Employee break tracking
Employees start and end a meal or rest break on the same clock they punch on, and the shift stays open underneath. Every break lands on the time card with the minutes exactly as they were punched.
How a break is recorded
Start a break
The shift stays clocked in
Employees pick the break they are taking from their own clock page or a shared kiosk. The time entry stays open, so one shift does not turn into three.
Time for your Lunch
You have worked 5h 00m
Your Lunch ends soon
5 minutes left
A break type can prompt an employee once they have worked a set number of hours, and prompt them again a few minutes before the break should be over.
Recorded times
Punched 7:58 AM · rounded to 15m
Exactly as punched
If your workspace rounds clock-in and clock-out times to the nearest five, six, or fifteen minutes, break times are still stored exactly as they were punched.
Paid and unpaid time
Every workspace starts with an unpaid lunch and a paid rest break. Add your own with the names your business uses, set each one meal or rest, paid or unpaid, and give it a length. Unpaid minutes are taken out of the worked hours before regular time, overtime, and payroll totals are calculated.
Missed and mistaken breaks
Keisha WilliamsAug 3 · 8:37 AM to 10:52 AM9:30 AM to 10:00 AM · 30m
Placed in the middle of the shift
Clockspot adds the break when an employee clocks out of a shift that long. It lands in the middle of the shift as an ordinary break row you can see and change.
At clock-out
Punched their own LunchNothing is addedSkipped
No Lunch on the shiftLunch is added onceAddedWhen the employee punched their own lunch, nothing is added on top of it. The deduction only fills a break that is missing, and it never runs on an entry a manager added by hand.
Every break is labeled Employee, Manager, or Auto-deduct, with the job it was on. Managers can add, edit, reclassify, or archive one, employees can send an edit request, and each change keeps the times before and after it.
Live break tracking demo
See the break sitting inside the shift on the time card, every break in the period with who recorded each one, and the paid work those shifts came to. Filter by employee, break type, or how a break was recorded, then export what you filtered.
Setting break rules for the first time? See how to keep break records ready for payroll.
No login or setup required.
Marcus BrownAug 4Tue8:02 AMClocked in
Priya PatelAug 4Tue7:58 AM11:05 AM
Angela RiveraAug 4Tue8:24 AMClocked in
Keisha WilliamsAug 3Mon8:37 AM10:52 AM
Aaliyah RobinsonAug 3Mon8:45 AM1:15 PM
Sandra OrtizAug 3Mon9:01 AM11:31 AMCommon questions
No. Breaks are recorded from an employee’s own clock page on a phone or a computer, or from a shared kiosk. Clocking in and out by phone call covers the shift itself, not the breaks inside it.
Yes. Set a minimum length on the break type and Clockspot will not end that break until it has run the full time, and tells the employee how long it has to last. The minimum is taken from the type when the break starts, so changing the policy later does not move a break already in progress.
Clocking out ends the open break at the same minute and records that end as the employee’s own punch, so the shift never closes with a break left running. If the clock-out time would land before the break started, Clockspot refuses it and asks for the break to be corrected first.
No. Clockspot records what happened and applies the settings you configure. It does not decide whether a break was required, missed, late, waived, or compliant with any law or workplace policy. An automatically deducted break records the deduction your rule asked for, and is not evidence that the employee stopped working.
Employees record meal and rest breaks on the clock they already use, unpaid minutes come out of the hours, and the Breaks report shows you what everyone took.
