Muster demo — a UK timesheet app that applies your employer's overtime rules. What Muster is

Muster
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This is a demo

No sign-in, no account, no password. Everything here is invented, nothing is saved, and it never touches a real timesheet.

What Muster is

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Log time

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Clock in

Where

Onsite
Overnight stay
Allowance£0.00

Break is asked when you clock out. So is mileage. Overnight can be set either here or there — whichever you know first.

Clock out

Started—
Finish—
Total—

An unpaid break shortens the paid time by that much.

Onsite
Overnight stay
Allowance£0.00

Pause for

The timer stops and the job is held. Paused time is not paid, and nothing is running — so you can clock in on a different job and come back to this one afterwards.

   

Jobs

Job

Summary

Actions

Summary

Before you send it

Needs attention

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Timeline

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Transport and hotels

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Where you have been

Days by country

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From a confirmation

Paste the airline's confirmation email, or the calendar invite attached to it. A booking reference on its own cannot be looked up — it belongs to the airline that issued it.

Add trip

Add stay

Home assumption

Recorded days and assumed days stay separate. This is for home-country convenience, not legal evidence.

   
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New entry

Date & time

Different time zone at finish
Day—

Location & allowances

Overnight stay
Onsite
Recorded on the company ERP
Allowance£0.00

Mileage

Notes

Hours (calculated)—

Pay cycle

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Send to HR

Fills in the TS-100 HR issued and downloads it. Worth checking the figures first — this is the version that gets read.

Expected pay

An estimate, not a payslip. Shown only when pay figures are switched on in Settings.

Your hours

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Show by

Jobs

Hours, entries and mileage per job. Jobs themselves are created and edited in the admin console — including the order number that becomes the job code.

Blank forms

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Each form covers a fixed run of periods. When yours runs out, upload the next one here and Muster picks it automatically — nothing else to change.

How do you work?

Set up for—

Employed: the end of a period is the timesheet HR is sent. Self-employed: you invoice your hours. It sets how you are paid too.

Features

Switch off what you do not use. Each switch saves at once. Nothing you have recorded is ever removed, and switching a feature back on shows it all again.

Home and workplace
Where you live and work, and what applies to you
Home town—

Days you work away from your home country are recorded as stays by themselves, each named by its town, so the app stops asking where you stayed. Only the town is kept here, never your exact spot.

Towns are looked up on the Muster server itself; your position is not sent anywhere else. Town names from GeoNames, CC BY 4.0.

Attach GPS to entries

What Muster records, and what it does not

Measure journeys by road

Sends a journey's start, stops and end - no name or account - to the routing service the station uses, to work out road miles. What has been sent cannot be recalled; turning this off stops any more being sent.

Company ERP reminder
Shift pay (unsociable hours)

Mon–Thu 06:00–08:00 and 17:30–22:00 only. Non-contractual and at manager discretion.

Your working day
Hours, default job, when your records begin

What the “Not worked” button offers for a day with no contracted hours. 0 offers 8.

The day you began recording in Muster. Earlier days are drawn as a standard week — 8.5 h Monday to Thursday, 5 h Friday, which is the 39 — hatched, and counted in nothing. They never reach the timesheet or the pay figures.

I have signed the 48-hour opt-out

Most contracts ask for it when you join. With it on, the week card says nothing about the 48-hour limit. The hours are counted the same either way.

Allowances
What a night away is worth, and where the UK rate applies

Two-letter codes, comma separated. Everywhere else gets the overseas rate. Jersey (JE), Guernsey (GG) and the Isle of Man (IM) are not part of the UK — add them here if your employer treats them as such.

Pay
Off by default. The hours check the same either way
Show pay figures

Overtime rules
The week, and which column each kind of hour is claimed in

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Hours above this in a Monday–Sunday week are overtime.

The column on the TS-100 those hours are claimed in.

Every Sunday hour, whether or not the week passed the threshold.

With the day in lieu switch below off, a worked bank holiday’s hours sit outside the week and are claimed in this column. On, as shipped, its normal day is claimed at plain rate and the hours past it in the x2.0 column instead.

Travel counts toward the week

On: travel hours push you toward the threshold and are paid at whatever the week earns. Off: they leave the week and are claimed separately in Travel x1.0.

Travelling on a Sunday can be worth less than working on one. Leave this as the Sunday column unless the agreement carves it out.

The payroll period runs from this day of the month to the day before the next one, so 11 means the 11th to the 10th. It is not free: HR’s workbook has one sheet per period, and days outside that sheet have nowhere to be written. The export still runs and says so at the top, loudly — a right period and an out-of-date workbook is a real situation, and only you can say which is wrong. 1 to 28, because a boundary that moves in February is not a boundary.

Working a bank holiday also earns a day in lieu

A choice, not something Muster knows — the form states no multiple for a worked bank holiday. On, as shipped, claims the normal day at plain rate and counts it toward the week, claims the hours past it in the x2.0 column, and records a day owed, which is claimed through HR and never on this timesheet. Off claims every hour in the bank holiday column above, and no day.

What you are contracted to work each day. A weekday with no entry is assumed at contract, so the week is not read as short.

Display
How it looks, which language, and which clock the times are shown in

Kept with your account, so it follows you to another phone or a laptop.

Daylight theme

A light screen for working outside. Not automatic — a phone’s dark mode follows the clock, not the weather.

Show times in your account’s zone

Account
Who you are signed in as

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Exactly as payroll spells it. It is the name on every timesheet you send; left blank, the timesheet uses your display name and says so.

Help
The user manual, and which version this is
User manual

Opens in your browser. What each screen does, and why, where the why decides what you are paid.

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Say this version when you report a problem.