Buddy Punch

View a complete overview of permissions for administrators, managers, and employees to understand what each role can access and do.

Buddy Punch Roles & Permissions Overview

Learn about the role of Administrators in Buddy Punch, including their permissions to view or edit a subset of employees.

Administrators: What are they and how do they work?

Learn about the role of managers in Buddy Punch, including their permissions to view or edit a subset of employees.

Managers: What are they and how do they work?

Learn the key differences between managers and administrators, including what features each role can access and manage.

What's the Difference Between Managers and Administrators?

Learn how to create and manage system users. 

User Management

Step-by-step instructions on how to add new employees to your Buddy Punch account, including character limits and additional resources.

How to Add New Employees

Step-by-step instructions covering how to upgrade an employee to manager and give them permissions over a subset of workers.

How to Create a Manager

Step-by-step instructions on how to add salaried workers to your Buddy Punch account, including entering their salary.

How to Add Salaried Workers

Step-by-step instructions covering how to add new administrators to your Buddy Punch account.

How to Add New Administrators

Guidance on how administrators can track their own time in Buddy Punch by using an employee account.

How Can Administrators Track Time?

Step-by-step instructions on how to resend the Welcome 
Email as an Administrator from the Buddy Punch website.

How to Resend the Welcome Email

Example of a welcome email for new Buddy Punch users, detailing login information and support options.

Welcome Email Example

How to Add Users

How to View Manager Employee Assignments

Step-by-step instructions covering how Administrators can change an employee's and managers' usernames from the Buddy Punch website.

How to Change an Employee or Manager Username

Step-by-step instructions covering how Administrators can change an employee's and managers' email from the Buddy Punch website.

How to Change an Employee or Manager Email

Step-by-step instructions covering how Administrators can change an employee's and managers' passwords from the Buddy Punch website.

How to Change an Employee or Manager Password

Step-by-step instructions on how to set time zones on a per-employee basis

How To Set Time Zones On A Per-Employee Basis

Here we'll explain how to create a "group" of people.

How to Create Groups of People to Select in Buddy Punch

Step-by-step instructions covering how Administrators can add or edit hourly pay rates from the Buddy Punch website.

How to Add or Edit Hourly Pay Rates

How to View or Update User Information

When you deactivate an employee, they can't login.

How to Deactivate Terminated Staff

Step-by-step instructions on how to remove or deactivate an administrator from a Buddy Punch account.

How to Remove or Deactivate an Administrator

Step-by-step instructions on how to activate or deactivate employees or managers as an Administrator from the Buddy Punch website.

How to Activate or Deactivate Employees or Managers

Step-by-step instructions on how to delete a Buddy Punch user as an Administrator from the Buddy Punch website.

How to Delete an Employee, Manager, or Administrator

How to Deactivate Users

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