One Clock in / Clock out from the desktop agent. Shifts with timezones, grace periods, working days. Late and early-leave flags computed on a scheduler job — the moment a shift starts, the math is already done. No spreadsheets, no Mondays.
Every shift carries its own timezone, working days, grace period, and break window. Assign with an effective-from date. A new IST team starting on Monday is one effective-shift row away — past attendance stays untouched.
Name, start, end, timezone, grace, break, working-day toggles. Save once, assign to as many employees as you want. Re-assign with a new effective_from date when someone moves teams or rotates onto nights — the past stays clean, the future picks up the new schedule.
Most teams clock in from the desktop agent HUD — single button, agent starts capturing. Some roles (visiting consultants, field staff) clock in from the web. Both write to the same attendance_logs row. Same status field, same late-by-minutes math, one chain.
Leave requests land in the same approval queue as manual time entries and project edits. Managers approve all three in one pass with the same shortcuts. Status changes audit-log the manager id + timestamp. The employee gets one email — not three.
| Employee | Type | Dates | Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anita Desai | Annual | Jun 12 → Jun 14 · 3d | |
| Marcus Wong | Sick | May 28 · 1d | |
| Priya Mehta | Paternity | Jul 1 → Jul 21 · 15d | |
| Ravi Krishnan | Unpaid | Aug 5 → Aug 9 · 5d |
No surveillance, no badge readers — just one job that knows your shift.
| Employee | Clock in | Status | Δ vs shift |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anita Desai | 21:58 | present | -2m |
| Marcus Wong | 22:04 | present | +4m |
| Priya Mehta | 22:21 | late | +21m |
| Ravi Krishnan | — | absent | — |
| Sarah Lim | 21:54 | present | -6m |
Per-region public holidays prefilled, plus your own custom days. Holidays flip cells to leave automatically — no manual roster work.
Move someone from APAC night to APAC day with an effective_from. The handover preserves history; the next pay cycle reads the new schedule.
Aggregations roll up in the org base timezone. Per-employee figures read in each shift timezone. No more whose-clock confusion.
Opt-in alert that fires X minutes past a shift start. Manager, HR, on-call rota — each side toggles their own delivery.
CSV and PDF exports plus a REST API. Worked-minutes per employee per pay-period, late and leave columns included. Pick the column layout your payroll tool expects — we hand it the clean numbers, your tool computes pay.
Every status change, every leave decision, every shift assignment writes to the append-only audit log. Filter by actor and export when an auditor asks.
"Three shifts, two timezones, four supervisors arguing about who was actually late. Spreadsheets every Monday."
Shift + grace stored per row. Late detection runs as a job at shift_start + grace. The Monday standup reads the dashboard, not an email thread.
"Annual leave balance was an HRBP's spreadsheet. Three accidental over-allocations per quarter."
Per-type cap enforced at request. Approved leave auto-blocks the calendar. Balance shows on the employee dashboard — zero accidental overallocations this quarter.
"One team in BLR, one in LIS, one in MEX, one in NYC. The Mondays were a war zone every single week."
One shift per region, all running independently. Cross-tz totals roll up in the org base currency for payroll export; employee figures read in their local tz.
Late detection used to be a Tuesday-afternoon spreadsheet. Now it's a Monday-morning glance.
The leave-cap enforcement caught two double-bookings on day one. Paid for itself before the trial ended.
Europe/Berlin, an IST-day shift in Asia/Kolkata, and a US-prep shift in America/New_York simultaneously. Each one's clock-in math uses its own tz.
14 days, full access, no card. We'll import last year's roster during onboarding so your reports keep their trend the day you switch.