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How to check in remotely
Recording a start without scanning a screen — how an administrator switches it on for a location, and the two taps it takes on the day.
Somebody can record a check-in without scanning a screen, if an administrator has allowed it for that location. On the day it is two taps: open My activity, open Can’t get to a screen?, and pick the location.
It is meant for the morning that starts before the commute does — an engineer fixing something urgent at seven, a person going straight to a client, a day working away from the building.
Switching it on
Open Locations, choose the location, and find What this location checks. Remote check-in is the last row, and it is last because it is not a check — it is how the others are skipped. Set it to Allowed.
That is the whole of the setup. It is per location, so an office can allow it while a site with a turnstile does not, and it can be switched off again at any time without touching anything already recorded.
What it changes, plainly
Anyone in your organization may check in to that location without scanning a display. Location, network and shared-device checks do not apply to those check-ins — all of them, not only the ones you have switched on.
What is still verified is who and when. The person is signed in to LiteEntry, and the timestamp is the server’s, in UTC, exactly as it is for a scan at a door. Where they are is not verified, and that is the whole of what changes.
Checking in on the day
Open My activity. Below your recent history there is a section called Can’t get to a screen? — it lists every location that allows remote check-in, and each one shows its business day and its local time, so you can see which day you are about to land on before you commit to it.
Tap the location, then confirm on the next screen. LiteEntry deliberately asks twice: a mis-tap here writes a row you did not mean, at a place you are not.
Checking out is the same page. An open remote session shows a Check out button on My activity, and you press it wherever you are. If you check in remotely in the morning and then arrive at the office, scan the display as normal — LiteEntry closes the remote session and opens a new one at the door.
Where it appears afterwards
Every remote check-in is marked Remote — in your attendance report, in the events list, and on the row in My activity.
Live counts them separately — 9 on site, 3 remote — rather than adding them together. When something needs a person at that office, somebody working away is not the answer, and a single number would hide that.
When it is the right answer
A remote check-in is a timestamped record of who said they started and at what minute, made by somebody signed in, on a clock they do not control. That is a great deal more than the spreadsheet or the group chat it replaces, and it is the honest description of it.
It is not the same evidence as a scan at a door, which is why it is off until you turn it on and why every one is labelled. Used for the mornings it was built for, it fills the gap where there would otherwise be no record at all. If it becomes the normal way people check in at a location, the checks above it stop meaning anything — which is a decision about how you run that location rather than a limit of the feature.
See what each check does for the rows above it, or attendance for remote and hybrid teams for how this fits a team that is not in one building.
Still stuck? Try the demo — most questions here are quicker to answer by pressing the thing than by reading about it.