Changelog

A running list of notable updates to ClockTap. We'll add entries here as new features ship.

July 25, 2026

• Pay approved hours by day type. Turn on Pay categories in Location settings to split each employee's approved hours across up to 32 buckets — Regular, Overtime, Night, and Night OT, each on Ordinary, Rest Day, Special / Regular Holidays, and their combinations — so payroll matches how you actually pay. Leave it off if everyone is paid one flat rate; the payroll view and exports stay simple.
  
• One-click export in your accountant's format. The Payroll Export menu now ships four presets alongside Standard Excel: Accountant Spreadsheet (PH), Generic CSV, QuickBooks Time CSV, and Sprout-compatible CSV — pick the one your accountant asks for and skip the reformatting.
  
• Holidays are now per location. Each location has its own Track holidays switch in Location settings → Holidays, and the country's calendar lives there too. Turn it off for a location that works through holidays at the usual rate, and holidays disappear from that location's dashboard, attendance, and payroll everywhere in the app.
  
• File overtime with a slider. Staff filing overtime from the kiosk or their phone now drag a slider between the minimum and the counted maximum, instead of tapping a stepper — much quicker on a phone when the counted overtime spans hours.
  
• See what a feature does even when it's off. Sections you've turned off — Pay categories, Leave Policy, Holidays — now stay in the modal, grayed out, with the on/off switch in the header. So you can preview what enabling it looks like without going hunting.
  
• Hours & Overtime, in one place. Grace period, overtime block rounding, and minimums now live under a single Hours & Overtime section, and Kiosk login is folded into Clock-in methods — one place per topic.

July 20, 2026

• See who's on shift, right from the dashboard. Every row on the Employee status card now carries a bar for that person's scheduled shift. For anyone still clocked in, the bar fills as their shift runs and turns amber once they're past shift end — so it's obvious who's about to finish and who's stayed on without clocking out. For anyone already clocked out, the bar sits inside their shift window, so a late start or an early finish shows up as a gap. The card refreshes on its own every 30 seconds.
  
• Set a new hire's weekly schedule while you're adding them. Add Employee is now two steps: their details, then their usual week. The employee is created as soon as you finish the details, so you can skip the schedule and come back to it later from Shifts — and their PIN is still shown last, once you close the wizard.
  
• Shift templates show the week they actually cover. Each template on the Templates tab now shows the weekdays it runs and how many people work it, in place of the old assignment count — which counted schedule rows, not people, and read as "5 active assignments" for a single employee working five days. Alongside it, Used in July shows who worked the shift this month and how many times.
  
• Spot anyone who isn't on the schedule. If someone has no shift assigned, the Templates tab now says so and links straight to assigning them. They can still clock in — their hours just aren't checked against a schedule.
  
• The shift picker leads with your own shifts. When you pick a shift for a day, your templates come first in alphabetical order, with Rest day, Open, and Create a new shift below a divider.
  
• Overtime that exactly reaches your minimum now counts. With a 60-minute minimum, exactly one hour of overtime used to be dropped, even though the setting reads as "under 1h isn't counted". Reaching the minimum now counts. Check how your thresholds behave under Grace Period/OT in Location settings.
  
• A new guide to overtime. Overtime walks through how staff file overtime from the kiosk or their phone, and how the grace period and thresholds for a location fit together — with a short video of both filing paths.

July 16, 2026

• Flexible clock-in windows on shift templates. A shift template can now open an early clock-in window instead of a single fixed start time — staff who arrive within the window are still counted on time. Set the window when you create or edit a template.
  
• Overtime counts in whole blocks — and staff can file part of it. Overtime now accrues in whole-block increments per your location's setting, and staff can file just part of their detected overtime with a reason. Configure the block size under Grace Period/OT.
  
• Leave days stand out in payroll exports. Excel exports now highlight leave days so they're easy to spot, and empty overtime cells are left blank instead of showing a zero.
  
