An employee productivity tool that lives in Slack
Slack is where your team already starts the day, so it is where productivity insights belong. Tickin turns each clock-in into the numbers a manager needs (hours, attendance, breaks and overtime) and answers right inside Slack. Monitoring is optional and opt-in: nothing watches anyone's screen unless an admin switches it on.
Clock-ins become productivity data
Employees clock in with /tickin start, take a break with /tickin break and clock out with /tickin end. Each of those becomes part of an accurate record: hours worked against each person's required hours, late starts and early finishes, break length and overtime. Nobody fills in a timesheet, and the same record feeds attendance reports and payroll.
Manager views without leaving Slack
Team leads and admins ask Slack instead of opening another tool. /tickin team today shows who is working, late, early, on a break or on leave right now. /tickin summary gives a one-screen summary of the people you are responsible for, /tickin dashboard lists pending approvals and anything unusual today, and /tickin insights shows attendance trends for your team.
Reports that arrive on their own
/tickin report today, week or month returns the attendance figures for the period. An admin can subscribe a channel to a daily, weekly or monthly report with /tickin report subscribe, so the numbers land in Slack without anyone asking, and a daily leave and work-from-home report shows who is out before the day begins.
Approvals in the same place
Leave requests and attendance corrections arrive with Approve and Decline buttons, and /tickin approvals lists everything waiting on you. Decisions sync to the web app at once, so time spent chasing approvals stops eating into the team's productive hours.
Optional, opt-in monitoring
If you want to see which applications and websites the working day went to, Tickin can record that through the Desktop App add-on, available on any paid plan. Buying the add-on does not start it: an admin has to switch monitoring on, and it is off by default. Once it is on, it records the active application, the website domain (not the full URL or page content) and a periodic screenshot, only while someone is clocked in and working. It never records keystroke content, anything during breaks or idle time, or anything at all for admins. Every employee can see their own record, and an admin can switch it off at any time; capture stops on every device within about ten minutes. With monitoring on, each person can pull their own productivity summary in Slack with /tickin productivity.
Private by design, free to start
Tickin does not read your conversations, message history or files: it only answers the /tickin command and the buttons it posts. The Slack integration is included on every plan, including Free for up to 10 employees. Monitoring needs the Desktop App add-on on a paid plan.
Frequently asked questions
- What is an employee productivity tool for Slack?
- An app that shows how the team's working day went (hours, attendance, breaks, overtime) inside Slack, so managers get answers in the chat rather than in another dashboard. Tickin builds that from the clock-ins people already make with /tickin start and /tickin end.
- Does Tickin monitor employees through Slack?
- No. Tickin does not read Slack messages, message history or files. Optional activity and screenshot monitoring runs only through the Tickin Desktop App add-on, and only after an admin switches it on.
- Is it free?
- The Slack integration is on every plan, including Free for up to 10 employees. Optional monitoring needs the Desktop App add-on, available on paid plans.
- Can employees see their own productivity data?
- Yes. Everyone can see their own record, and with monitoring on they can pull their own productivity summary in Slack with /tickin productivity. They cannot see anyone else's.