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How are things going with your time and attendance system?

If you need more information on Time and Attendance you may wish to visit our Time and Attendance from A2T page to help you work out what you need to do.

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Quarry Chooses Focus Time and Attendance

Morris & Perry Ltd is part of the S. Morris Ltd group of companies and is a family-owned independent manufacturer of construction materials. The company is located in Somerset and has been supplying high quality materials for over eighty years.

The Morris & Perry quarry in Gurney Slade was acquired in the sixties and was using a manual tally roll clock which had been in operation for many years.

When the manual clock started to go wrong, it was decided to take a big step forward and source an electronic time and attendance system. It was decided to have a system that would allow the employees to have some control over their calculated hours as they had had before with the manual system.

The Focus Time and Attendance system specified by Access-to-Time met this requirement and extra functionality was added to the system specifically for Morris & Perry to provide a solution to meet their needs.

Although not over-complicated, the calculation of employees' time, which had always been done manually, required some thinking as some employees' time was calculated in a non-standard manner. The flexible scripting available within the Focus system enabled these non-standard calculations to be carried out with ease.

Morris & Perry chose to use the HandScan terminal so that their employees did not need to carry any other form of token, fob or badge to enable them to clock in and out. In the environment of the quarry there were concerns that the HandScan terminal might struggle. It hasn't at all. Brian Perry, the Managing Director, said:

"I didn't believe it would work in this environment. It is a testament to the strength of the design that it is working so well."

The ease with which the system can be used has meant that time has been saved all round and the calculation of payroll and the managing of holidays and other absences is simple. Tracey Simpson, the Accounts Manager, said:

"I returned from holiday recently and it was lovely not to have all the reams of paper to go through as I would have had to before. I just clicked and there was all the information I needed."

If you would like to benefit from a modern, efficient and money-saving system contact A2T now on 01761 410015.

Thorn Cycles - TimeLOG Time and Attendance

Thorn Cycles, also known as SJS Cycles, started in 1983 with a small shop supplying and maintaining cycles for the local area. We now have 30 members of staff working in premises of 1200 square metres and cater for a large, discerning UK market as well as demand from overseas.

"We use the TimeLOG system, which was specified by A2T when we were looking for a system some years ago to help us improve time keeping. This it has certainly done!

We wanted to install the hardware ourselves so that we could meet our budget rather than having to pay someone else to do it. A2T were agreeable to that approach.

After we had installed the hardware and cabling, A2T commissioned the system very efficiently. The software was installed on our server by A2T and the data connection worked easily. To save us time in getting the system up and running, we chose to have our rules programmed into the system by A2T.

Our system administrators were trained by A2T in the day-to-day use of the system. We found that the data from the system enabled us to improve staff time keeping. We also have lots of easy-to-access reports that analyse attendance and working hours in different ways.

A2T continues to support us in a friendly and efficient manner. We are happy to recommend A2T as a supplier of Time and Attendance systems."

If you would like to benefit from a modern computerised time and attendance system then please contact A2T on 01761 410015.

Focus Time and Attendance System chosen by Taunton Fabrications

Access-to-Time Ltd provides the right solution at the right price!

Award winnig steel fabrication & architectural metalwork business, Taunton Fabrications, is now using a Focus Lite hand scanner system supplied and fitted by A2T. The company employs around 50 staff at their head office in Taunton and needed to ensure that they chose a system that was robust, easy to use, expandable and cost effective - the Focus Lite system was the perfect choice.

Chief Executive, David Phelps said: "For some time we have operated a flexi working hour system in all departments. This enables staff to better balance their home/ work life, but it was becoming increasingly difficult to monitor. After researching the market we chose A2T because they were local and specialised in the type of product we were looking for. A2T were also able to wire in the system, connect it to our computer system and provide training to our administrators - it was essential that we used a supplier who could provide the complete package."

If you would like to know more about the system and how it can help you on a day-to-day basis then get in touch with Access-to-Time Ltd on 01761 410015 or use our enquiry form. You might be surprised at how easy and cost effective it is to implement a system.

Focus Time and Attendance System now has TOIL

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Users of the Focus time and attendance system will be pleased to hear that TOIL or time off in lieu is now available within the system.

This allows the user to accrue time that is added to their holiday allowance so that they can take time off later to make up for the extra hours that have been worked over and above their normal working hours.

Employers can save money by implementing a TOIL system instead of paying overtime.

Employees also benefit from being able to accrue more holiday.

If you want a biometric clocking solution then the Hand scan or Handpunch terminals offer a good solution.

If you have an annual licence then get in touch with us and we will email you the new program or provide you with a link to it.

Employees say how much easier it is to clock instead of having to keep paper records. Payroll staff only have to check the results, no more lengthy calculations to cope with.

The Focus system also allows users to manage holiday and other absences very easily, see who is booked on holiday already with just a few clicks of the mouse, no more routing around holiday cards to see who is already booked off.

Give us a call if you need more information 01761 410015 or visit our web site.

Paxton Access Control Readers now work with the Focus Time and Attendance system

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If you are thinking about adding Time and Attendance or Time Recording to your organisations list of systems that save time and money and ensure an accurate (and lower) payroll, then good news is at hand, especially if you already have a Paxton Access Control system.

You can now use Paxton Access Control readers to input data into Focus proximity terminals. This means that your employees can use their existing identity tokens, fobs or badges, to clock in and out on Focus proximity terminals.

For more information click on the the Focus Time & Attendance system link.

You can call us on 01761 410015 for a discussion on your requirements.

Or take advantage of our free consultancy service.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Saving Money with Biomtric Time and Attendance

Breaking news...

McDonalds in Venezuela is using Handscan (also known as Hand Punch) terminals to monitor employees clocking at 85 sites.

They say they are cutting payroll costs by 22%!!

Read the article here...Article

You too can save by implementing a system that prevents 'buddy punching' as it is known. The same terminals are supplied with several of the systems provided by Access-to-Time (A2T).

Installing a time and attendance system also improves employees arrival times. One of our most recent new customers commented that the number of late arrivals had dropped dramatically at their printing works in Chippenham, even when the Focus time and attendance system was running on a pilot run without even being fully implemented!

Saving time on calculations also helps the administrator of the payroll system. This may either be through carrying out the calculations needed on a weekly basis automatically or by providing an electronic export to stop double entry of data or for emailing to a payroll bureau.

Talk to us today about saving time and money by implementing a time and attendance system. 01761 410015, or visit our web site for more information.

If you want to know more about time and attendance or time recording visit us on the web here...

Time Attendance with Biometrics

Time Attendance

Biometric time attendance is becoming more and more popular. The main two reasons for this are that the employee who is using the system does not need to remember to bring a badge, fob or other token with them to work to register their arrival and departure and it also eliminates the ability of one employee to clock another in or out.

The Ingersoll Rand Hand Punch or Handpunch or Handscan terminal is a very reliable means of Biometric time attendance recording.

You can also use the SY-780 Finger Print or the BioStation, these units work well in most environments but if your employees work in a more physical environment then we would recommend the Handscan terminals.

If you want more information on Computerised Time and Attendance systems then please visit us on line at www.a2t.co.uk.

That's it for now, see you again soon... 01761 410015