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Attendance and leave

Shifts, devices and holidays, how attendance is recorded, and how leave types, rules and balances work.

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Set up attendance: company limits and the attendance year Before attendance and leave work, set the company's attendance limits and add the attendance year. Only one year can be active, and years may not overlap.
Shifts: the shift, its roster, employees and overrides A shift has a name and code; its roster gives start and end times, weekends and breaks for a date range and a branch; employees are mapped to a roster; an override…
Attendance devices and RFID cards Register each attendance device and group it, give each employee the device user id the device knows them by, and keep the RFID card numbers. Punches then reach Penahak…
Holidays and floating holidays List the holidays once, then give them dates for each attendance year and branch. A floating holiday is optional: it counts as a holiday only for an employee who asks…

Manual timesheet HR can enter a day's check-in and check-out by hand, or load many from Excel. An employee with the Manual attendance permission can add their own. One entry per employee…
Attendance quick views: shift, attendance detail, leave balance, birthdays Short pages anyone with a login can open to see their shift, a month-by-month attendance summary, their leave balance, and upcoming birthdays and work anniversaries.

How leave works: types, rules, balance and carry-forward A leave rule gives each job type a number of days of each leave type for the attendance year. A request takes first from this year's days, then from the balance brought…
Set up leave types and rules Add the leave types once. Then, for each attendance year, give each job type a number of days of each type, and say which types accumulate.
Opening leave balances Give each employee the leave days they already have when you start using Penahak, or bring a balance in by hand. A request can use these days after the rule's own days…