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The HandPunch GT400

One of the most efficient solutions for workforce management is the AMG HandPunch GT400.  With this biometric time clock system you can improve record keeping accuracy, increase employee productivity, mitigate risk and provide a peace of mind for yourself and your staff.  The HandPunch GT400 bundled with the AMG Employee Attendance Software, provides tangible benefits daily.  When used properly the initial investment of the biometric HandPunch GT400 time clock can be returned in less than nine months.

Increased Up-Time

The HandPunch GT400 can be upgraded remotely by downloading the firmware and application functionality through an Ethernet connection; there is no need to remove the device from the wall or disrupt productivity.

Improve Serviceability

Remote diagnostic capabilities allows troubleshooting maintenance issues without detaching the time clock from the wall.

Employee Self-Service Kiosk

The HandPunch GT400 with its ATM-style kiosk, programmable soft keys and a large display field allows information like personal messages and list to be displayed.

Real Time Communications

Given the advance push technology feature, customers can experience access to information in real time.

Open Architecture Design

Open source based Linux operating system ensures programming flexibility.

Antimicrobial Protection

Embedded antimicrobial coating in the platen on the HandPunch GT400, inhibits the potential growth of bacteria.

How The HandPunch Works

The HandPunch GT400 verifies each employee by the size and shape of their hand, making the authentication process fast, easy and efficient.  The employees hand can be read even if it's dirty, dusty, greasy, wet, swollen or dry, making this time clock an effective solution in may applications. The HandPunch GT400 biometric system provides many benefits for your company.

Reduced Payroll And Administration Cost

Daily at the point of entry, clock-in and clock-out data is read and recorded, the translation of timecards are eliminated along with any issues between time worked and time reported.

Eliminates Time Fraud

With hand geometry recognition every users hand is considered unique. The HandPunch GT400 mitigates costly and fraudulent time theft known as "buddy punching".

More Productive And Informed Workforce

ATM-style kiosk system communication panel displays relevant data to employees. This verification process takes about a second at the point of entry.  This data is then transferred to management to further enhance communications.

AMG Web Cloud Software

• Virtually run on any platform
• Always up-to-date
• Pay as you go

Time and attendance systems provide many benefits to businesses of all sizes. It gives the employer full control of their workforce.  AMG Time Attendance software will help control labor costs by reducing time theft, preventing buddy punching, preventing transcription errors and preventing human errors. Manual processes are eliminated as well as the additional staff needed to maintain them. Often, it is difficult to comply with labor regulations and keep adequate records of employee’s attendance.  With our AMG Time Attendance Software and our award winning line-up of hardware terminals, you’re in the best hands. 

Depending on the size of your company, you may need to set up multiple time clock to speed up the process of employees clocking in/out, we offer various types of discounts.

Please ask questions, we're here to assist you every step of the way. 

Optional Data migration form existing database
Depending on your current database, tech support at AMG can create a data migration procedure to import information from your current time and attendance software to AMG employee attendance software. May be subject to additional fees.

Attendance 
The attendance module gives you the ability to view employees’ timecards, schedules, transactions, benefits and more. With a simple double click you can amend transactions that have errors.

Miscellaneous Entries
Gives you the ability to add miscellaneous entries such as explanations to why an employee’s time has been amended.

Display Mispunches (Missing Punches)
Allows you to view all the missed punches committed by employees. You can also filter missed punches to show all employees who have a missed punches.

Manual Timecard Editing
Ability to edit employee’s timecards.

One Screen Easy Scheduling
This module allows you to edit an employee or a group of employee’s schedules from one screen. Lets say you would like to edit the schedules for a certain group of employees that are called for a project. You can get this done with a simple click of the mouse.

PC Clock
PC Clock allows employees to perform all time-clock related actions at their PC. As far as it can completely imitate the performance of data collection devices, this feature can help you to ensure the continuing work of the system in case there are some problems with data collection devices and data cannot be captured from them. An employee can transfer departments/jobs from their PC.

Punch Analysis
Based on your employees set schedules you can view if they are early or late. You can also filter this based on Headquarters, Divisions or Groups. You can then export this into a report and save it as a PDF, RPT, XLS, DOC or RTF.

