Selfie Attendance App by Field Team Tracking

Selfie attendance app: what happens at punch in

A selfie attendance app is only useful if the selfie is real. Proxy punching, where a colleague marks a friend present with a saved photo, is the problem most owners want solved. In Field Team Tracking, the employee opens the app and points the front camera at their face. The app asks for a blink, then for one move it picks at random, such as turning the head. A photo held up to the camera cannot follow those prompts, so the punch does not go through. If the branch requires it, the phone must also be inside the office radius. Without coverage, the punch is kept on the handset until a connection appears. Late marks and half days then follow the branch rules, and the owner reads present, late and absent totals in the web report.

Selfie attendance app compared with fingerprint machines

A fingerprint machine sits at one door, so field staff cannot use it, and everyone touches the same sensor. A selfie on each person’s phone works wherever the branch allows, and nothing is shared. The machine does match fingers to people, which this app does not claim for faces; the app’s strength is the live check plus location. Branch rules such as hours, days off and half days are set out on the staff attendance app page, the office radius on the GPS attendance app page, and attendance beside calls and routes on the office and field staff page. The paper-to-sheet step many teams take first is laid out in the staff attendance sheet. Rolling selfie punches out across a company is planned on the selfie attendance system page.

Selfie attendance app setup

1. Create a branch with its hours and late cut-off.
2. Decide whether punches outside the office are allowed.
3. Add employees and ask them to install the app.
4. Watch the first morning’s punches arrive in the report.

Selfie attendance app limits

• Face matching. It checks the face is live; it does not match it to an enrolled photo.
• Shared phones. Each employee punches from their own phone.
• Payroll. Attendance feeds payroll, but salaries are worked out elsewhere.
• Camera. A working front camera is needed.

Selfie attendance app example: a restaurant group in Bangkok

A fictional restaurant group, with sample numbers. A restaurant group in Bangkok runs three kitchens with 45 staff on split shifts. A shared paper register let early arrivals sign in for late friends.

Every kitchen got its own branch, with a radius around its door and its own shift times. Staff punch in on their phones with the live check, and the managers stopped seeing punches made with a saved photo. At month end, the web report gives late and absent totals for each kitchen.