What is
Card, fob and biometric clocking at the door, mobile recording in the field, and hours passed straight through to payroll, so what you pay matches what was actually worked.
Scroll the diagram sideways to see every capability.
If you can’t see it, you can’t control it: Touchstar designs, installs and supports time and attendance systems that show you who is on site, when they arrived, and how the hours reaching your payroll were recorded, across healthcare, education, retail, warehouse and logistics, manufacturing, contract services, public sector or care home sites.
Scroll through to see it in place across each sector.
Warehouses
Peak seasons, agency labour and shift handovers change your headcount week to week. Recorded hours reconcile against agency invoices as well as payroll, so you only pay for hours worked.
Depot
Drivers sign on before the office opens and spend most of the day off site. Fixed clocks cover the depot, mobile recording covers the round, and both feed one payroll.
Retail
Stores run part-time hours and variable rotas, often opening before head office does. Clocking back of house gives store-level hours, so no manager types up a timesheet.
Manufacturing
Shift patterns and overtime make hours hard to track by hand. Clocks on the gate and shop floor record every shift start and finish, so overtime is paid from the record.
Schools and Universities
Academic staff, support staff and contractors work across one campus. Clocks share credentials with your access control, so staff carry one card for doors and clocking.
Hospitals
Large staff teams move between departments and buildings around the clock. Attendance is recorded at the point of entry and reported by department, ward or contract, including agency cover.
Care Homes
Rotas span many homes and agency cover must be accounted for. Clocking at each home feeds one central record, so the whole group is paid from one record.
Contract Services
Teams working on someone else’s premises, where you are billing for hours you have to evidence. Attendance is recorded per site and per contract, so the invoice matches the record.
Public Sector
Buildings that must stay open to the public and controlled at the same time, with attendance records that stand up to audit and to freedom of information requests.
Readers on the door, a mobile app for people working away from a site, and one central record feeding your HR and payroll systems. Whatever your shift patterns, the hours you pay are the hours that were recorded. Roll over a sector to see how that works in yours.
Time and Attendance
Staff clocking across one site or many, with absence, lateness and overtime reports, and clocks that work alongside your access control system.
Clocking Hardware
Card, fob and biometric readers including the Suprema BioStation 3 and X-Station 2, with a desktop card reader for issuing and managing credentials.
Payroll Integration
FastLane passes clocked hours straight into your HR and payroll systems, removing manual entry and keeping each pay run accurate and fully audit-ready.
Mobile Working
GeoConnectMe uses geo-location to record hours for remote and field workers, feeding the same time and attendance platform as your fixed sites.
Because Touchstar also runs IQ Logistics, our sister division tracking fleets, deliveries and fuel operations, we are the only provider in our UK competitive set that can secure your building and track what moves through it. One partner, no blind spots. More than 40 years designing systems for operational environments, backed by:
Coolcare running more than 500 clocks integrated into its care management software.
Hotelcare, an outsourced housekeeping provider, working from accurate real-time attendance reporting.
Autobrite Direct running a new time and attendance system across its valeting and detailing operation.
ISO 9001, ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus accreditations across the business.
Biometric credentials process special category personal data. Under UK GDPR you need explicit employee consent and a lawful basis to use them, and card or fob alternatives remain available. Touchstar systems are designed to support your GDPR compliance obligations, and you should take your own legal advice on how they apply to your organisation.
If you are comparing options, start with the time and attendance buyers guide or the time and attendance FAQs.
Talk to a specialist. No obligation. A direct conversation about your doors, your shift patterns and the payroll system you already run. If a site survey is the right next step, we will arrange it there and then.
