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Attendance is the part of OnTime everything else reads from. Payroll counts its paid days, compliance registers list its hours, and reports aggregate it. Getting capture and correction right is most of the work.

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Capture, reconcile, correct

Punches are raw facts. The day record is the reconciled answer for one person on one date, judged against the shift they were rostered onto. See The attendance day lifecycle for how that derivation works and when it is final.

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Where to go

Punching

Clocking in and out — selfies, geofences, and what a pending punch means.

Live dashboard

Who is in right now, and the punch feed as it lands.

Day & calendar

The day report, the month matrix, and per-employee views with CSV export.

Manual punches & overrides

Recording a punch on someone’s behalf, and overriding a day or a range.

Regularization

The correction workflow: filing, the Manager to HR chain, evidence and discussion.

Overtime

Requesting and approving extra hours, and when they earn comp-off instead of pay.

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Punching at a terminal

Biometric hardware is set up separately from the rest of attendance — the terminals talk to a small connector service on your network, not directly to OnTime. Everything about registering devices, mapping their users to employees and troubleshooting missing punches lives in the Biometric Terminals tab.

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Two things worth knowing early

Employees cannot change their own attendance. They request a change, and somebody approves it. Administrators can edit directly — and every such edit is written to the audit log with who did it and why.
Once a payroll cycle freezes a month, corrections to days inside it are refused rather than silently dropped. Clear your regularization queue before the freeze.