. The banner recalls the active schedule, the overtime threshold and the night bracket.
3. Each card shows the balance, the month's movement and adjustments; **Show history** lists the operations (date, hours, comment, total).

Below the cards you may find, depending on the profile, the time account's annual target, the reduced day-rate plan, the bridge-day compensation details and hours by presence reason. Overtime, night and Saturday counters are also visible, with the conversion action only, in the counters tab of the Absences page.

![Hour Counters tab with one card per counter](https://i0.wp.com/illizeo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/attendance-hour-counters-01.en_.png?resize=800%2C500&quality=80&ssl=1)
An employee's hour counters

## Adjusting, paying out or converting a balance

1. On the counter's card, click **Adjust**, **Payment** or **Convert**.
2. Choose the **Month to process** (only approved months are offered).
3. Enter the **Number of hours**, or the **Adjustment (+ or -)** for an adjustment. The window shows the maximum and the remaining balance.
4. For a conversion, choose the **Target leave type**: hours are converted into days using the contract's daily time, or into hours according to the leave type's rule.
5. Give the reason (3 to 500 characters) and, for a payout, a **Payroll reference (optional)**.
6. Confirm with **Apply**, **Send request** or **Convert**.

If a circuit for counter operations is active in the workflows, the operation waits for approval; otherwise it applies immediately.

![Counter adjustment window: month, hours and reason](https://i0.wp.com/illizeo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/attendance-hour-counters-02.en_.png?resize=800%2C500&quality=80&ssl=1)
Adjusting a counter

## Good to know

- Nobody can adjust, pay out or convert their own counters.
- Payouts and conversions require an approved month; adjustments do not. No operation is possible on a period whose payroll is closed, nor while another operation is pending on the same counter.
- A payout sends **hours** to payroll, never an amount. It is only offered if counter payouts are open for the company and the counter is ticked in the profile's "Payable counters".
- **Convert** only appears if the Absences module is open; the employee must have a rule for the target leave type.
- Automatic payout schedules, fixed-date bounds and alerts before a bound are set in the attendance profile (Surcharges and Clock change and counter bounds sections).
- A pending operation stays visible in the history and cannot be cancelled from the screen.
- The message shown after a payout speaks of a request sent, even when the operation was applied directly.
- Paying out a leave balance belongs to the Absences module (leave balances), not to hour counters.

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