Timesheet Statuses

A timesheet is always in one of three states:

Draft: Yours to edit. Nobody else is waiting on it.

Submitted: Locked and waiting for an approver. You can't change it while it's here — ask for an unlock if you need to.

Approved: Verified by an approver and ready for payroll and billing.

What happens when an approver rejects

There is no separate "rejected" status. Rejecting a timesheet returns it to Draft so you can fix and resubmit it — the point is to hand it back to you, not to park it in a dead end.

The rejection is still on the record: the approver's name, the time, and the reason they gave are all kept on the timesheet, and you'll see the reason on the timesheet detail page. So a sheet sitting in Draft with a rejection reason means "changes requested", not "never submitted".