Establish the day record
Each attendance day needs a known shift, timezone, punch source and policy context. Exceptions should be explainable rather than silently corrected.
- Use effective-dated shifts
- Preserve original punches
- Label weekly offs and holidays explicitly
Resolve exceptions before cut-off
Regularisation, remote work, overtime and missed punches need owned queues and final statuses. A pending request should not look identical to an approved outcome.
- Set manager and escalation ownership
- Retain comments and timestamps
- Prevent duplicate or conflicting requests
Freeze with evidence
Before payroll consumes time data, review exceptions, lock the period and retain the approval state used for calculation.
- Compare totals with the previous period
- Protect locked periods from employee mutation
- Record who released the input
Use this as an operating guide
Adapt the checklist to your policies, legal advice, workforce and implementation scope. A product demonstration should prove the representative workflows you identify here.