# KAMI Workforce > KAMI Workforce is an HR platform for companies in the Philippines and Indonesia, > covering payroll, attendance, leave, benefits, expenses, recruitment and performance. This file indexes the KAMI Workforce Help Centre. Every article below is written and maintained by the team that builds the product. Each article is also available as raw Markdown, with no authentication, at: `https://hq-api.kamiworkforce.com/support/public/articles//` - the `content` field. For example: https://hq-api.kamiworkforce.com/support/public/articles/turnover-report/ ## Attendance - [Getting started with Attendance](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/getting-started-with-attendance/): Attendance records when people are meant to work and when they actually did — schedules, check-ins, breaks, overtime, leave, absences and the corrections... - [The Attendance dashboard](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/the-attendance-dashboard/): The dashboard is the daily overview: how attendance is tracking, where absences are, and what needs looking at — without opening a report. Two minutes here... ## Attendance > Daily Attendance - [Approving attendance and leave requests](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/approving-attendance-and-leave-requests/): Approvals is the queue of everything waiting on a decision from you — attendance corrections and leave, in one place. On a system that feeds payroll, this... - [Checking in and out](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/checking-in-and-out/): Checking in creates the time log that proves you worked. This article is for employees: how the four actions work, what happens when you are offline or away... - [Checkpoints and geo-tracking](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/checkpoints-and-geo-tracking/): For work that happens away from a desk, KAMI records where a check-in happened, not only when. Checkpoints and geo-tracking are the two views of that, and... - [Correcting attendance: amendment requests](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/correcting-attendance-amendment-requests/): Attendance records go wrong — a device misses a tap, someone forgets to check out, a day is scheduled against the wrong activity. Amendments are how they... - [Events: the attendance record](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/events-the-attendance-record/): An event is one person on one day: the activity they were scheduled for, and what actually happened. The Events page is every one of those records in a... - [How timekeeping is calculated](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/how-timekeeping-is-calculated/): This is the article to read when a number looks wrong. It explains how KAMI turns check-ins into paid hours: what counts as work, how tardiness is measured,... - [KAMI ClockSmart](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/kami-clocksmart/): ClockSmart is KAMI's tablet check-in app: employees clock in and out at a device by the door, identified by face and optionally a passcode. It exists... - [Offline and remote check-ins](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/offline-and-remote-check-ins/): Not every check-in happens at the office with a working connection. KAMI records both cases, flags them so a manager can see the circumstances, and — where... - [Requesting and amending leave](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/requesting-and-amending-leave/): Booking leave, and putting it right when plans change. Written for employees requesting their own leave and for the managers and admins who amend it afterwards. - [Time logs](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/time-logs/): Time logs are the raw taps — every check-in, check-out, break out and break in, as recorded. Where an event is KAMI's interpretation of a day, the time log... - [Timesheet](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/timesheet/): The timesheet is the period's hours per person — scheduled against actual, with the deductions and premiums that make up a payslip. It is the handover point... ## Attendance > Reports - [Attendance reports](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/attendance-reports/): The reports answer the questions the day-to-day screens cannot: not "was Maria late on Tuesday" but "is lateness getting worse, and where". They are also... - [Event tracker](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/event-tracker/): The event tracker follows attendance records through their states — what has been raised, what is waiting, what has been settled. Where the Events page... - [Leave balances and accrual](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/leave-balances-and-accrual/): A leave balance is not a number someone types in — it is calculated from the policy: how often leave accrues, from when, capped at what, and what carried... ## Attendance > Scheduling - [Event templates](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/event-templates/): An event template is a reusable day: an activity, its times, break, thresholds and overtime behaviour, saved so you can schedule it without re-entering the... - [Open shifts](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/open-shifts/): An open shift is a shift published without an assignee, for people to claim. Instead of deciding who covers Saturday and telling them, you post it and let... - [Shifts](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/shifts/): A shift is a working pattern — when work starts and ends, whether breaks are tracked, how much