MerchantKits Attendance Manager Wordpress Plugin - Rating, Reviews, Demo & Download
Plugin Description
MerchantKits Attendance Manager brings simple, powerful attendance tracking and leave management to your WordPress dashboard. Built for small businesses, it covers the full cycle: employees, shifts, clock in/out, leave requests and approvals, reporting, and optional AI-powered insights.
Key features
- Employee management — add employees, link them to WordPress users, assign shifts, and track employment type and status.
- Clock in / out — via an admin widget, the
[mkam_clock_in]shortcode, or the REST API. Captures IP and optional geolocation, detects lateness, and calculates worked hours and overtime. - Shifts — flexible shift definitions with grace periods, working days, breaks, and overnight support.
- Leave management — leave requests with balances, overlap detection, minimum-notice rules, approval workflow, and email notifications.
- Admin dashboard — at-a-glance stats, today’s activity, and one-click leave approvals.
- AI Insights (BYOK) — generate smart attendance summaries and detect absence patterns using your own OpenAI API key.
- Self-service shortcodes —
[mkam_clock_in],[mkam_my_attendance],[mkam_leave_request], and[mkam_my_leaves]. - CSV export — employees, attendance, and leave records.
- REST API — full
mkam/v1namespace for integrations.
Privacy / External Services
This plugin optionally connects to OpenAI’s API (https://api.openai.com) for AI-powered attendance insights.
- Data is sent only when you explicitly click “Generate Summary” or “Detect Patterns”, or when you enable the optional AI weekly digest email
- The data sent includes employee names together with aggregated attendance statistics (counts of present/absent/late/on-leave days and overtime hours) for the selected period — this is required so the generated report can reference specific employees
- No other personal data (email, phone, IP address, salary, etc.) is sent
- Requires you to provide your own OpenAI API key in plugin settings
- No data is sent without your direct action (or, for the weekly digest, without you enabling that setting)
OpenAI Privacy Policy: https://openai.com/privacy/
OpenAI Terms of Service: https://openai.com/terms/
Screenshots
Admin dashboard with attendance stat cards and today’s activity.
Employee management list table.
Attendance log with filters and export.
Leave requests with one-click approve/reject.
AI Insights dashboard.
Frontend clock in/out widget.
