Attendance Policy
The grace minutes, the late and half day counts and the days they cost, held as two lists of rules.
Shift Pattern
The repeating cycle a crew works, four days on and two off, and which shift applies on each day of that cycle.
Shift Roster
Puts one shift pattern on a list of employees from a date, and sets the day the cycle starts.
Roaster
An old screen superseded by Shift Roster. Do not configure it.
Attendance Machine
Registers one biometric or card reader so its punches reach PeopleNest, and says how it is read.
Schedule Machine
A named reading schedule for attendance devices, as an interval, as fixed times, or both.
Geofencing Locations
The places a person may mark attendance from, each as a point on the map and a radius around it.
Employee Geofencing Location
Which places a named person may mark attendance from, and between which dates and times.
Exemption Type
The short list of reasons an attendance mark may be forgiven.
Leave Type
Annual, casual, sick and the rest, with what each one is and who is allowed to take it.
Leave Group
How many days of each leave type a class of employee gets, how it accrues, and what happens to the balance at year end.
Time Management Setting
The choices that apply to the whole Time Management module for one company.
Employee Leave Entitlement
Opening leave balances at go live, and a hand adjustment to one person's balance afterwards.
Leave Allocation Run
The year end run that carries forward, lapses and allocates leave for everybody at once.
Employee Attandance
The day by day attendance of a group of people, pulled from the readers and corrected by hand where it is wrong.
Employee Attendance Request
The approved way to correct a day's attendance, raised by the employee instead of edited by HR.
Employee Request Leave
The leave application an employee raises for himself, checked against his balance and sent for approval.
Employee Leaves
The record of leave actually taken, and the only thing that spends a leave balance.
Leave Cancellation
Giving back leave that was approved, either all of it or the part he did not take.
On Duty Request
A day worked away from the gate, approved so the reader's silence does not read as absence.
Overtime Request
Overtime asked for, approved and paid, as the alternative to taking it from attendance hours.
Comp Off Request
Claiming a day off in return for a rest day or holiday worked, instead of being paid for it.
Shift Change Request
One man, one day, a different shift or a day off, approved without touching the roster.
Exemption Request
Asking for a late, early, half day, absence or missing punch to be forgiven for a stated reason.
Leave Encashment
Turning an unused leave balance into money, at a day rate worked out from the salary and a divisor.
Payroll Attendance
The sheet that turns a month of attendance into the days payroll pays and the days it deducts.