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Employees confirm punches you entered or edited

When a manager enters or changes a punch, the employee sees exactly what changed on their own time entry and taps Confirm — or asks for a change. Confirmations are kept on record; a later edit asks again.

Every punch a manager enters or changes — a Clock Station clock-in or clock-out, a time correction, a retroactive entry, a break added or fixed, or a correction made at the register — shows on the employee's home screen and Time entries with an amber line: *Edited by your manager — review and confirm*, followed by what changed (old time → new time). The employee taps Confirm these times or Request a change. Nothing waits on the answer: pay, exports and the pay-period certification run as usual.

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    What the employee sees

    One line per change, in plain words and in their language: *Clocked out by your manager at 12:23 PM*, *Corrected by your manager (Pat M.): clock-out 12:10 PM → 12:40 PM*, *Meal break added by your manager: 12:00 – 12:30 PM*, or *Edited in the point-of-sale system*. A live shift shows nothing until it is clocked out, so the row always shows the whole punch.

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    The notice

    About ten minutes after the last change (so a manager fixing three things on one shift sends one notice, not three), the employee gets an inbox message and a push: *Your time entry was edited — review and confirm*. No reminders follow.

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    Confirm, or request a change

    Confirm records who confirmed, when, from which app, and which edits it covers; the line turns into *Times confirmed Oct 29*. Request a change opens the usual punch request. An approved punch request counts as the employee's confirmation of that change — they asked for it.

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    A later edit asks again

    If a manager changes the punch after it was confirmed, the row re-opens: the earlier confirmation stays on record, the new change shows, and the employee is asked once more. Confirmations are never deleted or rewritten.

Good to know

  • Your own punches never ask — only what a manager entered or changed. The 16-hour auto-close and POS housekeeping edits don't ask either.
  • Employees see the whole chain on their row: every change since their last confirmation, oldest first.
  • Where you see it: the Confirmed column on the Time Entries report (and the *Employee Confirmed* column of its CSV), the time card on the Clock Station, the *Employee confirmed* column of the court-ready packet, and a † / ‡ mark on the employee's pay-period certification. A dash means nobody edited that punch.

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