Overtime, breaks, and travel time

CleanLog starts with verified clock-in and clock-out times, then helps you review the items that affect pay: overtime, breaks, and travel between sites. Depending on your account setup, those details may appear as calculated totals, exported columns, or manager-reviewed adjustments. This page explains what to check before export, so payroll gets clean hours instead of raw clock data.

How does overtime get calculated?

Overtime starts with reviewed worked hours. Check the pay period for cleaners who worked beyond your overtime threshold, then confirm that the regular and overtime split matches your configured pay rules. If your account exports overtime columns, review those totals before sending the file to payroll. If your payroll provider calculates overtime instead, use CleanLog to confirm the underlying hours are clean.

How are breaks handled?

Breaks should be reviewed before export. If break rules are configured on your account, confirm the deductions match your policy. If breaks are tracked manually, check the edited entries and manager notes before approval. The clock-in and clock-out stay on the record; the paid-hours total is what you send forward.

How does travel time count?

Travel time is the time a cleaner spends moving between locations. If your operation pays travel time, make sure those entries are captured and reviewed before export. Multi-location days are the ones to check closely, because missing travel time can make a timesheet look shorter than the day the cleaner actually worked.

Where do these totals show up?

In the reviewed pay period and in the exported timesheet. “Payroll-ready” means the hours have been reviewed and the export is ready to hand to your payroll provider. Do not send a file you have not checked. Resolve flags first. See reviewing and approving timesheets, then export the pay period.

Where to go next

These totals are only as good as the time underneath them. Make sure cleaners capture hours cleanly with clocking in and out.