Time Clock Software is for Small Businesses Too!

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Time clock software is becoming increasingly advanced, making life less complicated for both employers and employees. Instead of outdated time cards, small to medium sized businesses are beginning to implement fingerprint time clocks and similar technology.

Biometric time clocks are no longer just for large companies. These high-tech products are now available at low prices for businesses of any size. The FingerTec TA100 series, for example, provides service to any number of employees. Users put their fingerprint into the memory system and then are able to access the time clock with a press of a fingertip. The attendance system is so easy to use that even the techno peasants of the company will be able to use it.

This timekeeping software abolishes any need for passwords, identification cards, and PIN numbers and makes honest employees out of everyone who uses the system since there is no way to fudge the hours or have someone clock out on another’s behalf. Each employee is able to get paid accurately without a dispute over whether the employee was overpaid or underpaid for services. The software is also economically and environmentally beneficial since it eliminates paper waste from timecards.

Employee clock in software is a worthy investment; it is beneficial to both employers and their employees.


by FingerTec USA

Time clock software is becoming increasingly advanced, making life less complicated for both employers and employees. Instead of outdated...

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Frugality in Exhibitions

Many were huge and luxurious. Over the years, I've been to numerous shows and I always observed some extravagant booths erected for the pleasure of the visitors. At the ISC West Security Trade Show in Las Vegas in 2007 for example, before the Subprime Mortgage Crisis, exhibitors competed to show who could play it bigger, regardless the risks of the impending storm. My opinion has always been this - It was a huge waste for just a three-day show.

Some giant companies, mainly through mergers and acquisitions, went a great length to entertain their invited guests and some really turned their booths into a mini casino, or into a lounge to serve beers and snacks. They were putting up a show, convincing everybody that they were still in good shape, and business was still burgeoning. But was this represent the true picture of the situation?

Extravagant booth
A few hundred thousand dollars good money was poured into the gutter just like that. These companies certainly would not agree with my opinion and may simply rebuke it as my defense mechanism.

But the truth of the matter is, many of the companies that were putting up extravagant booths were no Microsoft, Apple, Oracle or Google. Most of them debt-ridden, have poor profitability, some even have red ink in their books. Throwing a big party, inviting their clients to Vegas for networking purposes? When there could be other economical means to achieve the same objective. Some argues that it has always been the business culture to establish 'close-tie' relationships with their clients in the project-based business. But I think for a good sense of a corporation is the ability to stand firm, and have the responsibility to right the wrong. Was it necessary to commit 'sin' in the Sin City?

There is a simple psychological logic for organizers to entice exhibitors into having a larger commitment. Are you sure you want to look modest when your competitor is setting up a huge booth with grandeur design just next to you? Many were not willing to admit 'defeat' and ended up with bigger booths, taller renovations, prettier and sexier models walking around the booth.

For me, I'm okay with having humble exhibition booths, mostly we book 9 square meters, or sometimes 18. There are some of our partners that took larger space than us for their exhibitions.

All we needed to complete our shell scheme booth included a gorgeous backdrop, a few appealing posters or buntings, some FingerTec readers with display stands, a laptop computer, some gifts, product catalogues and two stand managers to take care of visitors. Simplicity. This is what FingerTec strives for. You may call it frugal; I prefer to call it the "Zen" concept.

FingerTec's exhibition booth

I encourage our staff to stay longer to tour and explore the country for a few more days on leisure at the company's expenditure. What a waste to rush back for such a good opportunity to travel overseas! Traveling light makes them easy to move around especially after the show, with brochures all gone and sample units all sold. It is my belief that one has to admire and understand the culture of a country and be able to absorb the findings to improve the products and systems to better be accepted by the local people. That's one of my goals for having my people take part in overseas exhibitions, besides gaining the global market exposure for some technology trends.

It's a common belief that a smaller booth would help sending away the prospects to your opponents; simply because the booth is not visible enough and it doesn't project enough confidence. I can't dismiss this statement all together as totally nonsense. But you can't judge a book by its cover, and furthermore, unless more values are added, nobody can deny that the overall impact can be expected from an exhibition is declining.

When information can be obtained easily and instantly from a website, through Internet anytime and anywhere; surely exhibition is losing its ground. But even though in the Information Age, you would see how little some businesses spend in Internet, but willing to churn out big buck for some less effective expositions.

I don't have an exact figure for the number of customers we yielded from exhibitions, but no doubt it would be much lesser than our Internet marketing efforts. And nowadays, nobody will just hear the bragging in the exhibition and signed up some contracts without thoroughly checking your background in the Internet. But in reverse, a good website alone can deliver sales. We sold our products to 120 countries, only participated exhibitions in less than 20 countries. The virtual power now is much stronger than the brick and mortar.

We have two exhibitions in this month-end. SME Solutions Expo 2011 in Kuala Lumpur and SecuTech in Bangkok, Thailand. “Since FingerTec is making money, debt free and cash rich, why don’t you book a bigger booth?” Please, don’t ask this question again.

