GPS Attendance App by Field Team Tracking

GPS attendance app: how the radius check works

A GPS attendance app answers one question at punch time: is this person where they should be? In Field Team Tracking, the owner sets each branch’s office location and a radius around it. When an employee punches in, the phone’s location is compared with that circle, alongside the live selfie. Inside the circle, the punch is accepted; outside it, the result depends on the branch rule. Office branches can refuse outside punches, while branches with field staff can allow them, so a rep can start the day at a client site. Punches made without signal are stored and sent later. After punch in, field staff who agreed on the consent screen are tracked until punch out or closing time, never in the evening, and breaks pause it.

GPS attendance app for office staff and field staff

The same app treats the two groups differently by branch rule. Office staff punch inside the radius, and a late punch follows the cut-off. Field staff may punch wherever the day begins, and their route then shows stops and kilometres. How a day becomes a route is on the employee location tracking app page, the live face check on the selfie attendance app page, and all branch rules on the staff attendance app page. Telling staff and collecting consent before tracking starts is the subject of how to track employee location, and the office side of the system the field team tracking software page. What happens between the punches is covered in live location tracking for employees, and the punch itself on the punch in punch out app with location page. Sizing the boundary is discussed on the geofence attendance app page. Setups for desk, field and mixed teams are on the employee attendance app with location page, and branch policies on the field workforce management software page. How one punch moves from phone to report is traced on the GPS attendance tracking system page.

GPS attendance app setup

1. Create the branch and set its office location.
2. Set the radius and decide on outside punches.
3. Add staff; field staff switch on live location themselves the first time, accepting the consent notice.
4. Check the first day in the web attendance report.

GPS attendance app limits

• Accuracy. Phone GPS can drift indoors; leave a sensible radius margin.
• One office per branch. Each branch has one office location.
• After hours. Location is not tracked outside duty, by design.
• Payroll. Attendance totals feed your salary process elsewhere.

GPS attendance app example: a construction firm in Doha

An invented firm; figures for illustration only. A construction firm in Doha has an office team and 30 site supervisors who start at different sites each week. Office punches came from a machine, while supervisors phoned in their start times.

The office is now a branch with a tight radius and outside punches off. Supervisors belong to a field branch that accepts punches anywhere, so each one starts the day wherever concrete is being poured, and the route shows the moves between sites. Each group now has its own web report, with present, late and absent totals.