---
title: "Attendance & badge clocks: module overview"
description: "What the Attendance & badge clocks module does, its screens, the life of a month of attendance and which article to read for each topic."
url: "https://illizeo.com/en/centre-aide/attendance-overview/"
updated: "2026-11-01"
category: "Attendance & Badging"
---

# Attendance & badge clocks: module overview

The Attendance & badge clocks module records your employees' working time, from daily clocking through to the hours passed to payroll. This article introduces the module's screens, the life of a month of attendance and which article to read for each topic.

## Before you start

- The **Attendance** module must be enabled for your space. Without it, the **Presence** tab of the profile, the attendance calendar and the time management settings do not appear.
- Each employee needs an **attendance profile** (working-hours profile): without one, their timesheet shows "Attendance profile required" and they can neither clock in nor enter time.
- What each person sees depends on their role's permissions (role matrix, Time Management section). Permissions are listed in [Administering the Attendance module](https://illizeo.com/en/centre-aide/attendance-administer/).

## What the module does

| Topic | What you can do | Article |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Clocking | Clock in, take breaks and lunch, and clock out from the header or the "Time tracking" card on the dashboard. | [Clocking in and out](https://illizeo.com/en/centre-aide/attendance-clocking/) |
| Timesheet | Enter and correct days, repeat a day, submit the month, export your time entries. | [Filling in and submitting your timesheet](https://illizeo.com/en/centre-aide/attendance-timesheet/) |
| Approval | Approve, reject or delegate submitted timesheets; follow the team in the attendance calendar. | [Approving attendance and following the team](https://illizeo.com/en/centre-aide/attendance-approval-and-team-view/) |
| Attendance profiles | Define the schedule, capture modes, legal limits, overtime, night hours and breaks; assign a profile. | [Creating and assigning attendance profiles](https://illizeo.com/en/centre-aide/attendance-profiles/) |
| Company rules | Late tolerance, rounding, default break, forgotten sessions, entry closing, presence reasons, reduced day-rate plan. | [Clocking rules, entry closing and presence reasons](https://illizeo.com/en/centre-aide/attendance-rules-and-presence-reasons/) |
| Hour counters | Track overtime, night and weekend hours and time accounts; adjust, pay out or convert a balance. | [Hour counters](https://illizeo.com/en/centre-aide/attendance-hour-counters/) |
| Allowances and on-call | Set up allowances calculated from attendance and organise on-call rosters. | [Allowances and on-call](https://illizeo.com/en/centre-aide/attendance-allowances-and-on-call/) |
| Badge clocks | Connect ZKTeco clocking terminals, manage badges and resolve quarantined punches. | [Badge clocks](https://illizeo.com/en/centre-aide/attendance-badge-clocks/) |
| Administration | Permissions, notifications, attendance import and export, personal data. | [Administering the Attendance module](https://illizeo.com/en/centre-aide/attendance-administer/) |

## The module's screens

- **Profile › Presence**: an employee's timesheet, with the **Timesheet**, **Hour Counters**, **History** and **Allowances** tabs (each subject to your permissions). The **My attendance** quick action on the dashboard opens your own.
- **Calendar › Attendance calendar**: the team's worked hours, day by day.
- **Workflows › Attendance**: timesheets and days to approve. **Workflows › Badge reader clock-ins**: quarantined badge clock punches.
- **Settings › Time Management**: the **Attendances** (work profiles), **Company Rules**, **Presence reasons**, **Allowances**, **On-Call** and **Badge clocks** tiles.

![Settings › Time Management page with its tiles](https://i0.wp.com/illizeo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/attendance-overview-01.en_.png?resize=800%2C500&quality=80&ssl=1)
Time management settings

## The life of a month of attendance

1. **The employee records their time**: they clock in (header, dashboard or badge clock) or enter their days in their timesheet, depending on the modes their profile allows.
2. **They correct it if needed** until entry closing (by default, the previous month stays editable until the 5th of the following month).
3. **They submit the month** with the **Submit** button. The days move to "Submitted".
4. **The approver decides** in **Workflows › Attendance**. The circuit used depends on the content of the timesheet (overtime, a rule not respected, flexible hours).
5. **Counters are recalculated** on approval: overtime, night, Saturday, Sunday, public holiday hours, time accounts.
6. **Payroll receives quantities** (hours, days), never amounts calculated by the Attendance module.

![A team's attendance calendar over a month](https://i0.wp.com/illizeo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/attendance-overview-02.en_.png?resize=800%2C500&quality=80&ssl=1)
The attendance calendar

## Good to know

- A day can take three forms: start and end times, a duration, or a day-rate (half day or full day). The form of each day comes from the profile's schedule.
- Geolocated clocking on a shift belongs to the Scheduling module: see [Clock-in and geofencing](https://illizeo.com/en/centre-aide/scheduling-clock-in-and-geofencing/). Clocking from the header or the dashboard sends no location.
- Shift planning (Scheduling) and leave (Absence management) have their own categories in the help centre.
- Several timesheet screens exist in French and English only: a user working in German or Italian sees them in English.

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