Clocking In Systems

[Freakbro]

Has anyone got any experience or advice about a Clocking in (Time & Attendance) system?

We are looking to upgrade the way we record employee hours, from currently a manual, paper based system to an automatic computer/RFID based system.

I have initially contacted a national firm, who came back with an all singing & dancing system for £6k + vat with ~£2k / year support

This is slightly (completely) out of our budget! As we are probably looking at ~£1k max all in.

With a quick google and there seem to be lots of standalone systems, ranging from £100 - £500 + extras.

Someone has put a printout of a range of Safescan systems on my desk but I've no idea if they are any good or not.

We have ~50 employees and I appreciate a standalone system isn't going to be as good as the all singing & dancing version, but we are just looking for something that's easy to use, and can output the data into software that does what you want it to.

 

[Freakbro]

Spooky - this is actually my job, well, supporting them anyway - has been since joining the company many years ago.

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Heh, thanks Scort. I haven't contacted your company, it was one that begins with 'A'

We aren't needing anything that complicated. And it's not about staff monitoring as much as reducing the time everyone puts in filling out a timesheet, for that to be checked, manually input onto a spreadsheet then input into sage....which for 50 staff takes more time than necessary in todays world.

I'm sure our needs are fairly straight forward, the business is open M-F 7.30-5.30 and some people work shifts within that, some are full time etc.

 

[Freakbro]

Most of our employees are hourly paid, a few are salaried.

Like I say, it's just to cut out the excessive paperwork and time spent filling it in and transferring it over.

I don't even care if it doesnt integrate directly into Sage payroll, just get a printout or excel s/sheet to manipulate the data with.