Welcome to Timed

Timed is a time-and-attendance platform for managing employees, clock-ins, shifts, leave, and payroll exports. This documentation answers "how do I…" questions without you having to ask support.

The main areas of the app

The sidebar groups features by what you're doing:

• Dashboard — a quick read of who's currently clocked in, recent activity, and any failed validations that need attention.
• Clock In/Out — for employees to clock themselves in (or, with the right permission, for managers to do it on someone else's behalf). On a phone, install the Timed Clock app from https://app.timed.co.za/clock-pwa for a native-feeling experience — see Installing the PWA.
• Employees / Locations / Shifts — your roster, the places people work, and the schedules they're on. Each location has a QR code for pairing kiosk tablets.
• Management — the action queue, leave management, disciplinary records, task lists, the Attendance Copilot, and the Communication hub for WhatsApp chat and broadcasts.
• Reports — the Attendance Report, summary report, daily tally, movement report, fortnight overtime, custom reports, and the Variance Approval queue. Timed can also email a Daily Shift Report.
• Payroll — calculate hours for a pay run and send them to PaySpace; SimplePay leave and employees sync too.
• Admin — users, role permissions, tenant settings, and integrations such as HikVision terminals, WhatsApp, and PaySpace and SimplePay.

Roles and permissions

What you see in the sidebar depends on your role. The most common roles are:

Role	Sees
Employee	Clock In/Out and their own leave
Manager	Employees, attendance reports, variance approvals, leave management
Field-Manager	Approves variances and runs reports across the locations they oversee
Owner / Manager-Owner	Everything in their company, including settings and integrations

If a button or page seems missing, it's likely a permission rather than a bug — see Roles and permissions explained, or ask whoever set up your account.

If you belong to more than one company, use the company switcher in the top-right to move between them.

Getting help

• Browse the documentation by category to find the article you need.
• The Attendance Copilot (in the sidebar, when enabled) can answer attendance questions in plain English — try "how many people are clocked in right now?" or "show me late arrivals last week as a chart". See Attendance Copilot.
• Anything missing from these docs? Tell support — these articles are kept short on purpose so we can add the ones you actually want.