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Labor Cost Setup

Learn how to configure overtime rules for your employees.

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These guides cover talech Register and related POS equipment. Paytura is your merchant services partner; talech provides the register software and device support referenced in these articles.

Learn how to configure overtime rules for your employees. Overtime wages are associated with your employee roles which track regular, overtime, and double time wages.  

Wages can be viewed from talech.com > Employees > Timesheets. Or you can view a labor cost report from Register > Dashboard > Reports > Summary > Labor Cost.  
 

Note: Estimated wages are merely guides and should not be used for payroll or accounting purposes.

 

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To have correct labor cost reporting the following items must be correct:   

  • Overtime/double time rules   
  • Employee’s hourly wages   
  • Clock-in/out times   

Configure overtime rules

Overtime rules define when your employees will be paid overtime/double time.  

  1. Log in to talech.com and select Employees > Overtime & Breaks.  
  2. In the Overtime Rules section, set the hours for each of the following overtime rules via the dropdown menus:  
  • Daily Overtime Starts 
  • Weekly Overtime Starts 
  1. In the Double-Time Rules section, set the hours for the Daily Double-Time Starts via the dropdown menu.  

Computer showing the overtime and breaks settings page.
 
  1. Once done, select Save.  
Note: Wages are entered for the employee roles from talech.com > Employees > Roles. From there you can set the Regular Hourly Rate, Overtime Rate and Double Time Rate. Refer to the article Creating and Editing Employee Roles for more information. 

Clocking-in/out from Register is required for the labor cost to calculate correctly.

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Labor cost percentage 

The labor cost percentage can be viewed from the reports in Register. 

  1. From Register navigate to Dashboard > Reports > Summary > Labor Cost.  
  2. The Labor Cost report displays based on the clock-in/out times of your employees, hours worked, wages, and overtime/double time rules.  
Note: Only Manager and Admin employees can view this report in Register. 

smart device showing the labor cost report on register.
 

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