Knowing When it's Time to Purchase a Time Clock System

Once your company has been up and running for a period of time, you will begin to develop a good sense of how much time you could be saving yourself if you were to hire out certain tasks within your business. As your company grows, you will most likely find yourself in the position to hire workers.

With the hiring of workers, you might find yourself feeling some stress and anxiety about the honesty of time and attendance reporting. One great solution to this problem is a good employee clock solution and in this article, we will focus on some great options by timeQplus.

What sort of functions do you need your solution to be able to do? This will be the first question you must ask yourself as you begin to explore the choices that are available to you. Needs will vary depending on the size and complexity of your company.

An option could be one of the timeqplus biometric systems that are available to companies today. This type of solution does away with the problem of "buddy punching" where by one person falsely clocks in for another employee. The biometric terminal eliminates this issue because and individual's fingerprint is required to clock in. There is a tiny sensor pad and the finger is simply placed here for a few seconds to identify the employee. This is a perfect system if one is ready to move of from the more traditional badge system which we will cover below.

This solution is convenient and easy to use. The system can be used by many terminals so you decide where to place it in your company environment. Additional biometric terminals can easily be added to your existing network-enabled Acroprint timeQplus V3 system. Connect terminals to your PC or network via Ethernet, RS232 or USB.

If the above system does not suit the needs of your company, you may want to consider the more traditional timeqplus proximity badge based option. The solution can be very low maintenance and easy on the budget. An individual employee will simply wave his or her personal badge in front of the terminal to identify that they are clocking in or out. An employee also has the option of entering a pin code at the terminal if their badge is lost or forgotten.

Save on costs with the badge based system because these types of terminals do not need the same amount of alignment and cleaning since the wave of the badge eliminates the magnetic or bar code sensor maintenance. Also the proximity badges tend to be more sturdy than the traditional swipe badges so money can be saved here as well.

There are several employee time clock system and software options available to suit your company needs. Any of the choices from the company options above would help your business greatly. Spend some time researching and determining what the perfect solution will be for your company. Time tracking will be a very important part of the employee management division of your business. Finding the right equipment will make this much easier and save your company money in the long run.