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Dashboard &gt; Company Settings &gt; Modules Tab &gt; Time Tab

This section focuses on overall time configuration, ensuring accurate recording and management of labor hours.

What are the Sections to find in Settings—Time?

1. In this section, you can configure the duration and frequency of payroll periods. You can set 
 1. Week Start - This allows you to specify which day marks the beginning of the payroll period. For instance, if you choose Monday, then each new payroll cycle will start on a Monday.
 2. Payroll Period - This determines how long each payroll cycle lasts. For example, if you choose a weekly period, employees will receive paychecks every week.
 3. Recent Payroll Date

- In this section you will fin the

1. Screens Settings
 - Submit Status
 - Duration Only Workflow
 - Default Start Time for Manual Entries
 - Default Duration Labour
 - Default Duration Equipment
 - Default Project Geo-fence Radius
 - Prevent users Check-in Time (mobile) before
 - User/Equipment Relation Workflow
 
2. Field requirements
 - Equipment Operator
 - Equipment
 - Cost Codes
 - Work Type
 - Time Type
 - Check-in Time (mobile)
 - Check-out Time (mobile)
 - Validation - You may disable or enable your workers from creating future time entries.
 - Week Settings
 - Custom Cost Type Codes - Customize your cost type codes depending on what kind of accounting software your company uses.
 
3. Validations
 - Allow Future Time Entries
 - Disable Checkin Outside Geo-fence
 - Disable Checkout Outside Geo-fence
 - Prevent users Check-in Time (mobile) before

Create an automated workflow and allow our system to adjust and deduct necessary items to make time calculation easy.

- Time Rounding- Enable time rounding here. Round off the check-in or checkout time to a round number. Pick the required duration and whether you want to round up or down.
- <a href="https://help.sitemaxsystems.com/en/articles/5608209-time-center-lunch-deduction-settings">Lunch Deduction Settings</a> - Automatically deduct time after a certain period. See the article for more information.
- Time Types Create specific time types, such as Double Time, Regular Time, Time and a Half, Overtime, etc., and set specific codes for each of the time types.
- <a href="https://help.sitemaxsystems.com/en/articles/5594180-time-center-overtime-rules">Overtime Rules</a> - If certain conditions are met, the overtime rule will apply. See the article on overtime rules for more information.

- Work Types - A work type is like a description or category of work you are doing. Multiple work types could be applied to the same user if they are doing various different tasks or activities. An example of a work type would be "Trenching".
- Custom Fields - Create custom fields for your workers to fill out as they create time entries. These fields would generally be very company-specific.

1. Payable Item
2. Billable Item
3. Overhead cost 
 
 by combining a Time type, Classification, Work type, and Cost Code together. Once time is added to the conditions you have set, our system will automatically classify these items.

1. Payroll Period Settings
 1. In this section, you can configure the duration and frequency of payroll periods. You can set 
 1. Week Start - This allows you to specify which day marks the beginning of the payroll period. For instance, if you choose Monday, then each new payroll cycle will start on a Monday.
 2. Payroll Period - This determines how long each payroll cycle lasts. For example, if you choose a weekly period, employees will receive paychecks every week.
 3. Recent Payroll Date 
 
 
 
2. General Settings 
 - In this section you will fin the
 1. Screens Settings
 - Submit Status
 - Duration Only Workflow
 - Default Start Time for Manual Entries
 - Default Duration Labour
 - Default Duration Equipment
 - Default Project Geo-fence Radius
 - Prevent users Check-in Time (mobile) before
 - User/Equipment Relation Workflow
 
 2. Field requirements
 - Equipment Operator
 - Equipment
 - Cost Codes
 - Work Type
 - Time Type
 - Check-in Time (mobile)
 - Check-out Time (mobile)
 - Validation - You may disable or enable your workers from creating future time entries.
 - Week Settings
 - Custom Cost Type Codes - Customize your cost type codes depending on what kind of accounting software your company uses.
 
 3. Validations
 - Allow Future Time Entries
 - Disable Checkin Outside Geo-fence
 - Disable Checkout Outside Geo-fence
 - Prevent users Check-in Time (mobile) before
 
3. Time Configuration
 Create an automated workflow and allow our system to adjust and deduct necessary items to make time calculation easy.
 
 
 
 - Time Rounding- Enable time rounding here. Round off the check-in or checkout time to a round number. Pick the required duration and whether you want to round up or down.
 - <a href="https://help.sitemaxsystems.com/en/articles/5608209-time-center-lunch-deduction-settings">Lunch Deduction Settings</a> - Automatically deduct time after a certain period. See the article for more information.
 - Time Types Create specific time types, such as Double Time, Regular Time, Time and a Half, Overtime, etc., and set specific codes for each of the time types.
 - <a href="https://help.sitemaxsystems.com/en/articles/5594180-time-center-overtime-rules">Overtime Rules</a> - If certain conditions are met, the overtime rule will apply. See the article on overtime rules for more information.
 
4. Customization
 - Work Types - A work type is like a description or category of work you are doing. Multiple work types could be applied to the same user if they are doing various different tasks or activities. An example of a work type would be "Trenching".
 - Custom Fields - Create custom fields for your workers to fill out as they create time entries. These fields would generally be very company-specific.
 
5. Financial Calculations 
 - Customize what you consider a: 
 1. Payable Item
 2. Billable Item
 3. Overhead cost 
 
 by combining a Time type, Classification, Work type, and Cost Code together. Once time is added to the conditions you have set, our system will automatically classify these items.