Creating a freelancer basically works the same way as creating an employee. Therefore, the detailed execution of the points already described under creating employees is omitted here.
Employees can be converted to freelancers and vice versa. After converting an employee into a freelancer or vice versa, a new statement period may need to be created, since these periods also store whether it is a freelancer or an employee, and this information cannot be updated during conversion (the statement account must always be traceable, even in the past).
A freelancer differs from an employee in that a freelancer can be billed after each job. Additionally, freelancers can enter their availabilities in the calendar.
¶ Freelancer availabilities
For freelancers, there are absence categories that can be stored under Administration > Time-off & Absence > Categories. By default, the system creates two categories (available and not available), which can be expanded and color-coded as desired.
Freelancers can record their presence and absence via an availability view (menu on the far left), where they only need to click on the corresponding days. This makes recording the periods simple and intuitive, and schedulers can then view the information in various calendar views and in the request dialog.