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# 🚨 How to activate time entry alerts in haddock HR

haddock HR lets you set up **automatic alerts** that help you monitor schedule compliance, planning changes, and absence management. These alerts are linked to contracts and let you respond to any issue quickly and transparently.

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### ⚙️ How are alerts activated?

### ➤ Step by step:

1. Go to the main menu and open **“Rules”**.
2. Access the **“Contracts”** section.
3. Open the contract where you want to configure alerts.
4. Go to the **“Alerts”** tab.
5. Activate the alerts you need and save the changes.

🔔 All alerts apply only to employees assigned to that contract.

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### 📩 Automatic communication alerts

These alerts are used to keep supervisors and employees informed about relevant actions:

1. **Daily summary of missed time entries**

  - Daily email with time entries that have not been recorded in the last 10 days.
2. **Absence request**

  - Automatic email to the supervisor when someone requests an absence.
3. **Absence outcome**

  - Email to the employee when their absence is approved or denied.
4. **Group change**

  - Email to the employee when they are assigned to a new group.
5. **Shift change**

  - Email to the employee when a shift in their schedule is modified.
6. **Clock-in reminder**

  - Automatic reminder at the start of the shift if the person has not clocked in yet.

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### ⏱ Time entry alerts for schedule compliance

In the same **“Alerts”** tab within the contract, you will find a specific section to activate **alerts related to time entry behavior**. These alerts let you automatically detect deviations from the planned schedule.

### ➤ Available alert types:

- **Clock-in before the scheduled time**
- **Clock-in after the scheduled time**
- **Clock-out before the scheduled time**
- **Clock-out after the scheduled time**
- **Day without a recorded time entry**

📥 These alerts can be configured with tolerance margins so they can be adapted to flexible or strict time control policies.

### 🔎 Where are these alerts shown?

The incidents detected by these alerts are automatically recorded in the **“Time entry review”** section of the main menu. There you can:

- View all generated alerts.
- Filter by alert type, employee, or period.
- Correct time entries if needed or justify the situation.

✅ This panel is the key tool for daily monitoring and schedule compliance auditing.

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### 📝 Recommendations

- Activate only the alerts that are useful for your operation. Too many can create unnecessary noise.
- Customize tolerance margins if your team works with some flexibility.
- Review the **Time entry review** section weekly to detect recurring incidents.