Mobile attendance
Workers use an app on their own phone: clock in, see today's hours, ask for time off, fix a missed punch and check their timecard. Punches are saved on the phone first and upload on their own when the signal returns, so nothing is lost on a site with no coverage.
In plain words
Mobile attendance means the worker's own phone is the time clock. They open an app, take a selfie and clock in; their position is recorded with it. There is no terminal to install, no card to lose and no queue at the door.
The hard part is not the button, it is everything around it: sites with no signal, a missed clock-out, a doctor's note, a request to swap a shift. The dayFlow app handles those too, so the worker can see how their own day was counted instead of asking the office, and the office is not the middle of every question.
What you get
A punch is saved on the phone first and uploaded as soon as the phone is online again. It keeps the time it really happened, and an offline sync screen shows what is waiting.
In practice
Workers see today and the month, how late or early each day was, overtime, and the reason when a day could not be counted. Most "why was I marked absent?" questions answer themselves.
In practice
A missed clock-out, extra hours, time off with a document, or a different shift are requests sent from the app. A manager decides, and the decision comes back as a notification.
In practice
Optional reminders before the usual start and end of day, and an optional arrival reminder that appears when the phone reaches a work location. Neither clocks anyone in by itself.
In practice
The difference
Without dayFlow
With dayFlow
No signal on site means a missed punch
Punches are saved on the phone with the real time
Corrections arrive by message and get lost
Missed punches and overtime are requests with a decision
Workers ask the office for their hours
They open their own timecard and see how the day was counted
Examples
A construction crew below ground
No signal for hours. Everyone clocks in at the gate; punches wait on the phones and appear on the dashboard when the crew is back in coverage.
An employee checking their week
On Thursday a retail assistant opens the timecard, sees the late minutes on Tuesday and the reason, and sends a correction for a missed clock-out.
A manager away from the desk
A leave request arrives as a notification. The manager approves it from the dashboard on a phone browser, and the employee is told straight away.
The details
How it works
Install the app and sign in with your email.
Clock in with a selfie at the site.
See the day on your timecard and send requests from the same screen.
Who it is for
Part of a whole
The app is the front of the same system the dashboard shows: what a worker sends appears in the manager's queue, and what the manager decides updates the worker's timecard and balance.
Questions
Yes. Punches are saved on the phone first and upload on their own when the signal returns, keeping the time they actually happened.
See today and the month, check lateness and overtime, ask for time off or a correction, read holidays and notifications.
No. They sign in with their email. A company code is only needed with an employee code.
The app is built for Android phones today. Workers without a smartphone can use a shared tablet kiosk or have a supervisor take attendance.
No. Position is read at the moment of a punch. The optional arrival reminder only watches the work locations to show a notification, and it is off unless the person turns it on.
The phone's time is compared with the server's, and a large difference is flagged on the punch.
They can sign in on another device, but the selfie must still match their own face, so the punch is not accepted as theirs otherwise.
Set up your locations, register faces and let your team clock in. Your company gets its own address.