• Approval cards show the clock in and out times. Correction and overtime request cards in the Approvals inbox now display the full clock in/out date and time, so you can review a request without opening the entry.
  

July 9, 2026

• Shift Alignment — fix the shift, not the timesheet. When a completed entry drifts more than an hour from its scheduled shift, ClockTap flags it and offers a Change shift action. The modal has already picked the best-matching shift for you, and shows the status and overtime each option would produce — or you can create a new template on the spot. Apply it to just that day, or to every matching weekday from then on. Status and overtime re-derive instantly.
• Payroll now has its own page — in beta. The payroll breakdown moved out of Attendance and into Payroll in the sidebar. Each employee's card totals their approved hours and approved overtime for the period, with a day-by-day breakdown of status, late/undertime, and overtime. Export the whole period to Excel in one click.
• Overtime is filed, then approved. At clock out, staff are prompted to file any detected overtime with a reason — pick a preset or write your own. Owners review it from the Attendance page or the Approvals inbox, and each entry reads Approved, Pending Approval, Rejected, or Not filed. Only approved overtime counts toward the payroll total, so the Approved Overtime tile always matches the per-employee badges.
• Trivial overtime stays out of the way. Unfiled overtime at or below the location's minimum-overtime setting is no longer shown, and no longer counts toward the overtime summary. The setting that controls it now lives under Grace Period/OT.

July 3, 2026

• Change your kiosk login email. Update the email a location's kiosk signs in with, right from Location settings → Kiosk login.
  
• Add and edit attendance records. Owners can now create a missing entry or correct an existing one directly from the Attendance page — including clock in/out, scheduled shift, and overtime — instead of waiting on a correction request. Overlapping records are prevented automatically.
  
• Approve overtime from the Attendance page. Overtime shows an info icon while it's still pending approval. You can now approve it inline: the approval indicator is yellow when no reason has been filled in yet, and turns green once a reason is recorded.
  
• New Timesheets view for payroll. A Timesheets tab summarizes each employee's worked vs. approved hours, days worked, late/undertime, and overtime status (approved, rejected, or pending) across a date range — and exports straight to Excel.
  
• See paid hours on shift templates. The shift template editor now breaks down shift span, unpaid break, and paid hours, so you know exactly what a template pays before assigning it.
  
• Quick-assign schedules to employees. Assigning shift templates is faster, with a refined schedule step in setup and assignments.
• Release updates on your dashboard. Owners now see a dated announcement when new ClockTap improvements are available. Open the release notes from the alert, or dismiss it permanently once you've read it.
• Faster access to support. Open the ClockTap Facebook support group directly from the app sidebar when you need help or want to connect with other users.
  
• Safer setup. Onboarding now prevents reusing the owner's email for an employee login, avoiding sign-in conflicts.

June 2026

• Choose how your team clocks in. Setup now starts by picking a clock-in method — a shared Kiosk or Personal devices. Change it any time from location settings, or turn on the other method to run both at once.
• Clock in from your own phone. Staff can now clock in and out from their personal device, with the same geofencing and WiFi security as the kiosk. No shared tablet required. See BYOD self-login.
• One place for staff self-service. Clocking in, viewing shifts, checking attendance, and filing corrections/overtime/leave requests now live together on the My Clock page at /app/clock.
• Faster guided onboarding. The setup wizard walks you through clock-in method, location, employees, and schedule, so a new location is ready in minutes.
• Attendance export to Excel. Export your attendance range to a spreadsheet for payroll, with absent days highlighted.
• Stronger kiosk security. Added rate limiting on kiosk PIN sign-in to protect against repeated guesses.

Earlier

• Public documentation section launched at /docs.
• Approvals inbox with manual correction, overtime, and leave request flows.
• Multi-location attendance dashboard with CSV export.
• Kiosk PWA with offline-tolerant clock-in.
• Per-location kiosk pairing and PIN sign-in.