Time and Attendance

Time and attendance hours captured, not self-reported

Hours are captured automatically as work happens. Anything added by hand routes to a named approver first, and every entry lands in a record no one can quietly edit later.

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The challenge

Somebody added Tuesday's hours on Friday

Nobody can say whether those hours happened. They reached payroll unreviewed anyway, and they are on the invoice a client is about to dispute.

The solution

Send payroll hours that were captured, not typed

Hours are captured from desktop activity, and anything added by hand routes to a named approver before payroll. Every entry carries a name and a timestamp.

Captured, not typed

Hours come from desktop activity as work happens, so the sheet is assembled through the week rather than remembered on Friday afternoon.

A name on every addition

Work done off-device still has to be added by hand. That addition routes to a named approver before it counts toward payroll.

An edit you can trace

Every entry, edit and approval lands in a record no user can alter, carrying the actor, the timestamp and the values before and after.

One record, two destinations

The same approved hours go to the payroll run and to the client invoice, so the two never have to be reconciled against each other.

Connected to your work

Every hour you send arrives with its record attached

One approved hour can settle more than payroll. Add the record behind it, the invoice it prices and the capacity it proves, and the same number answers four questions instead of one.

Audit Logs

Every approval, edit and settings change recorded with the actor and the values that changed, in a record no user can alter

Activity Logs

The session behind a disputed block, reconstructable in order rather than from memory. Enterprise plans.

Billing & Invoicing

The same approved hours go to the invoice, so what a client is billed and what payroll pays share one record.

Capacity & Headcount Planning

Approved hours read as utilization, so next quarter's staffing is priced against what the last one took.

Operations

Coverage today, utilization this week and overtime flagged before the run closes, in a delivery owner's currency.

Workforce Visibility

One read of where the hours went across every team, with captured and approved time underneath.

Replaces

Nobody rebuilds the Friday reconciliation again

Replaces

The Friday reconciliation against a shared spreadsheet

They use it to

Confirm coverage per team and per site while the shift is still running, with an absence flagged the same day.

Measured in

Coverage and utilization

Replaces

The invoice defended from memory

They use it to

Answer a client query with a record: every hour either captured automatically or approved by a named person.

Measured in

Billing disputes closed and payroll accuracy

Replaces

The second source of truth for who is available

They use it to

Build schedules against PTO and leave that sync from the HRIS, so nobody maintains availability twice.

Measured in

Policy you can defend

Compliance and security

The file an auditor asks for, with its edits intact

An auditor's question is rarely about the hours that were captured. It is about the one that was added by hand, and the answer here is a name, a timestamp, and the values before and after.

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Metadata, not content
Hours come from activity metadata. No keystrokes, no message or document text, no audio and no video.
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A record no user can alter
Every entry, edit and approval carries the actor, the timestamp and the values before and after.
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Encryption and residency
AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.2 in transit, keys held in Google Cloud KMS. Residency in the US, EU or Saudi Arabia, with on-premise available.
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Send payroll hours you can stand behind

Integrations

Hours export to payroll, PTO and leave sync back

50+ integrations, including ADP, PayFit, Workday, BambooHR, and Sage HR, with payroll and HRIS systems first and project systems second.

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FAQ

What is time and attendance software?

Time and attendance software records when employees start, pause and finish work, and turns those records into payroll, billing and scheduling decisions. Insightful captures those hours from desktop activity rather than from self-reported entry: measured as work happens, not reconstructed afterwards. Work done away from the computer still has to be added by hand, and here that addition arrives flagged as manual, with a named approver and a timestamp on it.

Can manual time still be added, and who approves it?

Yes, and it is the one addition nobody can make quietly. Any employee can add time for work done off-device, and every manual entry routes to a named approver before it counts toward payroll. The entry stays flagged as manual, and the approval sits in the audit trail under that approver's name.

Does Insightful integrate with payroll systems?

Yes. Hours export to payroll systems including ADP, PayFit and Workday, and PTO and leave status sync back from Workday, Microsoft Entra ID or Zoho, so nobody maintains availability in two places.

Can I build and manage shifts with Insightful?

Yes. Shifts are built against synced availability, and someone off schedule with no approved time-off record is flagged the same day rather than at reconciliation. The flag is a prompt to ask, not a verdict: a missing time-off record is sometimes just a missing record.

Can this replace timesheets?

For desk-based work, yes. Hours are captured as work happens and assembled into a timesheet automatically, with manual entries added only for work done off-device. Roles without a primary computer still need a separate method.

What happens to hours when someone works offline?

Time is captured on the device and syncs when it reconnects, carrying the same audit record as any other entry. Nothing gets reconstructed from memory on Friday afternoon.

What are the benefits of automated time and attendance records?

Fewer hours pass through a keyboard, which is where the errors get in. The hours that still need adding by hand route to a named approver first, so payroll and the client invoice read off the same record. When an auditor asks about one of them, the answer is a name and a timestamp rather than a reconstruction.

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Send payroll a number with a record behind it

Two weeks of captured hours shows the gap between what the timesheet says and what the desktop application recorded, and which added hours nobody approved.
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