Employee Desk documentation
How each module behaves, what the settings do, and everything an IT team needs to install, back up and upgrade a self-hosted installation. Public, so you can read it before you buy rather than after.
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Product documentation
Attendance
Shifts, grace windows, late policy, lunch deduction, regularisation and the month-end export.
Read → 02Leave
Leave types, accrual rules, carry-forward, approval chains and the holiday calendar.
Read → 03Time tracking
How active and idle time are measured, how hours attach to projects, and what the reports contain.
Read → 04Desktop tracker
Installation on each operating system, offline behaviour, updates and troubleshooting.
Read → 05Screenshots
Interval settings, notifications, the employee gallery, retention and storage sizing.
Read →Self-hosting and operations
Install with Docker
System requirements, the compose stack, environment variables, TLS, SMTP and the first-run checklist.
Read → 07Backup and restore
What a complete backup contains, a nightly script, and the restore procedure you should test before you need it.
Read → 08Upgrades
Version tags, migrations, the rollback path and how to upgrade without losing screenshots.
Read → 09REST API
Authentication, the attendance, leave and tracked-time endpoints, webhooks and rate limits.
Read →Answers people look for most
| Question | Answer lives at |
|---|---|
| Does it support self-hosting? | /self-hosted/ |
| Does it log keystrokes? | /privacy/ |
| Which operating systems does the tracker run on? | /desktop-time-tracker/ |
| Does the tracker work offline? | /docs/desktop-tracker/ |
| How long is data kept? | /data-retention/ |
| What does it cost? | /pricing/ |
| What server do we need? | /docs/self-hosted/ |
| How do we back it up? | /docs/backup/ |
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Everything documented here is in the trial, including the desktop tracker.
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