A very essential feature of an attendance management system is clocking in and out. Your employee should be able to clock in, schedule punch-in break times, and then clock out at the end of the day.

This can be done either through a biometric device or through mobile applications on their phones. 

This is another base that your attendance management system should cover. A missed day should not be automatically registered as "absent". Instead, employees should be given the liberty to take a half-day and punch in accordingly or apply for a leave.

The system will automatically generate pay slips of employees based on their attendance. Which makes it easier for accounts department to manage salaries of employees.

Any attendance management software should be able to communicate with access control devices and time attendance regularly, with absolutely no manual intervention. The devices may be located at different geographical locations and your system should still well-equipped enough to be able to communicate with them.

Every organization should have a system in place that gives them updates and notifications of important events. The cloud-based attendance management system has the option of notifying its users (auto alert) with important updates.

For e.g.: When an employee has clocked in later than the given hour, the system sends a notification to the immediate superior, notifying them of the same. Automated alerts will inform about these anomalies to the managers/employers, requesting immediate action.

If you want your attendance management system to stand out, ParaTech employee self-service is the feature you should look for. It is an absolute game-changer.  Your employees no longer have to clock in at the office, they can mark their attendance or log in using an app or web-based attendance management system.

Leave requests, corrections to attendance records, and any sort of self-compliance can be performed without the intervention of the HR managers. 

If you have a large workforce within your organization and have a specific clock-in and clock-out time then biometric integration with a biometric machine is a must need feature and the biometric attendance feature is the right call for you. It eliminates the risk of fraud by using the fingerprint of a particular employee on the device for attendance authorization. 

A smart attendance management system is powered with advanced analytics that offers granular visibility into the attendance patterns of your employees, giving you a clear picture of those putting in extra hours or working overtime. Such practice can help you differentiate from productive employees to unproductive ones with accurate attendance reports

Special attendance requests are made by employees at times to correct their attendance in cases where they either forget to punch in or log out at the right time, or they are field workers. Once the attendance is approved by the manager, the attendance is automatically updated in the system.