We welcome you to come meet us, talk to us, feel our products. Never mind our booth's size, we are whole-heartedly present to serve you, our esteemed clients.

by Teh Hon Seng, CEO, FingerTec HQ

Many were huge and luxurious. Over the years, I've been to numerous shows and I always observed some extravagant booths erected for t...

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A Fingerprint Time Clock Saves the Company Money

fingerprint time clockWhen you need to track who's where when, technology can help. I'm the head of HR for a small auto insurance company and we recently made the switch to a fingerprint time clock. Suddenly, everyone is making a little bit less each week. Whether it's due to not counting their lunch hour or adding a couple of minutes here and there, there's no way to check in without using your  fingerprint in the finger scanner.

The fingerprint time clock allows us to track exactly how much time is spent at the office, and it also does away with hard to read time sheets and other difficulties in time tracking. Overall, it makes my job a lot easier to record and share employee tracking times, so I don't have to get as stressed out and our employees don't have to worry about their handwriting.

Technology has really changed the way a lot of businesses work. It's great to see it enter the workplace too. And as technology improves and the global marketplace shrinks, it will be interesting to see how the workplaces changes too. I am excited to see how fingerprint time clocks continue to influence security and attendance within small businesses.


by FingerTec USA

When you need to track who's where when, technology can help. I'm the head of HR for a small auto insurance company and we recently ...

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Once Upon A Time...

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Children love to listen to stories. My daughter couldn’t wait to listen to my bedtime storytelling every night. Generally, we love to indulge ourselves into other people’s tales through stories and books. Stories ignite imagination, they create excitement, they build anticipation, they spark ideas, and with stories, a connection is forever established between the readers and the storytellers. The impact that stories have on people is strong as while images are built around those stories, values are created along the way and an identity is established.

I bought How Starbucks Saved My Life six month ago and it moved me. I felt like quitting my job and applying as a barrister at the nearest Starbucks in town. Well, that was absolutely only my imagination and entirely not true but the story made the Starbucks brand looks like such a good employer. A read on Richard Branson’s Losing My Virginity also connects me to Virgin as a brand that is young, fun and adventurous, even though I’ve never experienced anything Virgin, pun unintended. There are tons of books written about successful brands like Google, Nike, Adidas, Apple, rock bands, fashion icons etc. The feud between the Dassler brothers, who founded Adidas, gave birth to the Puma brand; between their sneaker wars and world domination, they provided their brand enthusiasts connection and emotion to the brands that they are wearing. The fact is, every brand has its stories and customers subconsciously connect to these stories.

FingerTec has its own bittersweet story of how we built this business from ground up, stumbled upon a success that led to a failure and in the face of adversities, bold enough to make a drastic change to become one of the most successful, Internet-savvy and user-friendly biometrics brand in the world. While the FingerTec story is juicy, the more important stories for the business would be the success stories from around the world contributed by our esteemed partners. A story does make a whole lot of difference. The image of a company that purchased 1000 units but having no success stories would look smaller than a company that purchased 100 units but having stories about how and where they installed all the FingerTec units. Relationships between potential clients and your company would be instantly established once they read the story.

One or two stories a month should be sufficient to build your company’s library of success stories, a reference point for your potential clients to read and to get excited about owning FingerTec branded goods. If a successful bank is using FingerTec biometrics systems, what are the reasons for other banks to stick to the conventional one? A small office is having FingerTec as time attendance system and they are satisfied by its performance; that could create interest on other companies that have similar setup to explore further into FingerTec.


There are a lot of excuses not to do it but there are a lot more advantages of doing it. Don’t dwell on who’s gonna read it?.. because trust me, there are people who would read your stories. If you would like to send FingerTec installation success story to us, you are most welcome to do so here.

I would like to end my story today by asking you a question: where have you installed FingerTec terminals all these years? The answer to that question could sprout your very own success story.

Children love to listen to stories. My daughter couldn’t wait to listen to my bedtime storytelling every night. Generally, we love to indulg...

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Can Time Track Software Determine Employee Attendance/Performance?

It's a sad reality but sometimes your company needs to cut back. That could mean terminating or demoting an employee's status as a result of under-performance or attendance  issues. And, as is the case with all difficult management decisions, this can be tricky deciding who should take the brunt of it. Well, if you're using time clock software some of your stress will dissipate.

Timeclocks with fingerprint reader software will make sure that every employee is clocking in themselves, not covering for a late friend for the sake of camaraderie. You will achieve accurate results for each employee's timesheets and can then determine who's falling behind. The finger scanner is used as verification for each clock-in. As with any other attendance system, this time clock software will track the hours your employees put in per week so when you check it you have a stronger idea who's doing their share and who's cutting out early.

Then comes the part when you have to speak with said employee. Depending on how well that goes and if you think the employee will seek corporate revenge, you may want to consider a fingerprint door lock for security.


by FingerTec USA

It's a sad reality but sometimes your company needs to cut back. That could mean terminating or demoting an employee's status as a...

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Biometric Timeclocks Fingerprint Reader

fingerprint reader softwareNow we use fingerprint reader software to keep track of individuals. It’s quick, easy, and all very science fiction kind of awesome. But, before we had this amazing technology to do the work for us, somebody had to keep tabs. These fingerprint recorders needed to know the ins and outs of fingerprint classification. They were masters of their craft.

