If an Employee's changing time should be counted as part of working time, you can now configure this in the Begin software under General settings — for the entire company, by Department, or by Employee.

If you want 5 minutes to be added automatically when working time starts and ends, set 5 and 5 in both fields.

When 5 minutes is added at clock-in and 5 minutes at clock-out, the timesheet looks like this:

The Employee started at 09:31 — the timesheet shows the working time start as 09:26

The Employee ended at 10:09 — the timesheet shows the working time end as 10:14

If you want a total of 15 minutes added to the working time, you can choose freely whether to add the minutes at clock-in or clock-out, and the times shown on the timesheet will be:

The Employee started at 10:15 — the timesheet shows the start time as 10:00; or, depending on the setup, the Employee ended at 18:15 — the timesheet shows 18:30

You can find the original working time start and end values in the logs.

Open Settings — Rounding — and scroll down until you find Paid changing time

This setting lets you choose whether to add time at clock-in and/or at clock-out.

Enter your chosen number of minutes in the fields and save.

For Employee-level configuration, open the Employee profile, open the Settings module, and scroll down until you find Paid changing time

By default, "Follow company settings" is selected, but if you want to set Employee-specific changing time, choose "Yes", enter the minutes, and save changes.

For Department-level configuration, open Departments — Edit — Calculation — General settings values — uncheck the box and the menu opens

Scrolling down you will find the Paid changing time setting

By default, "Follow company settings" is selected, but if you want to set a separate changing time rule for the entire Department, choose Yes, enter the minutes, and save changes.

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