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Attendance tracking that doesn’t run on anyone’s memory

Right now the record of who actually worked Tuesday lives in three places — a group chat, a half-updated sheet, and whatever people remember on Friday.

Included on every plan, including the 30-day free trial · No terminal, no badges, no card needed.
shiftena.com/attendance
Mei Lin · still checked in5h 10m 49s
THE CURRENT WAY

By Friday, everybody’s Tuesday is a guess.

The left-hand column is not a strawman. It is what the record actually consists of when nobody is running attendance software, and the people producing it are busy, not careless.

RECONSTRUCTEDTue, 3 Sep 2026

CHAT MESSAGE

sir am coming, trafficreceived 09:41

SPREADSHEET

Rana K.

MEMORY

Jonas was in early — nine? half nine?

CHAT MESSAGE

taking the afternoon, told you last weekreceived 13:02

SPREADSHEET

Tomás B.

NOTHING

no message, no row
FourSOURCES
TwoROWS WITH NO TIME
NoneYOU CAN PROVE
ON THE BOARDTue, 3 Sep 2026
The same Tuesday on the attendance board: six people, each with a check-in time, a work duration and a review status.
NameInDurationStatus
JJonas Weber08:588h 8mAccepted
MMei Lin09:245h 10m 49sPending
DDaniel Okafor08:418h 11mAccepted
SSofia Petrov09:028h 29mAccepted
RRana Kaur08:475h 29m 19sPending
TTomás Braga08:528h 20mAccepted
OneSOURCE
SixROWS, ALL STAMPED
Named & timedEVERY EDIT

The right-hand version cost nobody any extra effort. Six people tapped a button.

ONE TAP

Two taps a day, and that’s the whole ask of your team.

Check in when they start, check out when they finish. Everything else on this page is built out of those two taps.

  • Check in and out from the web app or the desktop tracker — whichever one is already open.
  • Nothing to install for anyone who only needs to check in and out.
  • People do it themselves. No manager standing at a door marking a register.
  • The record is written the moment they tap, not reconstructed on Friday afternoon.
Get the free desktop app
WEB APP
STuesday, 3 SeptemberNot checked in yet
Check inCheck out
DESKTOP TRACKER
TODAY00:00:00Check in

In the browser there is nothing to install. On Windows and macOS the free tracker does the same thing from the taskbar, for people who would rather start the day in one place.

THE LIVE BOARD

Who is in, who is late, who is on leave — one screen.

You answer “is Rana in today?” by looking, not by asking — and looking doesn’t interrupt Rana.

AttendanceSeptember 3rd, 2026LIVE
The Shiftena attendance board for 3 September 2026 — six team members with work duration, check-in and check-out times, review status, mood and a row action.
01Work DurationCounts while the session is still open — Rana's row reads 5h 29m 19s and is still running.
02Check In / Check OutThe actual stamps, to the minute, rather than a rounded guess typed in later.
03StatusAccepted, or Pending your review. Here, the two pending rows are the two with no check-out yet.
04Export Attendance CSVThe day leaves as a file when payroll asks for it.
EVERY CHANGE, ATTRIBUTED

A record anyone can change silently is not a record.

Corrections are normal. People forget to check out, a laptop dies, someone spends the morning on a client site. The question was never whether attendance gets edited — only whether the edit leaves a name and a timestamp behind it.

  • Who changed it and when, kept with the row itself, not in a separate log nobody opens.
  • An approved leave day marks the attendance record, so an approved absence never reads as a no-show.
  • Editing is governed by roles and permissions, not by convention.
  • The day exports to CSV straight from the board.
See how roles and permissions work →
STATUS & ACTION · 3 SEP 2026FROM THE BOARD
  • MMei Linin 09:24 · out —PendingForce Checkout
  • RRana Kaurin 08:47 · out —PendingForce Checkout

What an edit trail looks like

EXAMPLE
  1. Checked in at 08:41by the employee, from the desktop tracker
  2. Session force-closedby a manager, from the board — the original check-in is kept
  3. Check-out corrected to 17:12by a manager, stored with their name and the moment they made it
WHAT IS AND ISN’T RECORDED

What a day’s record looks like

One person, one day, and the fields this page is about. The sample values are Jonas Weber’s row from the board above — including the two that are empty for him.

JJonas WeberAttendance record · Tue 3 Sep 2026ACCEPTED
Check-in time
Sep 03 2026, 08:58 AM
Check-out time
Sep 03 2026, 05:06 PM
Work duration
8h 8m
Status
Accepted
Edit history
none
Leave marker
none

Attendance never records

  • Location or GPS
  • Keystrokes
  • Browsing history
  • Microphone or camera
  • Anything on the device

Screenshots and work-session recording are a separate feature on Growth and above, with their own page.

See how screenshots work →
LEAVE & HOLIDAYS

Approved leave marks itself

An approved absence should never surface a month later as a no-show. Reconciling two separate lists at month end is where small teams lose an afternoon they do not get back.

  • An employee requests leave and sees their own remaining balance without asking anyone.
  • A manager approves once, and the attendance record follows automatically.
  • A public-holiday calendar lives alongside it, so the days your company observes are already there.
See leave & holidays
LApproved leaveHPublic holidayToday
ON EVERY PLAN

Attendance is never the thing you pay more for.

No per-seat attendance add-on, and no “contact sales” to see your own team’s check-ins. The trial is the full attendance feature, limited only by team size and storage.

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FAQ

Attendance, answered

Do we need a biometric or card terminal?

No. There is no hardware at all. People check in from the web app in a browser, or from the free desktop tracker on Windows and macOS. Nothing to buy, nothing to mount on a wall, nothing to replace when someone loses a badge.

Does it track anyone's location?

No. Attendance records a check-in time, a check-out time and the duration between them. There is no GPS, no location and no geofence anywhere in the feature.

Can a manager fix a wrong check-in?

Yes, and the fix carries a name. The correction is stored with the name of whoever made it and the moment they made it, so a manager can put a wrong time right but cannot do it quietly.

What happens if someone forgets to check out?

You force the checkout from the board — that is the red button on the row — and then correct the time to when they actually finished. The original check-in stays, and the correction carries a name. Forgotten check-outs are the usual reason to edit a row.

Is attendance included on every plan?

Yes, in full, including the free 30-day trial. Attendance, leave and the holiday calendar are baseline features. Plans differ on team size, storage and the extras built on top, never on whether your team can check in.

Do you take screenshots as part of attendance?

No. Screenshots and work-session recording are a separate feature on Growth and above, with their own page. Attendance on its own captures nothing but the times.

Tomorrow’s attendance, recorded as it happens.

Set the team up this afternoon, everyone checks in with one tap in the morning, and the day writes itself — no hardware to order and nothing to install for check-in.

Free for 30 days · No card needed · No biometrics, no badges, no GPS.