Setting Your Alert Preferences - Icon Time Systems TOTALPASS Small Business Premium User Manual

Setting Your Alert Preferences

1. Select Settings | Preferences and click on the Alert tab to setup the alert notices
displayed on the Home page. The Home page updates based on your time setting for
the Check Alerts Every field described below.
2. Type the least amount of hours an employee can work per shift in the Alert Low Hours
at field. If an employee works fewer hours than is specified, an alert generates. To
disable this alert, set the alert value to 0.
3. Type the amount of hours an employee can work per shift in the Alert High Hours at
field. If an employee works a shift more than the hours specified, an alert generates. To
disable this alert, set the alert value to 99.
4. Type the maximum amount of hours an
employee can work per shift in the
Maximum Punch Time at field. If an
employee works a shift more than the
hours specified, an alert generates and
the hours stop accumulating for that
given shift. To disable this alert, set the
alert value to 99.
5. Alert Day Overtime OT at triggers an alert before employees reach daily overtime by
using the daily overtime value that you set under Overtime Preferences.
Example:
6. Alert Week Overtime OT at triggers an alert before employees reach weekly overtime
by using the weekly overtime value that you set under Overtime Preferences.
Example:
7. Type the number of minutes to check alerts in the Check Alerts Every field. New alerts
are checked and posted to the Home page based on the time entered here. To
maximize system speed and performance, we recommend setting this value to 10
minutes or more.
Click Submit to save your settings and return to the Home page.
8.
For additional Alert configuration, select Settings | Alert Setup.
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If you have Day OT1 set to 8 hours and Alert Day Overtime OT set to 2
hours, an alert posts to the Home page when the employee reaches 6
hours worked for the day.
If you have Week OT1 set to 40 hours and Alert Week Overtime OT set to 8
hours, an alert posts to the Home page when the employee reaches 32
hours worked for the week.