SquadBearCLOCK
WalletTomas Weber
Rotates in 4:12
Attendance
Clock in. That's the whole job.
Four buttons for the day. Expected hours already know leave. A lobby tablet writes the same punches. Managers only see the exceptions - not a map of where anyone went.
What changes
Presence without the police
A working-time record people will actually keep - and a manager can defend.
Time
Four buttons, one screen
Start, Break, Resume, Stop. The Clock screen changes with the shift. Times are the server's, so a wrong phone clock cannot rewrite the day.
Attendance · Clock
Camila Ortiz
Product Engineer · Tue 27 Jan
Working
since 09:00 · unpaid meal when you break
BreakStop
Expected today8h 00m
Schedule − approved leaveTime
Hours that already know leave
Expected time comes from the work schedule minus approved leave. A public holiday is zero. There is no late flag - a schedule is a daily duration, not a 09:00 start.
Traditional surveillance tools
Fixed daily quota8h flat
Leave / HolidaysIgnored
Short 4h · Flagged as late
SquadBear model
Scheduled schedule6h
Approved leave / holiday-2h
Honest expected4h
Reconciled · No surveillance
No webcamNo GPSIndependent recordsGDPR & EU compliant
Time
A tablet by the door
Pair a kiosk in Workspace settings. People tap a card or hold up a rotating badge from Clock. Offline punches queue and keep the time they were tapped. Same punches as the laptop clock. No GPS, no webcam, no iBeacon.
Kiosk · Building A lobby
Hold your card or badge
Tomas Weber
In · 07:58Card ending · 84F2
Uplink dropped at 07:40. Punch queued, stamped 07:58.
Clock · Show my badge
No GPSNo webcamSame punch as Clock
Time
Exceptions, not a spreadsheet
Forgot to clock out? The shift auto-closes and lands in Attendance review. Short days, missed breaks, work on leave. People request a correction with a reason. Nobody edits a punch - an approval appends, and the originals stay.
Attendance · Review
Platform · 2 need a decision
Needs reviewTomas Weber
Waiting on youFri 24 Jan · Correction request
Recorded09:00 → open · auto-closed 00:58
Proposed09:00 → 17:30 · “Forgot to clock out.”
Marta Nowak
ApproveApprove appends new punches. Originals stay, superseded.
Time
Who is in, without tracking where
Live presence is Working, On break or Not in for the people you manage. It does not infer lateness, and it does not know where anyone is.
Attendance · Live presence
Platform
2 working1 on break1 not in
- Camila OrtizWorking
In since 09:00
Elena VargasOn breakBreak since 15:00
- Leo NovakNot in
Annual leave (approved)
- Mila NowakWorking
In since 08:30
A work schedule is a daily duration, not a 09:00 start. Presence reports state, never lateness.
Why teams pick it
People actually clock
Four buttons beat a portal. The habit sticks.
Hours you can defend
Punches are never rewritten. Corrections have a trail.
Shop floor and laptop, same record
A kiosk writes the same punches Clock does.
Managers only see what needs a decision
The queue is exceptions and corrections, not every punch.
See it in action
Or your team can simply ask
Plain language in, the right thing done - correctly, and always within your rules. Here's a real example.
Engineering Lead · ClaudeLive Assistant · Scoped OAuth
Prompt
Show me every attendance review item still open in Platform, oldest first, and say which ones are short days.
Live Record
list_attendance_review3 open · Tomas correction (Fri, forgot clock-out) · Camila auto-closed · Jin short day (−46m)
Inspect query parameters
{ "status": "open", "teamId": "team_platform" }Live Record
list_team_presence4 working · 1 on break · Camila not in (leave)
Inspect query parameters
{ "teamId": "team_platform", "state": "on_clock" }Three open items, oldest first: Tomas’s correction (forgot to clock out Friday - proposed 09:00–17:30), Camila’s auto-closed shift, and Jin short by 46 minutes. Only Jin is a short day. Camila is on approved leave today, so she is not on the clock. I can approve Tomas’s times if they look right - originals stay on file.
Every tool shown ships in the product
Questions, answered
Is this the same as time tracking?
No. Attendance records presence - in, break, out. Time tracking records hours against a project. Either runs without the other. When both are on, My week can show an attendance strip for today; clocking out never writes a time entry.
Do you track location or watch people work?
No GPS, no geofence, no webcam, no iBeacon, no keystrokes. Clock is on the phone or laptop. A kiosk is a shared tablet that reads a card or a rotating badge.
What if someone forgets to clock out?
An open shift past the stale threshold closes on its own and opens one review item. Acknowledging it does not change the times. A wrong end needs a correction request, which a manager approves or rejects.
Is the kiosk required?
No. Attendance ships as its own module. Kiosk sits under it and stays off until you turn it on. Laptop and phone Clock work without a tablet.
Does this calculate pay or overtime?
No. It stores worked, break and expected minutes. Export a CSV from My attendance, or read shifts through the API or an agent. Payroll stays in the system you already run.
Can people clock from Slack?
Not yet. Clock, a kiosk tablet, or an agent with the punch tool. Slack already does leave - /timeoff, /whos-out, Approve and Reject in DMs.
Can different offices have different rules?
Yes. Several attendance policies at once, bound to a person, a team or a country. Breaks, short-day tolerance, over-schedule threshold, and whether leave warns or blocks at clock-in.
One suite for the whole people-ops day
Leave, time, team health and the employee record work as one, so the picture is always joined up - a booked holiday is known everywhere, a new hire's day one starts itself, and a quiet team never slips through.
Leave management
Time off should be the easy part
When booking leave is effortless and cover takes care of itself, people actually rest, managers stop firefighting, and you always know where the business stands.
Explore Leave management →
Time tracking
Know where the week actually went
Time tracking only matters when it's honest and effortless.
Explore Time tracking →
Team health
Know how your team is really doing
Great teams quietly drift long before they visibly break.
Explore Team health →
Core HR
Day one, already handled
The moment someone is hired, their record exists, their onboarding tasks have owners and dates, and the policies that need signing find them by themselves.
Explore Core HR →
Model Context Protocol
Run HR from the AI you already use
SquadBear is the system of record.
Explore MCP →
From the blog
Practical guides on this part of the job, written for teams small enough that the person reading this is also the person doing it.
Working-Time Records: What EU Law Wants From a 40-Person Company
A 2019 CJEU ruling made daily working-time records an employer duty across the EU. What a record must contain, who is exempt, and why a spreadsheet fails.
Read the guide →Surveillance-Free Timesheets: Track Hours Without Spyware
Hours data without spyware: expected hours from real schedules, a short editing window for honest corrections, and logging that costs seconds, not minutes.
Read the guide →Best Time-Tracking Tools for Software Teams (2026 Guide)
Time tracking is three different products wearing one name. How to tell billing timers from capacity trackers, with verified July 2026 pricing.
Read the guide →Less admin. More of the actual job.
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