Schools, colleges and universities run two parallel attendance regimes: faculty (period-based, sometimes lecture-by-lecture) and non-teaching staff (regular shift). Plus security, transport, mess and housekeeping. Plus multi-campus for groups with city branches. Multi-mode attendance with a single dashboard is the 2026 standard.
Faculty attendance — period-based
For schools, period-based attendance means each lecture period gets its own check-in. The faculty member checks in at the start of the period inside the classroom's geofence and out at the end. Class-cover logs link the attendance to the period schedule.
For colleges and universities, faculty attendance is typically day-based with optional lecture-level marking. Adjunct and visiting faculty are paid per-class — captured directly from period-level attendance.
Non-teaching shift roster
Admin office, library, lab, hostel wardens, mess, housekeeping and security each have distinct shift patterns. WappBlaster handles all in one roster — day, night, split, 12-hour security shifts, mess kitchen pre-dawn shifts — with role-based shift policies.
Multi-campus governance
For groups with multiple campuses (delhi-public-school-style chains, university-with-city-branches), each campus has its own geofence and per-campus principal/director dashboard. The owner / trust sees consolidated views across campuses.
Payroll for state-mandated faculty pay scales
Government-aided and CBSE / state-board schools use mandated pay scales (CTET / NCTE / 7th Pay Commission for university faculty in some states). WappBlaster's payroll engine supports tiered pay scales with grade pay and DA components; PF / ESI / PT / TDS apply normally. Self-financed institutions use simpler salary structures.
Leave policy — academic calendar aware
Leave accrual in education is academic-year aligned (June-to-May or April-to-March) rather than calendar-year. Earned leave, casual leave, summer vacation, winter vacation, examination duty, exam-checking duty allowance — all handled with custom leave categories.
Optional parent-facing attendance
For schools that want to send daily attendance updates to parents (separate from staff attendance), WappBlaster's WhatsApp bulk-broadcast integrates with the staff attendance dataset — but this is opt-in and runs in the parent communication module, not the staff payroll module.
Put this into production today
WappBlaster Attendance Suite ships everything described in this guide on published tiers: attendance bundles from ₹2,100/year (7 staff), field per-user from ₹180/month, with a free onboarding call and a 3-day trial (no credit card). See pricing · See the full product or start the free trial.
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