Attendance that reads itself.
Attendance software mostly asks people to claim they arrived. TimeNova observes it: the first tracked minute is the start, the schedule says what was expected, and the difference is reported without anyone filling anything in.
Attendance against each person's own schedule, in their own timezone.
What it does
- Schedules that match reality. Working hours per person or per group, each evaluated in the person's own timezone. Every account has a schedule from day one, so "no schedule" is never the reason a report is empty.
- Night shifts are one shift. A 22:00 to 06:00 schedule crossing midnight is understood as a single shift, and late or absent is computed against it correctly, which is where most tools quietly break.
- Started late, did not start. The Team view answers the two questions every manager asks at 9:15, computed from each person's own schedule, phrased to inform rather than accuse.
- Track only working hours, if you choose. On automatic-tracker machines, capture outside a person's schedule can be blocked at the source: the tracker pauses itself and the server refuses stray samples as a backstop. The evening is off-limits by construction, not by policy.
- Leave and breaks, visible. Approved leave shows as a leave day, company breaks show as breaks on the timeline, and neither is silently mixed into worked time.
Built on tracked truth
Because attendance is derived from the same tracked seconds as everything else, it can never disagree with the hours report beside it. One classification, every report. See time tracking for how the underlying day is measured.
How attendance is decided
Attendance is a comparison between a schedule and a tracked day. Both inputs must be correct for the result to be usable.
- Each person has their own schedule and their own timezone. Not the company's timezone with an offset applied. A night shift in Manila is judged as a night shift, not as a strange Tuesday in Pune.
- Their tracked day is built from readings, not clicks. Start time is when work actually started on the computer, so nobody clocks in and then makes coffee for twenty minutes.
- The two are compared, and the gap is what you read. On time, late, absent, or finished early, against their schedule rather than a company-wide clock.
- Breaks and leave are subtracted correctly. A lunch the clock paused itself for is not absence. Approved leave is leave and not a missing day.
- The reports and the timeline agree, because they read the same numbers. The attendance report is where schedule judgements live. The timeline deliberately does not repeat them, so you never get two different verdicts on one morning.
What attendance will not do
- No clock-in button to game. Attendance is taken from tracked work, not from a person pressing a button when they arrive.
- No opinion about lateness. Two minutes late is shown as two minutes late. The product does not escalate it, colour it red or email anybody about it unless you set up an alert that says to.
- No payroll. TimeNova reports hours and can carry a cost rate, but it does not run payroll and does not file anything.
- No mobile or GPS attendance. This is computer-based attendance. A field team standing in a warehouse is not what this measures.
Attendance and working hours, asked every week
Does this work for night shifts and split shifts?
Yes. Each person carries their own schedule and their own timezone, and a shift that crosses midnight is judged as one shift rather than split across two calendar days.
What counts as the start of someone's day?
The first real work on the computer, taken from the tracker rather than from a person pressing a button. Meetings count as work, so a day that opens with a call starts at the call.
How are lunch and breaks handled?
You define company breaks, and the tracker pauses the clock once somebody passes the idle limit, so a lunch is neither counted as work nor held against anyone as absence.
What about approved leave?
Leave is recorded and shown as leave. It never appears as an absent day or a missed schedule.
Can a manager see only their own team's attendance?
Yes. A manager sees the group they are assigned to and nobody else, enforced on the server rather than by hiding links.