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How to Create Early and Late Exceptions
How to Create Early and Late Exceptions

With exception policies, Fingercheck makes it easy for you to keep track of employees who arrive and leave early or late.

Jeffrey Mo avatar
Written by Jeffrey Mo
Updated over 4 months ago

Fingercheck makes it easy to track early and late personnel with exception procedures. We provide many exception types to detect irregular punches, such as missed punches, unscheduled punches, or over/under hours punches. Their triggers depend on your employees' schedule policies and these exception kinds. The exception policy lets you tell Fingercheck which ones to use to avoid cluttering your screen.

Fingercheck displays exceptions on your Dashboard, employee time cards, and reports.


Set up an exception policy for early and late exceptions

  1. Log in to your Fingercheck account as an Administrator.

  2. Click the SETUP tab > Policies > Exception Policies.

  3. Click Add.

  4. In the Code field, enter a label for your policy.

  5. In the Description field, enter a short description.

  6. From the Exception Type drop-down list, select a type for your policy: InEarly, InLate, OutEarly, or OutLate.
    For example, if you select InEarly, the exception is triggered whenever the target employees punch in before their schedule policy's assigned Start Time.

  7. To adjust how urgent the exception appears on your dashboard, select one of the following options from the Exception Severity drop-down list:

    • Low

    • Medium

    • High

      Selecting High displays the exception in red on the dashboard.

  8. Click Save.


Set the schedule policy and master profile for exceptions

For your exception policy to work, set up the employee's schedule policy properly. In the Window options (below), select how many minutes before or after the intended start and finish time should be flagged as exceptions. Your minute window times will tell the system when to trigger an exception once you establish your restrictions.For more information, see How to Create a Schedule Policy.

Once you've checked over your schedule policy, open your employees' profile (on the EMPLOYEES tab) to verify whether the start date of their master profile (at Personal > Profile) matches the start date of your exception policy.


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