MaidCentral gives you the ability to change the way employees on a specific team will get paid.
Start Time Type Setting
This setting is managed under your team's setting, found in the Company Tab > Teams


Once inside the Teams menu, clicking on the Blue Team name will allow you to adjust the individual team settings and change the Start Time Type

Soft Start :
Employees can clock in before their scheduled start time and are paid for the early clock-in.
Scheduled Work Start Time will automatically set to the time your employee clocked in for the day on the Employees > Daily Timeclocks > Clocks tab
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Hard Start:
Employees can clock in before their scheduled start time, but they are not paid and officially clocked in until their scheduled start time.
Scheduled Work Start Time will automatically set to the time your employee is scheduled to work for that day on the Employees > Daily Timeclocks > Clocks tab
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