This page is for employees. Check in from employee home when you start. The request is saved only if it succeeds. A check-in is not pay.

![Check in](/files/help/employee-check-in-2.mp4 "Choose Check in on employee home. After it saves, the button changes to Check out.")

1. Open **Employee Portal**, then **Home**.
2. Under **Time clock**, choose **Check in**.
3. Wait until the chip says **Checked in at** with a time, and the button changes to **Check out**. A **Checked in** confirmation appears.

The line under your name can still say you are not scheduled. That line is the day. The chip is the check-in.

## What you should see

**Time clock** sits on the right of the greeting. Before a check-in, the button is **Check in**. After it saves, the chip reads **Checked in at** and a time, and the button is **Check out**.

Under the button, the page says location is captured only for this check-in, it does not prove who you are, and a failed request is not saved.

## If something looks wrong

**Check in** is missing when the time clock is off for you.

If the button already says **Check out**, you are already checked in. The chip shows **Checked in at**. After midnight, an open check-in from the previous day still shows **Check out**.

If you are offline, the button stays off and the page says a check-in is saved only after this page can reach SmoothHiring. Try again when you are back online.

If the request fails, the notice is **Check-in failed**. Nothing is saved.

If the company turned on **Refuse clock-in outside a work site**, a check-in away from a work site is refused. That switch is under **Scheduling**, in **Schedule rules**, and it stays off until someone turns it on and chooses **Save rules**. The message is **You are outside the work site. Clock in from the workplace.** If the page cannot see location, it says **Allow location so we can confirm you are at a work site.**

At a shared desk, use the [shared clock code](/hrms/attendance/clock-station-code) and [confirm on the page](/hrms/attendance/confirm-a-clock-in). When you leave, [check out](/hrms/attendance/check-out-from-home).