Attendra – Client Attendance Manager
Attendra – Client Attendance Manager
Description
Selling sessions but losing track of attendance?
Attendra helps you manage clients, sessions, and attendance directly inside WordPress, without spreadsheets or expensive SaaS tools.
If you run a gym, studio, tutoring center, therapy practice, or any service-based business, you already know the pain:
– Who still has sessions left?
– Who showed up last week?
– Which clients expired or ran out?
Attendra gives you a clean, structured workflow built for real-world use.
No monthly fees. No external platforms. Your data stays yours.
Who is this for?
- Personal trainers and fitness studios
- Tutors and learning centers
- Therapists and wellness coaches
- Sports clubs and after-school programs
- Any business that sells services in sessions or packages
What you can do
Track attendance without spreadsheets
Log sessions in seconds and always know how many entries each client has left.
Manage clients and services in one place
Assign services, track allowances, and keep everything organized inside WordPress.
Give clients their own portal
Clients can log in and see their remaining sessions, services, and full attendance history.
Let staff mark attendance without wp-admin
Staff users get a clean frontend interface to mark attendance quickly and safely.
Display your schedule publicly
Use a shortcode to show your services and schedule on your website.
Developer Notes
To regenerate translation template:
wp i18n make-pot . languages/attendra.pot –exclude=assets,vendor,node_modules –slug=attendra
Installation
- Upload the plugin folder to
/wp-content/plugins/or install it from the WordPress Plugins screen. - Activate Attendra – Client Attendance Manager in Plugins.
- Start with the setup guide or go to Settings > Attendra and configure labels and feature toggles.
- Create a Portal page, a Public Calendar page, and optionally a Staff Portal page, then add shortcodes:
[attendra_portal][attendra_public_calendar][attendra_staff_portal]
- Create services and clients, then assign services and allowance values in the client metaboxes.
- (Optional) On each service, assign one staff/admin user in Assigned Staff.
Additional links:
– Plugin page: https://attendra.app
– Documentation: https://attendra.app/documentation
– Report a bug: https://attendra.app/report-bug
– Pro version: https://attendra.app/pro
Screenshots
Easy onboarding: set up your attendance system in minutes.
Service setup: configure schedules, service details, and staff assignment.
Client setup: create users, assign services, and track attendance.
Calendar settings: switch between views and control how your schedule is displayed.
Customize labels and settings: adapt Attendra to your business by renaming labels and controlling features.
Attendance tracking: quickly mark attendance and track session usage for every client.
Calendar view: display your schedule in a clean, easy-to-read layout across desktop and mobile.
Client portal: give clients full visibility over their sessions, progress, and upcoming classes.
Faq
Go to Clients in wp-admin and create a new record. Add the client name, set payer type, assign services, then update.
Edit a client and use Assigned Services to select one or more services. Save the client to apply changes.
In the client edit screen, use Session Activity to add one session at a time for each assigned service. When a session is added, remaining entries are recalculated automatically.
Yes. Active sessions can be soft-deleted with a required reason (and optional note). Deleted sessions remain in history and do not consume entries.
Entries represent how many sessions can still be used for a specific service on a specific client. Expiration date defines the validity limit for that allowance record.
Reset Sessions starts a new cycle for that client service pair. It resets completed sessions for the package cycle and restores available entries after confirmation.
If there are session records tied to that client service pair, unlink is blocked to preserve history consistency.
Check these first:
– Service is active
– Show in calendar is enabled
– Schedule is valid and complete
– Date range includes current period (if date limits are set)
Staff users only see services assigned to them and clients linked to those services. Staff can mark attendance from the frontend using the [attendra_staff_portal] shortcode.
Staff portal is a frontend attendance interface designed for fast use during classes.
- Purpose: mark attendance without opening wp-admin.
- Shortcode:
[attendra_staff_portal]. - Access: users with role
attendra_staff, administrators, and users withattendra_manage_clients. - Design: mobile-first layout with service scoped access checks on server side.
Yes. The plugin supports custom page IDs via options:
– attendra_portal_page_id
– attendra_staff_portal_page_id
– attendra_calendar_page_id
If not set, it falls back to default slugs.
The plugin removes its roles, capabilities, and settings option. Client/service data is deleted only if Delete data on uninstall is enabled in plugin settings.
The plugin is WordPress-native and includes nonce/capability checks, sanitization/escaping in admin flows, uninstall cleanup controls, and translation-ready strings with the attendra text domain.
No. Attendra runs as a WordPress-native workflow and does not require WooCommerce.
Yes. Go to Settings > Attendra and customize labels for client, service, and package/session wording.
Reviews
Changelog
1.3.2
Quality and compliance updates, including CPT capability hardening, i18n loading/template generation, and frontend style/script cleanup.
1.0.0
Initial release.