⚡ India's Dedicated Workforce Management Platform

Employee Attendance Management Software for Indian Businesses

Eliminate buddy punching and broken biometric hardware forever. SANLAX combines AI selfie facial verification, virtual GPS branch geofencing, rotational shift scheduling, and native attendance-to-payroll calculations built specifically for Indian retail stores, multi-branch offices, and field operations.

✔ Zero Hardware Costs ✔ 5-Minute Setup ✔ Android App & Web Portal ✔ No Credit Card Required
Modern Technology Advantage

Why Indian Employers Are Replacing Fingerprint Machines

For decades, Indian businesses relied on standalone biometric fingerprint machines mounted near the door. But in practical day-to-day operations, these devices present continuous operational bottlenecks:

  • Frequent Sensor Failures: Dust in retail stores, oil in commercial kitchens, and wet fingers during monsoons cause frequent fingerprint recognition errors due to skin wear and environmental factors.
  • Zero Field Staff Coverage: Outside sales representatives, delivery personnel, and site technicians cannot physically visit the office scanner every morning and evening.
  • Costly AMC Maintenance & Power Cuts: Hardware machines require network cabling, fixed IP configuration, power backups, and expensive annual maintenance contracts (AMCs).
  • Manual Data Extraction: HR managers waste days extracting CSV logs via USB thumb drives and reconciling mismatched records in complex Excel spreadsheets.

The SANLAX Solution: Turn every employee's smartphone or a communal store tablet into a high-precision biometric terminal. Staff capture a quick selfie inside the designated GPS store perimeter, and attendance is verified and synced to the payroll cloud instantaneously.

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Direct Cost & Capability Comparison

Feature Fingerprint Machine SANLAX HRMS
Hardware Cost ₹8,000 – ₹25,000 / store ₹0 (Uses Smartphone)
Buddy Punching Prevention Moderate (Silicone clones) High (Live Selfie Verification)
Multi-Branch Geofencing Requires machine per site Virtual circles (50m–500m)
Field Staff Tracking Impossible Live GPS & Routes
Payroll Synchronization Manual USB / CSV export Automatic 1-Click Sync
Setup & Deployment Days (Wiring & tech visit) 5 Minutes Cloud Setup
Product Capabilities

Comprehensive Attendance Management Built for Scale

Everything you need to control staff check-ins, eliminate workplace time theft, enforce shift discipline, and calculate salaries with 100% mathematical accuracy.

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1. Selfie Face Verification (Anti-Spoofing)

Employees open the mobile app or browser, click attendance, and snap a real-time selfie. The camera engine performs facial biometric analysis against their approved profile registration.

  • Zero buddy punching: Co-workers cannot punch for absent friends.
  • Live camera capture: Records real-time selfie snapshot at punch-in moment.
  • Instant facial verification confirmation in under 1.5 seconds.
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2. Virtual GPS Geofence Enclosure

Set customizable GPS geofence radiuses around your office, retail store, warehouse, or customer site. Employees cannot register a punch until they are physically on premise.

  • Granular radius settings from 50 meters (single shop) up to 500 meters (large depot).
  • Multi-branch support: Assign different employees to specific branch geofences.
  • Detects and rejects mock location apps and virtual GPS fakers.
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3. Multi-Shift & Overtime Scheduling

Manage rotational, morning, night, and split shifts with complete clarity. Automate grace arrival periods, late-mark flags, half-day computations, and approved overtime tracking.

  • Custom grace time allowances (e.g., 15 minutes before marking late).
  • Late-mark penalties: Deduct half-day salary after 3 consecutive late arrivals.
  • Configurable overtime hours tracking supporting Indian industrial workweek norms.
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4. Live Staff Location & Field Tracking

For sales reps, delivery couriers, and on-site technicians, SANLAX tracks live location pings with secure WebSockets. Admins monitor moving teams in real-time on interactive maps.

  • Real-time WebSocket location room with manager permission gating.
  • Battery-efficient background GPS tracking that preserves smartphone battery.
  • Audit trail of travel distance and customer site visit timestamps.
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5. Attendance Regularization & Approvals

Forgot to punch out? Network dropped during checkout? Employees submit digital regularization requests with valid reasons directly from their smartphone self-service portal.

