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Remove unnecessary costs with attendance tracking

With SameSystem’s iBeacon, you can easily track time and attendance, which saves salary costs and allows you to stay on top of schedules.

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Attendance Tracking is essential in retail

Employees who arrive late or leave early are automatically corrected in their working hours, which typically saves 2-7 % in salaries.

Store managers don't have to note when employees arrive, go home or take breaks. This allows them to focus their time on customers.

Keep track of patterns, e.g. employees who arrive late or leave too early, and employees who return late from breaks.

Schedules are updated in real-time, and salary can be paid out without waiting for someone to manually go through shifts or attendance data.

So why is attendance tracking not used everywhere?

It is often related to older solutions that are not explicitly made for retail. SameSystem iBeacon has been developed exclusively for our more than 1,100 international retail customers. It is easy to use and saves valuable time and money.

Employees register their arrival with a single tap in the app.

If employees check in or out at different times than scheduled, they are required to provide a reason.

No power or internet is required.

iBeacon eliminates any doubt about arrival/departure times and simultaneously makes it easier to be a store manager. We ensure that the employee gets the correct hours and pay. iBeacon allows us to calmly look into the upcoming legislation on the registration of working hours.

Monica Brandtberg Larsen, HR Specialist

Some of the most common arguments for not using attendance tracking are:

With attendance tracking, you will pay for unscheduled working hours

On the contrary. With an iBeacon, employees are only paid from the beginning of a shift - unless they are called in to solve a specific task. The same logic applies if they stay after hours.

Employees feel monitored

You would think so. But in reality, employees rarely have issues with SameSystem's iBeacon. Many employees like to be able to document that they arrive and leave on time. Some are even tired of colleagues who 'cheat' by coming back late from breaks etc.

Setting up the iBeacon hardware is expensive and cumbersome

SameSystem's iBeacon is delivered free of charge and is smaller than the palm of your hand. It is mounted using double-sided adhesive tape. No power or internet connection is required. It takes less than a minute to activate the device in SameSystem's app.

Even with attendance tracking, store managers won't deduct employees in time

With SameSystem's iBeacon, you can set up guidelines about how deviating time is handled - that goes for breaks too.

Employees will find us inflexible

Punch clocks are inflexible. With SameSystem's iBeacon, employees can easily specify a reason if they arrive at a different time than scheduled. For instance: 'The store manager asked me to pick up lunch on the way'.

Employees spend too much time on checking in

When employees are near an iBeacon, they check in with a single tap in the app. It literally takes a few seconds.

It requires too much manual work when employees forget to check in or out

The iBeacon registers when you arrive and leave the store, which prompts a notification in the app. 'We can see you have arrived at the store. Did you forget to check in?'

Store managers spend too much time tracking data

Store manager only handle deviations from the schedule. They can do this directly in the app - fast and easy.

The solution is not good at tracking breaks

Breaks are as much of a source of lost time as main shifts. SameSystem's iBeacon handles breaks seamlessly.

Security is not good enough

With SameSystem iBeacon, you can only check in and out when you are within 2 meters of the iBeacon in the store. And you can only check in and out for yourself.

We have saved more than 6,700 EUR on wage costs per store, which is a direct improvement of our bottom line. We have also saved more than that when you consider the day-to-day time savings of store managers and owners.

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