Week schedule
Drag-free shift entry, copy last week, positions and areas, labour cost per day and overtime warnings before you publish.
Edmonton, Alberta
Staff scheduling software in Edmonton
Rosters for Edmonton's provincial government, health care and research and petrochemical refining — shifts, a time clock and approved hours in one place. Overtime after 8 hours in a day or after 44 hours in a week, worked out before the hours reach payroll.
Shifts in Edmonton
How Edmonton staff actually get rostered
Edmonton has about 1 million people and, in provincial government and health care and research, two of the largest employers of shift staff in the country. At that scale a roster is never built once — it is changed every day it is live, and the hours still have to come out right.
Clinical rosters run nights and weekends around a fixed minimum coverage, so the question is never just who is free — it is who is free, qualified, and not already over their hours for the week.
And the local shape of it: government and health care give the city a large salaried base, while the industrial belt to the east runs shifts — which is what the roster has to bend around.
Build the week by dragging shifts, and staff see it on their phones as soon as you publish. They punch in on a tablet by the door or on their own phone, and late starts, missed breaks, a shift nobody clocked out of and anyone working unscheduled are flagged for a manager rather than quietly corrected. Breaks run to 30 minutes after five hours in Alberta.
The clock in Edmonton
What time the time clock keeps
Edmonton keeps Mountain time.
Every punch is recorded against the local time it happened and the real elapsed hours are counted, so the two weekends a year when the clocks change do not need correcting by hand. How that works across Alberta, and across provinces if you roster in more than one.
Set by the province, not the city
When overtime starts for Edmonton staff
Alberta pays overtime after 8 hours in a day as well as on the week, so a single long shift in Edmonton earns it on its own — BooksAuto checks both while you are still building the schedule. The threshold is provincial and the full rules are on the Alberta scheduling page.
Scheduling & time clock
From the schedule to approved hours — without the paper.
Built for restaurants, shops, clinics and every team that works in shifts.
Tablet time clock
An Android tablet at the door: staff punch in with their Punch ID and a photo — even when the internet drops for a while.
Staff app
Staff see their shifts, ask for swaps and time off, set their availability and get their pay stubs on their phone.
Approved time sheets
Late starts, missed punches and unscheduled shifts are flagged. Approve a week in one click — overtime follows your province's rules.
Into payroll — or out
With BooksAuto Payroll, approved hours fill the pay run. On its own, export Excel/CSV or PDF, or email them to your payroll person.
Share with your accountant
Give your accountant a free view-only login to export your approved hours — or, if they use BooksAuto, connect so hours land in their pay runs.
Pricing
Scheduling software pricing in Edmonton
Same price everywhere in Canada — 50% off Payroll for your first year. Accounting firms: $3 Payroll + $3 Bookkeeping per client per month.
Questions
Scheduling questions from Edmonton
How does BooksAuto handle provincial government rosters in Edmonton?
Clinical rosters run nights and weekends around a fixed minimum coverage, so the question is never just who is free — it is who is free, qualified, and not already over their hours for the week.
What time does the time clock keep in Edmonton?
Edmonton keeps Mountain time. Every punch is recorded against the local time it happened and the real elapsed hours are counted, so the two weekends a year when clocks change do not need correcting by hand.
When does overtime start for Edmonton staff?
After 8 hours in a day or after 44 hours in a week, the same as the rest of Alberta. Overtime is set by the province, not the city.
How much does scheduling software cost in Edmonton?
The same everywhere in Canada: $10 per company per month, with a 30-day free trial and no per-employee charge.
Can staff swap shifts?
They can ask, and the request goes to a manager to accept or decline. The schedule never changes without somebody approving it.
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