  • 1-click approval or rejection by branch managers and HR leads.
  • Complete transparent audit trail: Who approved the punch and when.
  • Zero back-and-forth WhatsApp messages or lost paper slips.
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6. Direct Sync to Indian Payroll Engine

Attendance is meaningless if you still spend three days calculating salaries in Excel. SANLAX directly bridges daily attendance into monthly payslips with statutory precision.

  • Actual calendar month divisor (28, 29, 30, or 31 days) for exact day rates.
  • Automatic salary advance deductions, overtime pay, and unpaid leave offsets.
  • Statutory EPF (12% up to ₹15,000 wage ceiling) and ESI (0.75% / 3.25%) rules.
Simple 3-Step Process

How SANLAX Works in Daily Practice

Engineered for effortless daily adoption by ground staff with minimal technical literacy.

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Staff Arrives at Workplace & Snaps a Live Selfie

Employees open the web portal (or Android app) on their smartphone. On clicking "Mark Check-In", the camera activates, verifies their face against their registered biometric master profile, and locks the live timestamp.

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GPS Geofence Perimeter Validates Physical Presence

Simultaneously, the device GPS matches current coordinates against the employer's assigned branch circle (e.g. 100 meters). If the staff member is at home or in a neighboring tea shop outside the boundary, check-in is blocked.

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Instant Live Roster Sync & Automatic Payroll Ledger

Within 200 milliseconds, the admin dashboard reflects the employee as "Present - On Time". Shifts, late marks, and hours are calculated automatically and ready for monthly salary generation with zero export headaches.

Indian Labor Law Ready

Compliant with Indian Workforce Regulations

Designed from the ground up to keep your business fully audit-proof under state and central labor codes.

Shops & Establishments Act Muster Rolls

Export monthly attendance registers formatted to statutory Form T and Form 12 standards with working hours, rest intervals, and overtime logs ready for labor inspector reviews.

Section 59 Factories Act Overtime Rules

Enables overtime tracking aligned with statutory standards (up to 2x ordinary rate of pay) when employee working hours exceed 9 hours in a day or 48 hours in a week.

Statutory PF & ESI Wage Ceiling Logic

Integrates the ₹15,000 EPF statutory wage ceiling and ₹21,000 gross ESI wage threshold, splitting contributions accurately into employee and employer accounts.

DPDP Act 2023 Privacy Standard

Built with end-to-end encryption. Camera selfies and GPS coordinates are strictly utilized for attendance validation and never sold, shared, or processed for external tracking.

Operational Playbooks

Tailored Attendance Workflows for Every Indian Industry

Different industries face fundamentally different workforce dynamics. Discover how SANLAX adapts to your operational reality without forcing you into rigid, one-size-fits-all software.

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Multi-Outlet Retail & Supermarket Chains

Retail operators struggle with high attrition, part-time shifts, and staff transfers across mall outlets and high-street locations. With SANLAX:

  • Branch-Specific Geofencing: Cashiers and sales floor associates can only clock in when physically inside their assigned store branch.
  • Split Shifts & Mall Timings: Configure 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM and 5:00 PM to 9:30 PM split schedules with automatic late-arrival grace windows.
  • Roaming / Floater Staff Support: Reassign staff to relief duties at neighboring branches in two clicks from the admin portal.
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Hospitals, Diagnostic Labs & Clinics

Clinical environments demand 100% contactless operation to uphold hygiene protocols, along with complex 24/7 rotational rosters:

  • Contactless Biometric Hygiene: Eliminates shared physical fingerprint scanners, preventing surface bacterial and viral cross-contamination.
  • Continuous 3-Shift Rotations: Seamlessly handle morning (7 AM – 3 PM), evening (3 PM – 11 PM), and night (11 PM – 7 AM) nursing shifts.
  • Emergency Duty Call-In Logging: Doctors and technicians called in for emergency cases register geo-stamped on-call attendance instantly.
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Manufacturing Units & Industrial Workshops

