Workforce
Everything about time in DineStack is built for the conversation three weeks later, when somebody says their hours are wrong. Nothing stores a total, nothing is edited, and every correction has a name and a reason on it.
Clocking
Both produce the same clock events on one employee timeline. A punch carries how it was made, which is evidence rather than a change to the hours.
Default
A staff clock on the counter tablet. Nobody needs to own a phone to use it, which is why it is the default rather than the fallback.
Clocking checks in as it happens, so unlike the till it needs the connection. If the restaurant is offline the clock says so and the punch waits, rather than recording an hour nobody can stand behind.
Opt-in
Off unless a restaurant turns it on. When it is on, the server checks where the phone was: inside the workplace area, with a fresh enough fix, accurate enough to mean something.
The phone reports what it observed and never its own verdict. A device deciding whether it is allowed to clock in is a device somebody can talk into it.
Managing
Who is working, who is on break, who is late, who is close to overtime, and what needs a decision.
What labour is costing right now, beside who is on the floor. One screen rather than a report run after the fact.
Daily and weekly totals, with the events they came from. A correction sits beside the original punch rather than replacing it.
Plan the week, publish it, copy it forward. Schedule against actual shows late arrivals as facts — there is no punctuality score, and there is not going to be one.
Worked hours plus rostered hours, projected. Overtime a manager hears about on payroll day is a cost they could not avoid; on Thursday it is a rota change.
Card tips are in the bank. Cash tips are already in a pocket. Pooling divides by allocation, so what comes out of a pool equals what went in — to the cent.
Missing clock-outs, breaks nobody came back from, unplanned shifts, disputed hours. Grouped by kind, never tallied against a person.
Overtime
Overtime rules differ by state, by province, sometimes by contract, and they change. DineStack does not know your labour law and does not pretend to.
The work-week start, the weekly and daily thresholds, double time if it applies, and what each is multiplied by.
With effective dates, so correcting a threshold today does not silently restate every week you have already paid.
Regular, overtime and double time — from the punches that were actually recorded, never from a stored total.
A June timecard reprinted in October reads June’s policy, because the version is part of the record.
Payroll
DineStack is not a payroll provider. It does not calculate tax, withholding or net pay, and it is not going to.