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Your attendance policy, enforced automatically

Most attendance policies live in a handbook nobody opens, enforced from memory and argued about later. AbsentEase turns yours into configuration: set your allowances, thresholds, and discipline steps once, and every call-off text is counted against them the moment it arrives — the same rules for everyone, with the records to prove it.

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Set the policy once

Excused allowances

Excused days per year, plus separate allowances for excused late starts and early leaves — the numbers your handbook already specifies, entered once.

Unexcused-hours budget

A yearly budget of unexcused hours, with a no-show weighted more heavily than a called-off absence — because not calling is the worse offense.

Peak-season rules

Define your busy-season window with its own PTO limits, including a higher allowance for senior employees by tenure. The tighter rules apply themselves every season.

Perfect attendance & holidays

Track perfect-attendance bonuses with your own forgiveness rules — whether excused partial days or pre-notified absences break the streak is a toggle, not a debate. Company holidays never count against anyone.

A discipline ladder that runs itself

Progressive discipline only works when it is applied every time. In AbsentEase your ladder is a set of rules — a trigger, a threshold, a rolling window, and the action — evaluated continuously against the ledger.

  • Rolling windows, not calendar amnesia. “Three unexcused absences in 90 days → written warning” means the last 90 days, always — no January reset to game.
  • Points-system logic in plain units. Thresholds are counted in occurrences and hours, so the rule reads the way your policy is written.
  • Flags, not surprises. The employee who crossed a threshold is flagged with the matching step, and the dashboard shows who is approaching one before it happens.
  • Fair by construction. Appointments with notice don’t count against the early-leave ladder, medical leave never counts against anything, and the same math runs for every employee.

Writing the policy itself? Start with how to write an employee attendance policy.

Counters, not opinions

The attendance policy dashboard shows every employee’s excused and unexcused counters against your allowances — days, late starts, early leaves, unexcused hours, and peak-season days — computed from the ledger, never hand-tallied. Behind each number is a time-stamped record in the employee’s own words, which is why the conversation that follows is short.

The categories those counters are built from — sick, late, left early, no-show — are detected automatically from the employee’s text, and the same data feeds your absence reports and dashboards.

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. You configure your policy once — excused-day allowances, excused late starts and early leaves, an unexcused-hours budget, no-show weighting, peak-season limits, company holidays, and discipline steps — and AbsentEase counts every logged absence against it automatically. A policy dashboard shows each employee’s counters against the allotments, and discipline rules flag who has crossed a threshold.

It works the way a points system works, counted in real units instead of abstract points: occurrences and hours inside rolling windows. A rule like “three unexcused absences in 90 days triggers a written warning” is one row in your discipline ladder — trigger type, threshold, window, action. If your current policy is written in points, it usually translates rule for rule.

Yes. The policy dashboard shows each employee’s excused and unexcused counters against your allowances, so supervisors see who is approaching a limit — not just who has already crossed one. When a discipline threshold is crossed, the matching step is flagged on the employee automatically.

By your policy plus the message itself. Calling off counts differently than a no-call/no-show, and a partial day for going home sick is excused while a plain late start is not — AbsentEase reads the reason from the employee’s own text and applies the distinction automatically. Admins keep full control of the ledger.

Yes. You can define a peak-season window with its own PTO limits, including a higher allowance for senior employees by tenure. Peak-season days are tracked on the dashboard so the tighter seasonal rules are enforced without anyone watching a calendar.

That is what the system is built around. Every absence is logged with a timestamp and, for call-offs, the employee’s own words. Because the same configured rules are applied to everyone automatically, you get the consistency and documentation that make an attendance policy enforceable.

Keep reading: ground your rules in a written attendance policy, see how absences are categorized automatically from a text, or put the numbers to work with absence reports & dashboards.

Put your attendance policy on autopilot

Employees call off with a simple text. Supervisors know in seconds. PTO tracks itself. No app to install. Set up AbsentEase for your team today.

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