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Geofencing, Wi-Fi and shared devices

Three checks, each of which can be off, recorded, or required.

Every check has three settings, and the middle one is the interesting one.

Off, Record, or Require

Off — the check is not made.

Record — the check is made and the answer is written down, but nobody is turned away. A check-in from the wrong side of the car park is accepted, with a note saying so.

Require — a check-in that fails is refused.

Most people should start at Record. It shows you what your own site actually looks like — how far the GPS drifts indoors, how often somebody arrives before the Wi-Fi connects — before you let a check make decisions.

Geofencing

A centre, a radius, and an accuracy allowance. The phone reports where it thinks it is; LiteEntry compares that to the site and records the distance.

The accuracy allowance matters more than people expect. A phone indoors, on a low floor, in bad weather, can be confidently wrong by a hundred metres. A radius tight enough to be meaningful and an allowance loose enough to be usable is the balance to find, which is what Record is for.

Office Wi-Fi

The check compares the network the phone arrived on with the one the screen by the door is using. It answers “are they on the office network” without asking the phone anything about itself.

Shared devices

If the same phone checks in two different people, LiteEntry notices and flags it. It never blocks anything — there are honest reasons for it, like a shared work phone on a factory floor — but it is the single most useful signal for buddy punching, and it is on by default because it costs nothing.

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