Biometric Attendance
Biometric attendance records a punch against a physical characteristic — a fingerprint, face or iris — rather than a card or PIN that can be shared.
Also known as: biometric punch, fingerprint attendance
Its whole purpose is to stop one person punching for another. A card or PIN identifies a credential; biometrics identify the person holding it, which is the difference between a record and an assumption.
Device-based systems are still common on factory floors and site entrances because they work without a phone and survive an environment that phones do not. The integration question is how punches reach the HR system — a device that stores them locally and is downloaded weekly gives you attendance a week late.
In-browser face verification has made the same control available without hardware, which suits distributed and field teams. Whichever route, the important property is that the check is enforced server-side; a check the client can skip is decoration.
Handled in SignHR
Face Recognition Attendance
Face recognition attendance — on-device face matching, guided enrolment, hard and soft enforcement verified server-side, and configurable selfie retention.
See face recognition attendanceRelated terms
Geofencing
Geofencing restricts an action to a defined geographic area — in attendance, allowing a punch only when the employee is physically within a set radius of a site.
Attendance Regularisation
Attendance regularisation is the process of correcting an attendance record after the fact — a missed punch, a forgotten check-out, or time worked away from the usual place — through a request the manager approves.
Shift
A shift is a defined block of working hours assigned to an employee — its start and end times, breaks and grace period — against which their attendance is measured.
Muster Roll
A muster roll is the statutory register of who attended work on each day, maintained by the employer and produced during a labour inspection.