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Tessera Time & Attendance for Education
Track shifts, attendance, and overtime with payroll-ready approvals for education teams.
Key metrics
Timetable coverageLeave complianceOvertime cost %Payroll readinessCampus accuracy
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Overview
What Tessera Time & Attendance helps you achieve
Track shifts, attendance, overtime, and payroll-ready approvals for education teams across sites.
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Attendance capture with biometric options.
Automates time capture and approvals so attendance feeds directly into payroll with accuracy.
02
Shift and timetable scheduling support.
Automates time capture and approvals so attendance feeds directly into payroll with accuracy.
03
Overtime rules with approvals and audit trails.
Automates time capture and approvals so attendance feeds directly into payroll with accuracy.
04
Dashboards for HR and administration.
Automates time capture and approvals so attendance feeds directly into payroll with accuracy.
Integrations
Biometric devicesHR/payroll integrationsEmail/SMS notifications
Challenges
Common pain points we solve
Most education teams struggle with visibility, controls, and reporting. Tessera brings those workflows together.
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Term-based timetables require precise schedule alignment with attendance capture.
Tessera T&A eliminates this through automated attendance rules, overtime approvals, and audit trails.
02
Teacher leave creates coverage gaps without a proactive replacement planning workflow.
Tessera T&A eliminates this through automated attendance rules, overtime approvals, and audit trails.
03
Overtime during exam periods is ungoverned without approval controls.
Tessera T&A eliminates this through automated attendance rules, overtime approvals, and audit trails.
04
Multi-campus attendance tracking is inconsistent and hard to consolidate.
Tessera T&A eliminates this through automated attendance rules, overtime approvals, and audit trails.
05
Payroll preparation from teacher timesheets is manual and error-prone.
Tessera T&A eliminates this through automated attendance rules, overtime approvals, and audit trails.
Workflows
Key workflows for Education
These are the most common workflows education organizations implement first for fast ROI.
Timetable-aligned scheduling
Runs on consistent rules with payroll-ready exports and exception management built in.
Leave + replacement planning
Runs on consistent rules with payroll-ready exports and exception management built in.
Overtime approvals
Runs on consistent rules with payroll-ready exports and exception management built in.
Exam period coverage
Runs on consistent rules with payroll-ready exports and exception management built in.
Multi-campus reporting
Runs on consistent rules with payroll-ready exports and exception management built in.
Payroll-ready exports
Runs on consistent rules with payroll-ready exports and exception management built in.
Common use cases
Roster planning and coverage reporting.
Overtime approvals and cost control.
Late/early departure reporting.
Leave policies and approvals history.
Payroll-ready exports and scheduled reports.
Capabilities
What you get with Tessera Time & Attendance
A practical feature set designed for education teams, with controls and reporting built in.
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Biometric + mobile attendance
Finger/face device workflows plus mobile attendance options where teams are distributed.
02
Shift scheduling
Define shift masters, breaks, rotation rules, and alerts for coverage and compliance.
03
Overtime rules + approvals
Policy-based overtime calculation with employee-level configuration and approvals.
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Leave management
Paid/unpaid leave, accrual, carry-forward, half-day support, and payroll-ready exports.
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Attendance processing + corrections
Bulk processing of raw logs with authorized time corrections and discrepancy resolution.
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Outstation/official visits
Track official visits and exceptions so attendance reflects real work patterns.
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Report builder + schedulers
Custom report layouts, scheduled report emails, and dashboards for HR teams.
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Payroll/ERP integrations
Integrate to payroll and ERPs via APIs/files so time data flows end-to-end.
Reporting
Dashboards and insights
Get visibility that helps teams act faster: drill-down reporting, analysis views, and exportable outputs.
Common dashboards & reports
Hours analysis and overtime reports
Late arrival / early departure reporting
Shift-wise employee strength and compliance
Leave reports and approvals history
Attendance discrepancy and corrections logs
Dashboards for HR/admin teams
Scheduled report emails and exports
Built for teams
Secure reporting and controlled exports
Share the right view with the right people using role-based access. Export and schedule reports for finance, operations, and leadership.
Role-based visibilityDrill-down viewsExports (PDF/Excel)Scheduled sharing
Modules
Recommended Tessera modules
Start with time & attendance, then connect HR and payroll workflows for payroll-ready reporting.
Tessera Time & Attendance
Shifts, attendance, overtime approvals, and payroll-ready reporting.
Learn moreAccounting & Finance
Reporting, controls, and financial visibility across teams.
Learn moreHR & Payroll
People operations, payroll workflows, and compliance support.
Learn morePoint Of Sale
Sales, stock updates, and branch performance visibility.
Learn moreWorkflow example
See how the work moves through Tessera
A practical example of how education teams can connect requests, approvals, operations, and reporting.
Approve and process
Role-based controls route the transaction to the right people and retain its approval history.
Report
Operations and finance see the completed transaction in shared dashboards and exports.
FAQ
Questions we hear from Education teams
If you want, we can walk through your exact workflows in a short demo.
Yes. Shift schedules can be aligned to term structures and timetable blocks.
Leave workflows with automated replacement planning keep timetable coverage consistent.
Yes. Multi-campus dashboards and consolidated reports are supported.
Get started
Get a education demo
We will map your workflows, recommend a rollout plan, and show the dashboards your team will use day-to-day.
In the demo
- Shift scheduling and attendance workflows
- Overtime approvals and payroll-ready reporting
- Implementation timeline + support plan
- Module recommendations for your team