STAPO runs attendance, leave, work tracking, compliance and payroll — and explains every decision it makes.
Built for Indian businesses running 20 to 200 people, across one company or several. Every status, deduction and flag carries the reason it happened, recorded at the time — not reconstructed later when someone asks.
Clocked in at 9:14 AM. Shift starts 9:00, grace period is 10 minutes.
18 minutes used against a 15-minute daily allowance. The extra 3 minutes are added to today's working day; the allowance itself doesn't carry forward.
Attendance and payroll data nobody can explain
A salary is short by a few hundred rupees and nobody quite remembers why. A late mark shows up on someone's record from a day they're sure they were on time. The spreadsheet that would explain it was overwritten weeks ago, or lived in someone's inbox, or never existed in the first place. Every business running shift work and monthly payroll collects this kind of dispute — not because people are dishonest, but because most systems keep the answer without keeping the reasoning. STAPO keeps the reasoning, attached to the record, from the moment it's decided.
Everything in one place
Eight parts of the system, all reconciled against each other.
Attendance
Employees punch in and out with a selfie and their location. Lunch, tea and other breaks are punched separately. Days are classified automatically, and a corrections workflow lets employees fix mistakes without anyone editing the original record.
Breaks
Every employee gets a daily lunch and tea allowance. Only time taken beyond the allowance extends the working day — unused allowance is never banked. Missed mandatory breaks are flagged, and a manager can query an unpunched break in one click.
Leave
Leave types, policies, accruals, balances and carry-forward, all configurable. Optional holidays and approval chains are built in.
Work tracking
Timesheets for technical staff, configurable daily updates for sales teams, and project hours — reconciled automatically against attendance.
Compliance
A rule engine watches for repeated lateness, missing punches and break overruns. Thresholds are configuration, not code, so an administrator changes them directly. Flags carry tiered severity and land in an attention feed.
Payroll
Effective-dated salary structures, monthly runs, locking, adjustments and PDF payslips.
Reports
A month-at-a-glance attendance matrix plus five summary reports, exportable to CSV and Excel. Viewing and exporting are separate permissions.
Interns & trainees
Interns and trainees are set up like any other employee — attendance, leave, work tracking, compliance — with one exception: no payroll.
What's actually different
Four things STAPO does that most workforce systems don't.
It explains itself
Every status, deduction and compliance flag carries a plain-English sentence saying why — written at the moment it's decided, not reconstructed from memory when someone asks. If a deduction is questioned three months from now, the answer is already on the record.
1 unmarked leave day (14 Aug). Policy: unmarked leave deducts one day's gross pay.
Rules are configuration
Break allowances, lateness thresholds, shift timings and leave policies are all settings, not code. An administrator changes a grace period or a leave policy from a screen. Nobody waits on a developer, and nobody edits a database by hand.
Records are never rewritten
When a punch is wrong, the correction is a new entry that sits alongside the original, approved and linked to it. The original is never edited or deleted. What actually happened and what was later corrected both stay on the record — which is what makes the record worth trusting.
Original record unchanged. Correction linked to it.
Role-based visibility throughout
Salary is a separate permission from everything else in the system. A manager can see a team's attendance and leave without ever seeing what anyone earns. Reports carry their own view and export permissions, set independently.
| Manager | HR | |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | ✓ | ✓ |
| Leave | ✓ | ✓ |
| Salary | ✓ |
Who it's for
STAPO is built for Indian businesses running attendance, leave and payroll for a workforce that punches in and out — not for freelancers or fully remote teams with no shift structure. It works the same way whether everyone sits under one company or you run several companies from a single account.
- 20 to 200 people
- One company or several, one account
- Interns and trainees included everywhere except payroll
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