Punchcard/clock-in, clock-out app?

[IngwiePhoenix]

Hello!

Apologies for the sudden ticket; but I figured since you curated this list, you might have a pointer for me, by chance. At my work we use a proprietary with an outlandishly high license price software...but all we do is punc in and out to track total work time and request/approve leave times. There are a few automations (automatically deducting break times as stated by the law if no such time was manually put in by the worker, marking certain days as "is at school" for apprentices and whatnot) but not a whole lot.

So I have been trying to find an open source system for that.

Do you happen to know one?

Thank you and kind regards,
Ingwie

[evereq]

Hi @IngwiePhoenix , most of those apps that we find allow you to have to start/stop timer or add time records manually, so I think one of those should fit? I.e. when an employee comes to work, hit Start, when finish work hit Stop, etc.
Some software might have approval features etc. I think it's really a matter of reviewing each vendor and evaluating, especially if it's OSS. Did you check the list https://github.com/ever-co/awesome-time-tracking?tab=readme-ov-file#open-source?

We actually have a desktop timer apps in our own platform (https://github.com/ever-co/ever-gauzy), where employees can do start / stop of timer and more. We are working on a lot of improvements currently, and we can add missing features you might need if you can give us some sort of a list. For example, we have a feature that if no activity happens over X minutes (configurable value per team / employee), it will remove such period from work time (we are going to improve that by optionally keep time recorded, but mark it as a "not working"). Our scope is much wider than what you describing, but many of features we have can be disabled (e.g making screenshots), so possible out of the box it can be used too.

So, if you can write down some list (or jump on call with one of our devs), we can probably implement everything missing :)
But another option is really to try many of those products and see which one fits best.