Understanding Rounding Settings

In this video, I walk you through the rounding settings for tracked times and breaks in our time tracking system.

I explain that for team accounts, rounding options can be set by owners and managers, and these settings will apply to all employees. Individual account owners can also modify these settings.

Rounding won't retroactively modify past entries. I demonstrate how to round tracked times and clarify that manual entries won't be affected by these settings.

Additionally, I highlight that breaks shorter than one minute are automatically ignored. If you want to see how the rounding settings work, try tracking breaks longer than a minute.

Finally I show where you team account owner and managers can access these settings on the web app.

Video transcript:

0:00 All right, let's look at the rounding setting and how that stuff works. If you go into settings, uh, scroll down to the rounding section, you will see the rounding options.

0:11 And you can round, uh, tracked times or tracked breaks. I mean, that means stuff that's been tracked using the timer, so I'm clocking in and clocking out.

0:20 And, uh, if you have a team account, the owner and manager will have the same rounding options. The employees won't see this stuff, but if the owner or manager sets this up, it'll apply to everyone in the company.

0:36 So let's go ahead and see how it actually works. So I'm gonna go in round and say, all right, let me do I want to round this up to the nearest four hours, and, uh, let's see.

0:48 So if you look at my timesheets, it hasn't changed my existing, uh, entries. Rounding settings, they don't go retroactively modify your old stuff.

1:00 They don't apply to past entries. And if I also go in and add a manual entry, say I go from 9 to 143.

1:11 Let's change this up a little bit. Let's say we do from 9 to 1143. I save that, go into timesheets, it's saved.

1:20 As I entered it, so again, it does not apply to manual entries, but if I punch in and use the timer or clock in and use the timer to track my entries, that's when the sound, that's when the rounding settings will actually take effect.

1:36 so I'm just going to punch out. My actual entry was 11 seconds, but now it's been rounded to four hours.

1:43 The end time has been modified to match my rounding sentence. This same thing applies with the breaks. If I had a break here, if I go into the settings and I set my rounding settings to 30 minutes.

1:57 If I manually add a break, it's not making any changes, but if I, while I'm punched in, if I start tracking the break, it'll apply the rounding settings to it.

2:07 After you save your entry, it'll round your breaks up to, or round down or round up to whatever you set it to.

2:13 Uh, a side note for breaks, when the timer is running, if you're tracking the, if you switch to start a break, uh, just in case you want to test it and see how this feature works.

2:25 If the break duration is less than a minute and you're just, you know, testing it, we automatically ignore breaks that are less than one minute long, just because we assume they're, you know, a mistake or something like that.

2:39 So, if you want to test it, test this rounding setting, be sure to let it run for more than a minute, uh, and then you'll be able to actually see that and it'll take effect.

2:49 And that's about it. Uhm, yeah. Let me see, just to show you how that would work on the web app.

2:58 you would go into the settings tab first, you go into time tracking, and that's where you would find the rounding stuff.

3:06 It's just the same as what you had in the mobile app, and that's how you would find it in the web app.