The best attendance tracking - tailormade for retail and hospitality
iBeacon technology guarantees that work schedules and actual working hours are aligned.
iBeacon is a groundbreaking technology to handle attendance tracking. It is easy to use, ensures personal login and saves precious time.
SameSystem’s attendance tracking provides essential benefits in retail and hospitality
Save on salaries
Employees who arrive late or leave early are automatically corrected in their working hours, typically saving 2-7% in salaries.
Keep track of patterns
Keep track of employees who arrive late or leave too early and return late from breaks.
Increased customer focus
Managers don’t have to note when employees arrive, go home or take breaks and can focus their time on customers.
Real-time updated schedules
Schedules are updated in real time, and the correct salary is paid without waiting for someone to verify shifts or attendance data.
If employees forget to check out, the beacon tracks them leaving the business, and they can check out from home with the time-stamp of when they actually left the business.
Employees register their arrival with a single tap in the app.
If employees check in or out at a different time than scheduled, they are required to provide a reason.
The iBeacon doesn't require power or internet.
Why invest in iBeacon attendance tracking?
iBeacon attendance tracking keeps track of work time and employee attendance, including breaks, overtime and days off. You only pay for actual hours worked, and your employees can trust their paychecks to reflect their efforts, creating trust and saving unnecessary costs.
SameSystem’s attendance tracking strengthens transparency in the organisation by giving employees a complete and updated overview of their hours. At the same time, managers can track patterns in timeliness and attendance.
The attendance tracker also prevents unwanted overtime and sends alerts and notifications to employees working out of the rostered hours. In the end, this reduces excessive labour costs.
How does the iBeacon attendance tracker work?
The iBeacon tracker is a small, wireless Bluetooth device that transmits a signal interacting with other devices, detecting when a particular employee is entering the workplace.
Each employee’s app is connected to the iBeacon with a unique ID to pass the information to SameSystem, ensuring the most accurate attendance tracking possible.
The attendance tracking app is simple to access and use for all employees and managers and will deliver quick and accurate insights and data.
So why is attendance tracking not used everywhere?
It is often related to older solutions not explicitly made for retail and hospitality. SameSystem iBeacon has been developed exclusively for our more than 1,100 international customers. It is easy to use and saves valuable time and money.
Some of the most common arguments for not using attendance tracking are:
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“With attendance tracking, you will pay for unscheduled working hours.”
On the contrary, with an iBeacon, employees are only paid from the beginning of a shift – unless they are called in to solve a specific task. The same logic applies if they stay after hours.
02
“Setting up the hardware is expensive and cumbersome.”
SameSystem’s iBeacon is delivered free of charge and is smaller than the palm of your hand. It is mounted using double-sided adhesive tape. No power or internet connection is required. It takes less than a minute to activate the device in SameSystem’s app.
03
“Employees will find us inflexible.”
Punch clocks are inflexible. With SameSystem’s iBeacon, employees can easily specify a reason if they arrive at a different time than scheduled. For instance: ‘The manager asked me to pick up lunch on the way’.
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“It requires too much manual work when employees forget to check in or out.”
The iBeacon registers when you arrive and leave the business, which prompts a notification in the app. ‘We can see you have arrived. Did you forget to check in”?
05
“Even with attendance tracking, managers won’t deduct employees in time.”
With SameSystem’s iBeacon, you can set up guidelines about how deviating time is handled – that goes for breaks, too.
06
“Employees feel monitored.”
You would think so. But in reality, employees rarely have issues with SameSystem’s iBeacon. Many employees like to be able to document that they arrive and leave on time. Some even tire of colleagues who ‘cheat’ by returning late from breaks, etc.
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“The solution could be better at tracking breaks.”
Breaks are as much of a source of lost time as primary shifts. SameSystem’s iBeacon handles breaks seamlessly.
08
“Employees spend too much time checking in.”
When employees are near an iBeacon, they check in with a single tap in the app. It takes a few seconds.
09
“Managers spend too much time tracking data.”
Managers only handle deviations from the schedule. They can do this directly in the app – fast and easy.
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“Security is not good enough.”
With SameSystem iBeacon, you can only check in and out within 2 meters of the iBeacon. And you can only check in and out for yourself.
We have saved more than 6,700 EUR on wage costs per department, which directly improves our bottom line. We have also saved more than that when you consider the day-to-day time savings of managers and owners.
