Tellspin vs AttendanceBot – PTO & Time Tracking

Easiest way to create on-call shift schedules for Slack Create rotation schedules, share team responsibilities, setup recurring reminders, schedule overrides, and more Over 1000 companies like Evernote, Datadog, Zillow, and Algolia have used Tellspin to manage Slack channels and User groups. Using the only enterprise grid ready solution for user group management. Create rotation schedules directly in Tellspin connected to Slack user groups. Rotate members with Slack aliases or Tellspin thread responses. Connect your OpsGenie or PagerDuty schedules to user groups with our integrations. Prioritize customers in your Slack connect channels by having a designated person to respond on a round robin. Ensure important messages can't be easily overlooked in the fast paced environment Slack provides. Sharing responsibilities across team members can ensure attention is provided where needed, reduce distractions and chaos, and avoid burnout. Tellspin is a rotation shift schedule management bot directly in Slack. It uses Slack's built-in user groups / @mentions making it easy to remember who to contact. Start automating team responsibilities such as (but not limited to): • @support-assistant: assign a go-to person to help with customer support for the day • @developer-on-call: protect against team wide distractions by only contacting your team contact • @it-requests: handle IT requests across team members to provide prompt responses • @peer-review: delegate who performs the mundane tasks on a schedule • @meeting-host: rotate who creates the agenda, finds a room, or grabs the snacks • @scrum-master: change who is in charge of recurring stand ups. Tellspin saves you from doing rotation schedules manually which often can be error prone. Utilize our core features to easily get started: Rotation Shift Schedules - choose from a list of rotation frequencies: daily, weekly, two weeks, monthly, etc. Don't see the option you need? Let us know! Directly in Slack - uses Slack's built-in contact methods such as user groups and @mentions. No external pager alert service required Manage Users - add or remove users in rotation. The schedule adjusts accordingly Set expectations - everyone can see their up-coming shifts on the schedule Recurring Reminders - communicate who is responsible for a shift with direct or channel messages Overrides - switch shifts when someone is out sick or on vacation Integrations - Pagerduty, Ops Genie. Need another? Let us know! Enterprise Grid - Tellspin works seamlessly with multiple workspaces Need a hand? Contact us at [email protected] and we’d be delighted to help

AttendanceBot is the complete Slack-first solution to time off, hybrid work, time tracking, and schedules. From powerful Slack menus to quick command shortcuts, AttendanceBot Slackifies all of your workflows to keep your operations humming. Leave, PTO, Vacation, Absence, Sick Time, and Holidays Instantly callout sick, plan time off, build holiday calendars, create approval flows, notify your team, notify project managers, and sync schedules with your personal calendar. Admins are equipped with full control over leave types, rules, limits, and accruals, as well as organizational holidays and blackout dates - configure domestic or international policies for any regional regulation, from floating holidays and parental leave to FMLA and bereavement. Teams are empowered with instant access to balances, usage, approvals, schedules, CSV exports, and a dashboard with calendars and statuses. Time Tracking, Timesheets, Overtime, and Approvals Simple ‘in’ and 'out' elections are all you need to punch your clock and improve timesheet accuracy. Use ‘lunch’ or ‘break’ buttons to stay timesheet compliant, or set flexible overtime rules, alerts, and controls to get a handle on extra hours. Manager can use the approval dashboard to review timesheets and flag concerns, while keeping the full team in the know with automatic Slack status, channel updates, alerts, and a live Attendance Board showing who’s in, out, late, expected, or on break or lunch, along with who’s wfh, wfo, sick, or on vacation. Project, Client, and Jira Tracking For even deeper understanding of time use, track time to projects, clients, or tasks, calculate project rates and billables, monitor milestones and thresholds, and fully analyze time spent using excel or our powerful visualization dashboards. Easily map and manage which employees go with which projects and tasks, and for Atlassian users you can integrate with Jira to track time spent on Jira projects and issues, or visualize JIRA work each day and week on a calendar. Shift Rosters, Sign-ups, and Schedules Schedule your employees’ shifts with our sleek shift planning interface, while keeping your team in the know using Slack. Admins save time with custom alerts, quick-assign templates, and shift criteria, along with access to the master calendar and instant reporting on shift and timesheet data. Meanwhile AttendanceBot simplifies for employees by automatically notifying when shifts are assigned, sending reminders for upcoming shifts, and enabling shift swaps when availability changes. Hybrid Work, WFH, WFO, and Location Planning Manage hybrid policies like office capacity or expected WFO each week, then empower your team to plan their own time in the office, at home, on the road, on site, or in the field with simple bookings like “WFH next friday” or “ito Monday.” Create recurring weekly schedules or let employees plan daily, and activate intelligent reminders where you need them. Keep everyone’s status synced with Slack, visible on a status board, and organized on the calendar. Onboarding and Remote Culture Your culture runs on Slack! Level up remote and in-person onboarding with robust tasklist assignment - keep both joinees and task owners updated real-time, while viewing progress across new hires and tasks so nothing falls through the cracks. And reinforce cohesive remote teams with automatic birthday shoutouts, workaversary announcements, and daily, weekly, or monthly custom reminders. Start your two-week free trial today or visit https://www.attendancebot.com/?workspace=slack for more info. Contact [email protected] for non-profit discounts, feedback and suggestions, or for questions about payroll integrations like Gusto, BambooHR, and JustWorks.