Attendance is an input, not the complete cost
A contractor needs reliable hours, valid project allocation, appropriate rates and a measure of progress to understand labor costs. Better capture can improve one input; it does not establish the whole cost or explain every overrun.
Attendify prepares reviewed attendance hours. It does not provide native construction job-cost accounting, loaded labor rates, earned-value reporting or automatic trade-cost allocation. Those belong in the receiving process.
Separate the stages
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| Stage | Illustrative value | Owner’s question |
|---|---|---|
| Recorded work | Eight elapsed hours | Are both endpoints supported? |
| Reviewed attendance | 7.5 hours after a configured 0.5-hour break | Is that policy applicable to actual work? |
| Cost allocation | Five hours to project A, 2.5 to B | What evidence supports the split? |
| Cost valuation | Hours multiplied by appropriate loaded rates | Which rate and effective date apply? |
| Progress comparison | Cost compared with measured output | Does the work achieved explain the cost? |
The values are fictional arithmetic, not a customer result or a statement that Attendify performs the allocation. A site name is not automatically a valid cost code.
Preserve corrections and explain differences
Protecting original capture evidence does not mean legitimate mistakes must remain uncorrected. Keep the original event, correction reason, review outcome and resulting hours distinguishable. If an export changes, reconcile it with the file previously supplied to finance.
A missing checkout should not become an assumed full shift to make the cost report balance. Investigate the work and document the correction. Conversely, an excluded software record does not establish that no cost or pay obligation exists.
Choose a useful review cadence
A site supervisor can inspect missing attendance promptly. Payroll can reconcile a period before handoff. Finance can compare allocated cost with progress at a cadence suited to the project. Treat these as responsibilities to establish, not automated reporting features assumed to exist.
No fixed “days earlier” detection or savings percentage is supported here. Measure your own baseline: unresolved records, correction effort, mapping errors and time from work to a reconciled ledger entry.
Validate the handoff
Confirm employee and payroll IDs, dates, site-to-project mapping, configured deductions and receiver acceptance. Use payroll exports for the product boundary and attendance-to-payroll reconciliation for the control process.