A complete step-by-step guide to setting up face verification, GPS geo-fencing, and live monitor in Attend Mitra for accurate, fraud-resistant attendance.

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Hire-to-Payday: Full Lifecycle Automation

Automate the entire employee lifecycle in Attend Mitra — from job posting and onboarding through attendance, leave, and payroll processing.

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TEMPLATE

Employee Attendance Report Template

Download a ready-to-use timesheet CSV template compatible with Attend Mitra exports. Track daily hours, overtime, and absences for payroll reconciliation.

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How to Setup Face Recognition Attendance

Step-by-step video tutorial to enable face recognition in Attend Mitra — admin configuration, employee enrollment, and kiosk setup on the mobile app.

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Payroll worksheet showing a late arrival marked half-day on the same row as approved overtime hours

PAYROLL HOW-TO

How to Calculate Half Day and Overtime Together

A practical method for days that trigger both a half-day status and overtime hours, with worked examples, India daily-wage practice, and LOP rules that do not double-count.

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Security supervisor comparing a live occupied post with a verified guard check-in on a client site map

SITE VERIFICATION

How to Verify Security Guards Are On Site

A practical method for proving a guard is at the assigned post: identity, location, duration, live occupancy, night handover, mock-GPS controls, and client-ready coverage reports.

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Security duty roster showing named posts, armed and unarmed shifts, and relief coverage

SECURITY ROSTER

How to Manage Security Guard Shifts Across Posts

A practical operating model for security agencies: schedule the post, classify armed and unarmed duties, run 8-hour and 12-hour patterns, keep a relief bench, and stop no-shows from breaking client SLAs.

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Approved timesheet columns for regular, overtime, holiday, and leave hours mapped into a payroll export

PAYROLL HOW-TO

How to Convert Timesheets Into Payroll

Turn approved timesheets into a payroll-ready hours file: approvals, regular and overtime mapping, rounding, cutoff, and exports to Tally, greytHR, or in-house pay.

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Field salesman checking in at a client-site geo-fence on a phone map without continuous tracking

FIELD ATTENDANCE

How to Track Field Employees Attendance

A practical operating model for sales, service, and delivery attendance: client-site geo-fences, mock-GPS controls, offline marks, event-based hours, and privacy limits that are not continuous tracking.

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Shift roster moving from a cluttered WhatsApp group to a published employee schedule with read tracking

WHATSAPP ALTERNATIVE

How to Replace WhatsApp Shift Rosters

Why WhatsApp groups fail as duty rosters — lost messages, no audit trail, last-minute edits, and payroll disputes — and how to publish an employee roster people can actually prove they saw.

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Monthly attendance summary with present, leave, overtime, and loss-of-pay columns across sites

REPORTING

How to Prepare a Monthly Attendance Report

Build a monthly attendance report with present, absent, weekly off, leave, overtime, LOP, and holiday columns — plus multi-site rollups and locked versions for payroll, labour inspection, and client billing.

15 min read

Field attendance check blocked when a mock location does not match the assigned geo-fence

ANTI-FRAUD

How to Prevent GPS Spoofing in Attendance

Stop fake GPS attendance from mock-location apps and rooted devices with layered identity, geo-fencing, and device binding — without treating every GPS drift as fraud.

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Practical, workbook-backed guides for turning attendance data into reliable operational and payroll decisions.

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Timesheet showing an overnight shift calculation and total employee hours for payroll

HOW-TO

How to Calculate Employee Hours for Payroll: A Practical Guide

Learn how to calculate employee hours from attendance records, handle breaks and overnight shifts, separate overtime, and prepare a payroll-ready hours report.

15 min read

Verified employee attendance records flowing into an approved payroll report

PAYROLL PLAYBOOK

How to Prepare Attendance for Payroll Without Month-End Chaos

A step-by-step payroll preparation workflow for closing attendance, resolving exceptions, approving overtime, and sending clean hours to payroll.

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SECURITY OPERATIONS

How to Track Security Guards on Multiple Sites

A practical operating model for security agencies managing guard rosters, proof of presence, relief coverage, client reports, and payroll across many sites.

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HOW-TO

How to Handle a Missed Punch in Payroll

A fair, auditable process for missed check-ins and check-outs: identify the exception, collect context, approve the correction, and prevent repeat regularizations.

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Contract workers checking in at multiple locations with verified identity and GPS records

FIELD WORKFORCE

How to Track Attendance of Contract Workers

A field-tested workflow for onboarding contract workers, verifying site presence, separating contractor hours from payroll employees, and preparing clean billing records.

14 min read

Approved timesheet rows flowing into an overtime pay summary

PAYROLL HOW-TO

How to Calculate Overtime From Timesheets

Learn how to turn approved timesheet entries into regular hours, overtime, holiday hours, and payroll-ready totals without double counting breaks or shifts.

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NIGHT SHIFT

How to Calculate Night-Shift Hours for Payroll

A clear method for calculating cross-midnight shifts, night differentials, breaks, overtime, and payroll dates without negative hours or double counting.

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Weekly 24/7 rota showing rotating day, evening, and night shift coverage

SHIFT OPERATIONS

How to Manage 24/7 Employee Rotas Without Coverage Gaps

A practical guide to building fair, reliable 24/7 rotas with shift patterns, rest rules, relief coverage, leave overlays, and live attendance checks.

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Messy Excel attendance records transforming into a live verified attendance dashboard

OPERATIONS GUIDE

Excel Attendance Sheet Alternative: When and How to Move Beyond Spreadsheets

A practical migration guide for replacing Excel attendance sheets with verified check-ins, live visibility, approvals, and payroll-ready reporting.

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Face, GPS, device, and audit checks blocking a proxy attendance attempt

ATTENDANCE CONTROL

How to Stop Buddy Punching and Proxy Attendance

A practical anti-fraud playbook combining identity verification, location checks, device controls, manager approvals, and audit evidence without intrusive monitoring.

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