Cloud Based Time Clocks for Resellers

Cloud technology is now integral to business operations, with most companies relying on various cloud-based applications. As organizations continue to embrace cloud solutions, expanding your portfolio to include cloud-based time clocks offers a strategic path for growing your business and enhancing customer service. 

Why Time Tracking Using a Cloud Based Time Clock is Good for Your Business  

Offering customers an integrated cloud–based time clock solution is more than great technology, it’s a sound business strategy.  

1) Reselling Employee Time Clocks Allows You to Stay Focused on Your Software  

Employee clock manufacturing isn’t part of your mission. Lean on partners that are the experts in these hardware and software domains, so your company gets to keep focus on your product development and customer value. 

2) You Can Deliver Your Customers a Top-Notch Time Clock Experience 

With the right cloud–based time clock software, you can deliver advanced functionality to the time clock, such as enabling employees to submit time off requests at the clock. Upgrade the employee time clock experience through a two-way integration where data stored in your solution, such as upcoming schedules, can be displayed on the clock. 

Having the flexibility to collect and share more data allows you to deliver a superior and user-friendly experience.  

3) A Cloud-Based Time Clock System Should be Easy and More Efficient to Manage

A cloud-based time clock system should be hosted by the vendor and provide tools to help your team manage multiple time clocks easily. AccuCloud, ATS’ cloud-based time collection system, comes with a range of such tools that help you scale time clock sales without adding costs. 

The AccuCloud middleware automates numerous tasks, significantly reducing the workload on your IT team. One stand-out feature is the automated, wireless distribution of all clock software updates and security patches, coordinated by the ATS team in conjunction with your support team. This process ensures all your deployed clocks run the same software version, simplifying support and troubleshooting. 

With cloud-based tools that automate tasks and provide you with real time oversight of the clocks and their integrations, AccuCloud allows you to expand your customer without having to proportionally increase your support resources and costs, or risk compromising the quality of your customer service. These resources boost your capacity to handle more customers while maintaining high customer satisfaction, fostering long-term growth and stability for your company. 

4) Use the Employee Time Clock for New Revenue Growth Avenues  

Selling a complete timekeeping system that integrates easily with your solution expands your software services and hardware options and diversifies your revenue streams. With these opportunities, you get access to new and bigger markets. Each software and hardware option represents a different billing opportunity.  

Get to the Cloud Quickly with the AccuCloud Time Clock System 

AccuCloud is your fastest way to start selling a complete cloud based employee time clock system. It’s a complete ecosystem solution for Value Added Resellers that integrates smoothly with your software solution. An AccuCloud integration gives your customers the advantages of cloud computing for their employe time tracking. 

AccuCloud Components  

The AccuCloud environment contains three components, all of which integrate smoothly with each other and external software systems.  

1. An AccuCloud compatible time clock, such as the stride80 or PeoplePoint™ Premium. 
2. The ATS middleware manages data validation, integrates AccuCloud components with your software, and automates clock management tasks. 
3. The web–based Monitor management portal that provides real time visibility into your customers’ time clock deployments and integrations.  

AccuCloud Integration Process 

Our time-tested deployment process works in four easy phases:  

1. Build: Our team works with you to design and implement system configurations based on the workflows you want to offer. 
2. Test: Together, we run through a systemic testing plan to ensure full functionality. 
3. Deploy: We start with training you and your customer’s teams and then launch into a go-live environment. 
4. ATS supports you and your customers during launch and beyond through the AccuCloud portal and other support options. 

How Cloud-Based Time Clocks Benefit Your Customers

A cloud-based time tracking system is beneficial not only for your business but also for your customers' businesses. 

Online Employee Time Clocks Provide Better Data Management

Cloud based time clocks ensure clean, secure data integration by providing data redundancy, integrity, and availability. IT teams can monitor time clock connectivity and data integration in real-time, enabling quick issue resolution. ATS time clocks provide additional data storage, ensuring continued functionality even during network outages by utilizing local storage until reconnection. 

