HuroStaff attendance with no biometric machine.
Your team punches in from their own phone. Huro saves a selfie and the GPS location with every entry, so you know who marked attendance and where they were — at one shop or across twenty sites. Nothing to buy, nothing to install, nothing to repair.
Free plan. Set up your company and mark the first attendance today.
Why owners drop the machine
A fingerprint reader solves attendance for exactly one doorway. The moment you have a second branch, a site team, a delivery rider or a salesperson who starts their day at a client's office, the machine stops being the record of who worked — and someone in your office goes back to maintaining a register by hand.
It fails when the power does
A power cut, a loose cable or a dead battery backup and the day's attendance is simply gone. Phones keep working.
Fingers don't always read
Worn fingertips from manual work, wet hands in a kitchen, mehndi, cuts — all of it turns into a queue at the door and a manual correction later.
It only knows one place
A machine records a time. It cannot tell you the person was at the site they were supposed to be at. A GPS-stamped punch can.
The cost keeps going
Installation, wiring, an operator to pull the data out, yearly maintenance, and another unit for every new branch you open.
Biometric machine vs phone attendance
| Biometric machine | Huro on a phone | |
|---|---|---|
| Upfront cost | Device + installation, per location | ₹0 — staff use their own phones |
| Multiple branches | One machine each, separate exports | All locations in one account |
| Field & site staff | Not covered — they must travel in | Punch in from wherever they are |
| Proof of location | Time only | Selfie + GPS on every entry |
| Power cut | Attendance stops | Unaffected |
| Feeds payroll | Export a file, re-enter in Excel | Flows straight into the payslip |
| Maintenance | Annual contract, repairs, spares | None |
| Leave & overtime | Tracked separately | Same place as attendance |
How it works
Three steps, and the first attendance can be marked the same day you sign up.
Add your staff
Create your company and enter your employees — name, phone, salary. No server, no installation.
They punch in from their phone
Opens in the browser, no app store download. A selfie and the GPS location are saved with each entry.
Attendance becomes payroll
Days worked, leave and overtime roll into the payslip automatically, for every branch at once.
Questions owners ask
How can I take attendance without a biometric machine?
Your staff mark attendance from their own phone. Huro records a selfie and the GPS location at the moment they punch in, so you can see who marked attendance and from where. There is no hardware to buy, wire up or maintain.
Is a mobile attendance app as reliable as a fingerprint machine?
For most small businesses it is more reliable, because there is nothing to break. A fingerprint machine stops working in a power cut, struggles with worn or wet fingertips, and covers only the one door it is fixed to. A phone works at any branch or site, and the selfie plus GPS stamp gives you a record you can actually check later.
Can staff cheat a phone-based attendance system?
Each punch carries a selfie and the GPS coordinates of where it was taken, so marking attendance for someone else or from home is visible to you rather than invisible. With a shared fingerprint machine you only get a time, not a place.
What does a biometric attendance machine cost in India?
A basic fingerprint device is usually a few thousand rupees, but the real cost is what comes after it: installation, wiring, an operator to export the data, annual maintenance, and a second machine for every extra branch. A phone-based system removes all of those.
Do I need a separate attendance machine for each branch?
With hardware, yes — one device per location, each exporting its own file. With Huro every branch reports into the same account, and you can see today's attendance across all your locations on one screen.
How do I track attendance for staff who work on site or in the field?
Field, site and delivery staff punch in from wherever they are and Huro stamps the GPS location on the entry. You see each check-in on a map, so an on-site team never has to travel to an office just to be marked present.
Does attendance feed into salary automatically?
Yes. Attendance, leave and overtime sit in the same account as payroll, so the days your staff actually worked flow straight into their payslip. You do not export to Excel and re-enter anything.
Is there a free attendance app for a small business in India?
Yes. Huro has a free plan with no credit card needed. You add your staff, they mark attendance from their phones, and you only move to a paid plan when your team grows.
Do my employees need to install an app?
No app store download is required. Huro opens in the phone browser and can be saved to the home screen, which matters when staff are on low-end phones with very little free storage.
Can I still keep my existing biometric machine?
You can run both for a while. Many businesses leave the machine at head office and put the phone-based attendance on their field and branch staff first, then drop the hardware once they trust the records.
Stop buying attendance hardware.
Set up your company, add your staff, and have them marking attendance from their phones today.
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