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Garde can automatically collect labor data from your POS system so that you can start seeing wage data on your P&L (and in your Budgets once budget tracking is available — coming soon). You can also add salaried employee data in Garde for a more complete picture of your labor costs. This article provides a high level overview, including POS compatibility and explains labor’s connection to your reporting. Please note that we do not support sending Labor data to your accounting system. Garde can pull it in for reporting purposes but cannot export it. The Labor feature in Garde is currently available for restaurants that use the following POS systems:
  • Toast
  • Square
  • Clover
  • ChowBus

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Permission Roles for Viewing Labor Data

Garde users (who are not a Garde Admin) will need to be assigned one of the two labor roles in order to access labor data in their restaurant. Below is a description of the two roles: Payroll Manager – Users with the Payroll Manager role can view all pages in the labor feature. They can also create salaried employees and manage which users have access to the labor feature. Shift Reviewer – Users with the Shift Reviewer role can view the Shifts page and labor on the P&L. Shift Reviewers cannot view any other pages that may reveal sensitive salary or wage data.

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How do I access the Labor feature in Garde?

If you use one of the listed supported POS systems, it should be enabled automatically. If you think you should be able to see your labor data but can’t, please contact contact@garde.app and request access to the labor feature in Garde. In your request, provide a list of users you would like to grant the Payroll Manager role to.

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Labor Navigation Sections

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Summary

The Labor Summary page displays labor costs broken out by Category, Employee, or Job title.

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Shifts

The Shifts page displays punch data from the POS.

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Employees

The Employees page displays the full list of employees from your POS. You can also add salaried employees here.

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Setup

The Setup page is where you can manage your pay periods and map job titles to labor categories.

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Labor on your Controllable P&L

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Controllable P&L

Once you have the labor feature on and you have all of your job titles mapped to categories, you’ll be able to see summarized category-level data under Performance > Controllable P&L. Only users with the Payroll Manager or Shift Reviewer role will be able to view labor data on the P&L.

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Budgets (Coming Soon)

Once budget tracking is available, you’ll be able to add your labor categories to a budget for a complete view of your labor spend.

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Ready to get going? Head here next: Setting up Labor in Garde