flexibility is allowed, and the thresholds that decide... - [Standard and dynamic schedules](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/standard-and-dynamic-schedules/): A schedule is what tells KAMI when someone is expected to work — and therefore what their attendance is judged against. There are two ways to set one, and... - [The team calendar](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/the-team-calendar/): The team calendar is the visual view of who is working when — daily, weekly or monthly — and the place most scheduling actually gets done. It is also the... ## Attendance > Settings - [Activities and how they pay](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/activities-and-how-they-pay/): An activity is what a block of time is — regular work, overtime, night shift, a type of leave — and how it is paid. Activities are where attendance turns... - [Attendance settings on an employee profile](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/attendance-settings-on-an-employee-profile/): Most attendance behaviour is set company-wide, on shifts and activities. But some settings belong to the person: their expected working hours, whether they... - [Attendance user rights](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/attendance-user-rights/): Attendance rights decide who can see whose attendance, who can change it, and who can approve it. They matter more than most permissions because attendance... - [Attendance validation rules](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/attendance-validation-rules/): Validation rules check attendance data against conditions you define, so problems surface where they are cheap to fix rather than at payroll. They catch the... - [Calendar rules and the attendance lock](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/calendar-rules-and-the-attendance-lock/): Calendar rules are the company-wide behaviours of Attendance: how long the past stays editable, what kinds of correction people may raise, and how shifts... - [Emergency leave allowance and leave cycles](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/emergency-leave-allowance-and-leave-cycles/): Emergency leave allowance covers the leave people cannot plan: they were ill, something happened, and they are telling you afterwards rather than asking... - [Holiday rules](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/holiday-rules/): Holiday rules tell KAMI which days are holidays, what class each one is, and where it applies. Because holiday class drives holiday pay automatically, this... - [Importing leave data](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/importing-leave-data/): When you move to KAMI mid-year, people arrive with leave already earned and leave already taken. Importing brings both across, so balances are right from... - [Leave conversion and encashment](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/leave-conversion-and-encashment/): Leave conversion turns unused leave into something else — most often money, sometimes another leave type. It is how "use it or lose it" becomes "use it,... - [Leave types and policies](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/leave-types-and-policies/): A leave type in KAMI is an activity — the same object that defines working time, configured to be requestable and to accrue a balance. That is why leave... ## KAMI Tasks - [Getting started with KAMI Tasks](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/getting-started-with-kami-tasks/): KAMI Tasks is KAMI's project and work management module: tickets, sprints, boards and reports for any team's work — development, HR, operations or anything... - [KAMI PM, your AI project manager](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/kami-pm-your-ai-project-manager/): KAMI PM is the AI built into KAMI Tasks. It reads your projects and does the project-management legwork — answering questions, drafting whole project plans,... - [My Work: your daily view](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/my-work-your-daily-view/): My Work is your personal landing page. It answers one question — what needs my attention today? — without you trawling boards or building filters. - [Notifications in KAMI Tasks](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/notifications-in-kami-tasks/): Two things live under this name: the notifications inbox — everything that happened that involves you — and the preferences that decide how each kind of... ## KAMI Tasks > Planning - [List and Timeline views](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/list-and-timeline-views/): The board is for working a sprint. These two views are for everything the board is bad at: the List is every ticket as a table you can slice and bulk-edit,... - [Projects and access](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/projects-and-access/): A project is the container everything else sits in: its tickets, sprints, epics and board all belong to one project. Projects are also where access is... - [Sprints](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/sprints/): A sprint is a short, fixed period — usually one to four weeks — in which your team commits to a set of tickets. The Sprint Manager is where sprints are... - [The Kanban board](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/the-kanban-board/): The board is where a sprint gets worked: every ticket as a card, in columns that mirror your workflow. Drag a card to move it — the board is the ticket's... - [Ticket templates](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/ticket-templates/): Templates