Still Tracking Time Like It’s 1985? Bring Payroll into the Present with Absence + Time Your district already uses Frontline to manage absences — staff request time off, subs get assigned, and that process runs smoothly. But when it comes to time tracking and payroll? It’s a manual maze. You might be stuck reconciling absences with hours worked. Re-entering data. Fixing errors — sometimes just days before payroll closes. It’s one process split across two systems — and you’re the one left pulling it together by hand. Schedule a Demo It’s Like Finishing a Puzzle with the Wrong Pieces One system for absences. One for time worked. All the work in between? Yours. Disconnected systems make your job harder: Absences don’t show up in time reports Hours worked live in a separate spreadsheet Extra duty gets tracked on paper Subs get paid late — or not at all Time & Attendance connects it all — so you finally get the complete picture. “We were running 100-150 timesheets of payroll. We’re down to 20 to 30 timesheets of payroll. We don’t hand enter time anymore, and that alleviates a lot of errors [because] you never have to worry about not being able to read someone’s name. It also helps process our payroll much quicker, so we love Time & Attendance.” – Deb Armbruster CFO, Chardon Local School District What Changes When You Combine Absence & Time? Disconnected Systems Absence + Time Together Time Entry Manual paper forms and spreadsheets Employees clock in/out digitally — even for extra duty and supplemental rolesAbsence Tracking Managed separately from hours worked Absences auto-populate into timesheets Payroll Process Reconcile data, chase approvals, re-key entries Accurate, real-time hours with built-in guardrails Approvals Email chains and missing sign-offsAll in-system with audit trail Reporting & Compliance Errors and end-of-week clean-up Export-ready reports and clear exceptions Bringing absence and time together means fewer surprises, fewer errors — and a lot less cleanup at the end of the week. “When we went to Time and Attendance and Absence Management, once we put those together, that stuff dovetails. When I look at my summary time sheet doing payroll, if somebody had an absence, they’re not going to show short for the week unless it was an unpaid absence. The fact that those systems talk to each other gives us confidence that there’s a seamless movement of data across the platform and confidence in that data, because we know how it dovetails together.” – Jeff Swartzentruber School Business Official, Mid-Prairie CSD Your Staff Already Uses the App. Let’s Make the Most of It. Teachers and staff already log in to request time off. Now they can do more — without learning a new system. Using the same mobile app, employees and substitutes can: Clock in and out — even across multiple jobs Submit and review timesheets See leave balances and schedules in real time For you, that means fewer missed entries, cleaner timesheets, and fewer last-minute fixes. Get the Buyer’s Guide Still using spreadsheets and forms? Download our no-fluff guide for choosing a Time & Attendance system that’s purpose-built for K–12. Download the Guide Get a Full Picture of Time Worked — Without the Scramble When Absence and Time live in one system, everything works better: Hours are accurate Payroll runs faster Staff get paid right — every time No more reconciling. No more re-keying. Just confidence in the data – and your payroll.