Industrial factory floors face rough physical conditions where grease, machine oil, and worn worker fingerprints render physical sensors useless:

  • Kiosk Mode Tablet Check-In: Mount a single Android tablet at the security gate running SANLAX Kiosk for rapid facial recognition.
  • Section 59 Overtime Tracking: Automatic double-rate calculation for extra machine floor shifts beyond 9 hours per day or 48 hours weekly.
  • Statutory Factory Muster Rolls: Generates Form 12 and Form 25 statutory registers formatted precisely for state labor inspectors.
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Field Sales, FMCG & Logistics Delivery

Traveling sales executives and delivery fleet workers rarely step foot in headquarters, making static biometric hardware impossible:

  • First-Visit Check-In: Representatives punch in from the field with a live selfie and geo-coordinate at their first client meeting.
  • Real-Time Route Auditing: WebSocket-powered movement breadcrumbs allow operations managers to verify customer visit routes.
  • Daily Allowance (DA) Verification: Connect verified field attendance logs directly to travel expense and daily allowance disbursements.
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IT Services, Marketing Agencies & Startups

Knowledge workers demand flexible hybrid work policies while management requires transparent hours logging and leave oversight:

  • Hybrid Work-From-Home (WFH) Approvals: Allow employees to request remote punch privileges approved by direct reporting managers.
  • Self-Service Leave Portal: Apply for casual leave (CL), sick leave (SL), and earned leave (EL) with automated manager email notifications.
  • Paperless Employee Profiles: Digital document lockers storing Aadhaar, PAN, offer letters, and salary structure records in one place.
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Restaurants, Cafes & Cloud Kitchens

Hospitality teams operate in wet kitchen environments with late weekend closing times and urgent temporary staffing needs:

  • No Wet Finger Recognition Errors: Kitchen chefs and dishwashers check in via fast facial selfie without touching any shared glass screen.
  • Midnight Shift Auto-Checkout: Prevent staff forgetting to check out after late-night 1:00 AM closing with automated shift boundary alerts.
  • Weekend Overtime Audits: Track peak rush-hour overtime hours automatically and credit extra compensation transparently.
Mathematical Rigor

How SANLAX Converts Attendance Logs into Statutory Payroll

A transparent look at the exact formulas, compliance rules, and deduction logic executed inside the SANLAX payroll engine every month.

1. Per-Day Salary Rate Determination (Divisor Models)

Different Indian organizations follow different wage divisor conventions. SANLAX gives HR teams full flexibility to select their statutory standard:

Calendar Month Divisor: Per-Day Rate = Gross Monthly Wage / Total Calendar Days in Month (28, 29, 30, or 31)
26-Day Standard Divisor: Per-Day Rate = Gross Monthly Wage / 26 (Standard Industrial Formula excluding 4 Sundays)
Fixed 30-Day Divisor: Per-Day Rate = Gross Monthly Wage / 30

Earned Gross Calculation: Earned Gross = (Payable Days / Divisor) × Gross Monthly Salary. Payable days include present days, sanctioned paid leaves, declared public holidays, and paid weekly offs.

2. Late Arrivals, Early Departures & Loss of Pay (LOP) Rules

Shift discipline requires automated, predictable enforcement rather than subjective supervisor penalties:

  • Grace Time Window: Configure a daily grace period (e.g., 15 minutes). If shift begins at 9:30 AM, arrivals up to 9:45 AM are marked "Present - Grace".
  • Consecutive Late-Mark Penalties: Set automated rules such as: "Every 3 late arrivals incur a 0.5-day Loss of Pay (LOP) deduction".
  • Half-Day Thresholds: Employees clocking between 4.0 and 7.5 hours of shift duration automatically register a Half-Day status, halving the daily wage credit.
  • Unsanctioned Absenteeism: Unapproved missing check-ins deduct 1.0 day from payable count, with optional automated salary advance reconciliation.

