TimePilot Central: Menus

Administrative

This menu in TimePilot Central contains some of the more advanced functions in the TimePilot software.

• Login Account Setup: This is where you can change the password that's used to access the software. The password was originally set when you first installed TimePilot. The username will always be "Administrator." (The Enterprise Edition of the TimePilot software allows you to have multiple logins, each with their own password and level of access. (You can upgrade your software to the Enterprise Edition; for details, please see the TimePilot web site, www.TimePilot.com.) If you forget your password, please contact TimePilot technical support at 630-879-6400 or Support@TimePilot.com.
• Auto Lunch Setup: This is where you set the amount of time an employee must work before Auto Lunch can be used. For more details on Auto Lunch, click here.
• Change Past Time Period Dates: This seldom-used function allows you to change the start and end dates of an extracted time period. If you need to expand the date range of an extracted pay period in order to insert additional transactions that fall just outside the existing start or end of the period, this will give you the "space" to insert it. The existing transactions in the extracted period will not be affected.
• Change Time Period Buffers: Use this feature before you extract the data to automatically capture "In" transactions or "Out" transactions that fall just outside the pay period . This stops you from ending up with one part of an employee's workday in one pay period and the other part of the workday in the next pay period. For a full explanation of buffers, click here.
• TimePilot PC Administration: If you're running TimePilot PC, our software-based time and attendance system, you are allowed to install the software on a certain number of computers (the basic packages come with one or five licenses; more licenses can be purchased). You can keep track of the computers running the software here, as well as delete a license from a computer so that you can move the software to another PC. You can also set a password here that restricts access to the menus that are available on the clocks at each installation.
• Set Time Format: Gives you a choice of how time is displayed in TimePilot Central: the 12-hour format (with a.m. and p.m.) or the 24-hour format (military time). For more details, click here.
• Back Up Database: Creates a backup copy of the TimePilot database. You can specify where the software should put the file (server, USB drive, etc.) and the backup's filename. For more details, click here.