Week schedule
Drag-free shift entry, copy last week, positions and areas, labour cost per day and overtime warnings before you publish.
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Staff scheduling software in Dartmouth
Rosters for Dartmouth's marine industries and refitting, manufacturing and retail — shifts, a time clock and approved hours in one place. Overtime after 48 hours in a week, worked out before the hours reach payroll.
Shifts in Dartmouth
How Dartmouth staff actually get rostered
Dartmouth has about 93,000 people, and with marine industries and refitting the largest employer of them and manufacturing behind it, most local rosters are built by a manager who is also working the floor. It has to be quick on a phone, and it has to tell them when a change costs overtime.
Continuous operations are rostered in rotating crews, and the awkward part is the handover — the shift that crosses midnight belongs to two days at once, which is where hours get counted twice or not at all unless the clock and the schedule agree.
And the local shape of it: ship refit work arrives as large projects, so the workforce grows and shrinks with the contracts — 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 Nova Scotia.
The clock in Dartmouth
What time the time clock keeps
Dartmouth keeps Atlantic 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 Nova Scotia, and across provinces if you roster in more than one.
Set by the province, not the city
When overtime starts for Dartmouth staff
Nova Scotia works overtime out on the week, so the risk in Dartmouth is the mid-week change: adding a shift can push hours already worked over the line. BooksAuto shows the running weekly total as you build. The threshold is provincial and the full rules are on the Nova Scotia 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 Dartmouth
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 Dartmouth
How does BooksAuto handle marine industries and refitting rosters in Dartmouth?
Continuous operations are rostered in rotating crews, and the awkward part is the handover — the shift that crosses midnight belongs to two days at once, which is where hours get counted twice or not at all unless the clock and the schedule agree.
What time does the time clock keep in Dartmouth?
Dartmouth keeps Atlantic 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 Dartmouth staff?
After 48 hours in a week, the same as the rest of Nova Scotia. Overtime is set by the province, not the city.
How much does scheduling software cost in Dartmouth?
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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