are reusable tickets, organised by epic, that you can drop into any sprint. If your team runs the same checklist every cycle — a release ritual,... ## KAMI Tasks > Reports - [Sprint Insights](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/sprint-insights/): Insights is the reporting page for sprints: how the current one is going, how past ones went, and where the workload actually sits. Pick a sprint at the top... - [Timelog](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/timelog/): The Timelog is the company-wide view of time logged in KAMI Tasks: every work-log entry, summarised and sliceable. Where a ticket's work log answers "what... ## KAMI Tasks > Settings - [Activating Task users](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/activating-task-users/): Being in KAMI does not put someone in KAMI Tasks. Task access is granted separately, in your main KAMI account — which is why the KAMI Tasks Users page is... - [Automations](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/automations/): Automations are the rules that chase things so a person does not have to: a ticket goes blocked and someone is told, a critical ticket sits unassigned and... - [Importing tickets from a spreadsheet](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/importing-tickets-from-a-spreadsheet/): Moving to KAMI Tasks from another tool — or from a planning spreadsheet — does not mean retyping the backlog. The import takes a spreadsheet and turns its... - [Integrations: GitLab, Slack and Claude Code](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/integrations-gitlab-slack-and-claude-code/): Integrations connect KAMI Tasks with your development tools so tickets stay in sync automatically — code activity lands on tickets, ticket activity lands in... - [Ticket Standards](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/ticket-standards/): Ticket Standards are your company-wide rules for how tickets are written — one format for titles, one structure for descriptions, applying to every ticket... - [Users and groups](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/users-and-groups/): People reach KAMI Tasks through two layers: users — everyone who can be assigned work — and groups, the teams they are organised into. Groups are what... ## KAMI Tasks > Tickets - [Creating and editing tickets](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/creating-and-editing-tickets/): A ticket is one unit of work: a bug, a task, a story. It is also the only durable record of why something was done — so the effort you put into a ticket is... - [Epics, subtasks and linked tickets](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/epics-subtasks-and-linked-tickets/): Tickets rarely stand alone. KAMI Tasks gives you three ways to relate them, and each answers a different question. Choosing the wrong one is not fatal, but... - [Estimates and logging time](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/estimates-and-logging-time/): KAMI Tasks tracks two different kinds of "how big": story points for sizing, and time for hours planned and spent. You do not have to use both — but... - [Statuses, priorities and ticket types](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/statuses-priorities-and-ticket-types/): Three small vocabularies do most of the organising in KAMI Tasks. Getting them straight — especially the difference between a status and a column — prevents... ## My Team - [Approving requests in My Team](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/approving-requests-in-my-team/): The My Team dashboard is built around one job: dealing with what is waiting on you. Requests do not arrive by email — they wait on the dashboard — so this... - [The Team page: finding and working with employees](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/the-team-page-finding-and-working-with-employees/): The Team tab is the list of everyone you manage and the way into any individual profile. It is the page you will open most often in My Team, and the one... ## My Team > Settings - [Custom Policies](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/custom-policies/): Custom Policies are the policies employees must read and acknowledge. Where a reference document sits in a library for people to consult, a custom policy is... - [Custom fields](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/custom-fields/): Custom fields let you record information KAMI does not hold as standard — a professional licence number, a locker number, a client code, whatever your... - [Module activation and two-factor authentication](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/module-activation-and-two-factor-authentication/): Two company-level controls that decide what KAMI does and who can get into it: which modules are switched on, and whether two-factor authentication is required. ## My Team > Settings > Approvals & Access - [Workflow Automation](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/workflow-automation/): Workflow Automation reacts to things happening in My Team — someone joins, a date arrives, a record changes — and takes an action without anyone remembering... ## My Team > Settings > Organization - [Company and subsidiary details](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/company-and-subsidiary-details/): Your company details are the legal identity KAMI uses on the documents it generates and the returns it supports — registered name, address and tax... - [Cost centres](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/cost-centres/): A cost centre is where an