Week schedule
Drag-free shift entry, copy last week, positions and areas, labour cost per day and overtime warnings before you publish.
North Vancouver, British Columbia
Staff scheduling software in North Vancouver
Rosters for North Vancouver's port terminals, shipbuilding and outdoor recreation and tourism — shifts, a time clock and approved hours in one place. Overtime after 8 hours in a day or after 40 hours in a week, and double time after 12 hours in a day, worked out before the hours reach payroll.
Shifts in North Vancouver
How North Vancouver staff actually get rostered
With about 150,000 people and port terminals and shipbuilding employing a good share of them, North Vancouver runs on schedules that change mid-week. The useful thing is not a prettier calendar — it is knowing, while you are still editing, what the change has done to the week's hours.
Distribution and transport run to someone else's timetable, so the roster is built backwards from an arrival time. Shifts cross midnight routinely, and premiums depend on when the hours fell rather than which day the shift was called.
And the local shape of it: which council a business answers to depends on which side of the boundary it sits on — 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 British Columbia.
The clock in North Vancouver
What time the time clock keeps
North Vancouver keeps Pacific 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 British Columbia, and across provinces if you roster in more than one.
Set by the province, not the city
When overtime starts for North Vancouver staff
British Columbia pays overtime after 8 hours in a day as well as on the week, so a single long shift in North Vancouver 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 British Columbia 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 North Vancouver
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 North Vancouver
How does BooksAuto handle port terminals rosters in North Vancouver?
Distribution and transport run to someone else's timetable, so the roster is built backwards from an arrival time. Shifts cross midnight routinely, and premiums depend on when the hours fell rather than which day the shift was called.
What time does the time clock keep in North Vancouver?
North Vancouver keeps Pacific 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 North Vancouver staff?
After 8 hours in a day or after 40 hours in a week, and double time after 12 hours in a day, the same as the rest of British Columbia. Overtime is set by the province, not the city.
How much does scheduling software cost in North Vancouver?
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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