Attendance & Security
Face verification, GPS geo-fencing, live monitor, and attendance logs.
31 resources
GPS Attendance: Benefits and Best Practices
Learn how GPS attendance in Attend Mitra helps businesses track remote and field employees effectively with geo-fencing and location audit trails.
Live Monitor: Real-Time Attendance Dashboard
Use Attend Mitra's live monitor to track check-ins, late arrivals, and absences across all sites in real time from the admin console.
Attendance Security Settings
Configure fraud prevention, device restrictions, and audit controls in Attend Mitra to protect attendance data integrity.
Employee Attendance App for Android and iPhone: How Mobile Check-In Works
How a mobile attendance app records verified check-ins from any phone — face verification, GPS geo-fencing, offline marking, and what managers see in real time.
Security Guard Attendance Across Multiple Sites: What Actually Works
Running guard attendance across dozens of client sites — face verification without hardware, per-site geo-fences, night shift rosters, live supervision, and OT that survives client billing.
Delivery Staff Attendance: Tracking Riders and Hub Teams Who Are Never in an Office
How to run attendance for delivery riders and hub staff — hub geo-fences, face check-in at shift start, offline marking on the road, and per-trip payout data that reconciles.
Biometric, GPS, or Face Attendance: Choosing the Right Verification Method
An honest comparison of fingerprint terminals, GPS geo-fencing, face recognition, and network validation — what each proves, what each costs, and how to combine them.
SECURITY OPERATIONSHow 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.
HOW-TOHow 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.
OPERATIONS GUIDEExcel 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.
ATTENDANCE CONTROLHow 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.
SITE VERIFICATIONHow 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.
FIELD ATTENDANCEHow 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.
REMOTE WORKHow to Track Remote Employees Attendance Without Surveillance
A privacy-first attendance model for work-from-home and hybrid teams: trusted networks and devices instead of home GPS, core hours versus clock-in, and India-specific office plus WFH rules.
DIGITISATIONHow to Replace a Paper Attendance Register
A cutover playbook for Indian factories, sites, and guard posts: labour-inspection needs, digital muster, kiosk versus phone, parallel run, and how to archive the old paper register.
AUTOMATIONHow to Automate Attendance Tracking
A practical automation blueprint: what software should capture on its own, what still needs a human, enrollment, live monitoring, exception and overtime approval, and a payroll feed that is not set-and-forget.
ANTI-FRAUDHow 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.
Guard Tour Patrol System Explained: Checkpoints, Proof of Patrol and How to Choose One
What a guard tour patrol system is, how the wand-and-RFID-tag model compares with smartphone NFC and QR checkpoints, how to set up patrol rounds with sequence and time windows, what proof-of-patrol reports show, and a buyer checklist for societies, warehouses, malls and factories.
ATTENDANCESecurity Guard Attendance Register: Rules, Mandatory Columns and Format
Which laws require an attendance register for security guards, the columns it must carry, how the site register differs from the agency's consolidated register, retention and inspection rules, and how a GPS plus selfie digital register replaces paper without losing the statutory format.
ATTENDANCEHow to Make an Attendance Sheet in Excel With Formulas, In/Out Time and LOP
Build a monthly employee attendance sheet in Excel from scratch: P/A/HD/L/WO/H codes, COUNTIF totals, in-and-out time columns with hours worked, a late-mark formula, LOP and payable-days columns, protection and printing, with the pitfalls that catch most HR teams.
ATTENDANCEEmployee Time Tracking Methods Compared: Register, Excel, Biometric, App and Timesheet
A side-by-side comparison of the six ways Indian businesses track employee time, scored on accuracy, fraud resistance, field suitability, cost, payroll readiness and compliance records, with a decision matrix by workforce type and a rollout plan.
ATTENDANCETimesheet vs Attendance: What Is a Timesheet in Payroll and How the Two Records Differ
Attendance records whether someone was present and from when to when; a timesheet records which client, project or task those hours went to. Here is who needs which, how both feed payroll and billing, and the reconciliation rules that keep them honest.
How Does a Face Recognition Attendance System Work? Enrolment, Matching, Liveness and Accuracy
A plain-language explanation of what happens between an employee looking at a camera and a punch appearing in the register: face descriptors, similarity thresholds, liveness checks, on-device versus cloud matching, re-enrolment, accuracy trade-offs and DPDP obligations.
GPS Attendance Policy for Employees: Rules, DPDP Consent and a Full Sample Policy
How to write a GPS attendance policy that survives a dispute: scope, what location data is collected and when, geofence radius, mock-location rules, consent and retention under DPDP, correction process, disciplinary clauses and a complete sample policy you can adapt.
BUYER GUIDEAttendance Machine vs Attendance App: Cost, Fraud Risk and Which One Your Business Needs
A buyer's comparison of fingerprint, face and card attendance machines against mobile attendance apps: total cost drivers, where each wins, hybrid setups with device integration, how data reaches payroll, fraud vectors and a decision checklist.
Free Attendance App for Employees: What You Get, What You Give Up and When to Pay
An honest guide to free attendance apps for small businesses and labour teams in India: what free tiers include and exclude, the hidden costs in disputes and compliance records, questions to ask before trusting one with payroll data, and how to run a proper trial.
ATTENDANCE METHODSQR Code Attendance System: How It Works, Static vs Dynamic Codes and Where It Fits
How QR code attendance works in practice: the two scanning models, why static codes get photographed and shared, dynamic and rotating QR, pairing with GPS and selfie, setup and placement, offline handling, reporting and the honest limitations.
POLICYAttendance Regularization: Meaning, Process, Policy Limits and a Sample Request Format
What attendance regularization means, the legitimate reasons for it, how to set limits on frequency and time windows, evidence and audit-trail rules, the abuse patterns to watch, how it interacts with LOP and payroll cutoff, and sample policy clauses and request wording.
POLICYAttendance Policy for Employees in India: What to Include and a Complete Sample Policy
How to write an attendance policy for employees in India that covers working hours, marking methods, grace period and late marks, half-days, missed punches, unauthorised absence, field and WFH attendance and the disciplinary ladder, with the full sample policy text.
POLICYLate Coming Policy for Employees in India: Rules, Deductions, Legality and a Sample Policy
How to define lateness against shift start and grace period, the three common counting rules (3 late marks = half-day, per-minute deduction, warning ladder), early-going symmetry, exceptions, the legal limits on deductions, and a complete sample late coming policy.
Delivery Attendance Check: How Delivery Companies Track Rider and Driver Attendance
How last-mile fleets, dark stores and 3PL partners run a delivery attendance check for riders and drivers: the four methods in use, how each is gamed, what a defensible daily record needs, and how attendance drives day allowance, incentives and no-show handling.