Attendance Terminology

Summary

This page defines confirmed Attendance and Time Office terms without prescribing unconfirmed policy.

Audience

Business users, engineers, QA, support, and product owners.

Terms

Term	Confirmed meaning
Attendance record	One tenant-scoped daily outcome for an employee.
Punch	A recorded employee time action used by punch processing.
Work hours	Normalized duration evaluated by Attendance calculation.
Paid units	Calculator output consumed by Payroll; numeric policy is intentionally omitted.
Overtime / shortfall	Calculator outputs relative to resolved expectations.
Shift	Time Office definition used to resolve scheduled work.
Shift assignment	Effective-dated association of an employee to a shift. No administration screen is confirmed.
Attendance policy	Active/default Time Office rules used by calculation.
Weekly off	Tenant-configured non-working weekday rule.
Reopen request	Governed request to recalculate a previously handled date.
Payroll snapshot	Period Attendance data captured for Payroll processing.
Compatibility surface	Monolith-shaped contract backed during service extraction.
Direct surface	Attendance Service-owned contract.

Reference Content

The source-backed catalog above is the normative reference content for this Draft page.

Source References

• microservices/src/attendance-service/Domain/Attendance/AttendanceRecord.cs
• microservices/src/attendance-service/Domain/TimeOffice/Shift.cs
• microservices/src/attendance-service/Domain/TimeOffice/AttendancePolicy.cs

Related Articles

• Attendance reference
• Attendance module

See Also

• Attendance technical documentation
• Attendance troubleshooting

Keywords

• Attendance
• Attendance Terminology
• Reference

Revision Information

• Status: Draft
• Last reviewed: 2026-07-15
• Review cycle: Quarterly