Time and Attendance System

What is a Time & Attendance System?

A time and attendance system is a comprehensive tool that allows you to track employee hours automatically, manage time sheets effectively eliminating the need for manual time sheets. This not only saves time but also significantly increases accuracy. The software is capable of logging hours worked, overtime, breaks, and leave, which is crucial for accurate payroll data processing.

By automating time and attendance management, you can streamline administrative tasks, improve efficiency, and ensure accurate payroll data calculations. It also provides better transparency for both you and your employees regarding attendance-related information.

uAttend's Time and Attendance features include:

Time Tracking and Management: uAttend tracks employee hours, including regular hours, overtime, and paid time off. It also supports customisable pay rules to accommodate complex pay structures and overtime calculations.
Overtime Calculation: You can automatically calculate overtime hours based on predefined rules, such as the number of hours worked in a day or week that exceed regular working hours or specific thresholds.
Absence Management: The software enables employees to request time off directly through the system, which supervisors can review and approve. The software keeps track of approved leaves and its impact on employee attendance and payroll.
Integration with Payroll: Our time and attendance software integrate with payroll software, allowing seamless transfer of attendance and work hour data for accurate and efficient payroll processing.
Mobile Access: Our software offers a mobile app designed to provide employees with convenient access to their time and attendance information. The app can use the smartphone's GPS capabilities to verify your employee's location, when clocking in and out.
Reporting and Optimising: You can generate various reports and analytics related to employee attendance, working hours, overtime, and other relevant data. These reports can help you optimise staffing costs, monitor attendance trends, and ensure compliance with employment laws and regulations.

How can Time and Attendance Software benefit your business?

Gaining access to real-time attendance data facilitates immediate management decisions, enabling swift resource allocation and schedule adjustments. This access provides a live snapshot of the current status of the workforce, detailing who is present, absent, or has clocked in late or left early. Such live information serves as a critical resource for managers making time-sensitive and informed decisions.

Our cloud-based software allows you to:

Save time. You can considerably reduce the amount of time spent on admin tasks such as payroll processing, staff holiday management, etc.
Know exactly which employees are at work at any given time - and where they clocked in, including remote locations using geofencing options.
Get real-time insights into matters such as your staffing costs, absence issues and staff holidays, allowing you to make decisions the moment they are needed.
Produce quick and detailed reports. These can be on specific departments, a branch/site or the entire company, over a date range of your choosing.
Improve staff morale by promoting accountability and transparency in timekeeping. This eradicates resentment, leading to happy workers and increased productivity.

How can you get the most out of your Time and Attendance System?

No matter how efficient, reliable or affordable your time and attendance system may be - and uAttend ticks all of those boxes very well, you still want to be sure that you are really making the most of it and using the software to its maximum potential.

Which begs the question, how can you do that? For a start, by taking full advantage of the free online training provided by our friendly uAttend team. Better still, as you are sent a copy of the training session, you can share it out amongst your staff, giving your workers all the information they need in order to use the system and its features correctly.

You will also have access to free ongoing support whenever you need it, so there is no pressure to learn everything at once at the very beginning. Good time and attendance software should be user-friendly and intuitive, and uAttend is both of these things, which means functionalities such as reporting and holiday requests will become second nature in no time.

As well as our free clocking methods (Smartphone and Web) you will have access to a range of functions that all come as standard with your subscription. These include:

Track employee hours - mix and match our clocking systems to suit your needs.
Automated payroll data - including your overtime and pay rate calculations.
Employee scheduling - easily plan shifts, roles, employee numbers and more.
Reporting - reduce your staffing costs, and manage absences and holidays.
Holiday management - approve holiday requests and time off through the system.
Data exports - payroll, reports and timesheets.
Unlimited departments - Separate employees any way you like, from branches, to sites, to departments, to project-based cost centres.