Welcome to Clockout

Clockout is the operations app for restaurants: one place to build schedules, track hours, run payroll, and manage who works where. Managers work in the web app on a laptop or phone; the team clocks in and out on an iPad kiosk at the store.

What you can set up on day one

Most restaurants get value from Clockout in about an hour. In order:

1. Create your account and your first store. Your first store is created along with your account. A store is a physical location — its address, time zone, and workweek live here, and everything else hangs off it, so get the time zone right before anyone clocks in. See Set up your store.
2. Add your team. Each team member gets an access level, an optional job role, and a pay rate, at the store you add them to. See Add a team member.
3. Set up the iPad kiosk. Install the Clockout iPad app (it appears as StoreOps on the device) on an iPad in the back of house, sign in, and choose the store. Your team clocks in with a six-digit PIN. See Set up the iPad kiosk.
4. Publish your first schedule. Build the week, publish it, and your team is notified. See Create a schedule.

How clocking in works

An employee enters their PIN, picks the shift they are starting, and takes a photo. The photo is required — a clock-in that never gets past the camera did not happen.

Each clock-in and clock-out is a punch. Punches make up a timecard, and payroll pays the finished timecards for the period — the ones that are clocked out and not rejected — whether or not a manager has approved them. Approving is your review step, not what makes hours payable. That chain is worth remembering: when a pay statement looks wrong, the answer is almost always in the timecard.

Where to go next

If you are setting up for the first time, work through the Getting started articles in order. If you already have a store running, the Scheduling, Time tracking, and Payroll topics cover the week-to-week work.