TimeMaster T&A software and ZKTeco biometric terminals — installed, configured, and integrated with your payroll system by IDS.
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Buddy punching, disputed hours, and manual payroll reconciliation are problems every South African business with more than a handful of staff recognises. IDS installs biometric time and attendance systems that make these problems structurally impossible.
Buddy punching inflates your payroll every month — a fingerprint cannot be shared.
Manual timesheets take hours to process and generate disputes HR cannot resolve cleanly.
No digital attendance record means no data for workforce planning, absenteeism tracking, or overtime management.
IDS installs ZKTeco biometric terminals and TimeMaster T&A software — one scan clocks the employee in, logs the time, and feeds accurate data directly to your payroll system.
Fingerprint, facial recognition, and palm scanner terminals configured as time clocking devices. Fast, accurate, and impossible to falsify.
TimeMaster Time & Attendance software configured for your shift structures, overtime rules, and leave management. Payroll-ready reports generated automatically.
TimeMaster integrates with a wide range of South African payroll systems. IDS configures the integration as part of the installation.
For employees with fingerprint challenges — manual workers, healthcare staff — IDS configures facial recognition or card backup so every employee can clock reliably.
The same biometric device at the door can simultaneously grant access and log attendance — eliminating the need for separate systems.
Real-time attendance dashboards, absenteeism reports, late arrival tracking, and overtime summaries — all generated automatically by TimeMaster.
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— Donavan Driver, Director, IDS (Pty) Ltd
Manufacturing & Industrial
Warehousing & Logistics
Retail & Hospitality
Construction, Healthcare & Government
"IDS made the integration of time and attendance management with access control features absolutely seamless. Saving us time and providing advanced security. Highly recommended!"
Johnathan S.
Small Business Owner
"Your recommendations made managing our workforce a breeze. The biometric access system is efficient and secure, and the comprehensive reporting helps us optimise staffing patterns."
Alex M.
Operations Director
"The best decision I made as a facility manager. User-friendly interface and customisable access levels improved security, and integration with our timekeeping software streamlined payroll."
Michael B.
Facility Manager
"Impressed! The biometric time and attendance features have put an end to buddy punching, and their exceptional customer service provided personalised solutions. Definitely recommended!"
Kevin T.
Warehouse Manager
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Let us help you build your solution. IDS reviews your current process and recommends the right biometric T&A system — including payroll integration.
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A time and attendance system records when each employee actually started and finished, at the door or at a dedicated clocking terminal, and turns those raw clockings into hours that payroll can use. Because the credential is a fingerprint, a face or a palm rather than a card, one employee cannot clock in for another. That single change is usually the whole business case: buddy punching, rounded-up start times and retrospective timesheet edits all disappear on the day the terminal goes live.
IDS supplies TimeMaster time and attendance software with ZKTeco biometric terminals, installs and configures both, and trains the person who will run it. Configuration is where the value is. Shift patterns, grace periods, break deductions, overtime rules and public holiday treatment all have to reflect how your business actually pays people, and how the Basic Conditions of Employment Act treats overtime and Sunday work. We set those rules up with your payroll administrator rather than shipping defaults.
Typical deployments are factories and warehouses with shift patterns and overtime, construction and site-based businesses where headcount changes weekly, retail groups with multiple branches reporting to one head office, security and cleaning contractors who bill clients on hours worked, and offices that simply need an accurate exception report. On multi-site businesses the terminals report to one database over the network or over a data connection, so branch hours arrive centrally without anyone emailing a spreadsheet.
The reports are the output that matters: hours worked, late arrivals and early departures, absenteeism, overtime by employee and by department, and exception reports that flag anything needing a manager's sign-off before payroll runs. Those reports export into the common South African payroll packages, which removes the recapture step and the errors that come with it. Where a client uses a payroll platform we have not integrated with before, we confirm the export format up front rather than after installation.
Cost is driven by the number of clocking points, the reader technology, the number of employees, and integration work. One terminal at one door with software is a small project. Multiple sites, facial terminals in dusty environments, and a payroll integration with custom export formats add hardware and configuration time.
From R12,000 for a terminal, software licence and payroll export setup
A biometric clocking terminal with a TimeMaster software licence, setup and payroll export configuration typically starts around R12,000. Additional terminals, extra sites and custom payroll integration are quoted on top.
Yes. TimeMaster produces hours, overtime and exception data that exports into the common South African payroll packages, so hours do not have to be recaptured by hand. We have integrated with a wide range of payroll and HR platforms and will confirm compatibility with yours before quoting. Where a bespoke export format is needed we configure it during commissioning.
Yes — this is the most common setup we install. The same biometric terminal releases the door and writes a clocking record at the same time, so employees are not clocking twice. It also means one enrolment covers both systems and one deletion removes a leaver from both. Where the door is not in a sensible place to clock, we install a separate clocking-only terminal.
It does, because the credential cannot be handed to a colleague. A card or a PIN can be passed across a fence; a fingerprint or a face cannot. Sites that switch from cards to biometrics commonly find a measurable drop in recorded hours in the first month, which is the buddy punching that was previously invisible. Adding a camera capture on the clocking event provides further evidence where disputes are likely.
Terminals at each site report to one central database over the network or a data connection, so an employee enrolled once can clock at any site. Reports can then be filtered per site, per department or per cost centre. This is the standard arrangement for retail groups, contractors and businesses with branch operations.
