Fingercheck

Jeffrey Mo

Gina Schrandt

Help articles to assist in time tracking and labor allocation.

Time & Labor

A guide to understanding the basic functions of the time card

How to Understand the Time Card

Learn how to check the photos that employees take when punching in and out.

How to View Punch Photos

You can require admin and supervisor approval for time cards. You can also require employees to approve before finalizing timesheets.

How to Set Up Approval for Time Cards

Fingercheck's digital signature feature allows employees to electronically sign their timesheets after they have approved their hours.

How to Enable Employee Signature for Time Card Approval

The process of editing and entering employee time entries on the web.

How to Manually Enter and Edit Time

Besides approving requested time off from employees with self-service access, you can add time off manually.

How to Add an Absence for Employees

Articles to assist with the time card, daily time card, and approve time cards..

Time Cards

Fingercheck offers several security features to prevent buddy punching from occurring including an alert policy.

How to Restrict Buddy Punching on Mobile Devices

Follow these instructions to enable mobile punches for your employees.

How to Set Up Mobile Punch for Your Employees

Follow these instructions to enable web punches for your employees.

How to Set Up Web Punch for Your Employees

Punches

Admins can easily track and view their employees' live status on a map.

How to View Employees' Punches via Live Status

Live Status

You can easily track your company's time according to your cost center levels using the Control Totals feature and create custom reports.

How to View Company Hours and Create Custom Reports with Control Totals

Control Totals

A complete list explaining the types of notifications and exceptions you can set up within Fingercheck.

Punch Alerts 101—A Comprehensive Breakdown of Notifications and Exceptions

Articles to help you set up and use of exceptions and alerts

Exceptions

If you want to let your employees know about exceptions related to them, you can have notifications emailed or texted to them.

How to Notify Employees of Their Exceptions via Email

You and your employees can receive alerts, or notifications, each time your employees punch in or out.

How to Set Up Punch Notifications

You can receive alerts notifying you when your employees take long breaks.

How to Set Up Long-Break Notifications

Alerts send notifications when exception rules are triggered.

How to Create a Notification or Alert for Missed In Punches

Set employee reminders for upcoming shifts, and how to send notifications to supervisors for missed punches.

How to Setup Notifications for Upcoming Shifts and Missed Punches

Schedule a task to send you an exception report each day or each week.

How to Receive a Daily or Weekly Report of All Exceptions

Notifications

The mass entry feature lets you select highly specific commands to help you do what you need.

How to Make Mass Entries for Employees

Mass Entry

Fingercheck offers your employees a direct way to communicate with you via our general requests.

How to Set Up General Request Types

General Requests

Here are the steps to take to respond to your employees' pending absence requests.

How to Approve an Absence Request

Absence Requests

Employees will submit expense requests for items like mileage, tolls, and supplies.

How to Approve Expense Requests

Expense Requests

Provide simple-to-use time clocks for your employees to make punching in and out simple and easy.

How to Order a Time Clock

All you need to set up and use your time clock terminals.

Time Clocks

This article will guide you through setting up your Face ID 5 time clock, and answer common time clock questions.

Set Up Your Face ID 5 Time Clock

This article will guide you through setting up your Face ID 4/Face ID 4 Wi-Fi time clock, and answer common time clock questions.

Set Up Your Face ID 4/Face ID 4 Wi-Fi Time Clock

This article will guide you through setting up your TA500 time clock, and answer common time clock questions.

Set Up Your TA500 Time Clock

This article will guide you through setting up your TA100C/AC100C time clock, and answer common time clock questions.

Set Up Your TA100C/AC100C Time Clock

This article will guide you through setting up your TA200+/TA200+ Wi-Fi time clock, and answer common time clock questions.

Set Up Your TA200+/TA200+ Wi-Fi Time Clock

Here is a detailed guide on how to quickly set up your wifi clock.

How to Set Up a TA200+ WiFi Clock

While your clock is offline, your employees will still be able to punch in and out uninterrupted.

How to Set up Notifications if Your Clock Goes Offline

It can be helpful to set up designated time clocks that are each mapped to a specific job.

How to Map a Clock to a Job

If you want to program your clock to display your jobs, you will need to send the jobs to the clock.

How to Send Jobs to the Clock

A punch into a new job can be automatically transferred over.

How to Configure the Time Clock Auto Transfer Feature

Locking your biometric time clock will prevent your employees from making any unauthorized changes to the clock.

How to Lock Your Time Clock Device

When an employee leaves your company, we recommend in most situations to not delete anything about them.

How to Remove Terminated Employees From the Time Clock

Now that you've got your time clock, enrolling employees is your next priority.

How to Set up Your FACE ID Facial Recognition Time Clock

You can easily sync all your clocks so that your employees' fingerprints and data are all synced and ready to go.

How to Sync All Clocks

Here is a quick tutorial on how to power off or restart your clock.

How to Restart Your Clock or Router

It takes just a few seconds to enroll in their RFID card and create a password. Here's how to do so!

How to Set Up an Employee to Clock In with an RFID Card and Password

Here we outline the quick two-step process of enabling text punching and how your employees can easily punch via text.

How to Enable Text Punching

An administrator can assign employee passwords by entering a password in the "Clock Info" section of their profile

How to Assign Passwords to Employees for Clocking In

If you enable Auto-Power on your time clock, your employees can punch in and out at any time, day or night.

How to Enable Auto-Power on Your Time Clock

Set Up and Configure Time Clock Systems

You can find the Fingercheck Time Clock app on iTunes and Google Play.

How to Set Up the Time Clock Tablet App

If you no longer use a tablet device, you can easily remove it from the Fingercheck system.

How to Remove a Tablet Device

Using the Fingercheck Time Clock Tablet App employees can easily review and approve their time cards

How to View a Time Card on the Time Clock Tablet App

Tablet Devices

Enrolling fingerprints is a simple process that takes just a few seconds.

How to Enroll Fingerprints

To begin using your new device as soon as possible, here are the steps to take to enroll your employees' fingerprints.

How to Enroll Fingerprints for Version 2 of the AC100C/TA100C Time Clocks

This simple guide walks you through the steps to set up fingerprint enrollers.

How to Assign an Employee as a Fingerprint Enroller for a Clock

Here are some tips to get the highest quality fingerprints so that your employees can clock in and out seamlessly.

Tips for Better Fingerprint Recognition

Here is a step-by-step guide on how to sync fingerprints from an existing clock to a new one.

How to Sync a New Clock or Send Fingerprints to Another Clock

Administrators can set up an automated task to run a clock sync at predetermined intervals, whether that be every day or every week.

How to Auto Sync Fingerprints

If your employee's fingerprints aren't working efficiently, you can easily delete their fingerprints and re-enroll them.

How to Delete Fingerprints from Your Time Clock

Fingerprints

If you have determined that your clock is offline, you should be able to quickly get re-connected to Fingercheck.

Steps to Take if Your Clock is Not Connected to Fingercheck

If you have trouble with the modem you received from Fingercheck, check out these tips.

How to Troubleshoot Your Modem for Your Fingercheck Time Clock

Sometimes face clocks may repeatedly punch in an employee because the clock's setting is too sensitive. It's easy to fix that.

How to Troubleshoot FACE ID 5 and Smart AC1 Sensitivity Issues

If you purchased a AC100C or TA100C clock, Daylight Saving Time (DST) should already be preprogrammed on the clock.