What this is for
When a record looks different from how you remember it, the Audit Log answers 'who changed this, and when' with certainty instead of memory. Every create, edit and delete on your money entries, cash-ups, documents, contacts, stock, payroll, diary, Time Log and Travel Log is recorded automatically, and so is every change to the Asset Register, team invites, what each person may access, and Business details. Each entry reads as a sentence — "Melissa removed a money-out entry" — with what the record is ("Fuel · R 540,00 to Engen") and, for a change, what changed from what to what. Tap it for the whole story: who and when, before and after, or, for something removed, exactly what it was. Open it… takes you to the record itself — the entry in Banking, the invoice, the customer.
Some things are not recorded: Cost Calculator costings and your bank accounts. The Time Log and the Travel Log joined the log in October 2026, and cash-ups after that, so hours, trips and counts saved before they joined have no history here. Marking a return as filed is recorded, and so is undoing it: each entry keeps the return's figures, but not every line of a VAT201 behind them.
How to open it
On a computer it's at the foot of the Reports section in the sidebar. On your phone, tap 📜 Audit Log at the bottom right. Or go straight to worklog.co.za/audit-log. It opens on two lists, both folded — tap the one you want to open it. 🕘 What you did last is your own latest 20 changes, for when you've forgotten what you just did. The second is the full log: for the owner, 🛡️ Everyone's activity — every change by every person, and Worklog's own — to pick out by person (Everyone, a name, or 🤖 Worklog) and by type; for anyone else, Everything you did. There is nothing to switch on and no way to switch it off.
Why you can trust it
The trail is written by the database itself the moment a record changes — not by the app asking nicely — and no one, the owner included, can edit or delete an entry. Two things do remove entries, on purpose. Erasing someone's personal details with the 🧹 button (for a POPIA request) takes that customer's, supplier's or staff member's history with it, so an erasure can never leave a copy behind. And when a business's records are deleted — by the owner under Your data, or by Worklog's clear-out after an account is closed — its Audit Log goes too.
Good to know
The full log lists the newest first, 200 at a time — tap Load older for more — with a search box for a person, a name, a number or an amount, however you type it (1200, 1 200 or R 1 200,00). Search and the person and type filters look through the whole log, not just what has loaded: an entry from months back is found as readily as one from this morning, and the list says it searched every entry. The count on the full log is every entry it holds. Worklog's own housekeeping (a number given to an entry, the tax jar's sum worked out, a save that changed nothing) is left out unless you tap Show Worklog's tidy-ups; any other change — even one only to who an entry is recorded against — is shown. Something removed reads as removed, never as an update. The dashboard's Team activity widget shows the latest entries at a glance — add it from the board's gallery.
Under the full log, the 📄 PDF and 📊 CSV / Excel buttons print the entries shown — as you have searched or filtered them — with the date and time, who (and their email), what happened, the record and everything that changed. Older entries print once Load older has shown them.