Dayparts

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7shifts Dayparts let you divide your day into named time blocks — like AM/PM or Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner — so you can schedule staff and track labor by time of day. If you use Tip Pooling, Dayparts also appear in your tip pool reports.

Things To Know

Important: Only Admins can create or edit Dayparts in the web app.

  • Access to Dayparts may require a plan upgrade.
  • You can create multiple Dayparts, but 7shifts recommends no more than 5. Dayparts work best as broader time blocks, not hour-by-hour breakdowns.
  • Dayparts Rounding requires Tip Pooling enabled as an add-on and at least one Daypart configured on the account.
  • Any punches that fall outside your configured Dayparts won't be included in labor calculations or reporting.

Setting Up Dayparts

  1. Go to Settings (or your profile icon at the top right) and select Locations, Departments, & Roles. Click a Location to open its settings.
  2. Under the Scheduling Hours tab, click + Add Daypart.

  3. Enter a name and start/end times for the Daypart. Choose whether it applies to specific days or every day of the week.
  4. If the Daypart hours vary by day (for example, longer Brunch hours on weekends), click Add times for remaining days to set different hours for specific weekdays. Those varying hours still belong to the same Daypart.

  5. Click Save. Your new Daypart will appear in the list.
  6. To edit an existing Daypart, click the Pencil icon. To delete one, click the More icon. To add another Daypart for this Location, click + Add Daypart and repeat these steps.


    If a Daypart overlaps with another, you'll see an error message. Edit one of the overlapping Dayparts to resolve it before saving.
  7. Click Save at the very bottom of the Location settings page before moving on. Repeat these steps for any other Locations on your account.

Scheduling With Dayparts

  1. On the Day view of the Schedule page, you'll see your configured Dayparts displayed alongside a shift counter showing how many shifts are scheduled in each block.

  2. To filter your schedule by Daypart, click the Daypart dropdown and select the one you want to view.

Using Dayparts With Tip Pooling

Once your Dayparts are set up, you can select them when configuring or editing a Tip Pool. A Dayparts column will appear in your Tip Pool report.

Daypart selection in Tip Pooling

For instructions on setting up a Tip Pool, see the Tip Pooling article.

Dayparts Rounding

Important: Dayparts Rounding requires Tip Pooling enabled as an add-on and Dayparts configured on the account. Access may require a plan upgrade. Only Admins can enable Dayparts Rounding.

Dayparts Rounding lets you set grace periods before and after each Daypart. Employees who clock in or out within the grace period are counted only toward their assigned Daypart — their punches don't bleed into the adjacent one.

Any roles that contribute to a Tip Pool will have their sales data and corresponding tips rounded alongside their punches.

Note: For Revel POS, Toast POS, and Square POS, rounding uses the time a receipt was opened. For Qu POS and Touchbistro POS, rounding uses the time a receipt was paid.

Example: AM Daypart runs 8:00 AM–4:00 PM. PM Daypart runs 4:00 PM–9:00 PM. The grace period is set to 10 minutes. An employee clocks out at 4:08 PM. Because 4:08 PM falls within the 10-minute grace period, the employee's worked hours and tips are counted entirely in the AM Daypart.

Enabling Dayparts Rounding

  1. Log in as an Admin.
  2. Go to Settings (or your profile icon at the top right) and select Locations, Departments & Roles.
  3. Click a Location to expand it.
  4. Select the Hours of Operation tab.

    Hours of Operation tab
  5. Check Daypart Rounding to enable it.

    Daypart Rounding checkbox
  6. Set your grace periods in minutes for Early Clock-in and Early Clock-out.

    Grace period fields
  7. Click Save.

Dayparts Rounding in Reports

To review Dayparts Rounding results, go to Reports > Tip Pooling, set your filters, and click Get Report.

The table below shows how the Tip Pool Report displays worked hours differently depending on whether Dayparts Rounding is on or off. In this example, AM Daypart runs 9:00 AM–4:00 PM, PM Daypart runs 4:00 PM–9:00 PM, and the grace period is 30 minutes. An employee clocks out at 4:15 PM.

Daypart Rounding settings example

  • Rounding enabled: The 15 minutes past 4:00 PM falls within the 30-minute grace period. Worked hours report as 7.25 hours, and the employee's sales and tips are counted in the AM Tip Pool.

    Punch times with rounding enabled

    Tip Pool Report with rounding enabled
  • Rounding disabled: Worked hours report as 7.00 hours. The 15 minutes past 4:00 PM is not counted in the AM Daypart. Those minutes and their corresponding tips fall into the PM Tip Pool instead, subject to the PM pool rules.

    Tip Pool Report with rounding disabled

Important: If an employee exceeds the grace period entirely — for example, clocking out at 5:00 PM with a 30-minute grace period — the full hour past the Daypart boundary is counted in the PM Tip Pool, not just the time beyond the grace period.

Next Steps

  • Repeat the Daypart setup for each Location on your account.
  • If you use Tip Pooling, assign Dayparts to each pool and run the Tip Pooling Report to confirm punches are rounding as expected.
  • Check that your Dayparts cover every possible punch time for your Location to avoid gaps in labor calculations.

Related Articles

Tip Pooling
Tip Pooling Report
Creating and Publishing a Schedule

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