Track hours, manage shifts, and approve time off in an AI-powered system built with AI to fit your company's employee portal workflow.




Customize an attendance tracking system that looks sleek today. Add only the features you need, and iterate as your team's workflows evolve.





Connect payroll, employee spreadsheets, and logs with real-time sync—or manage everything in Softr Databases. Create a single source of truth for your business.
Give employees and managers the right views in a branded portal. Set up secure logins, user groups, and permissions in minutes for your attendance workflows.
Your tracking app is mobile-ready by default. Turn it into a downloadable PWA so staff can clock in and out from any site without extra design work.
Your tracking app is mobile-ready by default. Turn it into a downloadable PWA so staff can clock in and out from any site without extra design work.
Build native automations to handle shift notifications, approval alerts, and data sync automatically whenever attendance records are changed.
Provide separate logins for employees and managers. Create tailored dashboards so staff see their hours while managers oversee the whole team.
Apply rules for different roles. Customize who can edit timesheets, view others' schedules, or approve requests at a granular level.
Protect sensitive employee information and time logs from threats. Softr is fully compliant with SOC2 and GDPR regulations for your peace of mind.
No more one-size-fits-all tools or costly custom builds. Softr is easy to use and fully customizable, so you can launch faster, adapt as you grow, and skip the complexity of traditional software.

Build your attendance tracking system in minutes with AI—no manual setup or complex configuration needed.

Add features like shift calendars or automated timesheets as your team grows—without needing to start from scratch.

Start with attendance, then add employee portals and internal tools—all in one place with no extra tools.
Co-build with AI
Simply describe what you need. Let Softr handle everything - Interface, database, workflows.
Iterate with AI or visually
Control most critical parts of your app yourself - roles, permissions, security.
Ship the same day
Invite team members or external clients and partners right away. No developer handover.
Use drag-and-drop blocks to build a portal that looks sleek and modern out of the box. Add only the features you need, and iterate as your workflows evolve.




