SUMMARY: You can set up an automatic lunch deduction for your employees, to free them from the obligation of clocking out for lunch, or to apply a deduction if they should forget. If an employee does clock out for lunch, autolunch will not apply.
To set up autolunch, go to SCHEDULES, and enter the following values.
Deduct After: How long the system should wait, in hours, after the employee's In punch, before applying autolunch. E.g., for a typical 8-hour shift, 6 would be a good value to enter here. That way, if someone comes in for a short day, they will not be deducted a lunch break.
Deduct Amount: How much time to take out, in hours.
Because it is an automatically generated entry, an autolunch cannot be deleted. If you need to remove an autolunch entry from an employee's hours for a day, you can zero out the entry by going to the employee's timecard, double-clicking on the autolunch entry, and entering 0 in Duration.