employee's labour cost is charged. It is the piece of your organisation structure that finance cares about most, and the one HR... ## My Team > Tools - [Importing career progression data](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/importing-career-progression-data/): Career progression is the record of how someone's role, pay and placement have changed over time. Importing it is how you bring that history across when you... - [Policy Center](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/policy-center/): The Policy Center is your company's document library — the handbooks, guides and reference material your team can look up when they need it. It answers... ## Payroll - [Daily-paid, monthly-paid and hourly-paid employees](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/daily-paid-monthly-paid-and-hourly-paid-employees/): An employee's wage period decides what their base pay means: a fixed amount each month, a rate for each day rendered, or a rate for each hour. It is set per... - [Getting started with Payroll](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/getting-started-with-payroll/): Payroll turns a period of attendance into payslips, statutory deductions and a payment file. This page is the map: what the pieces are, the order they... - [How wages are calculated](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/how-wages-are-calculated/): Every payslip in KAMI is built from a small number of rates that are derived, not typed in. Understanding how those rates are derived is how you tell the... - [The payroll dashboard](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/the-payroll-dashboard/): The payroll dashboard is the list of your payroll runs and the state each is in. It is where a payroll period starts and where you check, at a glance, that... ## Payroll > Payments & Adjustments - [13th month pay](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/13th-month-pay/): KAMI handles 13th month pay in two separate places, and confusing them causes most of the questions: an accrual that builds up on every payslip through the... - [Bulk bonuses and bonus tax](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/bulk-bonuses-and-bonus-tax/): Bulk bonus creates a bonus for many employees at once, calculated from a wage basis rather than typed in per person. It is how 13th month, performance... - [Final pay on termination](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/final-pay-on-termination/): Final pay is the most consequential payslip KAMI produces. It is calculated once, paid to someone who is leaving, and reviewed by people who have every... - [Gross-up and nett tax](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/gross-up-and-nett-tax/): Most employees are paid a gross salary and bear their own tax. Where you have agreed a take-home figure instead, the employer absorbs the tax — and KAMI has... - [Importing historical payslips](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/importing-historical-payslips/): When you move to KAMI part-way through a year, the payslips already paid elsewhere still matter. Importing them gives KAMI the year-to-date figures it needs... - [Manual tax adjustments](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/manual-tax-adjustments/): A tax adjustment overrides KAMI's calculated tax for one employee, by an amount you specify. It is the escape hatch for cases the engine cannot know about —... - [Other payments: allowances, bonuses and deductions](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/other-payments-allowances-bonuses-and-deductions/): Anything on a payslip that is not derived from attendance is an other payment — allowances, commissions, bonuses, loan repayments, encashment, deductions.... - [Payroll bulk imports](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/payroll-bulk-imports/): Several payroll things are set per employee and are impractical to enter one at a time: contributions, recurring other payments, previous-employer income,... - [Payroll payment and disbursement](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/payroll-payment-and-disbursement/): Paying is the last step of a run and the one with the least room for error: the figures are settled, the approvals are done, and what remains is getting... - [Retroactive payments](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/retroactive-payments/): Sometimes work is approved after the payslip that should have paid it has gone. Retroactive payments are how that work gets paid on a later payslip, on the... ## Payroll > Reports - [Monthly tax and contribution reports](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/monthly-tax-and-contribution-reports/): Every period you owe two things to the authorities: what you withheld in tax, and what you and your employees contributed. These reports produce those... - [Payroll reports](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/payroll-reports/): Payroll reports pull payslip data out of KAMI — for finance, for statutory filing, for an auditor, or to answer a question about one employee. The report... - [Scheduling payroll reports](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/scheduling-payroll-reports/): A scheduled report generates and arrives on its own, on a cadence you set. It removes the monthly ritual of remembering to run something, and it removes the... - [The accounting journal](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/the-accounting-journal/): The accounting journal turns a payroll run into the entries your accounting system expects. It is how payroll stops