The Biometric Clock in System Small Businesses Need

As an independent software vendor (ISV), your competitors are responding to a growing demand from small business owners who are looking for an affordable time clock in system for small businesses that comes with modern time clock options like facial recognition.  

Many of these small and medium-sized businesses want the extra security a time clock with facial recognition technology provides.  

Given that small and medium-sized businesses often work with narrow profit margins, controlling labor costs is critical to their business’s financial health. These owners strive to minimize employee time theft, which can cost them dearly.  

One of the most common types of time theft is buddy punching. Buddy punching occurs when an employee clocks in or out for another employee. This practice inflates labor hours, burdening business owners with unnecessary costs. 

By integrating biometric credentials at the time clock, employees are unable to create a fraudulent time clock punch, increasing payroll accuracy in their time tracking system for small businesses 

With the growing demand, many business owners are looking for a reliable clock in system for their  small businesses. However, the market is inundated with low-quality biometric time clocks. 

This creates a prime opportunity for you to come in with high-quality, yet affordable biometric time clocks for small business. 

Introducing the stride40 the Employee Time Clock for Small Businesses

The stride40 is an Android-based time clock built specifically to meet the time and attendance needs of small businesses. 

It’s an entry level, affordable employee time clock for small business that doesn’t sacrifice quality or functionality, including offering a facial recognition option called Only|You Face™. 

The stride40 comes equipped with: 

• A 4” digital, high-definition touchscreen that provides a quality user experience. 
• An energy-saving presence sensor. 
• Microphone and speaker that enable communication at the clock. 
• An optional 8 mega pixel camera that can be used as enhanced security and with the Only|You Face facial recognition software. 

We designed the stride40 to work for your company and your customers, by: 

1. Handling all the time clock provisioning for you, if you choose. 
2. Enabling you to avoid application development costs and still get to market quickly with a biometric time clock for small business. 
3. Providing you with a framework that makes scaling the management of a physical timekeeping system for small business. 

ATS Provisioning of the stride40

We can handle all the provisioning for you if you choose. Having ATS take care of provisioning saves you money and increases your profits when selling the stride40 clock in system for small businesses. When your customer buys the stride40 from you, we’ll configure the clocks and ship them directly to your customer. 

You can learn more about our provisioning process here. 

Time Collection Data Application for Clock in System for Small Businesses

You can run any Android-based application on the stride40. If your company already has an Android time collection app, we’ll help you quickly port it to the stride40, if you need.  

If your company doesn’t have an Android-based time collection app, you can purchase TimeCollect, our time collection application for the stride40.  

You can save months in development and resources by using TimeCollect. With TimeCollect on our stride40 time clocks, your customers will be able to use their time clocks right out of the box. Adding TimeCollect on the stride40 to your portfolio is one of the fastest ways to market with a small business time clock. 

AccuCloud, The Fastest Time to Market with a Small Business Time Clock

As a payroll, HCM or ERP company, you need to get to market fast. That’s why we built the stride40 to be compatible with AccuCloud, our full-scale time clock management solution. Once you are AccuCloud enabled, you’ll be ready to sell and support the stride40 time clock within weeks. As part of the AccuCloud system, you’ll receive 

• Stride40 time clocks configured to your specifications. 
• TimeCollect time clock software, unless you prefer to run your own Android-based time collection software on the stride40. 
• A dedicated ATS-hosted cloud-based instance.
• Access to a centralized, insight portal that gives your support teams real-time visibility of every stride40 you have deployed.

AccuCloud provides you with all the tools you need to start selling time clocks quickly, confident that you can manage and support the time clocks with the level of service your customers expect. 

Facial Recognition Add-on for a Clock in System for Small Businesses 

Small and medium-sized businesses want the same advantages that enterprises get from a modern time tracking system. For many of them, that means using facial recognition for maximum accuracy and security in their time tracking system. 

The stride40 is available with our optional facial recognition system, Only|You Face. Only|You Face requires no additional hardware with the stride40 other than its 8 mega pixel camera. 

