"Before the HandPunch, it took us about three hours to calculate payroll manually. Now, we can do the entire payroll in 15 minutes," Adam Wyse, owner and general manager Don Carter All Star Lanes-Dallas West said.

Don Carter All Star Lanes has nine locales in three different states. They all use biometric HandPunch terminals for clocking its 700 employees in and out, saving the corporation between 400 to 500 hours of payroll preparation time per year. This is because the HandPunch eliminates the costs associated with employee badges and fraud caused by buddy punching. Employees simply place their hands on the HandPunch. They do not need to fill out or punch timecards.

Taking automatically a three-dimensional reading of the size and shape of the employee's hand, HandPunch checks the user's identity in less than one second.

Adam Wyse, owner and general manager of Don Carter All Star Lanes-Dallas West said: "We wanted to have a time clock system that would keep people honest." He also added that their Human Resources Department recommended to them the HandPunch. As the HandPunch assures the person checking in is physically there, that eliminates buddy punching, they do not use a magnetic stripe system anymore.

Moreover, the HandPunch units interface with Gatekeeper Business Solutions software that provides a high tech hardware and software solution for Don Carter All Star Lanes to aggressively diminish labor expense and to automate the time and attendance and payroll processes.

Wyse reported that before the HandPunch, it has taken them about three hours to calculate payroll manually. With the help of this he can do the entire payroll in 15 minutes, pull all punches, merge data, produce a time and attendance report, run overtime reports and analyze data quickly. It also will save him a lot of time, effort and mistakes.

Each Don Carter All Star Lane's locale employs between 50 to 80 people. And the HandPunch is usually placed in the back of the hallway leading to the equipment where only employees have access. So, having his/her own code each employee then present their hand to the HandPunch and are clocked into work. They have to repeat this process when leaving work. Managers at each location create the database and then upload the information to the corporate office where the payroll is run. It is possible with the Gatekeeper Business Solutions Software.