Fingerprints can be classified by pattern types. There are two types of loops, common and radial, arches, whorls, and composite mixes. From there fingerprints are differentiated by any incomplete lines, disruptions, and peculiarities in the patterns. It would take a long time to get each fingerprint stamped, marked and analyzed. Now it’s not an issue because a fingerprint scanner can recognize previously recorded fingerprints. It saves a lot of work and the chances of an accurate reading are much higher.

Given that before scanner technology, fingerprint analysis wasn’t used to track employee time schedules. That’s what makes this technology so incredible. It’s taken analysis and made it useful for many other purposes. It’s great asemployee time clock software. There’s no way to fake a sign in or sign out unless you’re a techie nerd with skills. It opens the potential for reader software in the future.



by FingerTec USA

Now we use  fingerprint reader software to keep track of individuals. It’s quick, easy, and all very science fiction kind of awesome. But, ...

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Dealing with Trivial Details

Yes, we all know the importance of details when it comes to term with efficiency. Yes, we split all matters into two main categories. The topmost important versus the least important, and the topmost urgent versus the least urgent. And they crisscross to 4 permutations in total: important and urgent, important but least urgent, urgent but least important, and least important plus least urgent. When asked to list according to its priority, anyone with common sense will give you the sequence as above with the second and third place interchangeable.


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But when ones follow the sequence in practice, they always end up not so efficient. Why? In fact the reality doesn't backfire, but there is some underlying truths that escape our eyes. Sometime you might have to reverse the sequence to achieve efficiency. You may ask why do you have to bother with the unimportant and the least urgent when you have more pressing matters in hand?

A lot of people tend to ignore the thread that sews the permutations, which is, the required time to complete one task. The logical fact is, if a lowest in priority ranking's job just takes 10 minutes, to compare with a top priority that needed 10 days, why not squeeze a negligible ten minutes to tackle it first?

time to complete one task

We all know that when a person follows the priority ranking to finish the highly important task, the insignificance that required only 10 minutes would completely be forgotten after 10 days. Not many customers will make a fuss or lodge a complaint over a trivia, let alone to pursue the matter any further. Of course your boss would not notice or would hold you responsible for not responding to the matter, or sometime even some bosses will agree with you that these are some kind of "distractions" that should be brushed off!

But when we think it in reverse, if a company or a person is taking trivial matters seriously, how would they handle issues that require more attention?

In fact, the irony for a company to emerge as a great company is not because it has plenty of great ideas or great plans in its pipeline, but normally it is due to how good it deals with details than the rivals. The tinier the details of daily operations a company taken care of, the more successful it will become. The same goes to a successful product, two smartphones might look similar, the superiority of one over the other could only be experienced when you own one. And the words spreads.

When a product is serious about its tiny details, besides the cores, it discerns itself and it creates better value. For example, to create a real good user experience and greater user interface for iPad, Apple undergone tens of thousands of discussions. Does it worth that amount of exhaustions? A total of 10-million iPads sold in 2010 sent out a thunderous answer!

How to distinguish FingerTec and other biometrics products? Our resellers and customers have always been impressed by how we dealt with details in everything, be it hardware terminals or software products, user manuals, logistics, support systems, customers feedbacks, or even just a piece of brochure, the customers would see the continuous improvement in details of everything.

This month, we took a step forward to improve the quality of our corrugated carton by redesigning it to endure rougher condition. With about 80% export sales and more FingerTec products travel farther away either by sea or by air around the globe, we have to take extra care in transportations. And as a part of our Going Green effort, we are about to release the Apps for iPhone and iPad version for user manuals with the enhancement of chaptering and user warranty registration. And we have more plans to make FingerTec a great product and a great brand by attending to all the details.

by Teh Hon Seng, CEO, FingerTec HQ

Yes, we all know the importance of details when it comes to term with efficiency. Yes, we split all matters into two main categories. The ...

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Access Granted, An Ode to Fingerprint Reader Software

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Tired of your employees changing the time on the manual employee time clock and then punching in as if they're not actually late? Well, instead of something so unreliable you can use the fool proof method to avoiding time theft and fraud. Fingerprint scanning technology, like a fingerprint time clock, is becoming more popular because it's just easier to set everything up digitally.

If you've been to Disney World in the last few years you'll notice that along with your park pass you need to place your finger on a scanner. This is to verify that you've been in the park, used the same entry card. You cannot substitute someone else's card as yours.

This can bring to ideas to mind: what if you can monitor attendance, so that only authorized can access your building, along with time scheduling your employees? You can use a door fingerprint lock at the entrance and an attendance system to keep payroll and hours in check. So when your office is souped up like Fort Knox, all the fair weather employees will notice they can't sneak away with their usual shenanigans. It also prevents intruders and/or ex-disgruntled employees from gaining access to your confidential documents.


by FingerTec USA

Tired of your employees changing the time on the manual employee time clock and then punching in as if they're not actually late? We...

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