# Attendance

> Record when your staff arrived and left, and see how lateness, overtime and hours are worked out from their shift.

*Section: HR and payroll · Updated: 2026-10-19 · Needs the plan feature: hrm*

By the end you will have recorded when your staff arrived and left, and you will know how ArmPOS works out lateness and hours from their shift.

> **Note:** Attendance comes with HR, which some plans include. Your staff need an employee record and a shift first: see [Employees](/app/help/employees).

## Record a day

Attendance is entered by a manager: staff don't clock themselves in.

1. **Open [HRM › Attendance](/app/hrm/attendance)** and **click Create.**
2. **Pick the Company and the Employee.**
3. **Pick the Date** from the calendar.
4. **Set Time In and Time Out.** Click the box, then the hour on the clock, then the minutes, then **done**. The inner ring holds 12 to 23.
5. **Click Submit.**

![The Create attendance window: Company Demo Store, Employee Joseph Kato, Date 2026-10-15, Time In 08:20, Time Out 18:00, and Submit.](https://armpos.online/storage/help/402b4ad489-attendance-1-create.webp)
*All five are required. The times use the 24-hour clock.*

## How it is counted

ArmPOS compares each day with the employee's shift for that weekday:

- Arriving after the shift starts counts as late time. Arriving early is shown as the shift's start.
- Leaving before the shift ends counts as leaving early; leaving after it, as overtime.
- **Work Duration** is the time between arrival and departure.

![Attendance: Joseph Kato on 2026-10-15, 08:20 to 18:00, 09:40; Grace Auma on 2026-10-16, 08:00 to 17:30, 09:35; and Grace Auma on 2026-10-15, 08:05 to 18:10, 10:05.](https://armpos.online/storage/help/ad9617ff09-attendance-2-list.webp)
*Grace arrived at 07:55 on the 16th: the list shows the shift start, 08:00, and her duration counts from 07:55.*

**Reports › Attendance summary** adds up the hours by day or month, for a company or one employee.

## What's next

[Leave requests](/app/help/leave-requests).