Our facial recognition software is built to integrate with TimeCollect, but can also be integrated with your Android-based time clock software.  

Each stride40 time clock can support up to 50 employees. 

Why Most Biometric Small Business Time Clocks Fail to Meet Expectations

We designed the stride40 to be more than an entry-level, budget-friendly time clock. We also designed it to be the best employee time clock for small business, one that addresses the common failings of the low-budget time clocks for small businesses that are currently on the market. 

There are four main ways cheap biometric small business time clocks fail you and your customers. 

Unreliable Facial Recognition Technology 

A baseline expectation for any biometric technology is that it can quickly and accurately recognize biometric matches and authenticate a person’s identity. 

However, many of these low-quality facial recognition time clocks use poor technology. Their facial recognition technology is negatively impacted by issues including: 

• Low quality sensors 
• Poor lighting 
• Bad positioning of the time clock or the employee 
• Simplistic algorithms that don’t collect enough facial data 

If the facial recognition isn’t reliable, then businesses can’t realize the full benefits of an automated clock in system for small businesses. If it’s not user-friendly, team members will get frustrated, which can contribute to a negative work atmosphere. 

Accu-Time Systems engineers developed a proprietary facial recognition algorithm that generates a digital template so the stride40 can verify employees with high accuracy. Our software helps employees position themselves correctly for a facial scan by following a digital guide on the stride40 screen. 

Integration Challenges 

Small and medium-sized businesses often need third-party tools to integrate time clock software with their payroll system. They have concerns about integrating facial integration technology into their environment, as well as integrating the time clock, worried about costs, implementation timelines, and potential disruption to daily operations. 

We offer a solution to these concerns by smoothly integrating our clock in system for small businesses. Our AccuCloud SDK makes it easy for your developers to integrate the stride40 and its facial recognition technology with your system. Once developed, you can efficiently redeploy the integration to all your stride40 customers through AccuCloud, saving you time, effort, and money. 

Managing Updates 

Many end users also have concerns about keeping the low-quality facial recognition time clocks up to date. The small and medium-sized businesses rarely have a dedicated IT person who can be tasked with keeping the time clocks current. 

ATS uses wireless technology to send updates and security patches to your customers' stride40 time clocks through AccuCloud middleware. While ATS support teams will coordinate with you on the timing of the updates, neither you nor your customers will ever have to touch the clock to keep it updated. 

AccuCloud includes a web portal for tech teams to monitor customers' stride40 time clocks in real time and offer timely support. 

Our New Small Business Time Clock Passes on the Savings 

The stride40 is priced to meet the budgets of small and medium-sized companies. You can price and package the stride40 however best meets your revenue goals.  

For example, you might package it as part of your subscription pricing or lease the stride40s separately if your priority is on-going revenue. If your company wants a more immediate revenue boost, then you might decide to sell the stride40 outright to your customers. 

If you purchase the AccuCloud system to simplify your time clock management and support for your stride40 deployments, you can pass on those savings in your support overhead costs to your stride40 customers too. 

The Best Employee Small Business Time Clock 

We expanded our product offerings to help you to get into a large, underserved market: small and medium-sized businesses. 

The stride40 fulfills an unmet need in this market. With it, you can cater to this need for a scalable, reliable, affordable clock in system for small businesses. 

We designed the stride40 employee time clock for small business by cutting out any time clock feature or function that doesn't serve small and medium-sized businesses. By keeping only what's necessary, we made space for sophisticated features that do benefit them, like facial recognition.  

We also designed the stride40 to have the flexibility you need to meet the preferences of different businesses. You can offer customers and prospects the stride40 configured with laser barcode or proximity card readers, in addition to including the optional facial recognition technology. 

Most importantly, the stride40 resolves all the common shortcomings they experience with the existing selection of small business time clocks. Offering this affordable, durable clock in system for small businesses will make it easy for your solution to stand out in the small and medium-sized business market. 

To learn more about the stride40 time clock schedule a demo with our team here.