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title: "Time Tracking Settings: Time Rounding, Manual Entry Increments & Facial Capture Recap"
url: "https://help.ontraccr.com/en/article/time-tracking-settings-time-rounding-manual-entry-increments-facial-capture-recap"
language: "en"
last_updated: "2025-05-26T23:08:25.836Z"
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# Time Tracking Settings: Time Rounding, Manual Entry Increments & Facial Capture Recap

## 🕒 **Time Tracking Settings: Time Rounding, Manual Entry Increments & Facial Capture Recap**

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### ✅ **What This Covers**

This article explains how to fine-tune how time is **entered**, **rounded**, and optionally verified via **selfie capture**. We’ll cover:

1.  **Time rounding rules**
2.  **Minute increments for manual entry**
3.  **Facial capture during clock-ins and outs**

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### 🧭 **Where to Find These Settings**

All of these are found in the **Web App** under:

> Settings > Time Tracking > Clock Settings
> 
> And for more advanced rounding:
> 
> **Settings > Time Tracking > Rounding**

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## 🔄 **Feature 1: Set Minute Increments for Manual Entry**

**What it does:**

Controls which minute intervals users can select when entering time manually.

**How it works:**

-   Found under **Settings > Time Tracking > Clock Settings**
-   Options:
    -   ⏱ 1-minute (default — most precise)
    -   ⏱ 15-minute (only 0, 15, 30, 45 available)
    -   ⏱ 30-minute (only 0 and 30 available)

**Why use it:**

-   Streamlines time entry
-   Reduces over-detailed input (especially useful on mobile)
-   Matches payroll rounding practices

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## 🧮 **Feature 2: Enable Time Rounding**

**What it does:**

Automatically rounds time entries to standardized intervals for payroll and reporting consistency.

**How it works:**

### 🛠 **Step-by-Step Setup**

1.  Go to **Settings > Time Tracking > Rounding**
2.  Enable **Time Rounding**
3.  Choose options:

### 🔁 **Rounding Interval:**

-   5 min
-   10 min
-   15 min
-   30 min
-   60 min

### 🕑 **Rounding Type:**

-   **Overall day** — Round total time only
-   **Task/project** — Round each entry separately (more aggressive rounding)

### ⚙️ **Rounding Setting:**

-   **Automatic** (rounds up/down to nearest interval)
-   **Always Round Up**
-   **Always Round Down**

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### 🖐 **Additional Rounding Options**

### ✅ Manual Entry Rounding

-   Can apply the same rounding logic to manual entries
-   Set separately from live clock-in rounding

### 🎯 **Rounding Policies**

Create **role-based rules** to control rounding windows.

**Example use case:**

-   Workers often clock in early (e.g., 6:30 AM)
-   You create a **policy** that rounds all entries between 6:00 AM and 7:00 AM to **7:00 AM**
-   Apply that policy to the "Field Worker" role

These policies **override all other rounding settings** if they apply.

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## 📸 **(Recap) Enable Facial Capture**

**What it does:**

Takes a selfie at clock-in and clock-out using the live method.

**Where it shows up:**

-   **Photos tab** in time card review
-   Used for validation and reducing time fraud

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### 💡 **Pro Tips & Edge Cases**

-   ⏲ If rounding is enabled, you can **still show original times** on reports via a setting in **Settings > Time Tracking > Time Cards > Show Original Clock Times**
-   ⚖️ Be cautious with “Always Round Down” — can lead to underpaid time
-   🧑‍💼 Rounding policies help reduce admin overhead on repeated manual corrections