Time cards

Payday is Friday and you want to know what Tuesday actually cost. Apps → Time clock opens the table: one row per shift, newest first, everybody in the salon.

Reading a row

Six columns, and the last two are the ones people ask about.

Clock-in and Clock-out are wall-clock times on your salon's own device. A row still running says In progress instead of a clock-out.

Paid hours is the part that reaches pay. For an ordinary shift it's simply the elapsed time. For a stretch tagged with an unpaid task it's 0 hr — the time is recorded, and it pays nothing. For a card that's still open it's a dash, because a shift with no end has no length yet.

Status answers one question: did a person type this, or did the clock record it?

• — — punched at the kiosk. Nobody's judgement was involved, so there's nothing to approve.
• Pending — added or edited by hand and not yet signed off.
• Approved — a manager has looked at it.
• Rejected — a manager has said no. This is the only status that stops the hours counting.

Narrowing it down

Four filters sit above the table, and they combine.

Fifty rows load at a time with Load more underneath. A salon of ten people generates several hundred cards a month, so filtering first is faster than scrolling.

Paid time and unpaid time

The difference between hours elapsed and hours paid is one setting, and it lives under Task types.

A task type is a label with a Pay flag. Mark Lunch unpaid and every stretch tagged Lunch records the minutes and contributes zero. Mark Training and Admin paid and they count like ordinary floor time.

Clocking in with no task at all is paid — that's the default and it's what most punches are. So the list only needs to hold the exceptions, and three entries is a perfectly finished setup.

Breaks work through the same mechanism. There's no separate break tracker to learn: an unpaid task type already does the job, and adding a second concept would only give you two places to look when the numbers disagree.