3. Overtime Wage Computation under Section 59 of the Factories Act

Under Indian labor jurisprudence, working beyond 9 hours in any single day or beyond 48 hours in a given week qualifies as statutory overtime:

Hourly Normal Rate = (Basic Salary + Dearness Allowance) / (26 × 8)
Overtime Rate per Hour = 2 × Hourly Normal Rate (Double Ordinary Rate)
Total Monthly Overtime Payout = Approved Overtime Hours × Overtime Rate per Hour

SANLAX tracks exact overtime minutes from punch-out timestamps and allows HR administrators to approve, modify, or convert overtime into compensatory off (Comp-Off) balances.

5. Statutory Register Form T & Digital Audit Trail Standards

Under Rule 2(1) of the Central Ease of Compliance in Labour Laws Rules, Indian establishments must maintain a unified register of attendance, overtime, fines, and wage disbursements. SANLAX automates this record-keeping seamlessly:

  • Form T Export: Generates inspection-ready attendance muster rolls featuring employee token numbers, shift start/end timestamps, daily hours worked, interval of rest, and overtime units.
  • State Shops & Commercial Establishments Compliance: Satisfies mandatory 3-year digital attendance register retention requirements under state labor enactments (including Karnataka, Maharashtra, Delhi, and Tamil Nadu).
  • Tamper-Proof Audit Logging: Every punch-in modification, manager regularization approval, and manual override is permanently logged with administrator user ID, timestamp, and justification reason to ensure foolproof transparency during labor inspections.

4. Statutory Contributions: EPF, ESIC, and Professional Tax (PT)

Payroll accuracy depends on applying the precise statutory deduction ceilings and contribution splits mandated by the EPFO and ESIC:

Statutory Component Statutory Wage Base Employee Deduction Employer Contribution
Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) Basic + DA (Capped at ₹15,000/mo) 12.0% (Max ₹1,800) 3.67% EPF + 8.33% EPS (Max ₹1,250) + 0.5% Admin
Employees' State Insurance (ESIC) Gross Monthly Wage (≤ ₹21,000/mo threshold) 0.75% of Gross 3.25% of Gross
Professional Tax (PT) State Specific Monthly Slabs ₹150 – ₹200/mo (₹300 Feb MH) Nil (Employee Contribution Only)
Got Questions?

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about setting up and running SANLAX employee attendance software.

What is SANLAX employee attendance software?

SANLAX is a modern, cloud-based employee attendance management software designed specifically for Indian businesses, retail chains, and field workforces. It eliminates expensive biometric hardware by turning staff smartphones or store tablets into verified punch-in terminals using mobile selfie facial recognition and virtual GPS geofencing.

Can employees fake their GPS location or use photos to punch attendance?

No. SANLAX features multi-layer anti-spoofing protection. The camera captures live selfies with real-time timestamps, while the GPS coordinates are validated against assigned branch lat-long perimeters (50m to 500m). Virtual location mockers and emulator attempts are automatically rejected by the security engine.

Does SANLAX attendance software require biometric hardware or fingerprint scanners?

Zero hardware is required. Traditional fingerprint machines break down constantly in Indian retail, warehouse, and restaurant environments due to dust, moisture, and worn finger ridges. SANLAX runs completely through standard Android smartphones, tablets, or modern mobile web browsers.

How does attendance data synchronize with payroll in India?

Every check-in, check-out, late mark, half-day, and approved leave record directly feeds into the native SANLAX payroll calculation engine. Salaries are calculated based on actual calendar month divisors (28 to 31 days), accounting for salary advances, overtime hours, and statutory compliance deductions (PF and ESI) without manual spreadsheet work.

Can we configure different shifts and weekly offs for different employees?

Yes. SANLAX provides complete multi-shift scheduling. Admins can assign morning, evening, rotational, or night shifts to individual employees or departments, set grace periods for arrival, configure automatic shift checkout reminders, and define customizable weekly off days.

Is there a free trial available for testing?

Yes. SANLAX offers an unrestricted 7-day free trial with full feature access for up to 25 employees. You can set up your branch geofences, register staff faces, and run live attendance tests in under 5 minutes without a credit card.

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