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At 30 people, one platform for people and projects beats five point tools: fewer copies, fewer accounts per leaver. When a specialist tool still wins.

An anonymous staff survey is often confidential: the system knows who answered and hides it. Where the line sits, and why tiny groups give people away.

Attendance records when someone was at work; time tracking records what the hours were spent on. Why a services team needs both, and where they disagree.

BambooHR's Time & Attendance add-on covers timesheets and project tracking. PeopleMuster adds a capacity plan with leave built in, for $3 a person.

Normal bench time is short and planned: a gap between projects you saw coming. How to measure it in hours, set a limit, and spot it early in PeopleMuster.

Editing somebody else's hours depends on the permissions their role carries, and every change keeps its before and after values in the audit log.

Checked out is terminal for the day in the self-serve card. Coming back after lunch or for an evening call needs a manual punch request instead.

Self-serve check-in runs in a browser and captures no location, so it works from anywhere. What that does and does not tell an employer.

Attendance, leave, the directory, the org chart and the device register export to CSV, filtered as on screen, from records kept in your own database.

An employee can raise a manual punch request but cannot write the attendance record directly. Why the split between asking and approving is the point.

Pending work appears on the personal dashboard panel, with an overdue count. How that differs from the shared task lists people confuse it with.

PeopleMuster shows who's off in 3 places: today's out-of-office count, a 7-day leave panel and a shared monthly calendar of leave and holidays.

Half days depend on whether your leave quota holds fractions and what your policy allows. Why which half matters as much as the fact of it.

Every create, update and delete is logged with before and after values, the person and the time. How to find one change, and where your records live.

PeopleMuster holds the employee record itself, and the same record drives attendance, timesheets and the capacity plan. One set of people, not two systems.

Reports post to Slack, meetings arrive from Fireflies, and 4 registers export to CSV: attendance, leave, directory and devices. See how data moves.

Carry-over is an employer policy decision. Leave quotas in PeopleMuster are set per year per type, and an admin sets the new year's figures in one grid.

Leave types carry an encashable flag marking which allowances a policy allows to be paid out. The flag is a marker; nothing calculates an amount.

Capacity planning counts the hours your team has; resource allocation books them to projects. The difference, the order, and how to do both on one grid.

Casual and annual leave are separate types with separate quotas and different intent. What distinguishes them, and why the split exists at all.

Employees check in and out from a card in the web browser, nothing to install. It opens 60 minutes before each shift and stays open 120 minutes after.

One combined PTO pool makes every sick day cost a day of holiday. Why a separate sick allowance, such as 5 days a year, keeps teams healthier.

Every benefit carries a type of deduction or reimbursement. What the label records, which direction each implies, and who relies on it.

Self-serve check-in requires an assigned shift, because the window it opens is measured from the shift start. What happens when nobody has assigned one.

Nothing to install. PeopleMuster runs in any web browser, and staff check in from 1 dashboard card inside their shift window. See how check-in works.

A public holiday is a non-working day on the company calendar, not a leave day drawn from a quota. How the two interact on the planning grid.

Whether a break reduces the working-hours figure is an employer policy decision, not a product rule. What the record holds and what it cannot settle.

A small company needs a handbook once the same HR question comes up twice. What to put in a first one, how long it runs, and where to keep it current.

Float manages time off with policies, approvals and regional holidays inside its scheduler. PeopleMuster adds check-in and punctuality for $3 a person.

PeopleMuster records the overtime hours pay is built from, per day and per project, then exports them to your pay process in 1 CSV. See how it works.

Payroll is a planned PeopleMuster module. Today PeopleMuster settles the inputs a pay run depends on: hours, leave types and benefits enrolment.

Productive.io ships time off management and connects to HR tools such as BambooHR and HiBob. PeopleMuster runs HR and projects in one, for $3 a person.

Rippling sells Time and Attendance as a separate product on its core platform, with no public price. PeopleMuster includes attendance for $3 a person.

Scoro publishes per-user plans, with prices on scoro.com. Here's the checklist to run on any tool, and how PeopleMuster covers both for $3 a person.

