How do I allow employees to work past midnight?

Firstly, the default shift settings can be configured in the Admin Console under Settings => Shifts => Defaults, as shown in the following screenshot. The relevant setting field is called "Work shift". The original default settings is for flexible shifts up to 15 hours, so that should already allow working past midnight, but you can still adjust the length if you like.

When choosing a maximum shift length, you should greatly not overestimate this value, because if the value is too high, then an employee who forgot to clock OUT one day may show up the next day and find that they are still clocked IN! It would be best to set this value slightly higher than the longest amount of time you would normally expect any employee to work.

Alternatively, you can set up more complex shift classes that can be configured to your suiting with an option to work through midnight. Check out our article on shift scheduling for more on that:  How to set up scheduling

Next, you'll want to configure how cross-midnight shifts are broken down in reports. You can now specify how you would like to allocate hours for shifts which cross midnight. You can configure it either for your entire organization or per pay class, as follows: