Time and attendance hardware Biometric hardware, built for the door it lives on
Fingerprint, palm and facial recognition terminals that survive a factory floor, a care home corridor or a building site, feeding the same timeline as the mobile app.
Software alone cannot stop one person clocking in for another, and consumer tablets on a bracket do not survive a shift-change queue in an industrial setting.
Purpose-built terminals with fingerprint, palm and facial recognition, paired with a geofenced mobile app for people who never pass a fixed point.
Time and attendance hardware: six ways to capture the working day
Mix them across sites. Every method lands on the same timeline and the same timesheet.
SmartHub
Wall-mounted biometric terminal
Fingerprint and RFID capture in a sealed, industrial housing. The unit most customers put at the main entrance.
Facial & thermal
Contactless recognition
Facial recognition with optional thermal sensing, introduced for infection-control settings and now standard across many care sites.
Palm recognition
Contactless biometric
Palm vein capture where fingerprints are unreliable, wet, gloved or manual-work environments.
Kiosk
Shared tablet point
A lower-cost shared point for smaller sites, with photo capture at the moment of clocking.
Mobile, geofenced
No hardware at all
Clock in from a phone inside a defined geofence, with camera and GPS verification, for field crews and multi-site staff.
Roll call
Fire and evacuation
Live on-site register for roll call and evacuation, drawn from the same attendance data.
Software alone cannot verify a person
- Eliminates buddy punching, the punch is tied to the person, not a PIN
- Sealed housings rated for industrial and clinical environments
- Works offline and syncs when the connection returns
- Feeds the same unified timesheet as web and mobile clocking
- Roll call and evacuation reporting from live attendance data
What customers say about the devices
“We have used the ClockedIn dashboard for our time and attendance for the past year. It has been easy to use and saved us time doing the admin and payroll. The staff are always happy to help if you have a question.”
Stephen · CEO, Fire Barrier
“The SmartHub device is particularly impressive, well designed and easy to use. The responsiveness of the fingerprint reader is paramount and is regarded highly by our team. We have worked with ClockedIn since 2016.”
Jan · Global Head of Partners, RLDatix
“Before we started using ClockedIn, our tradesmen's timesheets were paper based, just getting hold of them was a nightmare, let alone reading them. Now all of my records are online, and payroll takes less than half the time it used to.”
Sam · Owner, AMS
Common questions
Which clocking methods are supported?
Biometric terminals (fingerprint, RFID and facial recognition), web punch with camera and GPS from any browser, and a mobile app with beacon-based authorisation. You can mix methods across sites, and hardware is optional.
Can staff clock in from a mobile phone?
Yes. The mobile app supports clocking with camera and GPS, and beacon authorisation for site work. Managers can approve punches from mobile too.
How are attendance exceptions handled?
Missing or mismatched punches are flagged automatically against the rota. The employee raises a regularisation request from self-service and it routes through your approval chain, so only genuine exceptions reach a manager.
Does it handle overnight and split shifts?
Yes. Rotas support rotating, split and overnight cross-day shifts, with week-off, leave and bank holiday awareness, and 24/7 operation.
See a device in action
We will show you the terminal, the app and the timesheet they both feed.