Zoho People's paid plans need at least 5 users, and its free edition stops at 5 (3 in the US). PeopleMuster has no minimum: $3 per person.

Zoho People timesheets log hours to jobs, projects and clients with a billable flag. PeopleMuster adds capacity and utilisation for $3 per person.

Employee of the month ideas that stay fair past month 6: monthly themes, peer nominations, a stated reason and a record of every winner by department.

Working hours come from the gap between check-in and check-out, reduced by any unpaid break. Why that figure differs from time on site and time logged.

Every new customer gets 14 days of PeopleMuster free, no card, on an instance set up with your own people, shifts and leave. Then $3 per person a month.

Cancelling approved leave is handled through the request record and the people who approve it. Why the cancellation matters as much as the booking.

Leave balance shows as days used, days allocated and days remaining, per leave type, under a year selector. Where allocations come from.

Enrolment is administered rather than self-served. The route to ask, what the catalogue has to hold first, and how the change is recorded.

Getting started takes one conversation. We set up your own database in your own account, then your modules, roles and people. The price is published.

Each policy shows who edited it last and when. Why that is a record rather than an alert, and how scheduled reminders fill the gap.

HR requests go through the support desk, which files them into eight categories. What the categories are for, and how a request is tracked.

Equipment requests go through the support desk under IT and Equipment. What the register can tell you before you ask, and what the ticket does next.

Editing your own profile basics is part of the baseline no role removes. Which fields are yours, which are HR's, and what the completion score is for.

People sign in with a one-time code sent to their work email, so there are no passwords to leak. How sign-in, sessions and access changes work day to day.

Five roles, sixty-four permissions, custom roles and a baseline every employee keeps. How PeopleMuster decides who can see and change what.

Projects are flagged billable or not, fixed price or hourly. Hours logged against them roll up into utilisation by person, project and department.

An admin-only log of dated performance events, positive and negative, sits beside staff feedback, awards and shoutouts. How it feeds review conversations.

Every account can log its own time for the last five working days. Why the window is short, and how an administrator widens or tightens it.

Post HR reminders, reports and announcements to Slack on a schedule, and keep personal questions in a private desk. How PeopleMuster splits the two.

Treat a missed punch as a request, never a quiet edit. A four-question policy, a review queue and a full trail keep your attendance corrections honest.

Protection runs in layers: a one-time sign-in code, roles built from 64 permissions, rules enforced in the database, masked records and a full audit trail.

Attendance rate divides days present by days expected. The denominator decides the number, and two teams using different denominators cannot compare.

BambooHR Core starts at $10 per employee. PeopleMuster is HR plus project delivery at $3 per person, every module included. See them side by side.

Float schedules people across projects. PeopleMuster plans capacity too, and holds attendance, leave, timesheets and the employee record in the same place.

Onboarding runs as a process instantiated from a template against the new starter. What that gives an HR team, and how age shows a stall.

Overtime is counted as hours beyond a scheduled window, against a threshold the employer defines. Where the accurate hours come from, and how to read them.

Health is one of three scores on a project, and the scoring is configurable per company rather than fixed. Why that matters before you trust it.

Setup is done with you, and the time goes on decisions rather than software: people, leave types, shifts, holidays, roles and projects, in that order.

Start from 2,080 hours, remove holidays and leave, then apply your utilisation target. A worked example, and how to track the real number by project.

Five: Slack, OpenAI, Fireflies, a ZKTeco terminal and Turnstile. What each one does in a working week, and where the keys are kept.

Sick leave allowance is a quota your employer sets per type per year, readable in the product. No universal number exists to quote.

BambooHR lists Core at $10, Pro at $17 and Elite at $25 per employee a month, with a $250 flat rate for small teams. What each tier means for your bill.

Darwinbox has no public price: you pick modules and request a quote. How a module-based quote adds up, and PeopleMuster's $3 with every module included.

Deel HR is often called free, but Deel's own page prices Deel HR Core from $5 per employee a month. What else Deel bills, and where PeopleMuster's $3 sits.

Factorial states a starting price of $8 per user a month, with modules on top and a quote for the rest. See how its pricing works beside PeopleMuster.

