Fingercheck

Mayer Brach

Jeffrey Mo

Lisa Greene

Articles to help you set up Fingercheck and start using it right away

Setting Up Fingercheck

Learn how to streamline employee onboarding and ensure accuracy with our system's best practices for adding employees.

Employee Onboarding Made Easy: Best Practices for Adding Employees

If there's one technique you'll master using Fingercheck, it's the art of creating a new user. 

How to Create a New User

To import several employees at once, you can import a .csv file with the employee information.

How to Import Employees into Fingercheck

A guide on the methods of assigning Workers Compensation Codes to Employees in Fingercheck

How to Assign Workers Comp Class Codes to Employees

When setting up employees, you will select hourly or salary for their pay type.

Differences Between Hourly and Salary Employees in Fingercheck

Do you have a salaried employee who you need to pay hourly wages occasionally?

How to Allow a Salaried Employee to be Paid Hourly

A guide on how to enable the Biometric Consent feature of Fingercheck, and when and how it applies to your business.

How to Enable Employee Biometric Consent in Fingercheck

Follow these instructions to give employees self-service access and enable mobile punches

How to Sign Employees Up for the Mobile App

Setting Up Users

An Absence Policy is one of the first policies you'll want to set up when you begin using Fingercheck.

How to Create an Absence Policy

A comprehensive breakdown of everything there is to know about the Accrual Policies function.

How to Create an Accrual Policy

An overview of break policies, what they can do, and how they can be used in your Fingercheck company.

How to Set Up a Break Policy

Fingercheck can flag the punches you choose so you can always be on top of your staff's punch habits.

How to Set up an Exception Policy for Missed Punches

This article describes how to set up your expenses on the back end, so you can approve your employees' expense requests.

How to Set Up an Expense Policy

This article describes how to set up a mileage expense policy so that employees can submit requests for reimbursement.

How to Set Up an Expense Policy to Track Mileage

Creating a holiday policy allows you to set all your holidays on autopilot so that the system knows when and how to allocate holiday time.

How to Build a Holiday Policy

An overview of Overtime Policies, how they are used, and how they impact your Fingercheck company.

How to Set Up an Overtime Policy

When employees work overtime, you might want give them "comp time" instead of paying them an hourly wage.

How to Set Up Comp Time

Schedule Policies allow you to tell Fingercheck when an employee is supposed to be clocked in.

How to Create a Schedule Policy

Fingercheck administrators can easily create rounding rules using the Rounding Policies feature.

How to Set Up Rounding Rules

Setting up a premium policy allows you to set different types of pay

How to Set a Premium Policy

Setting Up Policies

Fingercheck has three default Security Roles: Employees, Supervisors, and Administrators.

Permissions for System Roles

When creating security roles for various types of staff, you may want to grant individual employees access to some supervisory-level data.

How to Set Up Custom Roles

You can create filters to group employees by categories such as full time and part time, or hourly and salary.

How to Create Custom Filters to Group Users

Improving Security

A Master Profile is a collection of policies that can be assigned to an employee.

How to Set Up a Master Profile

Default settings are values that are automatically set in various parts of the Fingercheck system.

How to Set Defaults

Learn how to switch between accounts in one admin portal

How to Manage Multiple Accounts

Fingercheck offers your employees a direct way to communicate with you via our general requests functionality.

How to Set Up General Request Types

If you use job costing in your business and need to allocate overtime hours, Fingercheck helps you do that.

How to Allocate Retro OT by Job

A detailed guide on how to set up the overnight employees

How To Set Up Overnight Employees

You can easily import employee, PTO, schedule, rate, and payroll information into Fingercheck with a CSV file.

How to Import Data into Fingercheck

Sometimes you will need to send emails to your employees through Fingercheck.

How to Customize Emails Generated From Fingercheck

The Quick Actions Menu allows you to quickly apply a wide range of employee actions to multiple employees.