Customize your ServerLife Preferences | ServerLife Help Center

Use Preferences to set up ServerLife around the way you work. Open More → Preferences, then choose the setting you want to adjust.

Basics

Daily Shift reminder: Set a daily reminder to record your shift.
Start of Week: Choose the day you want your week to begin. Your Pay Period dates follow your configured pay schedule separately.
Pay Periods: Set your default payroll schedule so you can review your recorded earnings for the same dates shown on your pay stub. With Premium, you can set separate Pay Periods for each job.
Currency: Choose the currency you use to record your earnings.
Hours format: Turn this on to display hours and minutes, such as 8:30, instead of decimal hours, such as 8.5. Both represent eight hours and 30 minutes.
Theme: Adjust the app’s appearance, including whether it follows your device’s theme.
Hourly wage: Available with ServerLife Premium. Manage your hourly wage through Positions.

Review your subscription status, manage your subscription or select Restore purchases if your paid access isn’t showing.

For help, see the help guides in Subscriptions & Billing.

The additional tracking fields below are available with ServerLife Premium.

Choose the fields you want to use when recording a shift:

Cash & credit tips: Record cash and credit tips separately.
Tip out: Record money you give to others.
Sales total: Record your sales for each shift.
Tip in: Record money you receive from others. Use Add to take-home to choose whether to include it in your Take Home.
Covers / guests: Record how many people you serve during a shift.

Mileage and delivery tracking are available with ServerLife Premium.

Customize the driving and delivery information you record:

Expense tracking is available with ServerLife Premium.

Select Configure Categories to manage the categories you use to organize your expenses.

Goals are available with ServerLife Premium.

Select Configure Goals to create or update daily, weekly, monthly or yearly goals. You can also disable a goal you no longer want to use.

With ServerLife Premium, you can track multiple jobs and positions, compare your earnings across them and set a separate Pay Period for each job.

Set up the details that help you organize and compare your earnings:

Jobs: The employers you work for.
Positions: The roles you work and their hourly wages.
Shift Types: The types of shifts you work, such as lunch, dinner, opening or closing.
Sections: The areas you work, such as the patio or bar.

Schedules are available with ServerLife Premium.

Show Schedule on Calendar: Choose whether your scheduled shifts appear on your ServerLife Calendar.
Sync with your Calendar: Connect your ServerLife schedule with your phone’s calendar.
Schedule Reminders: Manage reminders for your upcoming scheduled shifts.

Customize the summary above your Calendar:

Show Totals on Calendar: Display a total row on the Calendar page.
Summary Fields to Display: Choose what summary fields appear above your Calendar.
Compare Month to Date: When viewing the current month, compare your totals so far with the same days of the previous month, instead of the full previous month. This updates the comparison percentages below your summary totals and requires Show Comparisons to Previous Month to be turned on.
Show Comparisons to Previous Month: Include the previous month’s totals for comparison.
Show Goal Progress: Display your existing monthly goals for the fields shown in your summary. To create a goal, open Configure Goals.

Choose the information shown on your Calendar:

Open Chat with Support in ServerLife and tell us which setting you need help with.