Your team, present and accounted for — without registers.

One person at a time

1. Open People → Team directory and click add. The form asks only what matters: name, role (e.g. "Sales Manager"), join date — plus optional phone, email, and monthly gross.
2. Click Add to team. Sahaya assigns the employee code; PAN, UAN, bank details, and salary structure can be filled in on their profile later.

The whole team at once

1. Open People → Bulk add. Paste straight from Excel (tab-separated works) or upload a CSV — one employee per row.
2. Only three columns are required: name, join_date, designation — plus a phone or an email for each person. Salary, PAN, bank details, department are optional extras.
3. Sahaya validates every row and shows a preview — duplicates against your existing roster are flagged before anything is written. Fix the flagged rows, confirm, and everyone is created in one go.
4. Got a payroll master sheet with DOJ / UAN / PF columns? Use the "payroll master data" importer linked at the top — it reads those layouts directly.

Pick whichever fits how your team actually works — you can mix all three:

Phones — nothing to buy

Employees invited to Sahaya see a Punch in / Punch out button on their People screen, with location noted best-effort. Their week shows as a simple bar strip; yours shows the whole team.

Your existing biometric machine

1. Open Settings → People → Attendance devices.
2. ESSL machines: register the device serial, copy the webhook URL into the device's cloud portal — punches stream in within seconds.
3. Any other machine (Mantra, Realtime, Matrix, ZKTeco…): export the attendance CSV from the vendor portal and upload it — Sahaya detects the columns itself. No serial numbers, no API keys.

Your daily view

The People home shows Team today — present, late/half, not in — with a one-line story of the day and a "Bulk mark" screen for correcting a whole team at once. Days that need fixing show as needs regularisation; the employee asks, you approve, the record heals.

1. Employees apply from their phone: leave type (with live balance shown), from/to dates, half-day toggle, optional reason. Submit — it goes to their manager.
2. You see the queue on the People home. Each request shows the person, duration, dates — and context like "third this quarter".
3. Click Approve, or click Ask to send a question back ("Who's covering for you on these dates?") without rejecting. The reply comes to the same queue.
4. Balances (PL / CL / SL) update automatically and every employee sees their own — no more "how many leaves do I have left?" messages.

Employees submit reimbursements with + Expense from their People screen; you approve or query them at People → Approve expenses, same Approve/Ask pattern as leave. Approved expenses flow into the books by themselves — accounts never re-types them.