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Attendance for restaurants

Shift attendance for restaurants and hospitality — nothing to install, running before service, and staff check in in about three seconds.

Mount a spare tablet at the entrance or the pass. Staff point their phone camera at the code and tap one button on the way in — the same tap checks them out at the end of service. LiteEntry records who arrived, when, and at which site. That is the whole of it.

There is no app to install, no account for your team to create, and nothing that needs an IT department.

Fast enough for a busy service

Three seconds is the check-in time for an honest scan. The code changes every thirty seconds, so a photographed one expires fast — but the window is generous enough that someone walking toward the door does not miss it.

The button says Check in or Check out depending on what the person did last. Nobody has to remember which they are doing.

No hardware to procure

The display is any device with a browser and a power socket — a spare tablet, an old phone, a TV over the bar. There is no terminal to buy, no badge reader to wire in, and no vendor to call when it stops working.

If the screen goes offline, Live says so against that location — check-ins are impossible right now — so an empty shift list does not read as a staff no-show.

Shared devices

A restaurant often has one tablet at the front or the pass. Shared devices are a normal thing, and LiteEntry handles them: device recognition notices when one phone checks in two different people and records the pattern. It never blocks anyone — a genuine shared work phone is allowed through — but repeated pairs of names on one device appear in the report, on the day they happen.

High turnover and seasonal staff

Add a person by name and email. Nothing is sent. They sign in with their Google account the first time they scan, and that is their whole setup before their first shift. When someone leaves, one click disables them — no app to recover, no account to close.

See setting up in five minutes to get started, or does a QR code stop buddy punching for the question that comes up in every service environment.

Still stuck? Try the demo — most questions here are quicker to answer by pressing the thing than by reading about it.