Week schedule
Drag-free shift entry, copy last week, positions and areas, labour cost per day and overtime warnings before you publish.
Ottawa, Ontario
Staff scheduling software in Ottawa
Rosters for Ottawa's federal government, technology and health care — shifts, a time clock and approved hours in one place. Overtime after 44 hours in a week, worked out before the hours reach payroll.
Shifts in Ottawa
How Ottawa staff actually get rostered
Ottawa has about 1 million people and, in federal government and technology, 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.
Fixed hours make the schedule itself straightforward; what still has to be right is leave, coverage and the approval trail, because an approved timesheet is the record everything else is built on.
And the local shape of it: the federal presence means many local employers are contractors and professional firms billing government, with salaried staff and strict record-keeping — 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 Ontario.
The clock in Ottawa
What time the time clock keeps
Ottawa 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.
Set by the province, not the city
When overtime starts for Ottawa staff
Ontario works overtime out on the week, so the risk in Ottawa 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.
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 Ottawa
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 Ottawa
How does BooksAuto handle federal government rosters in Ottawa?
Fixed hours make the schedule itself straightforward; what still has to be right is leave, coverage and the approval trail, because an approved timesheet is the record everything else is built on.
What time does the time clock keep in Ottawa?
Ottawa 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.
When does overtime start for Ottawa staff?
After 44 hours in a week, the same as the rest of Ontario. Overtime is set by the province, not the city.
How much does scheduling software cost in Ottawa?
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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