Face recognition attendance
Every clock-in comes with a selfie that is matched against the face enrolled for that person, so clocking in for a colleague stops working. Doubtful matches are not guessed at: they go to a manager with the photo beside them.
In plain words
It is a way of recording that a particular person was present, not just that a phone or a card was. When someone clocks in, the app takes a selfie and the server compares it with the face that was registered for that person. A match is recorded as a normal punch; a doubtful result is recorded too, but set aside for a manager to look at.
It matters most where hours are paid and nobody supervises the gate. A shared card or a phone passed to a friend proves nothing, while a face is hard to lend. dayFlow compares one face with one registered person (not a search through everyone), and adds checks that catch a photo of a photo, a screen held up to the camera, and a copy of the enrollment picture.
What you get
A manager registers each person with their consent. After that every clock-in compares the new selfie with those registered templates, and the result is saved with the punch: matched, low confidence, mismatch, or not enough of a face to judge.
In practice
A face recogniser that only compares faces can be fooled by a photograph. dayFlow also looks for signs that the camera saw a picture or a screen, and for a selfie that is a pixel-for-pixel copy of an enrollment photo, which a live person never produces.
In practice
A bad angle or poor light should not cost anyone a day's pay. Anything short of a clear match is kept, flagged, and put in one review queue with the new selfie beside the registered face, so a manager can decide in seconds.
In practice
Face data is sensitive, so it is treated that way. Templates are stored encrypted, only doubtful selfies are kept for review and they are deleted after a limited time, and a person's face data can be erased on request.
In practice
The difference
Without dayFlow
With dayFlow
A friend clocks in for you and nobody notices
The selfie must match the face registered for that person
A printed photo or a phone screen is held up to the camera
Liveness and replay checks flag it for review
Disputes are settled by memory
Every doubtful punch keeps its photo, score and decision
Examples
A warehouse gate at shift change
Forty people arrive within ten minutes. Each clocks in with a selfie in a second or two, and only the handful of doubtful ones reach the supervisor.
Contract cleaners at a client site
The agency's workers are registered when they start. The client's hours are backed by face-verified punches, and a worker who was swapped for someone else shows up as a mismatch.
A manager approving on the dashboard
Before signing off a week, the manager opens the exceptions list, sees the three flagged punches with their photos, and clears them before approving the days.
The details
How it works
A manager registers the employee's face, with their consent.
The employee clocks in from the app and takes a selfie.
The match happens at once. Clear matches are trusted; the rest wait in the review queue.
Who it is for
Part of a whole
Face checks do the most work alongside location checks: a punch has to come from the right person and from the right place. The result feeds the review queue, the timesheet and, if you want it, a face check on the dashboard itself before sensitive approvals.
Questions
The punch is kept, marked as a mismatch and sent to the review queue with the photo beside the registered one. A manager accepts or rejects it, and the timesheet follows.
No. Face templates are stored encrypted. Only doubtful selfies are kept for review, for a limited time, and anyone's face data can be erased on request.
A manager records a short camera clip or takes three photos, with the employee's consent. It takes under a minute per person.
Their punches are still recorded, with a note that they were not face-checked, so nobody is blocked from clocking in on their first day. A manager registers them when they can.
No. If a face already belongs to another person, registration is refused, which stops one person holding two identities.
A clear view of the face is needed. When the photo is too dark, blurry or small to judge, it is marked unusable and reviewed by a person instead of being failed automatically.
No. A manager or admin registers faces for employees, so a person cannot enrol someone else's picture as their own. Admins and managers can register their own face for the dashboard face check.
Set up your locations, register faces and let your team clock in. Your company gets its own address.
