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Overnight shifts: one workday, accurate clock times
Keep a shift under the day it began while preserving night and Sunday calculations. Understand WORKPAY’s company finish-time setting.
Record Tuesday 09:00 to Wednesday 01:00 once
Select Tuesday in the day editor, enter a 09:00 start and 01:00 finish, and choose “Next day”. Without breaks, the span is 16 hours. A 30-minute unpaid break makes it 15 hours 30 minutes of work. Enter the actual break interval rather than reducing the finish time.
WORKPAY’s personal history attributes the completed shift to its stored workday, normally the day it started. The whole shift therefore appears under Tuesday. Do not add Wednesday’s 00:00–01:00 again. A Sunday-to-Monday shift stays in the personal history week containing its Sunday start.
The history label does not move the clock
Grouping a shift under Tuesday does not turn Wednesday’s times into Tuesday’s. The app uses the actual Finland-time intervals for configured time-of-day and calendar-day components. In the 09:00–01:00 example, 21:00–01:00 contributes four hours to the app’s configured 21:00–05:00 night window, before subtracting any overlapping unpaid break.
For Saturday 20:00 to Sunday 04:00 without breaks, eight hours appear under Saturday in personal history. The app still identifies the four hours after Sunday midnight when estimating its Sunday component. This describes app behaviour, not a guarantee of entitlement under every working-time arrangement. Read the rule warnings and check your applicable agreement.
Use clock times for night estimates
An “Hours only” value of 16 does not say whether work ran from 05:00 to 21:00 or from 09:00 to 01:00. It cannot produce the same night breakdown as a timed entry. For a past overnight shift, provide start, finish and “Next day”. To correct a forgotten timer, finish the active session first and edit the completed entry under the workday where it appears.
Times use Europe/Helsinki. When clocks move forward or back, elapsed time can differ from subtracting clock labels. The editor rejects a skipped or repeated local time instead of guessing the intended instant. Preserve your original time record and ask support to review it; do not invent another time just to make the form save.
Understand the Avanor company setting
WORKPAY has a company-specific finish-time setting for workdays associated with Avanor. When the workday’s final recorded interval is completed work, the estimate uses these minute boundaries: 15:00–15:15 becomes 15:00; 15:16–15:45 becomes 15:30; 15:46–15:59 becomes 16:00. The same pattern applies in other hours, including after midnight.
This app configuration follows the selected company and effective work date. It is not a verified statement of Avanor’s payroll policy or a general TES rule. It does not apply to other companies, a still-running interval, or every work segment before a break. If the final timer interval is travel or a break, the engine does not round an earlier work interval as the day’s finish.
For example, recorded work from 09:00 to 15:16 can produce an estimate based on a 15:30 finish with this setting. The saved actual finish remains 15:16. Keep that real timestamp for comparison with payroll. The rounding notice explains why estimated work hours may differ from the raw clock span. Correct the company/date or the actual record if either is wrong.
Check the complete overnight day
After saving, check the starting workday, next-day finish, unpaid breaks, night or Sunday rows and rounding notice together. Keep travel and allowance amounts separate. Compare the shift with the correct payroll period: your employer’s payroll cut-off need not match the app’s personal weekly grouping.
WORKPAY’s weekly total sums daily estimates. It does not establish compliance with rest periods or calculate every weekly overtime arrangement. Recording a long shift does not mean the app has confirmed that its scheduling or pay treatment is correct. Use the record to ask a precise payroll question and retain the employer’s explanation.
Try your own example times
The public shift checker shows elapsed time, subtracts an unpaid break and breaks down a simple gross-pay example. Your entries are not saved.
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Examples are WORKPAY’s own illustrations. App behavior and contractual pay entitlement are separate questions. Report unclear guidance or an error: hello@workpaying.com.
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