Float charges $7 per scheduled person a month on Starter and $12 on Pro, per float.com in September 2026. See what sets the bill, with PeopleMuster's $3.

greytHR prices by region: ₹2,495 a month with 50 employees in India, $50 with 10 in the Middle East (24 September 2026). Compare with PeopleMuster's $3.

Gusto Simple is $49 a month plus $6 per person; Plus is $80 + $12; Premium $180 + $22 (September 2026). See why the base fee matters for a small team.

Harvest Teams is $9 per seat a month billed yearly or $11 monthly; Enterprise is $14 or $17.50 (24 September 2026). See the free plan and PeopleMuster.

HiBob sends its pricing page to a demo request, so the price arrives as a custom quote. What to bring to that call, and PeopleMuster's published $3.

Kantata gates its pricing behind a Request Pricing form, so every price is a quote (24 September 2026). See how to get a firm number and PeopleMuster's $3.

Keka prices by region and plan: a base for a minimum headcount, then a rate per extra employee. How to price 50 people, with PeopleMuster beside it.

Personio starts from €7.60 per employee a month on Core, and every tier above it is priced on a demo. How to read that figure, and PeopleMuster's $3 flat.

Productive.io Essential is $10 per user billed yearly, $12 monthly; Professional $25 or $29; 3-seat minimum. See the plans beside PeopleMuster's $3.

Resource Guru is $5, $8 or $12 per person a month on Grasshopper, Blackbelt and Master, per resourceguruapp.com (24 September 2026). See PeopleMuster's $3.

Resourceinn is sold by module and priced only through Get a Quote. What a modular HR quote means as you grow, and PeopleMuster's $3 with everything in.

Rippling prices by quote: a required core platform, then each product per employee per month. See how that bill is built, with PeopleMuster's $3 beside it.

Runn Lite is $7 per seat a month billed yearly and Standard $11, with a 20-seat minimum (24 September 2026). See the monthly rates and PeopleMuster.

Scoro publishes per-user plans, with prices on scoro.com. How to price a per-user plan for your whole team, and PeopleMuster's $3 per person beside it.

Zoho People runs from $1.50 to $10 per user a month in USD, across five paid plans with a 5-user minimum. How the plans split, and PeopleMuster's $3 flat.

Agency utilisation rate is hours logged divided by hours available, times 100. See a worked 3-person example and the leave mistake that skews it.

Build a resource plan in Excel with 3 sheets: people, time off and a day-by-day grid. The formulas to use, and where a spreadsheet stops keeping up.

Judge an unfamiliar HR vendor on 4 things you can check: a published price, a trial on real data, exit terms and records you can take with you.

Check the record, then talk in private, find the cause and agree one change with a four-week review. A calm routine for an employee who is always late.

Route HR requests through a private desk: one form, a named owner per ticket and a queue that support handlers alone can open. The setup, step by step.

Migrating from BambooHR takes a people list, leave balances and a start date. PeopleMuster loads them with you at setup, for $3 per person a month.

Move HR systems in seven steps: decide the rules, pick a month-start date, move balances rather than history, then run both systems for one month.

Send a weekly utilisation report to Slack in five steps: connect Slack, remind people to log hours, approve, pick the view, and press Send to Slack.

An HR policy chatbot answers from the policies you publish. The 4 setup steps, how PeopleMuster's HashBot indexes each policy, and what to keep current.

PeopleMuster reads a ZKTeco terminal by its IP over TCP port 4370 every 30 minutes on weekdays. Nothing goes on the device, and no push server to set.

Build a leave tracker in Excel with two sheets and three formulas: NETWORKDAYS for days taken, SUMIFS for days used, and allowance minus used.

Give each person a shift and let every clock-in land against it. PeopleMuster turns each punch into late minutes and an on-time rate, with no manual sums.

Keep one record per laptop: a device code, the serial, its status and the one person holding it. How to set up a laptop register your team keeps current.

Published HR software prices ran from $1.50 to $25 per employee per month in September 2026. What moves the bill, who hides it, and where $3 sits.

PeopleMuster includes every module for $3 per person a month, with no tiers or add-ons. See how module and tier pricing works at other HR vendors.

