Attendance with GPS

Attendance registers lie. A selfie and a location don't.

Replace paper registers and biometric machines that only work at head office. With E-Tracker, every employee punches in and out from their own phone with a mandatory selfie and their location — at the office, a site or on the road.

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Employee marking attendance at the office with verified location, and the admin view of today's attendance

The real cost of unverified attendance

If your team works across branches, warehouses, project sites and customer locations, a single biometric machine at the office cannot capture who actually came to work. Supervisors fill in registers from memory, staff mark attendance for absent colleagues, and HR spends the first week of every month reconciling three different versions of the truth.

Every unverified day is paid for. For a 100-person company, just two disputed days per person per month adds up to several extra salaries a year. Worse, when attendance is disputed, payroll is delayed and trust between employees and HR breaks down.

Mobile GPS attendance solves the location problem, but only when each punch carries evidence: a live selfie, a location, an office boundary to check it against, and a clear process for correcting genuine mistakes.

What to look for in a GPS attendance app

  1. A selfie on every punch. A mandatory front-camera selfie, taken at the moment of punching, is the simplest defence against proxy attendance.
  2. Location with office geofences. Each punch should record location and be checked against the boundary of the office it belongs to.
  3. A fair correction process. Regularization requests for genuine missed punches, approved by managers in the app.
  4. WFH, leave and holidays in one place. Attendance makes sense only alongside approved WFH days, leave, comp-off and the holiday calendar.
  5. A path to payroll. Attendance is most valuable when payroll runs on the same records and the period can be locked.

Features

How E-Tracker solves it

01

Selfie + location on every punch

Punching in or out requires a front-camera selfie and captures the employee's location. If location is off or permission is missing, the app prompts the employee to fix it before they can punch.

Employee marking attendance at the office with verified location, and the admin view of today's attendance
02

Geofences for your offices

Draw a boundary around each office so attendance can be checked against where the employee actually was. Admins see a daily attendance board and each employee's attendance history.

Live route tracking of a field agent travelling from Mumbai to Pune, with check-ins, distance and estimated time
03

Shifts, breaks, WFH and regularization

Define shifts with breaks and assign them to employees. Staff request work-from-home days or regularize a missed punch in the app, and managers approve from one inbox. Admins can also set organisation-wide WFH days.

04

Leave, holidays and a period lock for payroll

Leave, comp-off and holiday calendars sit alongside attendance. When the month is closed, admins lock the payroll period so attendance cannot change after salaries are processed.

Go live in days

How it works

  1. 1

    Set up offices and shifts

    Add your offices with geofences, create shifts with breaks, and load your holiday calendar.

  2. 2

    Invite employees

    Employees sign in with their work email or mobile and password, and can use fingerprint or face unlock after that.

  3. 3

    Close the month cleanly

    Approve regularizations and leave as they come in, review the attendance board, and lock the period for payroll.

Case study · Facility management services

Illustrative scenario

Attendance disputes down from weekly to rare

A facility management company with 220 staff across 18 client sites relied on supervisor registers sent by photo every evening. After moving to selfie + location punches in E-Tracker, with regularization requests handled in the app instead of over the phone, HR closed the month several days sooner and disputes became the exception.

Based on how teams in this industry typically roll out the product. Figures are representative, not a specific customer's results.

220staff across 18 sites
Daysfaster month-end close
0biometric machines needed

Pricing example

What it costs for 5 employees

A simple example on the Essential plan. Every extra employee or agent is added at the same per-person rate, so it is easy to work out for your own team. Start with a free trial and pay only when you continue.

  • Selfie + location punch in / out
  • Office geofences, shifts and breaks
  • Leave, comp-off, WFH and holidays
  • Regularization and approvals inbox
  • Employee records, documents and roles
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E-Tracker · Essential
  • Essential plan · 5 employees × ₹29₹145

₹145/month + GST

Prices per month + GST. Pay monthly, quarterly, half-yearly or yearly — yearly is billed at 10× monthly (2 months free).

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How does a GPS attendance app prevent proxy attendance?

Every punch needs a front-camera selfie taken at that moment and records the employee's location, which can be checked against your office geofences. Marking attendance for a colleague would mean taking their selfie on their phone.

Can employees work from home and still mark attendance?

Yes. Employees request WFH days in the app and managers approve them. Admins can also set organisation-wide WFH days.

What if someone forgets to punch?

They raise a regularization request in the app. It goes to the manager's approval inbox, and the attendance record is corrected once approved.

Is location tracked all day?

Not for attendance alone — location is captured at punch-in and punch-out. Continuous tracking during the shift is part of the Field Tracking add-on for field roles.

How do employees log in?

With their work email or mobile number and password, or a one-time code by email. After the first sign-in they can use fingerprint or face unlock.

How much does it cost?

GPS attendance is included in the Essential plan at ₹29 per employee per month + GST.

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