Getting Started & Guides
Onboarding, roles, best practices, and workforce operations guides.
18 resources
Ultimate Guide to Attendance Management
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.
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.
First-Week Setup Checklist for Attend Mitra
Day-by-day checklist for your first week on Attend Mitra — company profile, employees, attendance rules, leave, payroll, and mobile app rollout.
Roles and Permissions
Configure admin roles, department-level access, and granular permissions in Attend Mitra for secure multi-user management.
Best Attendance Software in India: A Practical Buyer's Guide
How to evaluate attendance software in India — verification methods, shift and leave handling, EPF/ESIC-ready payroll data, rollout effort, and the questions that expose weak products during a demo.
Attendance Software for Small Businesses and Startups
What a 10-to-100 person company actually needs from attendance software, what to ignore, and how to get running in a week without a dedicated HR team.
Restaurant and Hotel Staff Attendance: Managing Split Shifts and High Turnover
Attendance and rostering for hospitality — split shifts, multiple outlets, seasonal staff, fast onboarding, and turning verified hours into payroll without a month-end scramble.
Construction Site Attendance: Tracking Workers Across Sites Without Hardware
Attendance for construction — face verification in dusty conditions, site geo-fences, crews that move between projects, emergency roll call, and wage calculation from verified records.
Manufacturing and Logistics Attendance: Shift Rotations, Plant Floors, and Warehouses
Attendance for plants and warehouses — rotating shift patterns, shift-change throughput, weak indoor GPS, overtime that feeds payroll, and multi-facility visibility.
Retail Store Attendance: Multi-Store Rosters, Part-Time Staff, and Peak Seasons
Attendance and scheduling across retail stores — per-store geo-fences, staff covering multiple locations, part-time and seasonal hours, and payroll that reconciles itself.
GUIDEHow to Start a Security Agency in India: Registration, PSARA Licence and First-Year Operations
A practical roadmap for starting a security agency in India: choosing the entity, applying for the PSARA licence, completing GST, PF, ESI and Shops and Establishments registrations, recruiting and training guards, pricing the first contract and setting up operations that survive the cash-flow gap.
Is Employee GPS Tracking Legal in India? What the DPDP Act Allows
India has no single employee-monitoring law, but location and biometric data are personal data under the DPDP Act 2023. Here is the lawful basis, the notice and proportionality tests, and a tracking design that stays on the right side of the line.
WORKFORCE OPSManpower Supply Company Attendance Management: From Client Site to Invoice
How manpower supply and contract staffing agencies capture attendance at client premises, get it approved before billing, pass through PF, ESI and bonus correctly, and run a month-end sequence that pays staff on time and invoices without leakage.
How to Choose Attendance Software for a Security Agency: A Buyer's Checklist
A security agency buyer's checklist: multi-site geofences, selfie and liveness for night posts, offline check-in, roster validation, reliever handling, patrol checkpoints, PSARA outputs, billing exports, device realities, pricing questions, a 10-scenario demo script and the red flags.
FACILITY OPSHousekeeping Staff Attendance Management: Registers, Shifts and Billing
A working guide to housekeeping staff attendance for facility management companies and in-house teams: what the register must record, split and 24x7 shift patterns, verifying presence at client sites, relievers, minimum wage compliance and turning attendance into client bills and payroll.
Hospital Staff Attendance and Nurse Duty Roster: A Practical Guide
How hospitals run 24x7 attendance and nurse duty rosters: shift shapes for wards and ICUs, staffing from patient load, fair night rotation, weekly offs and leave planning, floating pools, contactless attendance, shifts crossing midnight, comp-offs and the documentation NABH assessors expect.
RETAIL OPSPetrol Pump Staff Management: Shifts, Attendance, Salary and Reconciliation
A dealer's guide to petrol pump staff management: two and three-shift patterns for 24-hour outlets, tying nozzle and cash reconciliation to shift attendance, attendance methods that survive dust and gloves, weekly offs, minimum wage categories, incentives and the monthly payroll flow.
How Multi-Site Businesses Centralize Attendance Across Branches
A step-by-step model for multi-location attendance management: recognising the symptoms of branch-wise chaos, designing a central system with branch geofences and HQ policies, standardising codes and shifts, handling state-specific holidays, PT and hours from one console, and migrating branch by branch.