Clockinator Lite

Description

Clockinator Lite helps small teams manage employee attendance and everyday workforce records directly in WordPress. It includes employee and department management, clock in/out, shifts, holidays, leave requests, attendance history, reports, and employee-facing self-service views.

Use the Lite version for essential attendance workflows. When your team needs broader workforce operations, Clockinator Pro adds expanded payroll, productivity, project and task workflows, advanced reporting, and optional integrations and automation modules.

Core Lite Features

  • Employee management and employee self-service workflows
  • Clock in/out and attendance history
  • Attendance statuses and basic attendance analytics
  • Attendance calendar with daily details
  • Department and shift management
  • Holiday management
  • Leave requests and leave status tracking
  • Attendance reports with filters
  • Attendance remarks and notes
  • Employee profile and dashboard shortcodes
  • Elementor integration for supported employee components
  • Responsive frontend and administration interfaces
  • Translation-ready interface

Clockinator Pro — Expanded Workforce Management

Clockinator Pro builds on the essential attendance workflow with additional tools for managing people, schedules, productivity, and payroll-related operations from WordPress.
Pro Plugin | Demo

Pro Core Features

  • Employee, department, location, and shift administration
  • Attendance management, working-hours calculations, and location-aware clock in/out
  • Holiday, event, notice, and leave management
  • Payroll calculations and payroll management
  • Payslip generation, including periodic generation
  • Employee reimbursements and payslip-related reimbursement handling
  • Project and task management for assigned employees
  • Reports for attendance and workforce activity, with export options
  • Employee dashboard and administrative dashboard
  • Email and SMS notification alerts and editable notification templates
  • Role-based access and IP restriction options
  • Multi-timezone location management
  • Import/export tools for supported employee and report data

Optional Clockinator Pro Addons

The following optional modules extend Clockinator Pro. Availability, compatibility, and licensing may vary by addon; see the product page for current details.

  • Advanced Reports & Analytics — deeper attendance, leave, payroll, and productivity reporting with charts, filters, and exports.
  • Smart Time Tracking — live session controls, manual time entries, and project/task-linked tracking workflows.
  • AI Copilot — AI-assisted workforce insights and an assistant experience with supported AI providers.
  • Process Automation & Approvals — configurable approval routing, notifications, logs, and escalation workflows.
  • Frontend Dashboard — a dedicated employee-facing workspace for attendance, leave, profile, and self-service.
  • Frontend Builder — tools for building branded frontend attendance pages, sections, and role-based widgets.
  • Invoicing & Client Billing — invoice creation, payment tracking, billing details, recurring schedules, and statements.
  • Kiosk / QR Attendance — QR attendance cards, kiosk clock-in/out, and supported door-access/API workflows.
  • Biometric Attendance — device registration, employee enrollment links, and supported hardware/webhook integrations.
  • Integrations — connect supported external services using webhooks, Slack, Google Calendar, Zapier, Make, accounting integrations, and REST API tools.
  • Field Workforce — location-aware attendance, employee location views, routes, and visit workflows.

Learn more about Clockinator Pro and its addons: Click here

Short Description

Employee attendance and time tracking for WordPress with clock in/out, shifts, leave requests, attendance reports, and employee self-service dashboards.

Shortcodes

The plugin provides employee-facing shortcodes for supported portal components, including the employee dashboard, clock interface, employee profile, and attendance calendar.

  • [btcl-dashboard]
  • [btcl-clock]
  • [btcl-employee-profile]
  • [btcl-attendance-calendar]

License

Clockinator Lite WordPress plugin, Copyright (C) 2021 Beastthemes.
Licensed under the GPLv2 or later.

Screenshots

Installation

  1. Upload the plugin to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory, or install it from the WordPress Plugins screen.
  2. Activate Clockinator Lite from the Plugins screen.
  3. Open Clockinator Lite from the WordPress admin menu.
  4. Complete the Setup Wizard and configure your company, working days, shifts, holidays, departments, and employees.
  5. Add the employee-facing page/shortcodes required by your site.

