---
title: Setting up Time & Attendance
description: "Time & Attendance\nWorkplaces\nDuty Locations"
---
[Skip to content](https://support.paidhr.com/setting-up-time-attendance#main-content)
English
Show submenu for translations
- Home
- Products
- Pricing
- Blog
- Company
Open main navigation
Close main navigation
- Home
- Products
- Pricing
- Blog
- Company
- English
Show submenu for translations
- Contact us
Contact us
How can we help you?
- There are no suggestions because the search field is empty.
1. [PaidHR Help Centre](https://support.paidhr.com/)
2. [Time & Attendance](https://support.paidhr.com/time-attendance)
3. [Setting up Time & Attendance](https://support.paidhr.com/time-attendance#setting-up-time-attendance)
# Setting up Time & Attendance
## Time and Attendance tracks employees’ work hours, attendance, and absences, supporting accurate compensation and workforce availability planning.
**How Time & Attendance is Structured**
Time & Attendance works like a staff roster: first choose the branch, then the exact work site, the rules for the team, the schedule, the available time slots, and the people included.
**Workplace → Duty location → Shift plan → Shift table → Shift period → Employees**
### The six building blocks
| Part | What it means | Example |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Workplace | A branch or office. It groups the employees and administrators who work there. | Lagos Head Office and Abuja Branch are separate workplaces. |
| Duty location | The exact physical place where employees report for work. A workplace has one main address and can have other work sites. | Head Office or the Ikeja Warehouse. |
| Shift plan | The rulebook for one group of employees: where they work, how shifts are arranged, how they clock in, who approves exceptions, and whether approved hours go to payroll. | Ikeja Warehouse Weekday Team has its own plan. |
| Shift table | The team's roster or calendar for a date range. It shows which employees are connected to which time slots on which days. | A September Warehouse Roster covering all weekday assignments for the month. |
| Shift period | A reusable work-time slot with a name, start time and end time. The same period can be assigned to different employees and days. | Morning Shift, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. |
| Employees | The people covered by the plan. | The warehouse team is assigned shifts, while support staff choose from available daytime periods. |
### How a rollout works
1. **Understand the company's working pattern.** Gather each branch, work site, schedule, employee group, attendance rule, approval path and payroll rule.
2. **Build and review the setup.** Keep each plan in **Draft** while you check that the details match your real process. Draft plans are editable and hidden from employees.
3. **Publish when the setup is ready.** Publishing changes the plan to **Active**, which makes it available for real employee and administrator actions.
4. **Launch and monitor.** Publish when you are ready for employees to see the plan, train your users, and watch the first attendance activity.
The next article is setting up [Workplaces & Duty Locations](https://app-eu1.hubspot.com/knowledge-article/26055346/editor/490147807438/content?redirectUrl=%2Fknowledge%2F26055346%2F339893973181%2Farticles%2Fstate%2Fall)
- [Getting started](https://support.paidhr.com/getting-started)
- [Admins: Start Here](https://support.paidhr.com/admins-start-here)
- [Employees: Start Here](https://support.paidhr.com/employees-start-here)
- [Payroll](https://support.paidhr.com/payroll)
- [Payroll Management](https://support.paidhr.com/payroll-management#main-content)
- [Payroll Changes](https://support.paidhr.com/payroll-management#payroll-changes)
- [Allowances](https://support.paidhr.com/payroll-management#allowances)
- [Statutory Remittance](https://support.paidhr.com/payroll-management#statutory-remittance)
- [Amend Payroll](https://support.paidhr.com/payroll-management#amend-payroll)
- [Cross-Border Payments](https://support.paidhr.com/cross-border-payments)
- [Earned Wage Access (EWA)](https://support.paidhr.com/earned-wage-access-ewa)
- [Loan Marketplace](https://support.paidhr.com/loan-marketplace)
- [Settings](https://support.paidhr.com/settings#main-content)
- [Confirmation](https://support.paidhr.com/settings#confirmation)
- [People](https://support.paidhr.com/people#main-content)
- [Onboarding](https://support.paidhr.com/people#onboarding)
- [Leave](https://support.paidhr.com/people#leave)
- [Exit](https://support.paidhr.com/people#exit)
- [Cantractor](https://support.paidhr.com/people#cantractor)
- [HRIS](https://support.paidhr.com/people#hris)
- [Request](https://support.paidhr.com/request#main-content)
- [Leave](https://support.paidhr.com/request#leave)
- [Exit](https://support.paidhr.com/request#exit)
- [Loan](https://support.paidhr.com/request#loan)
- [Performance Management](https://support.paidhr.com/performance-management#main-content)
- [Setting Up Performance Module](https://support.paidhr.com/performance-management#setting-up-performance-module)
- [Company Gaols](https://support.paidhr.com/performance-management#company-gaols)
- [Departmental Objectives](https://support.paidhr.com/performance-management#departmental-objectives)
- [Key Result](https://support.paidhr.com/performance-management#key-result)
- [Review](https://support.paidhr.com/performance-management#review)
- [Questionnaires](https://support.paidhr.com/performance-management#questionnaires)
- [Performance Management Glossary](https://support.paidhr.com/performance-management#performance-management-glossary)
- [Reports](https://support.paidhr.com/reports)
- [Benefits](https://support.paidhr.com/benefits)
- [Documents](https://support.paidhr.com/documents)
- [Assets](https://support.paidhr.com/assets)
- [Wallet](https://support.paidhr.com/wallet)
- [Time Tracking](https://support.paidhr.com/time-tracking)
- [Payslip](https://support.paidhr.com/payslip)
- [PaidHiring](https://support.paidhr.com/paidhiring)
- [Employee Wallet](https://support.paidhr.com/employee-wallet)
- [Disciplinary](https://support.paidhr.com/disciplinary)
- [Tasks](https://support.paidhr.com/tasks)
- [Loan](https://support.paidhr.com/loan)
- [Survey](https://support.paidhr.com/survey)
- [Salary Advance](https://support.paidhr.com/salary-advance)
- [Time & Attendance](https://support.paidhr.com/time-attendance#main-content)
- [Setting up Time & Attendance](https://support.paidhr.com/time-attendance#setting-up-time-attendance)
- Home
- Products
- Pricing
- Blog
- Company
[](http://paidhr.com)
**PaidHR Help Center**
[mailto:support@paidhr.com](mailto:support@paidhr.com)
Copyright © 2026, PaidHR