Automatic Check-out at the End of a Shift When Staff Forget to Tap Out

A forgotten check-out quietly breaks everything that depends on hours. The person looks checked in all night, the hours column never fills in, and salary worked out from hours is wrong. It is the same problem the paper signing book always had, just faster.

How automatic check-out works

• Switch it on in Settings. It is off by default, so nobody is closed out unless the business chooses it.
• For shift businesses, each person is closed at their own shift's end time, not one closing time for everybody. Morning staff close at the end of Morning, Night staff at the end of Night the next morning.
• The check-out is stamped at the shift's exact end time, not the moment the system runs, so nobody gains or loses minutes.
• The record is marked Auto-Closed, never disguised as a real tap, so anyone looking at their hours can see the system closed it, not them.
• The admin gets one notification listing how many people were closed.

If they were actually still working

If the person was still at work and taps out later, that later tap is recorded as overtime and held for a manager to approve. See overtime approval. Until it is approved, pay counts up to the end of the shift.

It never closes a shift early

Nobody is closed before their own shift has ended. A night worker on a 8pm to 8am shift is left alone through the night and only closed after 8am if they have not tapped out.