Week schedule
Drag-free shift entry, copy last week, positions and areas, labour cost per day and overtime warnings before you publish.
Build the schedule, let staff punch in on a tablet or their own phone, approve the hours, and send them straight into payroll. Overtime does not start at the same point in any two provinces — pick yours to see when it does.
Overtime is the part that differs. British Columbia pays it after 8 hours in a day and double time after 12; Ontario has no daily threshold and starts at 44 hours in a week; Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island start at 48. Each company uses its own province's rules.
Most scheduling apps stop at the schedule. The hours then leave as a spreadsheet and somebody types them into the payroll program — which is where the mistakes come from, and where a shift that crossed an overtime threshold quietly becomes straight time.
In BooksAuto the schedule, the time clock and the pay run are the same program. Approved hours arrive in the pay run as regular, overtime, double time and statutory hours already separated, on the thresholds the employee's own province sets. Nothing is re-keyed, and the time sheet behind any figure on a pay cheque is one click away.
It runs in a browser or as a Windows program, and staff punch in on a tablet kiosk or their own phones.
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.
With BooksAuto Payroll, approved hours fill the pay run. On its own, export Excel/CSV or PDF, or email them to your payroll person.
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.
Same price everywhere in Canada — 50% off Payroll for your first year. Accounting firms: $3 Payroll + $3 Bookkeeping per client per month.
Buy a plan for your first company in two minutes — 50% off Payroll and Bookkeeping for your first year — or try everything free for 30 days, no credit card.
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