MerchantKits Attendance Manager

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 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/v1 namespace 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/