Real-time attendance push
The moment an employee punches, the record is picked up and sent to your connected software. No delay, no scheduled batch, no manual step.
Timesync Connect
Your attendance machines, feeding the software you already run
Connect is a hosted integration kit that sits between your ZKTeco terminals and your HR, payroll or ERP system. Punches arrive in your software the moment they happen. No exports, no spreadsheets, no double entry.
- Works with ZKTeco terminals
- Real-time, not end-of-month
- Nothing to install on your side
How a punch reaches your software
Three steps, and only the first one involves a human.
ZKTeco terminal
An employee puts a finger or a face on the reader at the door.
Timesync Connect
The punch is picked up, matched to the right employee record and queued for delivery.
Your software
It lands in your HR, payroll or ERP system in real time, under the same employee ID you already use.
The gap this closes
A biometric terminal records attendance perfectly well on its own. The trouble starts after that: somebody exports a file, somebody else opens it in Excel, and the numbers reach payroll days later with a person in between who can mistype them. Connect removes that person from the loop.
No monthly export ritual
Nobody downloads a file from a device, renames it, and emails it to accounts on the 28th.
No second staff list
Employee IDs match on both sides, so a punch maps to the same person your payroll already knows.
No replacement project
Your HR system, your ERP and your payroll process stay exactly as they are.
What it does
One enrolment, every device
Enrol a fingerprint or face once, on any single terminal. The template is shared automatically to every other device that employee is entitled to use, so nobody walks staff around the building.
Pull in the staff already enrolled
Point Connect at a terminal that is already in service and it imports every employee stored on it. An existing site does not start from an empty list.
Offline punches are not lost
If a device loses the network it keeps recording. When it reconnects, every punch captured while it was offline is retrieved and pushed automatically. Nobody has to notice it happened.
A filterable log, and a manual override
Every punch is searchable by date range, employee or device. Records can be re-sent by hand, one at a time or in bulk, for the rare occasion that matters.
Areas and departments
Group terminals by site, floor or branch, and staff by department. Configured once during setup, then it stays out of the way.
What you get access to
A secure login to the Connect application, scoped to your own devices, employees and attendance records.
- Dashboard
- Punches today, devices currently online, employees registered, and a live feed of events as they happen.
- Devices
- Every connected terminal with its serial number, IP address, timezone, assigned area, live status and last contact.
- Employees
- Add, edit and search staff, and assign each person to one or more areas.
- Attendance
- The full punch log, filterable by date, employee or device, with manual sync available.
- Organization
- Areas for physical locations, departments for reporting. A one-time setup.
- Settings
- Company profile and account details.
Getting it running
No installation on your side beyond a one-time setting inside each terminal.
- 1
We issue your login
A username and password for the Connect portal, created at handover.
- 2
We configure the terminals
A one-time setting applied in each ZKTeco device's own menu, so it knows where to send its data. No change to your network.
- 3
We assign areas and sync
Each device is assigned to an area, and the staff already enrolled on it are pulled in.
- 4
You are live
The next punch anyone makes appears in your software. There is no step five.
Worth being straight about
Connect works with ZKTeco terminals. If your site is running Suprema hardware, the route is our own attendance software instead, which reads both brands. Tell us what is on your wall and we will tell you which of the two you actually want.
See the attendance softwareQuestions we get asked
Do we have to replace our current HR or payroll software?
No. That is the entire reason Connect exists. Your system stays where it is and starts receiving attendance data from the terminals. If replacing it were the plan, you would not need an integration kit.
What happens when a site loses internet?
The terminal keeps recording punches in its own memory. When the connection comes back, Connect retrieves everything captured during the outage and pushes it through. No re-sync to request, and no gap in the payroll month.
Do we need a server in the office?
No. Connect is hosted and you reach it from a browser. The only device-side work is a one-time setting inside each terminal's menu, which we apply during installation.
How does it know which employee is which?
Each employee is created with the same employee ID your third-party software already uses. That shared ID is what makes a punch land against the right person on both sides.
Can we still see attendance without opening our own system?
Yes. Connect has its own dashboard and a filterable attendance log, so HR can check who is in today without waiting for the data to surface in the main system.
Tell us what you already run
Name the HR, payroll or ERP system and the devices on your wall. We will tell you whether Connect fits, and say so plainly if it does not.
Request your free quote
A specialist replies within 2 working hours.