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Attendance without an app

Recording who was at work without asking anyone to install software on their own phone, and what you give up by not having an app.

You can record attendance without anyone installing anything. People point their phone camera at a screen by the door, a web page opens, they press one button. That is the whole interaction, and it uses the camera and browser every phone already has.

Why most attendance apps need an app

Because an app can do things a web page cannot: run in the background, read location while it is closed, send push notifications, and keep working with no signal. Most attendance products are built around background location — the phone notices you arriving and clocks you in.

That is also the part people object to. An app that can see where you are when you are not using it is a different proposition from a page that opens when you scan a code, and staff can tell the difference.

What that solves on day one

There is no rollout. Nobody is chased to install anything, there are no separate instructions for iPhone and Android, and no version anybody is stuck on. A new starter’s setup is their first scan.

Nothing to approve. No IT review, no app store, no device policy, and nothing on a personal phone that belongs to the company — which is the objection that stops most attendance rollouts before they start.

Nothing to clean up. Somebody leaves, you disable them here, and there is no app on their phone to think about.

Every check-in is verified as it happens

The code on the screen is signed by our server and checked the moment somebody scans it — so the record is confirmed at the door rather than assembled later from whatever a phone remembered. A code from a minute ago is refused, and you can watch that happen in the demo.

That is what makes the record worth having: every row is something the server saw, at the time it happened.

What is recorded when somebody scans

Their name, the time, the location, and the result of whichever checks that location has switched on. Nothing between check-ins, nothing in the background, and no access to contacts, photos or files — the page cannot reach any of that, because it is a web page.

See how a check-in actually works for what the code on the screen is doing, or set one up and scan it yourself.

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