By default, TimeWellScheduled does NOT blocks employees from punching in early. Although the system will not add this time to their pay, it adds more work to approving timecards.
If you want to allow more time at ENTRY punch without employees being prompt, increase the department grace period to an appropriate amount of time before the shift starts. Here are the steps – change my grace periods.
You may want to enable early punch, for example you find employees being scheduled for 9AM, arriving at 8:30AM, punching in and sitting around 30 minutes to start their work. With this enabled, When an employee punches in before their scheduled start, they will receive a message that says
“You’re not scheduled to start until X:XX, the earliest you can clock in is Y:YY”.
X:XX = this is their shift start
Y:YY = this is the shift start – grace period
To enable this,
- Go to MANAGE MY BUSINESS
- Go to GENERAL SETTGINS
- On the punch tab, turn ON.
If you want to see this in action, watch the video here.
