Your staff clock in and out on your Owner POS or tablet. Each shift becomes a timesheet that you can review and export for payroll from your Owner Dashboard or the Owner App.
Requirements
Owner POS or Owner tablet.
The Manage store settings permission to turn the time clock on (Admin or Manager by default). See How staff and permissions work in Owner.
Staff who clock in need a job with the Use time clock permission (Admin, Manager, and Employee by default).
How hours and pay work
Turn on the time clock for your location.
Staff clock in and out on your POS or tablet. They need a job with Use time clock. See How staff and permissions work in Owner.
If someone forgets to clock in or out, fix their timesheet. See Add or edit a timesheet.
Review hours and export pay for payroll. See Review and export staff pay.
Turn on the time clock
The time clock is set for the whole location. Turn it on once, from your Owner Dashboard or from any POS or tablet, and it's on for every device at that location.
From your Owner Dashboard
Go to Settings › Location details.
Under Features, turn on Time Clocking.
From your POS or tablet
Go to Settings › Time clocking.
Turn on Enable time clocking.
ℹ️ Note: If you turn the time clock off later, the Log hours tab goes away and staff can't clock in at that location.
Choose which breaks staff can take
Paid breaks count toward paid hours. Unpaid breaks don't. Both are on by default, and you change them in your Owner Dashboard.
Go to Settings › Location details.
Under Features, turn Paid breaks or Unpaid breaks on or off.
Here's what staff see:
Both on: staff choose paid or unpaid when they start a break.
Only one on: staff get that type of break, with no choice to make.
Both off: staff see Breaks are disabled for this location. and can't start a break.
Require a passcode on a device (optional)
Turn this on so each staff member enters their own passcode before they use the POS or tablet. They then see only what their job allows.
On the POS or tablet, go to Settings › Station › Access.
Turn on Require Passcode.
Tap Save.
Clock in, take a break, and clock out
Staff use the Log hours tab on the lock screen of your POS or tablet, with their 4-digit passcode (PIN). Share these steps with your team.
Clock in
On the lock screen, tap Log hours.
Enter your passcode.
Tap Clock in.
If you have more than one job, select the job you're working, then tap Clock in.
Take a break
On the lock screen, tap Log hours and enter your passcode.
Tap Start break.
Tap Start paid break or Start unpaid break.
When your break is over, tap Log hours, enter your passcode, and tap End break.
Clock out
On the lock screen, tap Log hours and enter your passcode.
Tap Clock out.
Tap Clock out again to confirm.
ℹ️ Note: Staff can clock in only on your POS or tablet. The Owner App doesn't have a time clock.
Print a time slip (optional)
A time slip can print each time staff clock in or out. It's off by default, and the setting shows only after the time clock is on.
On the POS or tablet, go to Settings › Station › Printing.
Turn on Print time slips on clock in / clock out.