Tablet and kiosk attendance
Put a tablet at the entrance. It recognises the face in front of it and clocks the person in or out, so workers without a smartphone are covered, and a supervisor can also take attendance for a crew from their own phone.
In plain words
A kiosk is a shared device, usually a tablet, that stays at the entrance of a site. Instead of each person using their own phone, people step up to the camera and the device works out who they are and clocks them in or out.
It suits places where not everyone has a smartphone, where phones are not allowed on the floor, or where a crowd arrives at once. dayFlow's kiosk looks for the face among the people assigned to that location, not among everyone in the company, which keeps it fast and reduces false matches.
What you get
The kiosk compares the face with the registered faces of the people assigned to its location, and clocks the match in or out. It greets the person by name so they know it worked.
In practice
If it cannot tell who someone is, it says so and records nothing as a match, rather than guessing and clocking in the wrong person.
In practice
Where there is no tablet, a supervisor with the right can take attendance for a crew from their own phone. Those punches are marked as taken by the supervisor, so the record shows who did it.
In practice
Kiosk punches appear on the same timesheets, reports and exception lists as phone punches. There is nothing to merge at month end.
In practice
The difference
Without dayFlow
With dayFlow
A paper sheet at the gate, typed in later
The tablet records the punch the moment it happens
Workers without phones cannot clock in
They step up to the camera
Buddy punching on a shared register
The face decides, not a signature
Examples
A factory gate
Hundreds of people at shift change. A tablet by the door clocks each in as they walk past it, and a second tablet doubles the speed.
A cleaning company
Most of the crew has basic phones. The site supervisor takes the crew's attendance on arrival and the hours are still verified and approved.
A site where phones are not allowed
Phones stay in lockers. The kiosk at the door is the only device that records attendance.
The details
How it works
Sign a tablet in as a kiosk for the location.
People step up to the camera and are recognised.
The punch appears on their timesheet like any other.
Who it is for
Part of a whole
A kiosk uses the same registered faces as the phone app, so people are registered once and can use either. Its punches follow the same location and overtime rules as every other punch.
Questions
It compares the face with the registered faces of the people assigned to that location and clocks the match in or out.
It does not guess: the person is told it was not recognised, and nothing is recorded as a match.
Yes, with the right to take attendance for others. Those punches are recorded as taken by the supervisor.
An admin creates a device login for the location and signs a tablet in with it. The login can only do kiosk things, not use the dashboard.
The same live-person and replay checks as the phone apply to the picture it sees.
The match must be clear to be accepted. Close calls are not accepted as a match, and doubtful results are reviewed.
It needs a connection to recognise faces on the server. If you need offline capture on site, use the phone app, which saves punches until it is back online.
Set up your locations, register faces and let your team clock in. Your company gets its own address.
