Attendance & payroll
Attendance that knows where the punch happened.
Geo-tagged punch in and out from the phone, shifts and leave and week-off rules that agree with each other, and a monthly register that feeds pay instead of a spreadsheet.
- Geo-tagged punches
- Shifts, leave, week-offs
- A register that feeds payroll
In short
SimplCRM records attendance from the phone: each punch in and out carries its time and GPS location, and a workspace can require a location fix before it accepts one. Shifts, leave and week-off rules combine into a monthly register — present days, late marks and leave taken — which is what payroll is calculated from, so a field team is paid from the punches they actually made rather than a hand-kept sheet.
The punch, and where it happened
A field team on the phone, an office on the wall tablet — every punch time-stamped and pinned to a place.
- Geo punch
A place on every punch
In and out both carry a GPS fix and the branch they were near. A punch from outside the office area is flagged for a manager, not accepted in silence.
- Mandatory location
No location, no punch
Turn on the requirement and the punch button stays disabled until the phone has a fix, so “I forgot to share location” is not a way around it.
- The register
Present, late, leave — in one grid
The month reads shifts, week-offs and approved leave together, so nobody on leave is marked absent and the total that feeds pay is the true one.
How the rules fit together
What counts as late?
The shift decides. A punch is measured against the working hours assigned to that person, so 09:58 is on time on a 10:00 shift and late on a 09:30 one. Late marks accumulate on the register as their own count rather than being buried inside “present”, which is what a manager actually wants to see at the end of the month.
How is leave handled?
Applied for in the app and approved by a manager, against leave-type and week-off rules the workspace sets. Approved leave shows on the register as leave, not as an absence, and the balance left is visible to the person before they ask. A week-off is a day the register does not expect a punch, so it is not counted against anybody.
Can I trust a field team’s attendance?
More than a paper muster, because the punch carries where it was made. A rep punching in from a customer’s site shows that site; a punch from nowhere near any branch is flagged. Combined with the mandatory-location setting, the register reflects presence at a place rather than presence of a thumb on a shared device.
Where does payroll come from?
From the register, not a re-typed summary. Days present, late marks, leave and week-offs are the inputs pay is worked out on, so the figure a person is paid for traces back to punches with times and places on them. The chain from a punch to a payslip does not pass through a spreadsheet nobody can audit.
FAQ
Questions people ask
How does geo-tagged attendance work?
A staff member punches in and out from the SimplCRM app on their phone, and each punch records the time and the GPS location. Where a workspace requires it, a punch will not be accepted without a location fix, and a punch outside the branch’s area is flagged rather than silently accepted — so a field team’s attendance reflects where they actually were.
Can I set shifts, leave and week-offs?
Yes. Shifts define the working hours a punch is measured against, week-off rules set which days are off for whom, and leave is applied for and approved in the app. The monthly register reads all three together, so a person on approved leave is not marked absent and a week-off is not counted as a missed day.
Does it feed payroll?
The attendance register — days present, late marks, leave taken and week-offs — is the basis pay is calculated from, so the hours a person is paid for come from the punches they actually made rather than from a separate spreadsheet somebody maintains by hand.
What if someone forgets to punch out?
They get a reminder, and the open punch is visible to a manager rather than quietly closing itself at a made-up time. A missed punch is corrected as a recorded adjustment, so the register shows what happened and who changed it.
Put a punch on the map.
Add a branch, invite a phone, and watch the punch land with a time and a place on it.