FAQ

Can employees view their own attendance?

Yes. Employees can access their attendance through the supported frontend dashboard and attendance views.

Does Clockinator Lite include payroll and payslips?

No. Advanced payroll workflows and payslip generation are part of Clockinator Pro.

Does Clockinator Lite support shifts and holidays?

Yes. Lite includes basic shift and holiday management.

What does Clockinator Pro add?

Clockinator Pro expands workforce management with payroll, payslips, reimbursements, projects, tasks, expanded reporting, location-related tools, notifications, and additional administration features. Optional addons extend Pro with analytics, time tracking, AI assistance, automation, frontend tools, billing, kiosk/QR, biometric, integrations, and field workforce features.

Are the Pro addons included with Clockinator Lite?

No. Pro features and optional addons are separate from the Lite feature set. Check the product page for current addon availability and licensing details.

Is Clockinator Lite translation ready?

Yes. The plugin uses the clockinator-lite text domain and includes translation resources.

Does uninstalling the plugin delete WordPress users?

No. The uninstall routine only removes plugin-owned data and options. WordPress user accounts are not removed.

Reviews

agosto 29, 2023
Hello, This is Yousuf. I am using this plugin for my website to show employee attendance. When I activate this plugin my website's design breaking… can you tell me the problem? I am using Elementor
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Contributors & Developers

“Clockinator Lite” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

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Interested in development?

Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.

Changelog

1.1.0 – 2026-10-02

  • Added attendance status tracking and improved attendance reporting.
  • Added attendance calendar summaries and daily attendance details.
  • Improved employee self-service dashboard cards and frontend portal navigation.
  • Improved clock in/out and break action UX with validation and duplicate-action protection.
  • Added attendance remarks/notes and administrator attendance correction tools.
  • Improved employee management, profile, leave, holiday, and shift interfaces.
  • Added improved report filters, summaries, pagination, sorting, and responsive tables.
  • Added the first-run Setup Wizard and reorganized settings UX.
  • Added basic Elementor integration and employee-facing shortcode improvements.
  • Added safer attendance, leave, report, profile, target, and admin AJAX authorization and ownership checks.
  • Added safer settings validation and improved administrator capability checks.
  • Improved database/session validation and handling of incomplete attendance sessions.
  • Added plugin migration/version tracking for the 1.1.0 update.
  • Updated Lite/Pro product positioning and WordPress.org-facing metadata.
  • Added plugin-owned uninstall cleanup without deleting WordPress users.
  • Modernized the Daily Report details modal across frontend and backend with responsive session, break, and summary cards.

1.0.9 – 2026-03-28

  • Added profile image support in the employee frontend profile form.
  • Added WordPress media uploader support for profile images.
  • Added profile image URL validation and preview.
  • Added employee media upload capability handling.
  • Fixed report time parsing and working-hours recalculation issues.
  • Improved report refresh after attendance edits.

1.0.8 – 2025-08-23

  • Tested with WordPress 6.8.2.
  • Improved PHP 8 compatibility.

1.0.7 – 2023-04-23

  • Fixed clock in/out button reload issue.

1.0.6 – 2022-11-18

  • Fixed working-hours calculation issues.
  • Fixed last-day working-hours calculation.

1.0.5 – 2021-09-26

  • Added shift management.
  • Added target management.
  • Improved PHP 8 compatibility.
  • Fixed frontend mobile CSS issues.

1.0.4 – 2021-08-05

  • Added working-hours column to reports.
  • Fixed frontend and reporting issues.

1.0.3 – 2021-07-31

  • Updated plugin naming.

1.0.2 – 2021-06-02

  • Added frontend shortcodes.
  • Fixed bugs.

1.0.1 – 2021-04-01

  • Added Go Pro page.