Attendance is the number every other number depends on. If check-in can be faked, payroll, client billing and coverage reporting are all wrong in the same direction.
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When one guard signs in for another, the company pays for a post that was not covered. The loss is not the hourly rate alone — it is that the client was invoiced for a service that was not delivered, which is the kind of discovery that ends contracts.
Paper registers and shared phones make this easy and effectively unauditable. Because the record and the person creating it are the same, there is nothing to reconcile against.
A geofence is a radius around the site. Check-in is only accepted when the device reports a position inside it, so a guard cannot mark attendance from home. StrataMax records the position, the accuracy figure and the server-side time on every check-in.
It is worth being precise about the limit: a geofence proves the device was at the site, not that a specific person was holding it. That is why check-in photo capture matters — the two together are what make attendance hard to fabricate, rather than either alone.
Attendance systems that require connectivity fail exactly where guarding happens: basements, construction sites, industrial perimeters, rural posts. If the app cannot record a check-in, the guard falls back to paper and the whole system is undermined.
StrataMax captures attendance locally, including GPS position and time, and syncs when the device regains coverage. The recorded time is the time of the check-in, not the time of the upload.
The largest hidden cost in manual attendance is the transcription step — someone reading registers and typing hours into a payroll sheet. It is slow, and every keystroke is an opportunity for an error nobody will find.
Because attendance and payroll are the same system here, verified hours flow through directly, with exceptions flagged for a human to resolve rather than the whole month being retyped. Reconciliation becomes reviewing the disagreements instead of rebuilding the data.
Every capability below ships as part of attendance — no separate module, no extra integration.
Check-in is only accepted inside a geofence around the site, so a guard cannot mark attendance from elsewhere. The record captures GPS position, accuracy and server-side time, and cannot be edited afterwards. Adding a check-in photo confirms who was present, since location alone proves only where the device was.
Attendance is captured on the device and syncs automatically once coverage returns. The stored time is the actual check-in time, not the upload time, so a guard at a basement or rural post is recorded accurately.
Accuracy varies with environment — open sites resolve within a few metres, dense urban and indoor locations far less. Geofence radius should be set per site to match its conditions, which is why StrataMax records the accuracy figure with each check-in rather than treating every reading as equally reliable.
StrataMax flags mock-location on Android, where the operating system exposes whether a position was supplied by a spoofing app. Flagged check-ins are raised as exceptions for a supervisor rather than being silently accepted.
Yes. Verified hours flow from attendance into payroll without manual re-entry, with exceptions such as late check-ins or missed shifts flagged for review. This removes the transcription step where most payroll errors originate.
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