In Time Clock General settings, you can configure core timesheet and default settings that help you manage timesheets more easily. For example, you can define default work hours, timesheet format, pay rate visibility, timesheet rounding, and more.
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Please note: General settings apply to the entire Time Clock and affect every user assigned to that Time Clock.

Use Work Days to choose which days are active in your timesheets. If you toggle off a specific day, that day won’t appear on timesheets.

Please note: If a user requests an absence on a day that’s toggled off, it will be considered 0 hours.
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Use Work Hours to set default absence day hours. This helps keep absence entries consistent when admins or users add absences.
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Example: If you set 8 hours for a specific day, any absence added on that day will show a total of 8 hours.

Use Default Work Day Hours to define the default shift hours shown when creating a new shift (for both admins and users). This is helpful when your team typically works the same hours.

Example: If you set the default to 09:00–17:00, those hours will automatically appear when a user requests a shift or an admin adds a shift.

Use Daily Limit to get notified when users exceed a set time limit and are still clocked in after a certain number of hours.

Use Auto Clock Out to automatically clock users out after they reach a set number of working hours. This can help improve payroll accuracy and prevent time theft.

Use Scheduled vs Worked to display the difference between a user’s scheduled hours and the actual hours worked for a given day (across any job schedules they belong to). You can also highlight users who worked a certain number of minutes more or less than scheduled.

Learn more: Scheduled vs Worked.

Use Show Pay Rates to control who can view calculated pay in timesheets:

Please note: Users can only view their own pay, never other users’ pay. Pay rates can be viewed in timesheets from both the mobile app and the dashboard.
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Learn more: Set up Pay Rates

Use Timesheet Rounding to round shift start and end times to the nearest increment. When enabled, you can round to:

Important: Enabling rounding updates current and past timesheets.

Use Timesheet & Payroll Export Format to choose how time is displayed in timesheets and payroll exports:

Please note: This setting is account-wide, and every admin in the Time Clock will see the same display format in timesheets.

Let's explain a bit more about the difference between the two timesheet formats:

In Decimal format, time is displayed as a decimal number. For example, 9 hours and 30 minutes displays as 9.50 hours (because 30 minutes is 0.50 in decimal).

In most cases, payroll hours are reported in decimal hours so you can calculate pay by multiplying total hours by the pay rate.

In Hours & Minutes format, time is displayed the way you read it on a clock. For example, 9 hours and 30 minutes displays as 9:30.

Note: Don’t calculate totals using a calculator when time is displayed in Hours & Minutes format. For example, 1:15 is not 1.15—it’s 1.25 in decimal.

The Time Zone setting affects two things:

No. The Daily Limit you set in the Time Clock settings does not include unpaid breaks.
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Example: If your daily limit is 8 hours and a user worked 8:15, including a 15-minute unpaid rest break, the unpaid break will not be included in the total hours. In the timesheets, you’ll see the unpaid break total hours crossed out.

To set unpaid breaks, use the Breaks tab in your Time Clock settings. You can choose:

**Manual breaks are available from the Operations Basic plan and above, while Automatic breaks are available from the Operations Advanced plan and above**

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