The audit log

The Audit log records every change made in your organisation: who made it, when, to which record, and what each changed field was before and after. Use it to answer questions such as “who changed this person’s bank account?” or “who approved March’s payroll?”.

The log is a permanent record: entries are never edited or removed.

Who can open the audit log: Owner, HR admin, Payroll admin, Payroll approver.

What you see depends on your role:

Owners and HR admins see every record.
Payroll admins and payroll approvers see payroll, bank and billing records only: payroll runs and their lines, pay components, pay and tax details, payslips, exit payments, statutory schedules, bank files, remittances, journal account codes, bank and statutory details, the organisation’s own record and, at an agency, client billing. The page tells you when this applies to you.
Managers and employees cannot open the audit log.

Open the audit log

Go to Settings, then Audit log. It opens on the last 30 days, newest first.

The audit log, with filters for the period, who, kind of record and action, and a list of changes

Each row shows:

When, in Lagos time.
Who made the change. Cadre (automatic) is Cadre’s own scheduled work, such as leave accrual. Cadre support is someone from Cadre who is not a member of your organisation (see Cadre support below).
Client, at an agency: the client the change concerns, where there is one.
Record: the kind of record and which one, such as an employee’s name or “Payroll run — March 2027”.
Action: Created, Changed or Deleted, or the named action, such as “Approve payroll run”.
Changed: the fields that changed.

Filter the log

From and To: the first and last day of the period, both included. A period can be at most 366 days.
Anyone: choose one member, or Cadre’s automatic work.
Any record: choose a kind of record, such as Employee, Pay component or Payroll run.
Any action: Created, Changed, Deleted, or a named action.
Search names, values, ids: at least 3 characters. It matches a member’s name or email, a kind of record, a named action, a recorded value, or a record’s id exactly.

If a search matches too many changes to list quickly, Cadre asks you to choose fewer days, add a filter or search for something more specific.

See one change in full

Select the record in a row. A panel opens with when, who, the record and its id, the action, and a table of every field with its value Before and After. Money is shown in Naira, with a minus sign when negative. A value that was empty shows as an em dash (—).

One change opened in the audit log, showing each field before and after

See the history of one employee

Open the person’s profile from People.
Select the More menu (the three dots) next to their name.
Select History.

The audit log opens on that person’s record and every change that refers to it. Select Show everything to go back to the whole log.

A member of an agency who looks after only some of its clients does not have the whole audit log in Settings. They can still open History for an employee they can see.

Export the log

Select Export. Cadre saves the filtered changes as an Excel spreadsheet, newest first, one row for each change with what changed, masked in the same way as the screen.

An export holds at most 10,000 changes. If your filters match more, Cadre tells you how many and asks you to narrow the dates or add a filter. It never gives you a file that is cut short.

What is hidden

Some values are masked everywhere in the audit log, including the panel and the export:

Last four characters only: bank account numbers, TINs (a person’s and the employer’s), state tax ids, pension PINs, NHF numbers, NIN and BVN.
Not shown at all: passwords, secrets and keys for connected services, the network addresses recorded at clock-in and signing, and drawn signatures.
Private check-in notes: the log records that a private note was written, by whom and when, never what it says.

A search never looks inside a masked value, so it cannot be used to guess one.

Cadre support

Cadre’s support team can only look at your organisation through a support session, and only if your organisation allows it. A support session is read-only: it can change nothing. Each session is recorded in the audit log, and any entry made by someone who is not a member of your organisation shows as Cadre support.

The full trail of each support session, including every request it made, is in Settings, then Support access, for owners and HR admins. Only the owner can decide whether and how Cadre support may open a session.