Reliable data flow to payroll integration, HR systems, and other back-office management solutions allows your customers to streamline many manual processes, reduce errors, and save time.

Increase Levels of Support for Employee Time Clocks  

Online monitoring portals arm support teams with maximum insight and oversight. They can proactively monitor and resolve potential issues before they disrupt any operations.  

Allow Your Customers to Stay Focused on Their Core Services Too  

It takes time and resources to develop expertise to build systems integrated with payroll, scheduling, or other management tools in-house. Your customers can invest in refining their own services or products to deliver maximum value to their customers.  

Answers to Common Questions about AccuCloud 

Explore how AccuCloud simplifies time clock management and enhances data security, offering hassle-free hardware provisioning and robust encryption for customer data. 

Won’t reselling hardware bring high logistical costs?  

Not the way we do it. ATS takes care of every aspect of the time clock provisioning for our partners. Manufacturing and managing hardware delivery is part of our core business. We have the experience to do it on a scale and cost efficiently.  

We take care of building, configuring and shipping time clocks to your customers. Selling ATS time clocks is a high value, hassle– free revenue stream.  

How is data secured with cloud–based time tracking software and hardware?  

As a cloud–based time tracking system, it comes with the responsibility to ensure that customers’ data is protected. Our AccuCloud middleware and clocks encrypt your customers data both at rest and during transmission. Typically, web–based software only encrypts data during transmission.  

What types of employee badges work with ATS cloud–based time clock hardware?  

With the AccuCloud solution, your customers can use proximity, swipe, bar code reader badges. It also has a biometric option to prevent buddy punching, a costly form of time theft. 

ATS time clocks work with the broadest variety of badges. So, it’s likely that your customers can use the badge they bought to replace time cards with their new ATS employee time clocks. You can be confident that your customers won’t have to roll out new badges to employees when they deploy ATS time clocks.  

How will our customers get their time clock software configurations on new time clocks as they grow?  

Every AccuCloud customer has their own software instance hosted by ATS. All a company’s time clock configurations are stored within their AccuCloud instance. When customers receive new time clocks, you specify the configuration that the AccuCloud middleware sends to the clock. 

This process helps you easily update your customers' configurations to meet new time tracking and payroll requirements. When they need a new configuration, you can roll it out to their time clock fleet on the schedule they choose.  

What can our customers do with the AccuCloud Time Clock Monitor?  

The time clock web-portal gives you and your customers real time visibility into each time clock, showing 

• Time clock connectivity: If a time clock loses connectivity to the network, the dashboard monitor displays a red flag to alert IT teams. This lets them restore connectivity quickly. The stored punches to the clock get delivered to your system once the ATS device reconnects to the network. 

• Time clock utilization: The monitor web portal provides visual and tabular data showing time clock usage. Companies can see where bottlenecks might be. Nobody wants long lines at the time clock during shift change. Smart distribution of time clocks can minimize wait time and the total number of employee time clocks a company needs to buy. 

• Employee punches: The monitor reporting also shares the date and time of each employee punch, along with the time clock used. Monitoring employee clock-ins helps spot attendance patterns that may need recognition or attention.  

What cloud based time clocks work with AccuCloud?  

Our stride80 time clock is the perfect partner for the AccuCloud software. With the stride80 time clock, your customers get wide screens to display rich graphics, large memory storage, speakers, and microphone.  

It works with a wide variety of badge and biometric readers. The Android-based stride80 also includes an LED scanner and light bar, plus an energy-efficient presence sensor.  

Cloud-based Solutions are a Strategy for Growth  

Selling cloud based time clocks is one part of offering a full-service, scalable solution to track employee time. Employee time clocks are vital parts of a comprehensive time and attendance management solution. AccuCloud gives you a full system to help your customers make the most of your software, while helping you grow your business.   

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