Set Account Defaults

Customize your account settings for accurate payroll calculations, and harvest bucket scan settings.

There are 3 categories of Default settings. We'll outline what each mean in the following article.

To access Default settings:

General

Minimum Wage (1)
- The amount of pay per hour applied to any staff member without a wage rate assigned on their personal account
- The minimum amount that piece rate workers should be paid. If a worker does not make this amount, Hectre will calculate a "TopUp" for the worker
  - TopUp = how much extra must be paid after piece rate earnings to make minimum wage
- Learn more about your account minimum wage
- If you're updating the minimum wage rate after timesheets have already been recorded, you can backdate the wage rate amount (2) to be applied to any timesheets from a certain date
Paid Break Length (3)
- Calculated at one paid break every four hours. Set the default length of this break here.
- For staff working on contract rate / piece rate, the paid break pay is calculated based on their piece rate earnings.

Sick Leave Length (4)
- App timesheet users are able to record days they've been unable to come to work due to sickness. Sick days are recorded as paid day's off in Hectre.
- Set the default hours of leave if workers call in sick
- If your sick days are not paid, they can be set up as an unpaid leave type - learn how

Lunch breaks are recorded as unpaid time in Hectre. If your staff require a paid lunch break, this should be set up as a Job.

Lunch Break Length Selection (1)
- Choose if App timesheet users can select a lunch break length
  - There are 3 options: 15min, 30min, 45min, 1hour

Lunch Break Length (2)
- Choose what the default lunch break length should be

Lunch Break Start (3)
- Set the default start time for a lunch break
- This can still be changed by app timesheet users

Example of how this selection page looks in the app

Scan to Add Buckets (1) - for cherry /bucket users only
- Choose if you want to scan employee ID badges to credit buckets for pickers
- Learn more about using the cherry module
QC for buckets (2) - for cherry /bucket users only
- Allow supervisors to record quality details for picked buckets
Consecutive Delay (3) - for cherry /bucket users only
- This prevents the same picker from being credited a picked bucket within a time frame that you define.
- Prevents accidental double scans

Clock in Cancel (4)
- There are two methods for handling picking timesheets
  - Bin records and timesheets recorded separately
    - or
  - Bin records will clock in staff who have no timesheet for the current picking location
- When recording bins /buckets for pickers, if they are not clocked in for that picking area a pop-up screen will prompt the bin checkers to clock them in. This option allows for the bin checker to ignore that clock in action

Military time format (5)
- Option for time to display on the app and dashboard in military time or match each device time format