In practice
Tami Trade, Niš
Tami Trade, a manufacturer from Niš, Serbia, tracks attendance for 87 employees in Atendo. Employees clock in with the mobile app, using BLE devices and NFC tags installed on site.
Workers clock in by card, at a terminal or on their phone. Atendo assigns hours to shifts, separates night and overtime hours, and shows the shift supervisor who is on the floor right now.
Outside contractors work in the plant but aren't in your HR system — their records don't exist, or live somewhere separate
Each shift has its own informal tolerance agreements — the supervisor interprets them, the system doesn't know about them
Overtime hours are logged manually and always get double-checked before payroll
Before every payroll run, someone manually gathers and checks data from multiple sources
Every shift has a clearly defined start, end, and tolerance — the system enforces it, not the supervisor
Outside contractors get a time-limited profile for attendance tracking for the duration of their engagement
Deviations from the shift plan are visible in the system and flagged for review — HR doesn't have to reconstruct them before payroll
HR sees one overview: permanent staff and contractors — all in one place
Attendance tracking shouldn't depend on which supervisor is on shift that day.
Each shift has its own start, end and tolerance. A shift that runs past midnight is kept as a single work session.
Night hours are shown separately in reports and in the payroll export.
Time after the end of a shift is separated as overtime and waits for approval. You set the daily and weekly limits.
A worker arrives on the factory bus at 05:45 and the shift starts at 06:00. Atendo records the arrival and counts working time from the start of the shift.
When a worker stays on to cover for a colleague in the next shift, those hours are not recorded as a new shift but as overtime on their own shift.
Where the schedule changes often, Atendo works out at clock-in which shift the worker belongs to.
Wall terminal and card — the worker taps a card on the reader at the plant entrance. No smartphone needed.
Tablet kiosk — a tablet at the plant entrance where all workers clock in and out. Workers do not need a device of their own.
Mobile app — clock-in via a BLE device, an NFC tag or a QR code placed in the plant.
Clock-in methods can be combined: the plant floor on cards, the office and warehouse on phones. There is always one record.
The shift supervisor sees who is currently clocked in — by department, facility and location.
It also shows who is scheduled for the shift but has not arrived, so a replacement is found at the start of the shift, not an hour in.
Each manager sees only their own departments and locations.
Tami Trade, a manufacturer from Niš, Serbia, tracks attendance for 87 employees in Atendo. Employees clock in with the mobile app, using BLE devices and NFC tags installed on site.
It starts on one production line or shift. Over 30 days of free use we measure the number of detected deviations, the average time to resolve them, and the time HR spends preparing payroll data.
Configuration, rule setup, creating user accounts, and employee training are handled by the Atendo team — from you we need an employee list for the chosen location, a short description of shifts and contractors, and one person responsible.
Do suppliers and contractors often work on site?
See the Visitors module →A question you could ask Atendo
"Which shift has the most plan deviations?"
How the AI assistant answers →Yes. Each shift has its own start, end and tolerance, and a shift that runs past midnight is kept as a single work session. Night work is shown separately in reports and in the payroll export.
According to the rule you set. If a worker arrives at 05:45 because the factory bus gets in early and the shift starts at 06:00, Atendo records the actual arrival time but counts working time from the start of the shift. Early arrival does not turn into overtime by itself.
Those hours are not recorded in the next shift. Atendo recognises them automatically and keeps them as overtime on the shift the worker was scheduled for. You can set daily and weekly overtime limits, so an overrun is visible straight away, not just before payroll.
No. Workers can clock in with a card at a wall terminal or on a shared tablet (kiosk) at the plant entrance. Those who have a phone can use the mobile app with BLE, NFC or QR clock-in. Different clock-in methods can be combined within the same company.
Yes. The shift supervisor sees who is currently clocked in by department, facility and location, as well as who is scheduled for the shift but has not arrived. A production line can be set up as a department or as a location.
Yes. Atendo has an API for syncing employees, facilities, locations, departments and job positions, for reading work sessions and daily and monthly hour totals, and for importing shift schedules. Excel and CSV export is also available.
No. Atendo tracks attendance and working time. Work orders, production targets and scrap stay in your ERP or MES system, and Atendo gives it accurate hours per worker, shift and department through the API.
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