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title: "Explaining Soft Start and Hard Start for Teams"
slug: "explaining-soft-start-and-hard-start-for-teams"
tags: ["Soft Start", "Hard Start"]
updated: 2025-11-13T14:52:32Z
published: 2025-11-13T14:52:32Z
canonical: "support.maidcentral.com/explaining-soft-start-and-hard-start-for-teams"
---

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# Explaining Soft Start and Hard Start for Teams

**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**

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/0c1ef627-c6ff-4a23-afbe-729f8c45b2d2/Images/Documentation/explaining-soft-start-and-hard-start-for-teams-image-3jrcqd0e.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-15T16%3A54%3A51Z&se=2026-11-15T17%3A54%3A51Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=DQ%2FIMgq8UetMWn3dmmdTL1QCCXiEM7ecOil9VOi9vKY%3D)

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/0c1ef627-c6ff-4a23-afbe-729f8c45b2d2/Images/Documentation/explaining-soft-start-and-hard-start-for-teams-image-nawhyheu.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-15T16%3A54%3A51Z&se=2026-11-15T17%3A54%3A51Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=DQ%2FIMgq8UetMWn3dmmdTL1QCCXiEM7ecOil9VOi9vKY%3D)

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**

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/0c1ef627-c6ff-4a23-afbe-729f8c45b2d2/Images/Documentation/explaining-soft-start-and-hard-start-for-teams-image-rmlsdalx.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-15T16%3A54%3A51Z&se=2026-11-15T17%3A54%3A51Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=DQ%2FIMgq8UetMWn3dmmdTL1QCCXiEM7ecOil9VOi9vKY%3D)

**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**

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/0c1ef627-c6ff-4a23-afbe-729f8c45b2d2/Images/Documentation/image(150).png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-15T16%3A54%3A51Z&se=2026-11-15T17%3A54%3A51Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=DQ%2FIMgq8UetMWn3dmmdTL1QCCXiEM7ecOil9VOi9vKY%3D)

**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**

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/0c1ef627-c6ff-4a23-afbe-729f8c45b2d2/Images/Documentation/image(152).png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-15T16%3A54%3A51Z&se=2026-11-15T17%3A54%3A51Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=DQ%2FIMgq8UetMWn3dmmdTL1QCCXiEM7ecOil9VOi9vKY%3D)