Clocking Rounding

Clocking rounding adjusts each clock-in or clock-out to the specified preset interval for calculating working hours, while still keeping the original times recorded.

For example if rounding is set to 15 minutes and an employee clocks IN at 08:58, the rounded time would be set to 09:00
The original clocking remains as 08:58 and the rounded figure is used to calculate the hours worked instead.

IN clockings round forwards and OUT clockings round backwards.

Imagine an employee has clocked in at 08:57 and out at 17:04.
The total time between these clockings is eight hours and seven minutes.
With rounding in place this would become 09:00 and 17:00 giving you a clean eight hour day.

Grace is a period of time applied alongside rounding to offer a small amount of leniency.

For example, a 09:01 IN clocking rounded to 15 minutes would normally move to 09:15.
However, you may want to allow a few minutes of grace so that slightly late clockings still round back to the previous interval.
With three minutes of grace, 09:01, 09:02 and 09:03 would round back to 09:00 and 09:04-09:14 would round to 09:15

This works in reverse for OUT clockings, effectively allowing the employee to leave early.
For example, three minutes of grace would allow the employee to clock out at 16:57, 16:58 and 16:59 and still round to 17:00.

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Why use Rounding?

This feature is useful because it helps keep your timesheets tidy and easy to interpret. Small variations in clocking behaviour, such as an employee arriving a minute late or clocking out a minute early, can create untidy totals and make payroll processing more complicated than it needs to be.

Rounding smooths out these minor differences so your reports show clean, consistent working hours. Grace adds fairness by allowing a short buffer around start and finish times, ensuring staff are not penalised for very small, everyday variations. Together, they make time calculations more accurate, predictable and easier to manage.

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Video Tutorials

How to configure Rounding

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How to configure Rounding

1. Log in to the uAttend cloud portal with an administrator or supervisor profile.
2. Click on the Departments tab.
3. Click on the name of the intended department or click the magnifying glass icon in the upper right corner of the window to search for a department.
4. Click the EDIT button on the line for the Clocking Rounding option (listed and described below)
5. Click the drop-down menu and select the intended clocking rounding option.
6. Click the SAVE button.

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Rounding Options

There are five rounding and grace settings that apply at different points in the day depending on the department schedule.

Without a department schedule set:

• Pre-Shift: N/A
• Shift Start: Applies to the very first clock IN of the day.
• During Shift (Clock IN): Applies to all clock INs after the first.
• During Shift (Clock OUT): Applies to all of the clock OUTs.
• Post-Shift: N/A

With a department schedule set:

• Pre-Shift: Applies to clock INs before the scheduled shift start time.
• Shift Start: Applies to the very first clock IN within your schedule.
• During Shift (Clock IN): Applies to clock INs during the shift.
• During Shift (Clock OUT): Applies to clock OUTs during the shift.
• Post-Shift: Applies to clockings after the scheduled shift end