being a spreadsheet handed to finance... - [Year-end payroll reports](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/year-end-payroll-reports/): Year-end reporting reconciles a whole year: what each employee earned, what was withheld, and whether the two agree with what was actually due. It is the... ## Payroll > Running Payroll - [Calculating a single payslip](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/calculating-a-single-payslip/): Most of the time you calculate a whole batch. Calculating one payslip is for the exceptions — the employee whose record you just fixed, the late amendment,... - [Payslip tax details explained](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/payslip-tax-details-explained/): Income tax on a KAMI payslip is not this period's pay multiplied by a rate. It is an annual tax, estimated across the year and apportioned to the period —... - [Prorated pay for joiners and leavers](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/prorated-pay-for-joiners-and-leavers/): Anyone employed for only part of a payroll period is paid a proportion of it. Proration is a small number of employees every cycle and a disproportionate... - [Running a payroll batch cycle](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/running-a-payroll-batch-cycle/): A payroll run takes a period of attendance and turns it into payslips you can check, approve and pay. This is the process end to end, and the points in it... - [Viewing and validating payslips](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/viewing-and-validating-payslips/): The Payslips tab is where a payroll run is actually checked. Validating well is the difference between catching a wrong figure now and explaining it to an... ## Payroll > Settings - [Batch cycles](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/batch-cycles/): A batch cycle is the recurring definition of a payroll: who is paid, how often, for which period, and who approves it. Every payroll run is an instance of... - [Contribution types](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/contribution-types/): A contribution type defines a statutory or company deduction — how it is calculated, what it is calculated on, and where it stops. These are the settings... - [Custom payroll policies](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/custom-payroll-policies/): A custom payroll policy turns an attendance pattern into money — a punctuality bonus, a tardiness deduction, a seniority allowance, a distance-based... - [Employee payroll settings](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/employee-payroll-settings/): An employee's payroll settings decide how their pay is calculated: what they are paid, how often that figure is expressed, how it converts to a daily rate,... - [Income tax types](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/income-tax-types/): An income tax type is the complete definition of how tax is worked out for the employees assigned to it: the rate tables, which contributions are... - [Non-taxable groups](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/non-taxable-groups/): A non-taxable group is a named ceiling for pay that is exempt from tax up to a limit. It is how statutory exemptions — the kind with a fixed annual or... - [Number precision](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/number-precision/): Number precision sets how many decimal places payslip figures are held and shown to. It sounds cosmetic and is not: rounding decisions accumulate across... - [Other payment types and groups](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/other-payment-types-and-groups/): This is where you define the allowances, bonuses and deductions your company actually uses, and how each behaves. Getting it right once means everyone... - [Payment settings](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/payment-settings/): Payment settings are the company-wide payroll rules: what overtime is priced from, which payments count toward which wage bases, how contributions are... - [Payroll automation rules](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/payroll-automation-rules/): A payroll automation rule sets an employee's payroll fields automatically, based on who they are, instead of someone remembering to configure each new... - [Payroll user rights](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/payroll-user-rights/): Payroll rights are deliberately separate from the rest of KAMI's permissions, and more granular. Payroll is the module where access controls both privacy —... - [Payroll validation rules](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/payroll-validation-rules/): Validation rules are checks KAMI runs against every payslip when it is calculated, so that a suspicious figure is flagged before anyone is paid rather than... - [Termination settings](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/termination-settings/): Termination settings decide what final pay contains: which components are due for which reason for leaving, on what wage basis, and at what multiplier. They... - [Updating statutory contribution rates](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/updating-statutory-contribution-rates/): Statutory contribution rates change — usually annually, sometimes mid-year. Updating them in KAMI is a small task with a large blast radius: it affects... ## Optional - [Help Centre home](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/): browse every topic - [Help Centre sitemap](https://kamiworkforce.com/knowledge-base/sitemap.xml): all help centre URLs