Your first clock-in

Before you bring your team in, clock in and out once yourself. It takes two minutes and answers the question that would otherwise remain open: does what I expect actually come out at the other end?

Step by step

1. Open the Dashboard. The time clock with the current time is at the top.
2. Click Clock in. The button immediately changes to “Clock out”, and the time runs below it.
3. Wait a minute. Feel free to switch pages — the running time continues.
4. Click Clock out.
5. Open the Timesheet on the left. It shows the entry you just recorded with start, end and the calculated duration.

The result: a time entry with start, end, duration and source. From now on it is part of your working-time record.

What Zeitflex does in the background

• The duration is calculated, not typed. Start and end are points in time; the duration follows from them.
• The statutory break is taken into account. From more than six hours of working time, § 4 ArbZG (German Working Hours Act) applies. More under Recording breaks correctly.
• Nothing is overwritten. A later correction creates a new version; the old one remains visible. That is the difference between a record and a note.
• Clocking in twice is prevented. Anyone who is already clocked in cannot clock in again — not even by tapping on the tablet and the phone at the same time.

Checking that everything is really correct

If target/actual stays empty: that is not an error, but a missing working-time model. Add it in the settings and assign it to the person.

If the button does not respond

1. Reload the page. A stuck button is almost always an interrupted connection.
2. Check whether you are already clocked in — in that case it says “Clock out”.
3. Look in the timesheet to see whether the entry did arrive after all.
4. If nothing helps: How to continue recording manually today and then report it via Support.

Still stuck?

The three ways to clock in/out — phone, tablet, browser — are described in detail under Clocking in/out by phone, tablet or browser.