Why night and overnight shifts get miscalculated
Four classic failures when a shift ends after midnight, plus how to check whether your current system has them.
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Attendance & payroll in manufacturing
These pieces come from real rollout work: night shifts landing on the wrong day, overtime money drifting, legacy data failing to match, branches that would not sync. Not brochures in disguise.
Multi-site attendance: four approaches and their trade-offs
USB sticks, vendor software, exposing devices to the internet, or an on-site agent — compared honestly.
A checklist for choosing attendance and payroll software
28 questions to ask a vendor before signing, grouped by the six risks that sink these projects.
How to check factory overtime before closing payroll
Reconcile requests, actual punches, normal/rest/holiday tiers and night hours before the money reaches the payslip.
Migrating time attendance data from legacy software
What to migrate, how to map employee codes, whether to keep raw punches or closed timesheets, and why preview matters.
What should we write about? If you are stuck on something specific — conditional allowance formulas, reconciling against a legacy system, migrating years of history — tell us and the next article will go straight at it.
Recognise the problem?
Send one month of punch data and we will run it, then point at exactly where it diverges from your policy.