Week schedule
Drag-free shift entry, copy last week, positions and areas, labour cost per day and overtime warnings before you publish.
Rosters for Niagara Falls's tourism and hospitality, gaming and retail — shifts, a time clock and approved hours in one place. Overtime after 44 hours in a week, worked out before the hours reach payroll.
Niagara Falls has about 94,000 people, and with tourism and hospitality the largest employer of them and gaming 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.
Hospitality rosters are the hardest kind to build and the easiest to get wrong: split shifts, a different pattern every week, staff who can work Thursday but not Friday, and a season that doubles the team and then halves it again. What helps is staff entering their own availability and the schedule refusing to break it.
And the local shape of it: the most seasonal payroll in the province — hotels and attractions staff up hard for the summer and shed most of it by November, which means a stack of records of employment every autumn.
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 Ontario.
Niagara Falls keeps Eastern 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 Ontario, and across provinces if you roster in more than one.
Ontario works overtime out on the week, so the risk in Niagara Falls 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 Ontario scheduling page.
Built for restaurants, shops, clinics and every team that works in shifts.
Drag-free shift entry, copy last week, positions and areas, labour cost per day and overtime warnings before you publish.
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 see their shifts, ask for swaps and time off, set their availability and get their pay stubs on their phone.
Late starts, missed punches and unscheduled shifts are flagged. Approve a week in one click — overtime follows your province's rules.
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Hospitality rosters are the hardest kind to build and the easiest to get wrong: split shifts, a different pattern every week, staff who can work Thursday but not Friday, and a season that doubles the team and then halves it again. What helps is staff entering their own availability and the schedule refusing to break it.
Niagara Falls keeps Eastern 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.
After 44 hours in a week, the same as the rest of Ontario. Overtime is set by the province, not the city.
The same everywhere in Canada: $10 per company per month, with a 30-day free trial and no per-employee charge.
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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