Why geofenced check-ins beat manual attendance registers
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Tie every punch to a real place and time, and most attendance arguments never start.
A paper register or a shared spreadsheet records what people say happened. When there is a dispute about a late arrival or a missing day, there is nothing to check it against. Geofenced check-in fixes that by recording where and when each punch actually happened.
How it works in CRM Dost
- Each office has a location and a radius. You decide, office by office, whether staff must be inside it to check in.
- The distance is worked out by the server, not taken from the phone, so it cannot be faked by editing what the device reports.
- Someone outside the radius is told how far away they are and what the allowed radius is — no mystery errors.
- If you have allowed it for them, they can choose work from home, or a field check-in for client visits, which records the day as field work.
Location only at the moment of a punch
Staff are rightly wary of apps that follow them around. CRM Dost saves a location only when someone checks in, checks out or takes a break. There is no background tracking between punches.
For extra assurance you can turn on a punch photo for an office. It is optional, set per office, and a slow upload never stops someone from checking in.
When something goes wrong
People forget to check out. Instead of an admin quietly editing the record, the person raises a regularization request, and it counts only once it is approved — so every correction leaves a trail.
From punches to payroll
Because every day is recorded the same way, the monthly report can do the arithmetic for you: working days, present, half days, absences, work from home, holidays, late marks, overtime, leave and loss of pay, exported to Excel for payroll.
Roll it out one office at a time. Set a generous radius at first, watch the distances people are reported at for a week, then tighten it.