Move attendance off paper time cards and Excel — clock in/out and monthly summaries in one system
When employees clock in on paper cards or in a personal spreadsheet, the data is not usable until someone retypes all of it into a monthly summary — and leave requests, tracked in yet another document, do not connect to the actual attendance record. A shared clock-in system with a real monthly view fixes both.
Why paper time cards and Excel don’t scale
A paper time card or a personal spreadsheet is not usable data until someone manually retypes every entry into a monthly summary — a repetitive task that grows with headcount and is where transcription errors creep in.
Leave requests tracked in a separate form or document do not automatically show up against the attendance record, so reconciling “was this day worked, or approved leave” at month end becomes its own investigation.
Clock in and out against a shared attendance record
d-bye’s attendance template is built on departments, employees, work patterns, attendance records, and leave requests as real, connected data — not a paper form and a side spreadsheet. A clock-in screen captures the actual time, and a monthly attendance list is generated from that record directly, not retyped from cards.
Because leave requests are part of the same data model, a day off does not have to be manually reconciled against the attendance record — it is already the same underlying system.
Try it before you build anything
The template previews with the clock-in screen and a monthly attendance list already working end to end. It is faster to see the shared record in action first, then adjust work patterns and fields to match your own company’s policy.
See it for yourself
Preview this exact template and generate working code from it.