A public holiday inside a booked leave period should not consume a leave day. Why the boundary case needs deciding before it arrives.

Cloud HR software is safe when 4 things check out: where records live, how people sign in, who reaches each record and what every change leaves behind.

HiBob sets no minimum size, and its quote form starts at 1–49 employees. See what a small team pays and gets with PeopleMuster at $3 per person.

Who sees an attendance record depends on the permissions each role carries, not on being a colleague. What is visible more widely, and what is not.

Recruitment is a planned PeopleMuster module. Today PeopleMuster takes over at the accepted offer, with tracked onboarding, equipment, leave and a shift.

In PeopleMuster, working from home is modelled as a leave type with its own annual quota. Why that convention exists and what it implies.

A mid-year joiner needs a leave figure that fits the part of the year they will work. How the per-person grid handles it, and what to decide first.

Set a yearly quota per leave type, mark which types can be encashed, and pay unused days at days × daily rate. A five-step routine for a small team.

PeopleMuster imports Fireflies transcripts and files each meeting against its client project, with action items and admin-only risk signals. See how.

Turn your staff list, leave tracker and project sheet into one system. Upload them through the CSV importer or load them with us, at $3 per person.

Move your Harvest projects and clients into PeopleMuster, where timesheets sit beside leave and the capacity plan, for $3 per person a month.

PeopleMuster runs leave, attendance, timesheets, capacity and client projects in one database for $3 per person a month. See what one system changes.

Take holidays and booked leave out before you book hours. How a person-by-day grid with leave built in stops a 17-day month being planned as 20.

A PSA runs client delivery and an HRIS runs the people record. How the two overlap for an agency, and how PeopleMuster holds both for $3 per person.

8 security questions to put to any HR software vendor before you buy, what a strong answer sounds like, and how PeopleMuster answers each one in writing.

Yes, when your company sells or plans their time. Why agencies ask salaried staff for timesheets, how to keep them light, and the one mistake to avoid.

Rebuild your Float schedule in the PeopleMuster capacity grid, with leave and holidays marked on it. People and projects load at setup, $3 per person.

Trade a base fee with bundled headcount for a flat $3 per person a month. PeopleMuster loads your people, leave and holidays with you at setup.

Keep the culture side when you leave HiBob: awards, shoutouts and masked feedback, plus leave and projects, for a published $3 per person a month.

Move from Keka to one published price: $3 per person a month, no headcount base. Your people, leave and projects load with you during setup.

Leave a quote-based HR contract for $3 per person a month. PeopleMuster loads your people and leave, and connects to your ZKTeco terminal by IP.

Swap a core platform plus add-on products for one bill: $3 per person a month, every module in it. Your people, leave and projects load at setup.

Move off Zoho People with your people, leave balances and projects loaded during setup. One price, $3 per person a month, from the first person.

Exceeding an allowance is a policy question, not a product rule. What the record shows, and why an unpaid type usually exists beside the paid ones.

The browser check-in card opens sixty minutes before a shift starts and closes a hundred and twenty minutes after. Both edges are configurable per tenant.

Unlimited PTO takes away the number people plan around. Why a yearly quota per leave type, say 20 days in all, is fairer and easier to run.

Six early signs a client project is slipping, from a quiet client to drifting hours, and where PeopleMuster shows each one before the deadline does.

Timesheets carry a status that moves from draft to submitted and onward through review. Where to read it, and what each state means.

The 5 facts a security reviewer asks for: where the data lives, how people sign in, how access is enforced, what is logged and what stays on the terminal.

Base fees, setup fees, seat minimums, paid add-ons and long contracts all sit outside the per-employee rate. Five costs to find, and PeopleMuster's answer.

Enrolment is a grid of people against benefits, read by month. What the record holds, what it deliberately does not, and where to check yours.

A late arrival is a clock-in after the start of the shift that person was assigned, plus any grace the employer allows. Why the yardstick is personal.

Verified means a person checked the device against its record. See why that sits apart from device health, and how to filter by its 2 states.

BambooHR bills companies of 25 employees or fewer a flat rate from $250 a month, not per seat (24 September 2026). See how that compares with PeopleMuster.

