Zaffre HRM is an all-in-one HR and operations software platform by Zaffre Tech. It unifies HR, payroll, attendance, leave, remote-work monitoring, procurement, petty cash, project management, helpdesk and secure client communication in one connected system. Its standout feature is a dual payroll engine that runs local (PKR) and remittance (foreign currency) salaries in a single payroll run.

Who is Zaffre HRM for?

Small businesses, startups and growing companies of 5 to a few hundred employees — particularly those that have outgrown spreadsheets and disconnected SaaS tools. Strong fit for Pakistan-based companies and any team paying employees in multiple currencies.

What makes Zaffre HRM different from other HR and HCM platforms?

Most HR platforms cover HR and payroll well but leave operations (procurement, petty cash, projects, helpdesk, remote monitoring, client communication) to other tools. Zaffre HRM includes those natively and links every module together — a leave approval updates attendance and payroll, an employee exit triggers asset recovery and final settlement, and a client onboarding flows into billing. It also has a market-unique dual payroll engine.

Does Zaffre HRM support payroll in multiple currencies?

Yes. The dual payroll engine runs local-currency (PKR) salaries and remittance-currency (foreign) salaries together in a single payroll cycle — this is the platform's signature feature and is rare in the market.

Does Zaffre HRM include remote employee monitoring?

Yes, natively. A Tauri-based desktop agent captures login/logout, active hours, application and website usage, and periodic screenshots, and powers productivity-based attendance. It is not a third-party add-on.

Does Zaffre HRM have a mobile app?

Yes — a companion mobile app (Expo / React Native) for attendance, leave, payslips, chat and approvals, with real-time push notifications via FCM.

How is Zaffre HRM priced?

Transparent per-employee, per-module monthly pricing. Modules can be turned on or off per company. Designed to be cheaper in aggregate than the 6+ tools it replaces.

Where is Zaffre HRM based?

Zaffre Tech, the company behind Zaffre HRM, is headquartered in Pakistan and serves customers globally — with strong adoption in Pakistan, UAE and Saudi Arabia.

Attendance vs Time Tracking — Difference Explained 2026

"Attendance" and "time tracking" get used interchangeably, mostly by people selling software that does only one of them. They are different things, answering different questions, used for different decisions. Here is the difference in plain English, and when each matters.

Attendance — "are they here?"

Attendance answers the binary question: did the employee show up for work today? It produces a present/absent/late record per employee per day. Used for:

Payroll — basic salary calculation, deductions for absence
Leave reconciliation — does this absence match an approved leave?
Penalty application — late marks, half-days
Compliance — labour-inspection records
Operations — who is on-site today

Resolution: typically daily. Inputs: check-in time, check-out time, optional location.

Time tracking — "what did they spend time on?"

Time tracking answers: of the hours the employee worked, how were they distributed across projects, tasks, clients, activities? It produces time entries per employee per project per task. Used for:

Project billing — bill the client for hours worked
Project profitability — was this project profitable given hours invested
Capacity planning — how much engineering bandwidth went to bug fixes vs features
Estimation accuracy — did we estimate correctly
Resource allocation — should we hire more on team X

Resolution: typically by task / sub-day. Inputs: project, task, start time, duration, optional notes.

The same hours, different lenses

An employee working 9-to-5 produces:

Attendance record: "Present, checked in 9:02am, checked out 5:48pm" — one line
Time tracking record: "Project A — 3 hours; Project B — 2 hours; Project C — 1.5 hours; meetings — 1.5 hours" — multiple lines

Both real, both useful, neither replacing the other.

Who needs only attendance

Manufacturing — attendance + shift coverage is the question
Retail — attendance + store coverage
Hospitality (frontline) — attendance + shift
Hospital ward staff — attendance + on-call
Office HR / admin / support — attendance is the relevant signal

Who needs both attendance + time tracking

IT services / software houses — bill clients for hours
Consulting — projects, retainers, fixed-fee with effort tracking
Legal — billable hours per client matter
Marketing agencies — campaign-wise effort
Design studios — project-wise hours
Accounting / tax practice — client-wise time

The common mistake

Companies adopt an attendance tool and call it "time tracking" because hours-since-check-in look like "time." They are not. Hours-on-site does not tell you which project consumed them. For service businesses billing clients by hour, you need actual time entries per task.

The integration that matters

If you need both, the attendance and time-tracking systems must agree on total hours. If attendance says 8 hours and time tracking says 9, someone is wrong. The cleanest integration is one platform where time entries roll up to attendance, not two separate systems trying to reconcile.

Productivity-based attendance — a middle ground

For desk-based remote work, productivity-based attendance bridges the gap. See: productivity attendance explained. It measures actual active hours (rather than presence), but does not categorise them by project the way real time tracking does.

The Zaffre HRM fit

Zaffre HRM handles attendance natively for all use cases (web, mobile, desktop, face recognition, biometric integration). For service businesses needing time tracking, the project management module captures time entries per project / task, integrated with the same employee records. One platform, both lenses. Book a demo to see both running.

Difference Between Attendance and Time Tracking — Plain Guide