Employee attendance software that fits your schedule
Set your office hours once, decide the working hours you actually pay for, and let Tickin flag late arrivals to the right managers, all in your workspace timezone.
Attendance built around how your team actually works
Tickin attendance starts from your real schedule instead of a rigid template. You define the office hours your team is expected to keep, choose the daily working hours you pay against, and set a grace period if you want a little breathing room in the morning. From there, clock-ins are measured against your rules and surfaced in the My Day view, so employees always know where they stand and managers get a clear, timezone-correct picture of attendance without chasing spreadsheets.
Office hours
Office hours are your workspace start and end time, for example 09:00 to 18:00. They describe the schedule your team is expected to keep and drive two things: whether a clock-in counts as late, and how the My Day view is framed for each employee. Office hours are about expectations, not money. They do not set the payable value, and they do not calculate overtime, so you can shape them purely around when you want people at work.
Daily working hours (Auto or Manual)
Daily working hours are the payable value everything downstream uses: overtime, monthly required hours, payroll, and reports. Tickin can auto-track this from your office hours span, or you can set it manually. That manual option matters when the office window and the paid time differ, for example an 8-hour paid day inside a 09:00 to 18:00 window with an unpaid lunch. Once you set a manual value, Tickin never overwrites it until you explicitly choose Reset to Auto, so your payroll baseline stays exactly where you put it.
Grace period
The grace period is an allowed late arrival, and it is off by default. When you turn it on you pick from 0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 45, or 60 minutes, with 15 as the default. An arrival counts as late only when the clock-in time, in your workspace timezone, lands after the office start plus the grace window. Grace is deliberately narrow in scope: it only affects lateness notifications. It never changes duration, overtime, payroll, or monthly required hours, so giving people a few forgiving minutes in the morning has no hidden cost to your pay calculations.
Late-arrival notifications
When someone clocks in late, Tickin sends a late-arrival notice to managers in Slack or Microsoft Teams, whichever you have connected and selected. Notifications respect your workspace timezone, fire on working days only, and skip public holidays automatically. To keep the signal clean, each employee triggers at most one late-arrival notice per working day. Managers get a timely heads-up where they already work, without a stream of noise.
Working days & timezone
Your working days are configurable, so attendance rules apply only on the days your team is scheduled to work. Everything runs in your workspace timezone and stays DST-safe, which means lateness, notifications, and the My Day view all reflect the correct local time even across daylight saving changes. On higher tiers you can add optional GPS geofence verification to confirm that clock-ins happen at the expected location.