Time & attendance for shift teams
Stick one smart plaque on the wall. Your team taps their own phone on it and they're clocked in — verified, timestamped, on the right site.
No app. No device. No fingerprints. Just tap.
Set up a location · works with the phone already in every pocket
How it works
There is nothing to install, enroll, or maintain. The plaque is passive — no battery, no software, no internet of its own.
One branded A5 plaque per location, placed by the entrance — ideally in view of your camera. Inside it: a cryptographic NFC chip that identifies the place, not the person.
Create a profile, send the invite. Each person activates on their own phone — once, ever. New hires clock in on day one; leavers are switched off from the dashboard — their next tap is refused.
Hold the phone to the plaque. The page opens by itself — no app — greets them by name, one button, done. Built for wet or floury hands.
Why switch
You know the routine: enrollment queues for every new hire, a dead device blinding a whole site, sensors that refuse kitchen hands.
| Fingerprint / card devices | Taptime | |
|---|---|---|
| Hardware per site | ✗ Reader + wiring + maintenance | ✓ One passive sticker-plaque |
| New-hire setup | ✗ Enrollment at the device | ✓ Invite link, activated on their own phone |
| When someone leaves | ✗ Delete from each terminal | ✓ Switch off in the dashboard — the next tap is refused |
| If it breaks | ✗ Site goes blind until repair | ✓ Stick a spare plaque and swap it in the dashboard |
| Internet down on site | ✗ Device offline, records stuck | ✓ Phones fall back to mobile data + GPS |
| Biometric data | ✗ Fingerprints stored = GDPR weight | ✓ None collected, ever |
This table compares how the two approaches work. It is not a benchmark: we have measured no device against Taptime and make no claim about accuracy or reliability.
Security
A tap isn't trusted — it's verified. Each clock-in is scored against four independent signals before it lands in your records.
The plaque's NTAG 424 DNA chip signs every tap with a fresh counter + AES cryptogram. Copied or replayed links are rejected — you must physically be at the plaque, right now.
Identity lives in a secure session on each employee's own phone, behind their own screen lock. No shared PINs, no swappable cards — the phone has to be there.
Requests from your site's WiFi carry its static IP — hard evidence the person is inside the building.
WiFi down or phone on mobile data? GPS confirms presence within 150 m. Anything unverified is stored, flagged, and queued for manager review — never silently approved.
Built for both shapes of business
Whether your people are spread across a city or across one production floor, Taptime maps to how you actually operate.
One plaque per site, each with its own network address on file. Late-night bars welcome: overnight shifts pair check-outs to the last open check-in, not the calendar date.
9 sites · 1 dashboard · hours per locationOne plaque at the gate; departments resolve automatically from each employee's profile — bakers against their 04:00 shift, meat production against 05:00. No extra hardware per floor.
5 departments · per-department shifts · records filtered by departmentPricing
No hardware bill, no installation fee, no maintenance contract. Plaques included.
A 60-person chain runs on €90/month.
FOUNDING OFFER: first 3 months free · pricing locked for lifeQuestions, answered
The shift lead records the entry from the dashboard. It's stored with a "Entered by a manager" label, so your reports always show exactly which records were tapped and which were vouched for.
The same page opens from a QR code with the camera. A QR tap carries no cryptographic signature — no proof of a physical touch — so it needs your venue's network address to match before it's approved. A position on its own is not enough: without the address it's stored, flagged and queued for review.
Not without a manager seeing it. The plaque's chip signs each tap with a one-time cryptogram, so the link only exists if a phone touched the plaque at that moment. A copied link, a screenshot, or yesterday's URL is rejected by the server. A check-in without the code needs your venue's network address to be approved; from anywhere else it's stored, flagged and queued for a manager rather than approved.
Add your people from the dashboard and hand out invite links — one profile at a time; there is no file import today. The old box is yours to unplug whenever you're ready — Taptime doesn't talk to it.
Into your dashboard: hours per person and per site, and the monthly headcount you're billed on — both as CSV exports for your payroll. There is no API. Taptime is the source of truth for in/out times — it doesn't try to replace your payroll.