Status Board
This module is a great control tool which gives the supervisors the ability to find out what employees are doing at the current time or at any moment in the last 99 hours. It defines the following 5 statuses: Working, Absent, Outside, Lunch and Break.

Sending Reports by E-mail
You can control who you would like to email reports to, and you can also automate this process.

Report Export
Gives you the ability to export your reports in the following formats: PDF, RPT, XLS, DOC or RTF.

Built-in Payroll Export
Gives you the ability to export to over 90 set payrolls and virtually to any payroll provider. Additional fees may apply.

Forecasting
By entering the employee wages you can forecast how much a certain project or employee will cost you.

Headquarters
This module allows a supervisor to set up a company which has multiple headquarters, for example an employee staffing company has many clients that they provide employees to. The supervisor can set each client as a headquarters and provide a user name with a password for their client to view the employee's hours. A great way to save money and have full control of your workforce.

Divisions
If your organization has several divisions (even situated in different locations), this module will help you filter employees and run reports based on divisions.

Departments
This module can be used when setting schedules for employees, this can also be used with job costings to determine how much an employee should be paid based on the department that they work in.

Jobs
This module will assist you with the job costing feature, by setting up different jobs you can track how much time & money a project or job will cost.

Categories
The AMG Software comes standard with 16 categories which represent different types of time usage. Examples: work, lunch, vacation, etc. You can add your own custom categories to this list.

Payment Policies
In AMG Time Attendance Software you can create as many policies as needed. By configuring policies you are give a possibility to define holiday payment rules, overtime payment rules, and also exceptions that need to be reported. AMG Time  Attendance Software supports 3 levels of overtime as well as 3 modes of overtime calculation, which are Daily, Weekly, and Consecutive Days Overtime.

Pay Period Types
We offer the following pay periods: Weekly, biweekly, monthly and semi-monthly.

Overtime Levels
We offer the following overtime levels: daily, weekly and consecutive working days overtime.

Overtime Calculation Modes
All three levels of overtime can be customized to any particular overtime calculation method.

Exceptions

This module gives you the ability to track custom consecutive hours worked, custom daily hours worked and custom period hours worked. In addition you can also set exceptions for hours worked on minors, you can group them by age and apply the maximum daily and weekly hours worked and set limitations on the latest possible time to work.

Holidays

This module gives you the ability to set holiday eligibilities based on employees employment history, working before or after the holiday. Holiday Parameters can be set for employees who also work on holidays and you can set a new pay rate.

Shifts

AMG Time Attendance Software is further more designed to support as many shift groups as you need, which can include also many individual shifts. It supports flexible shifts, which have no fixed start and stop times. It supports an assigning schedule with a floating shift, which assumes that the system will use the Shift's Cut-off value to find the closest shift and automatically assign an employee to that closest shift.

Types of Shifts (Schedules)
This module gives you the ability to have an unlimited amount of shifts and customize each shift’s regulations.

Shift Differential
This module gives you the ability to add or multiply custom hours to certain time frames when the employee works custom days of the week. Example would be when an employee works between the hours of 12:00am to 6:00am they get an additional 2 hours added to their shift.

Lunches/Breaks
This module allows you to set lunches and breaks based on employee’s schedule. Lunch: when configuring lunches you can set three types of modes: elapsed, punched and elapsed or punched. Example, is the minimum duration for lunch should be 30 minutes but you have employees that take less lunch or longer lunches. You can change the setting to punched or elapsed and based the expired duration set the software to automatically deduct 30 minutes of lunch for employees who took less than 30 minutes. The software will deduct the exact amount of time the employee has taken, for lunch if it is over 30 minutes. Same applies to breaks.

Simple Rounding
Simple rounding gives you the ability to set up grace periods where an employee is allowed to be early or late.

Advanced Rounding
Gives you the opportunity to set up a point system based on the amount of minutes an employee is late or early. This can later be generated into a report.

