Xelium Pulse
Know who is working, where and when — and approve requests in one place.
Xelium Pulse — People. Presence. Progress. — is the attendance and requests module inside Xelium One. It uses your People directory and reporting lines, so requests reach the right manager and every decision is recorded.
The problem
Attendance is simple until you need to trust it.
Policies in people's heads
Working hours, grace periods and holidays differ by team and aren't applied consistently.
Corrections that rewrite history
Fixing a missed check-out often edits the original record.
Managers out of the loop
Requests go to whoever is online, not the reporting manager.
Two approaches
The traditional approach, and the Xelium approach
Traditional approach
A stand-alone attendance app with its own user list.
- People added twice: once in HR, once in attendance.
- Reporting lines kept separately for approvals.
- Exports to combine attendance with other reports.
The Xelium approach
Pulse is a module inside Xelium One, not a separate app — same login, same People, same Settings.
- Policies for working hours, timezone, grace and location.
- Requests route to the reporting manager from People.
- Corrections are new records; the original is kept.
Key capabilities
What it does
Each capability shows whether it is available today or coming soon.
Check-in, check-out, breaks and attendance
AvailableCheck-in, check-out and breaks, with active, break and idle time for the day.
Holiday calendar and check-in location rules; working hours shown for reference (not enforced)
AvailableWorking hours, timezone, late-arrival grace, holidays and office-only or anywhere check-in.
Leave and work-from-home requests with approvals
AvailableLeave and work-from-home requests, approved by the reporting manager or HR.
Attendance corrections that never overwrite the original
AvailableRequests to fix missed check-ins or check-outs.
Attendance reports with CSV download
AvailableTeam attendance for managers and period reports with CSV.
Module details:Xelium PulsePeople
Connected advantage
What connection changes
Presence is connected — and deliberately separate from billable time.
- People
- Policies
- Attendance
- Approvals
- Reports
- Attendance records when someone is working; timesheets record billable hours on a placement.
- Approvals follow Core roles and People reporting lines.
- Attendance appears in Reports next to your other modules.
AI advantage
AI with a job to do
Quick answers for the working day.
- Illustration · example dataComing soon
Who on my team hasn't checked in today?
Team members with no check-in yet today, with their approved leave shown separately.
How it answers: Uses today's attendance and approved requests for the people who report to you.
- Illustration · example dataAvailable
How do I request work from home on Friday?
Open Requests, choose work from home and the date. Your reporting manager approves it.
How it answers: Guided help from the handbook, linking to the page.
Analytics advantage
Answers from the same records
Attendance reporting from the same records managers approve.
- Attendance totals per person for a period, with CSV.Available
- Attendance trends by team and location in your own reports.Coming soon
- Available
- Works in Xelium One today.
- Coming soon
- Not live for customers yet — being built, or not built yet.
- Simulated in demo
- Shown in the sales demo with fictional sample data. Nothing real happens.
Bring presence and requests into one place.
Book a demo of Xelium Pulse, or read what's included.