Staff Attendance Systems for Hospitality

Clock-in, shift tracking and payroll-ready hours built for how hospitality rotas actually run — split shifts, cover at short notice, and staff moving between venues.

Hospitality rotas break ordinary time-tracking software. Someone works a split shift, covers two hours at another venue, and picks up a trial shift on Sunday — and by Friday a manager is reconstructing the week from memory in a spreadsheet. We build attendance systems that record what actually happened, in a form payroll can use without a correction pass.

Built and running

35+

Teams operating on tools we designed and built

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from €3,000

Typical starting point for a focused internal tool

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What it does

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Clock-In That Fits The Venue

Phone, fixed tablet at the pass, or both — with network or device checks where you need more certainty than an honour system.

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Real Shift Patterns

Split shifts, overtime, trial shifts and short-notice cover expressed as first-class cases rather than manual corrections after the fact.

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Multi-Venue Movement

Staff clocking in at one venue and out at another, with hours attributed to the right place for the right cost centre.

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Payroll-Ready Export

Hours exported in the format your payroll provider or accountant actually asks for, not a generic file someone reshapes by hand each month.

What changes

The Friday reconstruction ends

Hours are recorded when they happen rather than reassembled from memory at the end of the week.

Payroll disputes drop

A clear record both the manager and the staff member can see removes most of the argument before it starts.

Labour cost becomes visible

Hours per venue and per service, available while you can still act on them rather than a month later.

How it works

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Discovery & Spec

We map your shift patterns, pay rules and payroll format — including the edge cases your current tool forces someone to fix manually.

02

Build

Focused sprints with regular check-ins. Attendance tooling is used mid-service by people in a hurry, so we test it that way.

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Rollout & Support

We roll out venue by venue alongside your existing process, then support and extend it as the operation changes.

Why Digics

We have shipped this before

A hospitality attendance system is one of the products we already build and run — this is not a category we are learning on your project.

Designed for the floor

Software used mid-service has to work in seconds, with wet hands, on a device in a corridor. We design for that rather than for a demo.

It fits your payroll, not ours

The export is built around what your provider needs. Getting this right is the difference between a system that saves time and one that moves the work elsewhere.

Frequently asked questions

Why not use a standard time-tracking app?

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For an office, standard apps are fine. Hospitality breaks their assumptions: split shifts, staff clocking in at one venue and out at another, trial shifts, last-minute cover, and hours that need to reach payroll in a specific format. Generic tools either cannot express those cases or require a manual correction pass every week, which defeats the point.

Can staff clock in from their phones?

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Yes — phone, a fixed tablet at the venue, or both. Where phone clock-in raises questions about accuracy, we can tie it to the venue network or a device at the pass, depending on how much friction you want to trade for certainty.

Does it handle multiple venues?

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Yes. Staff moving between venues in a group is one of the specific cases generic tools handle badly and one of the main reasons operators come to us.

Can it export to our payroll provider?

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Yes. We build the export to match what your payroll provider or accountant actually needs, rather than producing a generic CSV that someone reformats by hand every month.

What does it cost?

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Focused tools of this kind start from €3,000. The variables are the number of venues, how complex your shift and pay rules are, and which systems it needs to export to. You get a quote after discovery.

Is staff data handled correctly under GDPR?

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Attendance data is employee personal data and we build accordingly — access controls, retention limits and export rights. We are based in the Netherlands and build to EU expectations by default, but we are engineers rather than lawyers; final sign-off on your policy is between you and your advisor.

Tell us how your rota actually works

Describe the shift patterns your current tool cannot handle and what someone fixes by hand each week. That is the specification.

Staff Attendance Systems for Hospitality | Digics