Deel HR Core costs $5 per person a month and covers profiles, time off and time tracking. See how PeopleMuster adds projects and capacity for $3.

Three dollars per person per month, every live module included, no tiers. What is in the price and how it sits against published HR prices.

Core HR runs on your own database. Meetings use Fireflies, the policy assistant uses OpenAI, the terminal your office network. See what each of 4 needs.

Your records live in your own database, in your own account, and the main screens export to CSV. What stays with you and what to keep on file.

A work laptop you keep stays assigned to you by serial until the return is logged. See what employers do next and 3 steps that protect you when you leave.

An unsubmitted timesheet never reaches the approvals queue, so the hours sit in draft and every figure built on them reads low.

A missing check-out leaves the day open with no duration, and the check-out window eventually closes. How the day gets completed afterwards.

A missed clock-in leaves 1 day incomplete until someone files the missing time for an approver. See what the gap affects and how to close it fast.

Past the logging window, entering your own time stops being available and the gap needs somebody with wider rights. What the missing days cost.

A health grade is a recorded judgement of a machine's condition, kept separate from its service status. How to read it beside the specification fields.

Deltek's May 2026 study put A&E staff utilisation just under 60%. How to set a good target by role and measure it from logged hours in PeopleMuster.

A good Bradford Factor score is a low one: two short absences totalling 4 days score 16. How the formula works and where to set your trigger points.

US employers averaged 3.3% total separations per month in 2025 (BLS JOLTS). How to work out your own turnover percentage and read it on a small team.

Partial is an attendance status of its own, for a day that was neither a full shift nor an absence. Why rounding it away lies in both directions.

A shared list is a personal list made visible to someone else, labelled with who shared it. Why it sits apart from project boards.

A staleness warning counts the days since the last meeting on a project, against a threshold each company sets. Default fourteen days.

A template is a reusable list of steps. A process is one running copy against a person or project. Why the separation is what makes it work.

Keka PSA adds timesheets, projects, billing and resource planning to Keka HR, priced on request. PeopleMuster runs HR and projects for $3 per person.

On-time rate is the share of arrivals inside the allowed start window. Why the trend is the useful part and the level rarely is.

PeopleMuster is HR software for agencies and software houses: attendance, leave, timesheets and resource planning in one database, $3 per person a month.

A check-in records a time, a date and the person. No location, no device fingerprint, no photograph. What the attendance row actually holds.

Darwinbox states no minimum size and pitches itself to enterprises, with pricing by quote only. See what a 20 to 200 person firm gets for $3 a person.

A benefit's value comes from the company's policy and pay process. PeopleMuster holds the structure: which benefits exist, their type, and who is enrolled.

Published policies sit in one place, grouped into categories and reachable by a stable address. What is there, and what a policy library is not.

Your data lives in your own database, in your own account, in the region you choose. What PeopleMuster records, what stays masked, and what never arrives.

Runn sets a 20-seat minimum, Calamari 10, Zoho People 5 and Productive.io 3, per vendor pages in September 2026. See what that means for a 10-person team.

Seeing your own projects is part of the baseline. Where allocation differs from assignment, and why the two answers often disagree.

Punch corrections are approved by whoever holds the attendance approval permission, usually a manager or HR. How the permission model decides that.

Leave approval sits with whoever holds the leave permission, and requests move through a pending, approved or rejected funnel.

PeopleMuster was built by Hashlogics, a software house that runs its own people and client projects on it every working day. What that shaped.

Each benefit carries its own visibility flag deciding whether it shows on user cards. Why visibility is set per benefit rather than per person.

Project reporting follows permission domains, and the AI risk signals are admin-only. A settings guard blocks one Slack channel name outright.

Seeing your own device is part of the baseline no role can remove. The whole register is a separate permission, and the split is the point.

Every device in the register carries one current holder, a device code and a serial. How to read your own assignment, and why the serial settles arguments.

The product states it plainly: tickets are private and visible only to the people who handle support. What that scope includes and excludes.

Rippling sells products on top of a required core platform, billed per employee, so every price is a quote. See how the model works and what to ask.