Look through this category to find newly introduced or most common terms of Time and Attendance software industry.
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Application Service Provider (ASP) Hosting
Time Force Software is hosted by your ASP. All time entries are sent to your secure location and backed up regularly.

Automatic Polling
Auto Poll automatically fulfilling many of the time & attendance functions for you. This function gives you possibility to transfer your data from your time clock and automatically download that data to your computer for analysis.

Attendance Management
Attendance management is the process of managing and controlling attendance or presence in a workplace to minimize loss due to employee downtime. Attendance management is managed using several ways including time clocks, time sheets and computer software.

Attendance Tracking
Referring to Attendance management is the act of managing and/or controlling attendance or presence in a workplace to minimize loss due to employee downtime. Attendance management is managed using several ways including time clocks, time sheets and computer software.

Barcode Card Swipe
Like the Magnetic Swipe Cards, employees slide the card through the time clock.

Bell Relay
Rings a bell to signal shift beginning/end or lunch & break times.

Biometric input device
Handprint, fingerprint, or iris scanners that guarantee that the correct person is logging in and out of the time and attendance system. These devices help prevent buddy punching.

Buddy punching
The practice of workers, logging in and out for each other. So they can get salary for time they do not really work. There are several options to eliminate buddy including biometric (fingerprint) and hand shape recognition.

Cleaner Cards
Is used to clean the Magnetic or Barcode reader swipe units from dust and debris collected.

Closed box systems
Time and attendance systems that are packed and priced for sale without detailing the individual components that customer pays for.

Daisy Chain Connect
A Daisy is a unit that connects to the first clock attached to the computer. A Daisy unit can be a maximum of 4,000 feet from the Master unit.

Direct Keypad Entry
Direct Keypad Entry is a keypad on the clock used to type in PIN and other numbers.

Door Access
Provides security access to open doors within your facility, and the ability to track door access punches, using your time and attendance system.

Electronic Timesheet
A timesheet is a method of recording the time that each worker spent on job. Originally developed for an employer to determine payroll, but timesheets are not just for payroll anymore. Timesheets record the start and end time of tasks and its duration. It may contain a detailed analysis of tasks completed throughout the project or program.

Employee Lock Out
Reduces and does not confirm time punches at the clock for employees not scheduled to work on that day or time. Locked-out employee receives a message informing them of the rejection.

Employee Messaging
Send an individual, group, department or company wide message to the time clock from time clock. A history of messages is stored in archive.

Employee Reporting
Employees can view their accumulations, present pay period hours, and allowed punch window. Employees are also able to lookup department, jobs, and tasks, the user can also upload a selected list of departments, jobs, and tasks.

Encrypted file transmission
A time and attendance systems software security measure to save data from tampering.

Fingerprint Templates
The number of fingerprints a time clock can store to authorize employee time punches.