Retail time and attendance system need to be top-quality

Bucking the recent trend for brick and mortar stores to find themselves in difficulty, Next in the Bridges, Sunderland, plans to expand into the adjacent unit.

The expansion will take its store size from 10,221 sq ft to 14,710 sq ft and the extra space will be used for a wider range of fashion and homeware products.

“Next is an extremely popular store and it’s fantastic to see the confidence this major retailer has in Sunderland with its expansion plans,” said Andy Bradley, centre director at the Bridges.

“It will be an additional incentive for shoppers to come to the centre, particularly as there will now be an even wider range of items for them to choose from.

“At a time when Sunderland is seeing a huge level of investment this is very welcome addition and shows how much the city has to offer.”

Accurate clocking in and out is particularly important in the retail industry. While most businesses have identified this and purchased automated time and attendance clocking stations, a disturbing number of larger companies still trust in old-fashioned paper timesheets.

These are easy for employees to make mistakes on, or to deliberately enter false information into, and they waste the time of your payroll staff who have to decipher everyone’s handwriting on a weekly basis. 

An automated system records everyone as they come in and out, so there is no more option for your employees to pretend they did overtime. For extra security, you should opt for a biometric clock in so that employees can’t swap time cards amongst themselves anymore.

You can’t swap, or indeed lose, your biometric data!

There are many different types of biometrics and we offer two affordable and reliable options: fingerprint scanning and hand geometry scanning. Fingerprint scanning converts fingerprints into a unique code (rather than an unnecessary copy of the print itself), and hand scanning verifies the employee based on the size and shape of their hand.