How to set up a time clock tablet

Clocking in used to mean each employee signing into their own account — which on a shared tablet means a login and a logout for every punch of the day. A time clock tablet belongs to the store instead of to a person: it knows which store it is, and a PIN is all anyone needs to touch it.

1. 1

   Open Settings → Time clock kiosk

   In your Lunix account go to Settings → Team Hub → Time clock kiosk. This is where the store's tablets are listed and where new ones are added.

2. 2

   Tap Connect device

   Click Connect device. A six-digit code appears with a QR code beside it. The code works once and expires after five minutes.

3. 3

   Bring up the clock on the tablet

   Scan the QR code with the tablet and it opens the time clock and claims the code by itself — that is the whole pairing. If you would rather type: open the clock page on the tablet, and it walks you through the same three steps, ending with the six digits.

4. 4

   Give the device a name you will recognise

   New tablets are named Tablet 1, Tablet 2 and so on. Rename it to where it lives — "Front counter", "Workshop door" — because that name is stamped on every punch it records. In six months a timesheet that says "Workshop door" tells you something; "Tablet 2" does not.

5. 5

   Check the device list

   Each paired tablet shows whether it is Connected and when it last punched. A tablet that is awake reports in every couple of minutes, so Not connected on a tablet you can see running usually means Wi-Fi, not Lunix.

6. 6

   Leave it on the clock page

   The tablet needs nothing else — no account is signed in on it, and there is nothing on it to reach the rest of your Lunix data. Put it on a stand where people walk past, plugged in.

7. 7

   Unpair a tablet you no longer trust

   Unpair seals that device: its punches stay on the record, but it can never record another one. Do this the day a tablet is replaced, lost or taken home — it is the only thing that stops it.