This is where actual hours worked get recorded, and it is the number that matters most in the whole section. Logged hours feed your weekly labor cost, prime cost, and revenue per labor hour across Profit and Revenue Recovery, so what you enter here drives the numbers everywhere else.

1. Log an entry by hand

Open Labor → Log Hours, pick Enter Manually, then fill the row: date, staff member, shift, and hours worked, and Save Hours. Bar Cop costs it at the wage in effect on that date, so a past-dated entry after a raise still uses the old wage. For someone set up with a second role, a Role picker appears so you log the hours under the role they actually worked, at that role's rate.

Salaried staff can be logged for coverage, but their hours carry no hourly cost because they are paid a fixed salary.

2. Fill a whole week from the schedule

Pick Fill from Schedule to pull a posted week in instead of typing each row. Choose the week and Review and Log Week opens it. Everyone scheduled comes in checked with hours pre-filled, and anyone with a no-show or sick call-out for that day is unchecked for you. Uncheck anyone else who did not work, fix any hours, then log the week at once. Shifts already logged are kept out so nothing double-counts.

3. Or import a timeclock export

Got a timeclock or POS export? Drop it on Close The Week in Labor. Bar Cop matches each row to your roster by name and costs it at the wage in effect on the date worked. Anything that does not match, or is missing hours, is reported so you can fix it. The imported hours land in the list here to review and edit.

4. Review it in Labor History

Open Labor → Labor History to see your logged labor three ways. Day is one day: who worked, their hours and cost, and how it compared to the schedule, with anyone scheduled but not yet logged flagged so a missed entry never slips by. Week rolls up by staff and day with labor percent and revenue per labor hour against the forecast, good for Monday morning before building the next week. Range breaks any stretch down by department and staff, with cost, labor percent, and tips.

Once a pay period is closed in Pay Periods, its entries lock so the payroll handoff stays clean. Reopen the period there if you need to correct a locked entry.