Lunch Break - Flexible, Mandatory and Contracted. What's the difference?

When you are setting up a break within a shift, you will see 3 tick boxes that are labelled:

• Flexible
• Mandatory
• Contracted

Flexible breaks - can be taken any time within the breaks given Start and Finish times. 

Mandatory breaks - Are used with the Default Start and Default End, to insert a break when not clocked by the given Default Start time. 

Contracted - If ticked, the break time will count towards paid hours. 

Note:

The 3 are not mutually exclusive and can be used together. For example, a flexible, mandatory break will allow an employee to clock their break at any time within the Start and End time, but the system will insert a break if they do not take it by the Default Start time.