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Step-by-step instructions on how to set up an automatic punch out based on an employee's schedule.

Automatic Punch Out Feature - Scheduling

Create a scheduled shift for your employees using our scheduling feature.

How Do I Create A Scheduled Shift?

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Instructions on how to setup and use scheduling/availability.

Scheduling

Step-by-step instructions on how to schedule employees who are in different time zones.

Schedule Employees In Different Time Zones

Step by step instructions on how to add, update or delete employee schedule information from the Buddy Punch mobile app.

Add, Update, Delete Schedules (App)

You can use the schedule log to see who made what changes to the schedule and when.

Using the Schedule Log

Here we'll explain how to change scheduling permissions for your employees and managers.

How do I change schedule view permissions?

Step by step instructions on how to delete or update a shift from the Buddy Punch website.

Updating or Deleting Shifts (Web)

If you want to add a note to a shift for your employee, you can do this from the schedule page.

How do I add notes to a shift?

By using the Template feature, you can create templated schedules for employees which can be applied to future shifts.

How to create, manage and apply a shift template.

Step by step instructions on how to repeat an employee's schedule.

Adding, Updating & Deleting Repeating Shifts

Step-by-step instructions on how to sync your schedule to Google Calendar, iCal, or Outlook.

Sync The Schedule to Google Calendar, iCal, or Outlook

You can change your schedule view by selecting the dropdown next to "View By:"

How do I change my schedule view?

Here we'll explain how you can quickly clear scheduling filters

How can I clear scheduling filters?

If you'd like to view more employees on the schedule page you can expand your view.

How can I view more employees on the schedule?

You can view your employees schedule shifts, whether current or in the future, directly from the scheduling page within the app.

As an Admin or Manager, how do I view my employees shifts on the app?

The schedule start day changes your calendar view.

What Is The Schedule Start Day?

You can clear shifts by using the "Clear Shifts" option found on the scheduling page.

How Do I Clear Shifts?

You can setup a time frame that determines if an employee is late or early for their shift in your account settings.

How to specify when an employee is considered late or early for a shift.

Easily view whether an employee was late, early or missed their shift by viewing their time card.

How can I tell if an employee was late, early or missed their shift?

When creating a shift, you will be able to assign it a specific color.

How do I assign a color to a shift?

Employees can use Buddy Punch to view their schedule on the app or a mobile device web browser.

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Manager's can publish and edit schedule shifts for employees that are assigned to them.

Can Manager's publish or edit schedules?

To see how many hours have been scheduled for a specific employee or all employees, you will need to visit the Schedule page.

How can I see how many hours have been scheduled?

Buddy Punch can be set up to notify employees when a scheduled shift is published.

How To Notify Employees Once Their Shift Is Published.

Easily sort your employees in the schedule view.

How do I sort my employees on the schedule?

You can view your schedule directly from your dashboard.

As an employee, how do I view my schedule?

Administrators and Managers can view their employees schedules on the Schedule page.

How can I view an employee's schedule as a Manager or Administrator?

You can print a shift schedule for you or your employees directly from the schedule page.

How do I print a shift schedule?

You can view notes associated with your shift by clicking the shift on the schedule page.

As an employee, how do I view notes associated with my shift?

If an employee doesn't have a schedule, you can allow them to select No Shift when punching in.

How do I allow employees to select “No Shift" when punching in?

If you need to delete a shift, you can do so from the schedule page.

How Do I Delete A Shift?

If you need to move a shift, you can do so by dragging and dropping.

How do I move a shift?

You can filter shift information on the schedule page.

How do I filter shifts?

Easily publish or unpublish a shift directly from the schedule page.

How Do I Publish Or Unpublish A Shift?

We'll go over our availability feature, how to set availability and how to use availability information when creating schedules.

What is availability and how do I set it?

Step by step instructions on how to add, update or delete employee availability from the Buddy Punch mobile app.

Adding/Updating/Deleting Availability (Mobile App)

Availability

Step-by-step instructions on how to set up the trade feature.

How to Setup Trades & Covers

Step-by-step instructions on how to initiate or reviewing trades and covers as an Administrator.