Time and Attendance Overall Settings

Time and Attendance Overall Settings

Configure organization-wide Projects and Overtime for Time and Attendance under Time > Settings. Projects you create here can later be assigned to specific subgroups—see Time and Attendance Subgroup Settings - Timesheet Due Dates, Projects, and IP Addresses. To review overtime hours after you set the calculation method, see Time Summary Area- Admin. When employees work projects at different rates, payroll overtime pay can use a weighted average—see How Time Projects Affect Overtime Pay.

Who this is for

Employers with Time and Attendance enabled.

To access:
  1. Log in to BerniePortal as an employer with Time and Attendance enabled
  2. In the left navigation under Pay & Time, select Time
  3. At the top of the page, select Settings
To add a Project:
  1. Select Projects in the left-hand menu (this is the default Settings view)
  2. Select Add Project
  3. In Project Details, enter the project name in the field with the placeholder What would you like the name of this project to be?
  4. Under PAY TYPE, select Hourly rate or Piece rate. An employee is paid one way or the other for time clocked to that project—never both.
  5. If you selected Piece rate, enter the default amount under PIECE RATE. That amount is paid once each time an employee completes the project, no matter how long it takes.
  6. Optional employee-specific rates:
    • For Hourly rate projects, turn on EMPLOYEE-SPECIFIC HOURLY RATES to set rates that override each employee’s regular rate for this project.
    • For Piece rate projects, turn on EMPLOYEE-SPECIFIC PIECE RATES to set rates that override the default piece rate above.
  7. When employee-specific rates are on:
    1. In the Add Employee field, enter at least three characters of the employee name in Search Employee Name, then select the employee from the results
    2. Select Add
    3. Enter the custom amount in the 0.00 field for that employee (the column is labeled Custom pay rates for hourly projects or Custom piece rates for piece-rate projects)
    4. Repeat for each employee who needs a project-specific rate
  8. Select SAVE (or CANCEL to discard and return to the list)
The project list shows a Pay type column with Hourly rate or Piece rate for each project.

To edit or delete a Project:
  1. On the project list, open the gear icon in the Actions column for the project row
  2. Select Edit to change the name, pay type, rates, or employee-specific rates, then select SAVE
  3. Select Delete to permanently remove the project

You can also drag a project row by the handle at the left of the project name to change the list order. The new order saves when you drop the row.

To set Overtime calculation:
  1. Select Overtime in the left-hand menu
  2. Under How should overtime be calculated?, select one of the following. The setting saves when you choose it—there is no separate Save button:
    • Weekly basis (40 hours)
    • Daily basis (8 hours)
How Projects affect overtime pay

This Overtime setting controls when hours become overtime. When employees work Time Projects at different rates—including piece-rate projects, which use an average hourly rate from pieces and clocked hours—BerniePortal Payroll can use a hours-weighted average to calculate the overtime pay rate on a regular payroll run. For the formula, piece-rate payroll display, minimum wage protection, and Configure warnings, see How Time Projects Affect Overtime Pay.