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• Gross Hours vs Payroll Hours: Why Totals Differ

  A Saturday crew clocks 9 hours on paper but only 8 should hit the timesheet. Here is the gap between gross hours and payroll hours, and how to read each one.

• Splitting a Weekend's Hours: Kitchen vs Front

  One Friday and Saturday, seven staff, two stations. Here is exactly how the clock times and tags turned into a clean per-station hours total for payroll.

• 5 Things That Break a Time Card Total

  A time card total that looks reasonable can still be wrong by an hour. Here are the five common input mistakes that cause it, and the concrete fix for each one.

• How a Shift Becomes a Row in Your CSV

  Trace a single shift from the kiosk tap to the exported CSV cell, naming each field so you know exactly where every number on your report comes from.

• A Restaurant Week With Two Missed Clock-Outs

  One line cook forgets to clock out twice in a single week. Here is what the raw hours look like, and how a start-time cap keeps payroll from paying for it.

• Mistakes That Corrupt a Biweekly CSV

  Double-counted boundary days, mixed decimal and HH:MM, and forgotten clock-outs quietly inflate biweekly totals. Here are the common CSV mistakes and how to fix each one.

• Overtime When One Worker Splits Two Roles

  Maria serves 32 hours and preps 14 in the same week. Overtime is based on her combined 46 hours, not each role alone. Here is the full calculation.

• Net Hours With Two Unpaid Breaks in One Shift

  A line cook works 8:00 to 17:00 with two unpaid breaks. Here is the exact arithmetic that turns nine clock hours into the number you pay or report.

• Mistakes That Make an Overtime Estimate Wrong

  Overtime estimates go wrong the same handful of ways: wrong weekly boundary, mixed rounding, forgotten clock-outs. Here is each mistake and how to fix it.

• Fix a Time Card Entry Without Losing the Punch

  A manager's how-to for editing a clock-in or clock-out after a shift, in order, so you can fix a mistyped or forgotten punch without breaking the audit trail.

• Read Your CSV Export Columns Before Payroll

  What each column in your payroll CSV means, why decimal and HH:MM both show up, how breaks appear, and the four things to check before you import.

• Free Tools to Use Before Buying Restaurant Software

  Before you pay for anything, run the free calculators that fix the errors that actually cost you: lunch-break deductions, decimal payroll math, and messy handwritten time cards.

• Gross Hours vs Net Hours: Where Each Belongs

  A cook clocks in at 4:00 and out at 9:30. Is that 5.5 hours or 5.0? The answer depends on whether you mean gross or net hours, and payroll cares which one you send.

• What a Biweekly Pay Period Is and the Off Week

  A biweekly pay period is a fixed 14-day cycle that pays every other week. Here is why some years hold 27 pay dates and how to match hours to the correct boundary.

• Why Clock-Out Records Get Missed and What It Costs

  Clocking out closes a time entry with an end timestamp. When it never happens, gross hours balloon. Here is why records go missing and how to fix them.

• What a Timesheet Is and What Belongs in Each Row

  A precise definition of a timesheet, the columns that actually matter for payroll and grant reporting, and how one timesheet differs from a single time card.

• Time Tracking When You Don't Bill by the Hour

  A precise definition of time tracking, and why it works differently for teams whose hours feed payroll and grant reports instead of client invoices.

• Payroll Hours vs Clocked Hours: What's the Difference

  Clocked hours are what the timer recorded. Payroll hours are what you actually pay on. See how unpaid breaks and rounding turn one into the other.

• How to Download a Payroll CSV, Column by Column

  A step-by-step walk through exporting hours for a pay period: set the date range, filter by tag, download the file, and understand what each column actually means.

• How to Clock Someone In or Out Manually After the Fact

  A volunteer forgot to tap in, or a cook clocked out an hour late. Here is exactly how to add or correct that punch as an admin and leave a note payroll can trust.

• Gross Hours vs Net Hours on a Time Card

  Gross hours count the whole span from clock-in to clock-out. Net hours subtract unpaid breaks. Here is how the two differ on a real time card and which one payroll should get.

• Track Tutor Session Hours for Payroll, No Logins

  Follow the full weekly cycle at a tutoring center: tutors tap in and out on a shared tablet, you review the week, fix a missed clock-out, and export payroll hours.

• CSV Export Mistakes That Break a Payroll Import

  Payroll imports fail for a handful of predictable CSV reasons: shifting columns, mixed time formats, forgotten clock-outs. Here is each one and the fix.

• Decimal Hours vs HH:MM: What Payroll Wants

  Decimal hours writes 7 hours 30 minutes as 7.5. See how to convert HH:MM to decimal, why the two formats disagree, and which one payroll actually processes.

• What Auto-Close Means and Why It Protects Hours

  A volunteer forgets to clock out and the entry runs all night. Here is what auto-close does about it, and why it closes at the start time, not now.

• How an Unpaid Lunch Changes a Day's Paid Hours

  Subtracting an unpaid lunch sounds simple until you count the real minutes. Here is how to do it right, why a 30 minute break rarely costs exactly 30, and how to keep the math consistent.

• When Overtime Pay Kicks In: A Worked Example

  One server, five shifts, 46 hours. Follow the math step by step so you know exactly when overtime starts and what it adds to your week.

• Total Biweekly Hours Without an Off-by-a-Day Error

  Adding up two weeks of hours sounds trivial until a date boundary, a forgotten clock-out, or a timezone shift drops or doubles a day. Here is how to total a biweekly period and catch each mistake.

• Part-Time Shift Tracking That Holds Up at Payroll

  Six defensible practices for recording part-time restaurant hours, from forgotten clock-outs to clean exports, so the totals hold up when payroll reviews them.

• Exporting a Payroll CSV for Part-Time Tutors

  A complete walk-through for turning two weeks of part-time tutor hours into a clean CSV your payroll person can import without sending it back.

• Share a Tip Pool Fairly Using Recorded Hours

  A worked example: split a $640 tip pool across five people by their actual clocked hours, with every step of the math shown so the crew can verify it.

• Convert Clock Times to Decimal Hours for Payroll

  Payroll wants 7.75, not 7:45. Here is the exact method for converting clock times to decimal hours, including the minute math, rounding rules, and how to handle a forgotten clock-out.

• Five Mistakes That Throw Off a Weekly Time Card

  Forgotten clock-outs, minutes-to-decimal math, midnight shifts, double-counted breaks, and rounding drift. Here is how each one wrecks a weekly total and how to catch it.

• A Worked Example: Tutor Hours Across a Busy Week

  A tutoring center with eight tutors works through a full week of clock-ins, one forgotten clock-out, and a payroll export that adds up the first time.

• Clocking In Restaurant Staff Without Logins: Answered

  The questions restaurant owners actually ask about kiosk and QR clock-in for servers and cooks, answered directly: forgotten clock-outs, station hours, and payroll export.

• Why Event Crew Hours Never Add Up, and the Fix

  Setup and teardown hours go missing because of forgotten clock-outs, untracked early arrivals, and headcounts nobody confirmed. Here is how to capture them cleanly.