Absen Mini

A simple attendance and payroll app for small businesses — laundries, food stalls, workshops, salons, barbershops, and corner shops.

Built for owners who have no HR staff and do not need a complicated system. Record attendance, calculate daily/weekly/monthly wages, manage cash advances, then print payslips — all from your phone.

WORKS WITHOUT INTERNET

All data is stored on your phone. No account, no signal needed. Open the app and start.

ATTENDANCE

• Record clock-in & clock-out with a single tap
• Configurable lateness tolerance (15 minutes by default)
• Overtime calculated automatically from clock-out vs shift end
• Manual correction when someone forgets to clock in
• Shifts crossing midnight are handled correctly
• Reminders on the home screen when someone forgets to clock out

PAYROLL

• Four wage bases: daily, weekly, monthly, or hourly
• Overtime, fixed allowances, commissions/bonuses
• Lateness and absence deductions
• Cash-advance instalments deducted automatically
• PDF payslips ready to share with employees

CASH ADVANCES

The feature small businesses need most and rarely find elsewhere. Record employee loans, choose a single deduction or instalments, and see the outstanding balance. Every change is logged in full — so there is no argument on payday.

SHIFT SCHEDULING

• Create shift templates (Morning 08–16, Afternoon 16–24, and so on)
• Build weekly schedules per employee
• Mark days off and public holidays

LEAVE & ABSENCE

Record leave, permitted absence, sick days, and no-shows. The annual leave allowance is calculated automatically and feeds into payroll.

REPORTS & EXPORT

Everything exports to Excel and PDF.

• Attendance summary per employee
• Payroll summary per period
• Employee card with full history
• Cash-advance balances for all employees
• Lateness ranking

BACKUP & CHANGING PHONES

Save a copy of all your data to one file, then restore it on your new phone. You can also lock the app with a PIN so nobody else sees your payroll. Your data stays yours.

NO ADS

No advertising at all. This is a work tool, not a toy.

PAID PLANS (optional)

The free features above are complete and never time-limited. Paid plans add remote oversight:

• Employees clock in themselves on a tablet/phone kept at the business, using their own PIN plus a selfie
• GPS location at clock-in, compared against the outlet location
• Out-of-area attendance flagging (Pro plan)
• Send payslips to employees on WhatsApp with one tap
• Leave requests from employees
• Shift swaps between employees (Pro plan)
• Multiple branches (Pro plan and above)

Flat pricing per business — not per employee. Basic covers up to 5 employees, Pro up to 15 employees and 2 branches. To subscribe, just sign in with email, Google, or Apple — your business data stays on your phone.

GOOD FOR

Laundries, food stalls, coffee shops, workshops, salons, barbershops, corner shops, minimarkets, and other small businesses with 2–15 employees.

NOT FOR

Companies that need income-tax filing, national insurance, recruitment, or multi-level approvals. This app is deliberately simple.