How digital time tracking works
From the tap to the figure in the payroll run: what actually happens between a clock-in and the month-end close — and the four points at which a business decides how the result looks.
ReadGuides
Explained before you have to decide
Anyone recording working time digitally for the first time trips over the same three or four terms. Here they are written out — with what follows from them in daily use, and without having to request a quotation first.
- Written for businesses, not for search engines
- Each guide answers one question completely
- With pointers to the place in the program where it becomes visible
Topics
What we have written out so far
Three guides, and none of them repeats what a product page already says.
Target time, actual time and the time account
Three terms that most queries turn on. What they mean, how the balance arises from them, and what happens to it at the turn of the month.
ReadVocational school in the roster and the time account
School days, block weeks and school holidays are part of the training year — and of the planning. How they are stored once and what happens to the daily target and the balance afterwards.
ReadMore detail elsewhere
These topics have a page of their own
For some questions a guide would be the shorter answer. The longer one is over there.
Shift work and the roster
Creating shifts, spreading them across the monthly grid, a rhythm for rolling duties — and how the time tracking recognises the shift actually worked: shift planning.
Night, Sunday and public holiday premiums
Entitlement windows, rates, payment or a credit to the time account, and the wage type for the export: premiums.
Data protection and the works council
What is collected, who sees it, what is subject to co-determination: data protection and co-determination.
The duty to record
Where the duty comes from, what the Federal Labour Court decided and what follows from it: the legal position.
Tablet, terminal and DATEV
The tablet as a PIN terminal and the route to the payroll office including the wage type mapping.
Leave requests and absences
Planned graphically, approved digitally, with a leave account showing the entitlement history: leave and absences.