Settings that affect your Ameego reporting

There are several settings in Ameego that will impact the data output in Ameego’s Reports, Time & Attendance and the scheduling pages. Here is a list of all the settings that will be reflected in the applicable reports and where you can find them in Ameego Manager. 

Settings

Navigation: Click on your name at the top right corner of Ameego Manager and choose ‘Settings’ from the drop down menu.

• Earliest Shift Start Time: This is the time where we will start the sales & labour reporting for each day. 
  • This setting also determines the earliest start time that you can use for a scheduled shift and if an actual shift will be displayed in Ameego’s Time & Attendance.
• Latest Shift End Time: This is the time where we will end the sales and labour reporting for each day.
  • This setting also determines the latest end time that you can use for a scheduled shift and if an actual shift will be displayed in Ameego’s Time & Attendance.
• Daily Overtime: Daily overtime will be applied to the hours that occur after this setting for a shift. 
  • An employee can be set up to ‘Overtime Exempt’ in their profile settings if required.
• Weekly Overtime: Weekly overtime will be applied to the hours that occur after this setting for the week. 
  • The first and last days of the week as it pertains to weekly overtime are the same as your Ameego schedule week.
  • This may differ if your location is in BC. Click HERE to read more about BC weekly OT rules.
  • An employee can be setup to ‘Overtime Exempt’ in their profile settings if required.
• Primary Sales Metric: This will determine if Ameego’s sales reporting is Net or Gross.
• Break Rules: Break rules apply unpaid break(s) to scheduled shifts for the specified number of minutes if the shift hours meets or exceeds the specified shift length setting in hours. 
  • Break rules will be applied to actual shifts if your setting ‘Enable break rules for actual labour’ is set to YES.
• Show Department Groups on the Week to Date Report: If you only want to see the store totals in the WTD report and not the breakdown for each department group, then set this to NO. This will also apply to the automatically emailed version of the Week to Date report. 
  • Click HERE to read how to subscribe to the emailed Week to Date report and log notes. 

Department Group Settings

Navigation: Click the ‘Manage’ button on the People, Employee Manager page. Then click the ‘Edit’ button for any department group to view or update these settings.

• Wage Multiplier: Total wages for each shift will be multiplied by this amount. The default setting is 1. 
• Fixed Labour: You can enter any weekly amount here to account for employees that are paid by a fixed salary. The amount that is entered here will be divided by 7 (days of the week) and applied to each day as a set dollar amount of labour cost. 
• Sales Metric: If you want the specific department group to use a sales metric other than the primary sales metric of Net or Gross to calculate labour, then select it here. This will be reflected in Ameego reports and schedule pages.

Weekly Labour Card Settings

Navigation: Click the ‘Schedule’ tab and select any schedule week. Click the ‘Edit’ button within the department groups labour card to update the settings for that specific week. 

Each schedule week shows a labour card for each department group and reflects the settings of the department group. You have the ability to change the wage multiplier and fixed labour for this week only by clicking the ‘Edit' button within each department group. 

Employee Profile Settings

Navigation: Click on an employees profile to expand it and then click ‘Edit Profile’ 

The following settings within an employee's profile will determine the calculation of the shift. 

• Overtime exempt: If checked, the employee will not incur any daily or weekly overtime calculations for their scheduled and actual shifts. 
• Paid Breaks Apply to Overtime: If checked, paid breaks will be included in the daily or weekly hours as it pertains to overtime. 
• Enable Break Rules: If unchecked, the break rules in global settings will not apply to the employee. 
• Wages: The wage section can be found on the expanded main page of the profile (wages are not within the ‘Edit Profile’ page). The employee profile may have wages displayed for one or more departments. If you schedule the employee for one of these departments, then this is the wage that will be applied to the shift. If the employee does not have a wage for a department that you are scheduling them for, then the department default wage will apply to the scheduled shift. Click HERE to read more about Understanding Departments & Wages. 
  • If your employees are synced from your POS system then the wages cannot be edited in Ameego. They must be changed in the POS and will be synced over to Ameego in the next POS Match. 
  • If your employees are NOT synced from your POS system, then you can click the ‘Edit’ button within the wages section to add, remove or edit the wages in Ameego.

Department Settings

Navigation: Click on the setting wheel to the right of the department name.

• Department Default Wage: If an employee does not have a wage for this department in their profile and you schedule a shift for them in this department, then the department default wage will apply to the shift. 
  • The department default wage is what Ameego uses to calculate your theoretical labour in the Schedule / Manage Floor plan section. 

Payroll Settings

Navigation: Click the Intel tab, then click the ‘Payroll Settings’ sub tab. Click the ‘Payroll Settings’ menu item and click ‘Edit Settings’ to update the settings. 

If your location has the Payroll Export module added, and have turned on the option to include Statutory Holiday Premium Pay, then this will be reflected in all of the Ameego labour reporting for statutory holidays. Premium pay is not stat pay, but is the increased pay from working on a statutory holiday in your province. For most provinces this is usually 1.5 x the wage rate.

• We assume that ALL employees qualify for premium pay in all Reports, Time & Attendance and Schedule pages, whereas your actual payroll export will not apply the premium pay if the employee did not qualify.