Separate work segments from the day’s deduction
A worker may record more than one segment in a local day. Deducting a full daily break from each segment can reduce calculated hours twice. The intended policy and actual work still need review; an attendance app should make the arithmetic understandable.
Attendify’s daily engine aggregates paired segments and applies its configured daily break calculation. The payroll export allocates the deduction across segments while preserving the day’s total, rather than independently applying a full-day deduction to every row.
Use a two-segment example
Suppose a worker has a three-hour morning segment and a five-hour afternoon segment. The configured daily deduction is thirty minutes.
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| Item | Minutes |
|---|---|
| Morning work | 180 |
| Afternoon work | 300 |
| Total worked | 480 |
| Configured daily break | 30 |
| Calculated paid | 450 |
This example assumes the configured deduction is appropriate. It does not say the time between visits, travel or an interrupted break can legally be unpaid.
Inspect how a split rule is configured
A split rule has multiple daily templates. Their configured break values contribute to the day’s setting. If an administrator enters thirty minutes in both templates, the configuration may specify sixty minutes rather than the intended thirty. Review the whole rule, not just one segment screen.
The engine applies a configured break only when worked time exceeds that deduction. That is a product behavior to verify against your policy, not a universal legal standard.
Keep overtime and travel separate
Configured daily overtime is calculated from the resulting day and schedule, then allocated to export segments. It does not implement every weekly threshold, premium rate or jurisdiction-specific wage rule. Travel between visits is also not inferred as payable time from GPS locations.
A missing segment or endpoint should remain an investigation. Do not use break adjustment to hide an unrelated missing-punch problem.
Test before using the output
Review one continuous day, a split day, a short day and a corrected segment. Compare worked, break, regular and overtime values in the timesheet with the exported totals. If the receiver recalculates from timestamps, make sure it does not deduct the same break again.
See work rules, timesheets and the payroll handoff guide.