An attendance tracking system is a secure employee portal where your staff can log in to record their clock-in and clock-out times, request time off, and view their historical work hours. It keeps all labor data in one place, so you don't have to rely on manual punch cards or messy spreadsheets. This makes it easier for HR managers to stay organized and provide a transparent payroll experience for your employees.
Softr is the first AI-native platform for building business software. It makes it easy to build an attendance tracking system that fits your specific HR policies and shift structures. You can describe your needs to the AI Co-Builder to instantly generate your employee database, time-logging pages, and approval logic—already connected and secure.
You don't need to code anything. You can start by generating with AI, using a pre-built employee portal template, or building from scratch. Everything runs on Softr Databases, the native, relational database built into the platform, or you can connect external tools like Airtable, Google Sheets, or HubSpot. You have full control to adjust the layout visually, decide which managers see which team logs, and brand it with your company logo. It's quick to get up and running, simple to update, and flexible enough to grow with your workforce.
You can include a wide range of features in your attendance tracking system, depending on what your HR workflow looks like. A great attendance app usually mixes classic functional blocks with AI-powered intelligence:
- AI-Powered Intelligence – Use Ask AI to let managers query shift patterns conversationally, or set up Database AI Agents to automatically flag unusual clock-in patterns or overtime trends.
- Vibe Coding Blocks – Build custom UI elements—like a geometric heat map of peak staffing hours—using the AI Code block to 'vibe code' exactly what your operations team needs.
- Softr Workflows – Build native automations (like an instant Slack alert to a supervisor when an employee clocks in late) that trigger notifications or sync data whenever a time entry is updated.
- User Portals & Logins – Securely manage access so each employee only sees their own timesheets while managers can view their entire department's logs.
- Forms & Data Collection – Capture information with easy punch-in buttons, leave request forms, and even GPS location tags.
- Dashboards & Charts – Visualize your workforce attendance performance and absenteeism rates with real-time charts and summaries.
- Lists & Advanced Filtering – Display and manage your logs with searchable tables, monthly calendars, and detailed weekly record views.
Everything is built using Softr's drag-and-drop blocks, so you can create these features without writing code. Need something more custom? Use the Vibe Coding block to generate a tailored payroll export button with AI.
Vibe coding is all about moving fast and using AI to build exactly what you need for your workforce. You can 'vibe code' an attendance tracking system in Softr by simply describing your shift logic and reporting requirements to the AI Co-Builder. Softr then generates a production-ready app on top of a stable, secure foundation.
Unlike other tools that just generate raw, fragile code for a simple timer, Softr handles the 'boring 80%'—like employee authentication, relational database logic for shifts and users, and granular security—natively. This means you get the speed of vibe coding without the 'Day Two' headaches of managing broken login scripts. You describe the shift rules, Softr builds the system, and it’s ready for your team to start clocking in instantly.
Yes. You can manage multiple departments or office locations in a single attendance portal. Each employee only sees the time-tracking blocks relevant to them, while department heads only see the logs and leave requests for their specific teams based on their login and assigned role. This is useful for large companies, retail chains, or any business working with diverse regional teams.
Yes, you can. You don't need to bring your staff list from somewhere else to start building with Softr. If you're starting from scratch, you can use Softr Databases, which is built into the platform and integrates perfectly with the attendance tracking system you build.
But if you already have employee records in tools like Airtable, Google Sheets, HubSpot, or even a SQL database, you can connect those too. You can also use the REST API connector to bring in data from third-party HRIS systems. Either way, you have full control over how your shift data is structured and displayed in your employee portal.
Softr Databases is the recommended native, relational data source for Softr. It is built explicitly for business apps, offering high performance for frequent clock-in actions, instant automation triggers for overtime alerts, and a lightning-fast experience because the employee data is native to the platform.
If you already have your staff directory elsewhere, Softr also connects to 17+ external data sources. You can connect to Airtable, Google Sheets, SQL, SmartSuite, and more. You can even integrate multiple data sources into the same app—so your portal could pull employee profiles from HubSpot while storing daily attendance logs in Softr Databases. Most sources support real-time, two-way sync, so any manual adjustment by an HR manager stays in sync automatically.
Yes, Softr gives you full control over how employees experience your attendance tracking system. You can customize the dashboard layout, mobile navigation (great for field workers), and the clock-in buttons to match your workflow. Each page or block can be shown or hidden based on the user's role, so employees only see their personal timers while HR sees the full payroll report.
You can also set up different user roles, such as Employee, Supervisor, or Admin—and define exactly what each role can view or edit. For example, employees can only see their own hours, while supervisors can approve or edit logs for their specific team. You can also create personalized views by filtering the shift calendar based on the logged-in user.
This level of customization is especially useful when you're managing various pay grades or remote teams in the same app. It helps keep the experience clean, secure, and focused on accurate timekeeping.
Yes, you can fully white-label your attendance tracking system in Softr. You can use your company logo, brand colors, fonts, and a custom domain like 'portal.yourcompany.com' to make the system feel like an official internal tool. You can also remove all Softr branding, so your employees see a seamless, professional interface consistent with your company's identity.
Yes, you can. Softr gives you a lot of flexibility to control both the design and layout of your employee portal. You can adjust colors to match your brand, set spacing for better mobile use, and decide which blocks employees see when they first log in to start their shift.
To display your timekeeping data, you can add different types of blocks depending on what you need:
- Table blocks – to show structured logs of weekly hours or remaining PTO balances.
- List or Card blocks – to highlight team members currently on shift or upcoming holidays.
- Detail View – to show a deep dive into a specific day's lunch breaks and overtime.
- Forms – for submitting time-off requests or out-of-pocket expense claims.
- Charts – to show monthly attendance trends or labor cost breakdowns.
- Calendar blocks – to display shift schedules and team vacations.
If your labor policies or design needs change later, it's easy to go back and make updates right in the visual builder.
Softr is built with security in mind. All attendance data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and your employee portals are hosted on secure, reliable infrastructure. Softr apps also give you full control over sensitive PII (Personally Identifiable Information). You can set up role-based permissions, manage users directly within your data source, and apply visibility rules to ensure employees can never see their colleagues' private salary or hours data.
For apps using Softr Databases, your data is stored in a secure environment with SOC 2 Type II compliance and hosting in Europe (Germany). For apps connected to external sources like SQL or Airtable, Softr doesn't store your sensitive payroll data—it just displays it in real time based on your specific access settings. Softr also follows industry best practices for secure authentication to keep your workforce information safe.
It is fully production-ready. Unlike many AI tools that just 'vibe code'—generating fragile, custom code for a timer that might break under heavy usage—Softr builds your attendance tracking system on top of a stable, business-grade foundation.
We handle the 'boring 80%' (like secure employee login, relational data linking for shifts, and granular manager permissions) natively, so you don't have to worry about security holes. This solves the 'Day Two' problem of AI: you get the speed of instant generation without the headache of managing raw, unreliable script files. Your app is secure, scalable, and ready for your staff to log hours from day one.
Softr is the first AI-native platform for building business software. Unlike pure 'vibe coding' tools that generate fragile code, or traditional no-code tools that require manual configuration of every single table link, Softr's AI Co-Builder creates attendance apps on top of a secure, production-ready foundation automatically.
What sets it apart is the hybrid advantage: you can use AI to generate your shift database and employee dashboard in minutes, then use visual controls for precise HR administrative editing. You get the speed of AI with the reliability of business-grade infrastructure (enterprise-grade auth, roles, and hosting) already built-in. It's designed for HR teams who want to move from manual tracking to a production portal on day one.
Yes. Softr supports powerful native workflows and a wide range of integrations so you can connect your attendance tracking system to your payroll or communication stack. You can automate tasks using Softr Workflows—like sending an automated weekly summary to accounting—or sync with tools like Slack for clock-in notifications. Softr also supports REST API and webhooks for more advanced needs like triggering a payment in an external payroll provider.
Whether you need to export timesheet data to another system, trigger alerts based on missed shifts, or display employee IDs from your existing HRIS, you can build it into your portal without writing a single line of code.
Describe what you need. Softr's AI builds your employee attendance portal in minutes without code.