Wages
An employee can be assigned a wage, which can be either hourly, salary or calculated salary. If the wage is hourly or calculated hourly, then the software will calculate the total salary according to the employee’s tracked attendance.

Types of Wages
Hourly, salary and calculated salary

Benefit Assignment
This module allows you to set benefits for employees.

Benefit Accrual
Benefits can be created and configured based on your company’s policy. This module will keep track of all of your employee’s benefits.

Bell Schedule
Depending on the model of your time clock you can create and configure schedules for an external bell to ring.

Device Messages
Depending on the device, you can assign each employee a message, which will be displayed on the device after the employee clocks in/out.

Wrong Transactions
Wrong Transactions can occur when an employee enters into a wrong department or wrong code. These wrong transactions can be viewed all at once or one by one by an administrator. The administrator will have the ability to correct the wrong transaction

Badge Transfer
Depending on the devices you can transfer an employee verification method from one similar device (terminal) to another similar device. Example, transferring employees hand algorithm from one terminal to another.

Badge Backup/Restore
You can back up the employee badges (verification modes including fingerprint, hand algorithm, facial algorithm.

Badge Management
This module gives you the ability to communicate to your device, retrieve the employee’s verification modes and to increase or decrease their security level as well as delete the employee from the device.

Time Restrictions
Depending on the device, you can restrict an employees’ access. This module works by defining time zones within which the access is permitted or denied.  

Punch Monitor
Depending on the device, the punch monitor screen allows you to view certain information right after an employee has punched in. For example on the GT-400 HandPunch terminal an employee can see their schedule, benefits and last punches once they clock in/out of work.

Badge Repository
This module gives you the ability to transfer employee verification methods (badges) from one terminal to as many terminals as you have configured all from one screen.

Global Transactions
This modules allows you to make global changes for all the employees. You can select the devices and choose the action.

Reprocess
Reprocess punches window allows to reprocess the transactions of a certain time period. Reprocessing is mostly intended to be used when changes have been made in the polices, holidays, etc.  

Auto-process
This module enables the user to create an unlimited amount of tasks for the software to do automatically. This includes polling the hardware, emailing reports, generating reports and data optimization.  The software does not need to be running during any of this processes, just as long as the computer or server that is hosting the software is turned on.

Sending Reports by E-mail
This module allows you to generate and send emails from the software. You can also auto-process this features.

Employee Import From File
You can import your current database of employee to the software all at once instead of manually adding each one. Please inquire about the file format.

Employee Export to File
You can export your database of employees from the AMG Software.

Alarms
You can set the following alarms:

• when devices have not been polled for a duration of time
• when database backup was not performed for a duration of time
• when there are failed transactions
• when there are wrong transactions
• when there are employees who have no schedule assigned
• when there are employees who have no wage assigned
• when there are employees who have no benefits assigned
• when there are employee codes, badge codes, job codes or department codes which don't correspond to the set code lengths

User Permissions
This module allows you to set certain permissions of additional administrators/supervisors that have access to the software.

Database Backup/Restore
This module allows you to archive your database so you do not lose any information.

Database Purge
This module enables you to purge database by deleting old data. You can create a backup of the database before purging the data. 

Employee Login
This module will allow you to set up a kiosk type system where employee can see their hours, schedules, benefits etc. 

Messaging
This module gives the software users and the employees an opportunity to send and receive messages.

Time Off Request
This module gives the employees an opportunity to send requests for time off to the user (admin). User who gets the request can either approve or deny. Requests can be for any benefit category. If the user approves the request, then on the requested day and time is being added a miscellaneous transaction for the requested category and duration.

Configuration Wizard
This set-up configuration wizard will guide you through configuration of the software based on your company’s policy.

Missing or Short Lunch Bonuses
This module allows you to configure bonuses for employees who do not take a lunch or a short lunch.

Alarm on Late Lunches
When an employee has not taken a lunch after a certain duration the software will notify the administrator.

Bank Hours
Overtime hours worked that can stored in “Bank Hours” and later be used for time-offs.

No Lunch
This module will show you all the employees who have not taken a lunch yet

Employee Documents
You can scan and upload documents that an employee may have.