Efficiently Process Employee Attendance with greytHR

Updated in April - 2026 | Subscribe to watch greytHR how-to video

Processing attendance is vital for daily operations, enabling organizations to track and manage employee attendance effectively. It ensures accurate records, timely payroll, and fair evaluation. It streamlines tasks, boosts productivity, and fosters a transparent and accountable work environment.

The Process Attendance page in the greytHR Admin portal allows you to process the attendance for the employees manually. You must process the attendance manually whenever the employees' swipe information is not available.

The page displays a list of all the attendance processed in the past, under the Attendance Process History table. In the table, you can view the details such as Processed For, Processed On, Attendance Period, Selected Date, and Status. 

To view the Process Attendance page, from the greytHR Admin portal, hover over the 9 dots and go to Workforce Management > Attendance > Process Attendance.

Process employees' attendance

To process employees' attendance, from the greytHR Admin portal, hover over the 9 dots and go to Workforce Management > Attendance > Process Attendance.

1. On the Process Attendance page, from the Date dropdown calendar, select the required date. The Attendance Process History table appears.

2. Click the Process Attendance button. The Process Attendance pop-up appears.

3. From the From Date and To Date dropdown calendars, select the required dates.

4. Select the Selected Employees option.
   Note: You can select the All Employees option if you want to process attendance for all the employees.

5. From the Employee Filters dropdown filter, select the required option to customize the employee list.

6. Select the checkboxes against the required employees from the list.

   Note: To process the attendance of a single employee, enter the employee number or name in the select an employee search box.

7. Click Process to process the attendance of the selected employees. After processing, a success message appears and the details auto-populate in the Attendance Process History table.

Duplicate attendance processing prevention

When attendance processing is initiated, the system prevents duplicate processing if multiple users attempt to process attendance for the same employees, date range, and attendance cycle at the same time.

If a matching process was started within the last hour, the new request is blocked with the message: Attendance processing underway. Retry in sometime displaying details of the ongoing process, including date range, type, filter, initiator, and start time.

Note: If no matching process exists, or if it was initiated over an hour ago, a new request can be processed.

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