Best attendance tracking software
- Points that end employment, in the window
- 8
- Unexcused absences alone that reach it
- 8
- Tardies alone that reach it
- 16
Every figure on this page is computed from the policy figures you enter, by the method stated below it. RollCallWorks publishes no norm for points, thresholds or windows and asserts no legal rule: the defaults are a worked example to replace with your own policy.
The best attendance tracking software for a small employer is the one that tracks against a policy rather than a calendar. A calendar with colours tells you who was off; a policy tells you what it meant, how many points it scored, and how close the person is to the line. Most tracking software is a calendar with a per-user price and the policy left in a drawer. This guide is about what tracking has to do to be worth paying for, and the free attendance policy on this site writes the policy the tracking runs on with no account.
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Track against the policy, or the tracking is decoration
The policy sets what an absence, a tardy and a no-call score and where the line is; tracking that does not carry those numbers records events without meaning. The policy template on this site turns the five numbers into a document, and shows how many of each event reaches the threshold on its own, so the policy is understood before it is applied.
The window is the forgiveness, and it has to roll
Points count in a rolling window and fall off after it, and a tracker that totals for the calendar year instead of the rolling window punishes January and forgives December. The tracker has to hold each event's date and total only the ones inside the window on the day the question is asked.
The person sees their points, and the write-up cites the paragraph
The best tracking makes the points visible to the employee, so the conversation at the threshold is about the record and not the surprise, and every write-up cites the policy paragraph it applies. The paid plan keeps the roll call, the points and the write-ups against the person and exports them.
Best attendance tracking software: common questions
What makes attendance tracking software good for a small business?
It holds the policy as numbers, scores every event the same way, totals the points in a rolling window, shows the employee where they stand, files the write-up with the policy it cites, and exports. A colour-coded calendar and a per-user fee are what it should not be.
Is there free attendance tracking software?
The tools on this site are free and need no account: the attendance policy, the points calculator and the tracker template each work the attendance on the page from your own policy. RollCallWorks Pro adds the tracking itself, every shift and write-up against the employee with the points in the window.
Should a points system count excused absences?
That is the policy's decision and often the law's: an absence covered by a protected leave may not lawfully be scored, and a doctor's note usually clears one under most policies. The tools score what you enter as unexcused; whether an absence is excused is your policy's call and your adviser's.
RollCallWorks Pro
Keeping what you make
The policy and the arithmetic are free forever. Pro turns them into the record: every employee with their points in the window, every shift's roll call, every write-up filed against the person with the policy it cited, your business name on it, and a clean export when the question comes.
- Download as PDF
- No RollCallWorks watermark
- Save every employee's points and reopen them later
- Your business name and logo on it
- Export the whole roll call in one go
- Points-threshold and write-up reminders emailed to your leads
- Connect your own Stripe account and get paid online
- Connect your QuickBooks Online or Xero
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