5 Best Attendance Systems with Face Recognition
When you’re tracking time worked with a clock in and clock out system, there’s always a concern about maintaining accurate records, especially when it comes to buddy punching and other forms of time theft. That is, someone clocking in for another co-worker or someone clocking in for their shift even when they’re not at the right office or location.
Investing in an attendance system with face recognition is a great way to increase employee accountability, and make sure your employee attendance records are accurate. This is critical, as it’s these records that you will use to track attendance, issue disciplinary warnings, and submit payroll.
In this post, we take a look at how Buddy Punch works as an all-in-one attendance management system with facial recognition technology.
In the Buddy Punch app, you use the Apple device’s Face ID option to scan your face when you clock in and out. It’s that simple, and that effective at keeping accurate attendance records.
Plus, you can use Buddy Punch to handle paid time off (PTO) and your team’s payroll, cutting down the need for multiple tools for attendance and time management.
And in case Buddy Punch isn’t what you’re looking for, we also cover 4 other attendance systems that use face detection features.
Attendance Systems with Face Recognition
1. Buddy Punch: Best Face Recognition Attendance System
Buddy Punch is an attendance system with built-in face recognition features that help you easily and accurately track your employee’s work hours. You don’t need to set up any clunky hardware, as it’s done from an app that works on iOS smartphones and tablets.
Let’s take a closer look at how it works here: Face ID for Facial Recognition
Plus, Manage PTO and Payroll with Buddy Punch
Along with attendance tracking, Buddy Punch also offers a full paid time off tracking system, and several ways for you to submit payroll.
Paid Time Off Tracking with Buddy Punch
You can set up PTO balances for everyone on your team, including customizing how PTO is accrued over time.
When it comes to taking a vacation, your employees just submit their time off requests in Buddy Punch.
PTO requests are sent to the appropriate manager. Or you can set it up so Buddy Punch will automatically approve the time off request. All requests are updated in real time, so you can quickly respond and always be referencing updated PTO balances.
You can then view a report of all paid and unpaid time off, which can also be exported to PDF, Excel, or CSV.
See all of our time-off tracking features here.
Payroll Processing with Buddy Punch
You can use Buddy Punch as your payroll provider.
Buddy Punch will handle all required tax withholdings, and your employees can log into their accounts and set up direct deposit.
Because you’re handling payroll from your attendance tracker, you can easily edit your team’s payroll info as needed. For example, if an employee takes a PTO but forgets to record it, then you can jump into their time card, add the PTO day, then re-run payroll.
But if you already have a way of processing payroll, then you can integrate Buddy Punch with your payroll provider or export a report out of Buddy Punch and send that to your payroll provider.
Buddy Punch Reviews
As of this writing, Buddy Punch has 4.8 out of 5 stars and 782 reviews on Capterra (a popular software review site).
Below is a small sampling of our reviews on Capterra:
“I love the facial recognition feature and other features that are offered to ensure that your staff is on the job site in order to sign in. I like how easy the PTO requesting is for the staff and for admin to approve. It’s a little bit of work trying to get all of the PTO hours in for all employees, especially if they work different hours and have different PTO hours, but the team at Buddy Punch are always available to help with questions. That is one of the things I think are most important- the great customer service. The accessibility to actual people who can help is valuable.”
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“The facial recognition feature really adds a lot of security to the easy-to-use app. Quick and easy set up for mobile phones.”
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“I found Buddy Punch was easy to use and very well done. I found the software very easy to work in and love the facial recognition feature.”
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“We signed up for the trial period, and our employees were impressed immediately. They were able to start… immediately with zero training or assistance, which was a priority for us. The system is also very easy to use from an administrator end.”
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“Minimal training for end users (employees or managers). The back end (admin) features are just as simple and intuitive. We wanted a product that was simple to use, cost friendly and allowed us to customize — all of these areas were met. Very impressed!”
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Click here to see all of our Buddy Punch reviews on Capterra.
See Everything Buddy Punch Has to Offer
Watch our demo video above, and visit our website to see pricing, sign up for a free trial or request a one-on-one demo call.
2. Timeero
Timeero’s features include, but are not limited to:
- Face Recognition Time Clock
- Time Tracking
- GPS Tracking
- Mileage Tracking
- Time Off Tracking
- Scheduling
- And more
Timeero has an average rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars and 68 reviews on Capterra.
“I like how it saves me from clocking in my employees hours. Before, employees would text me hours and I would put it in an Excel sheet. Now I have Timeero. Super awesome tool!”
Click here to read the full review.
For more information about Timeero, check out this short video:
3. Fareclock
Check out some of Fareclock’s features:
As of this writing, Fareclock doesn’t have any reviews on Capterra.
For more information, check out this brief video:
4. Jibble
Here’s a list of some of Jibble’s attendance system features:
Jibble has 481 reviews on Capterra with a 4.8 star rating on Capterra.
“Employees can clock in/out (self-service), anywhere (using geolocation) , anytime (using the mobile app or the kiosk feature) ensuring accuracy and consistency with the calculation of hours worked. The facial recognition prevents buddy-clocking . No more time wasted on working through clock cards and employees disputing their hours.”
Read the full review here.
For more information, check out this brief video:
5. QuickBooks
QuickBooks Time attendance system features include, but are not limited to:
QuickBooks has 6000+ reviews with a 4.7 star rating on Capterra.
“Overall, I have found QuickBooks Time to be a great asset to my business. It makes tracking hours and payroll easy and accurate and allows me to have access to the data from anywhere.”
Click here for the full review.
For more information, check out this brief video:
Learn More About Buddy Punch and Start a Free Trial
To learn more about Buddy Punch:
- Visit our site.
- Start a free trial.
- Watch our pre-recorded demo video.
- Request a live one-on-one demo call.
Further reading on attendance tracking and time management:
- 6 Best Timesheet Apps & Software (In-Depth Breakdown)
- 6 Best Employee Time Clock Software & Apps (In-Depth Look)
- 5 Free Online Time Clock Software for Employees (And a Paid Option)
- 13 Best Employee Time Tracking Software & Apps for Small Business Owners
- 8 Best Mobile Time Clock Apps (iOS and Android)
- 3 Best Face Recognition Time Clock Apps (An In-Depth Look)
- 5 Best Timekeeping Software for Employees (Desktop and Mobile App)
- Top 12 Time and Attendance Systems for Small Businesses
- 9 Best Employee Time Tracking and Attendance Apps
- 11 Time Clock Biometric Systems
