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The Time Clock’s Today Tab

Easily manage employees in real-time all from one place

Shoshana Fleischmann avatar
Written by Shoshana Fleischmann
Updated over 4 months ago

The Time Clock was designed to allow you to easily track the work hours of your team and to make payroll a breeze! Inside the time clock, the today tab is where you can oversee your daily operations. You can see who’s clocked in and to what job, communicate with your employees, or see where they are on the map view.

In this article, we will go over:

Now, Let’s take a look at all you can do in the today tab below.

Where Can I Find My Today Tab?

To find your Today Tab, navigate to the Time Clock on the left sidebar. When accessing your time clock, you will automatically be brought to the Today tab. Take a look at how this looks below:

GIF of Today tab in the Time Clock on Connecteam's admin dashboard

What Can I See in the Today Tab?

The Today tab allows admins to see a variety of things. Let's go over these below!

  • Who worked or is clocked in: The Today tab automatically shows admins who worked that day. You can see if a user is clocked in, has finished their shift, and clocked out. You will even be able to see employees who worked an overnight shift.

    In the example below, you can see that Bryan is currently clocked in, Rebecca worked from 10 am to 5 pm, and Wendy worked an overnight shift. In the Today tab, overnight shifts are marked by a link symbol and automatically start at 12:00 am and end when the user clocks out. When hovering over

    Screenshot of clocked in employees in the Time Clock on Connecteam's admin dashboard
  • What job they are clocked in to - each person who clocked in needed to clock in to a certain job. In the Today Tab, the job will be displayed next to the user's name. In the example below we can see that Rebecca clocked into the job of "Manager" and Carl to "Cook". Each user has a job next to their name.

    Screenshot of jobs employees are clocked into in the Time Clock on Connecteam's admin dashboard
  • Where they clocked in and out - If you want to see the user's clock-in/clock-out location without using the Map view, you can easily do this by hovering over their clock-in or clock-out time. In the example below, I hover over Mary's clock-in time, and I can see exactly where she clocked in and out.

    Screenshot of where employees clocked in and out in the Time Clock on Connecteam's admin dashboard

💡Tip: You can customize the columns displayed on the Today tab. To do so, click on the columns icon on the far right and adjust by adding or removing the ones you wish to be shown. For example, when customizing the columns in the Today tab, you can see all the existing shift layers you have in all your job schedulers and add them to the view if you'd like. 

  • The Map View - By scrolling down in the Today tab, we come to the map view. If you have enabled the Geolocation to capture your employee clock in/our location, or the Breadcrumbs capability to capture your employee's location on the go, then the map view gives you an overview of where your users clocked in/out or went while clocked in.

Screenshot of the map view in the Time Clock on Connecteam's admin dashboard

💡Tip: The map view can be filtered to view the clock in or our location only, all-day activity, or to view location only for the specific jobs you set when you created your jobs. Take a look at the different filters below.

Screenshot of filters in the Time Clock on Connecteam's admin dashboard
  • The Activity View - The activity view gives you all the activity that happened today, from clocking in and out to shift approvals. Take a look at how this looks below.

Screenshot of activity view in the Time Clock on Connecteam's admin dashboard

Please note: The Today tab is only available for admins. Regular users cannot view this tab or any information within it. This means that only admins can see which users are currently clocked in or have clocked in today; regular users do not have access to this information.

What Actions Can I Take to Manage My Employees While in the Today Tab?

One main advantage of the Time Clock’s Today Tab is that it lets you take action to manage your daily operations right then and there. Have a question for a clocked-in employee? Well, you can start a chat with them, and if have a user who forgot to clock then you can add their shift. It can all be done with today's Actions tab.

Whenever you select a user or multiple users, the Action tab will appear.

Screenshot actions tab in the Time Clock on Connecteam's admin dashboard

Now, let's go over all the actions below

  • Add Shift - This allows you to add a shift to your selected user. It can be incredibly helpful if your user forgets to clock in.

  • Send a Chat Message - If you want to send a message to a few users, simply select their names, select "Send a Chat Message" from the Actions Tab, and write your message. Each user will receive an individual message.

  • Create Team Chat from Selected - If you have selected multiple users, you can create a team chat with them. Perhaps you want to create a team chat containing only the users who are clocked in each day. The Today tab is the place to do that!

  • Create a Task for Selected - Sometimes, there are last-minute tasks that need to be done right here and now. With the "Create a Task for Selected" option, there is no need to navigate to the Quick Task feature and create a task. This action allows you to select users who are clocked in and assign them the task from the Today Tab.

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