Track time

Every published shift gets a row on the timesheet for each person on it. Once the shift has ended, its hours are confirmed (recorded and signed off as correct) and then approved for payroll. Depending on your company’s mode, the person’s confirmation comes before a manager’s approval, a manager approves on their own, or Shiftavo records and approves the hours itself — see How confirmation and approval work.

The timesheet is the center of this category. Breaks are governed by break policies (configured elsewhere), and day-by-day attendance — late arrivals, missed clock-outs, no-shows — lives in the Attendance report.

Staff can clock in from their own phones, or from a shared tablet at each location if they don’t sign into Shiftavo on personal devices — see Kiosk. You decide which of the two is allowed, company-wide and per location, in How to choose where your team can clock in. And when someone forgets to clock out, Shiftavo asks them first and only closes the entry itself as a last resort — see What happens when someone forgets to clock out.

Note

The timesheet is primarily a manager surface: managers see every published shift in the locations they manage. Shift workers see only their own rows, where they can edit the clock times and confirm their hours — approving is always a manager’s job. A worker rarely needs the page at all: clocking out, on their phone or at the kiosk, is their confirmation, in every mode.