Attendance & leave · for Indian firms of 10–100 people

An employee attendance app with leave and shifts built in

Your team checks in from their phones. HireMaze works out every day — present, half day, absent, on leave, weekly off or holiday — so month-end is a report you open, not a register someone rebuilds from memory.

Why it fits

The register, without the register

In most small firms attendance is a WhatsApp group of “reached office” messages and an Excel sheet someone updates on Friday. Leave is asked for in a chat and forgotten by the time salaries are worked out. And the law still expects a proper record — see what a muster roll has to hold.

HireMaze replaces all three with one leave and attendance management system. Each person checks in from their phone, inside your office's geo-fence or from anywhere if you allow it. Their shift and weekly off decide what the day should look like, approved leave and holidays fill in the rest, and every day lands on a calendar the employee and their manager both see.

One day

How a day is decided

Nobody marks anyone present by hand. The day is worked out from what happened, and the employee can see the same answer you do.

  1. 01

    Check in

    From the phone, inside an office geo-fence or remote if allowed.

  2. 02

    Shift

    Their shift or flexible hours set when they were due.

  3. 03

    Leave & holidays

    Approved leave and the holiday list fill the gaps.

  4. 04

    Check out

    Not automatic: miss the window and the day shows why.

  5. 05

    Month end

    Every person's days in one report, by employee ID.

In the free plan

What your firm gets

Phone check-in, nothing to install

Employees sign in at your firm's address and check in from their phone's browser.

Office geo-fences, remote by person

Add your office locations. Allow remote check-in only for the people who work from the field or from home.

Shifts and weekly offs

Fixed shifts or flexible hours, night shifts that run past midnight, and weekly offs set for the firm or per person.

Leave with balances

Your own leave types, each with its colour and quota. Employees apply, see their balance and follow every request.

Approvals that reach the right person

Leave, work from home and attendance corrections go to the employee's team approvers, or the organisation's if a team has none.

Reminders and alerts

A reminder to check out when the day ends, and a note to managers when someone hasn't checked in.

Two views

What employees see, and what you see

One record of the day, shown to each person for their own job.

An employee sees

  • Their month on a calendar, each day coloured by status
  • Today's rule — which office, which shift, the check-out deadline
  • Their leave balance and every request they have made
  • Why a day was marked absent, and how to ask for a correction

An owner or manager sees

  • Who is in today, by team
  • One queue of leave, work-from-home and correction requests
  • The monthly attendance report, with employee IDs
  • Shifts, offices, leave types and holidays in settings
One straight answer

HireMaze does not run payroll or connect to biometric machines. It gives you each person's days for the month — worked, absent, on leave, weekly off and holidays — which is what your payroll or your CA works from.

Questions

Attendance app: common questions

Is the attendance app free?

HireMaze is free while we onboard our first firms, with no card required. When billing starts it will be priced per team member in rupees, and every onboarded firm will be told before anything changes.

Do employees need to install an app?

No. Employees sign in at your firm's address and check in from their phone's browser, so there is nothing they have to install.

Can I stop people checking in from home?

Yes. Add your office locations and a check-in is accepted only from inside one of them. Allow remote check-in just for the people who work in the field or from home.

What happens if someone forgets to check out?

Check-out isn't automatic. If the check-out window your firm sets closes first, the day is marked absent and says why, and the employee can ask for a correction that their approver reviews.

Does it handle night shifts?

Yes. A session that runs past midnight stays open until the check-out window closes, so a night worker checks out the next morning on the same session.

Does HireMaze do payroll?

No. HireMaze doesn't calculate salaries. It gives you each person's attendance and leave for the month, which is what your payroll or your CA works from.

Read next

Attendance rules for Indian firms

Start taking attendance tomorrow morning.

Attendance, leave, shifts and approvals are in the free plan, along with tasks, client records and your page at hiremaze.in/your-firm. No card, and an afternoon to set up.

Questions first? Write to admin@hiremaze.in or see what's included.