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Key Features

 

AMG Attendance System has the following key features:

 

HR Functions

AMG Attendance System enables performing such HR functions as tracking employee attendance, employee earliness and tardiness, transfers from one department to another and from one job to another, assigning schedules, applying rounding to In and Out punches, calculating overtime, and calculating employee time and wages.

 

Payment Policies

In AMG Attendance System you can create as many pay policies as you need. By configuring pay policies you are given a possibility to define holiday payment rules, overtime payment rules, and also exceptions to be reported. AMG Attendance System supports 3 levels of overtime and also 3 modes of overtime calculation, which are Daily Overtime, Weekly Overtime and Consecutive Days Overtime.

 

Shifts

AMG Attendance System is designed to support as many shift groups as you need, which can include also unlimited individual shifts. The system is designed also to support flexible shifts, which have no fixed start and stop time. The system is also designed to support an assigning schedule with a floating shift, which assumes that the system will use the Shift´s Cutoff value to find the closest shift and automatically assign an employee to that closest shift.

 

Comprehensive Reporting System

Approximately 40 reports are included in the system, which can be generated for any employee and for any time period you need. Generation of each report is designed to be an easy process of a maximum 3 steps. Besides being displayed on the screen, reports can also be saved as different file formats (.rpt, .doc, .xls, .pdf, .rtf), printed or automatically sent to any e-mail recipient.

 

Payroll Export

AMG Attendance System enables generating payroll reports which are to be used by 3rd party payroll systems. These reports can also automatically be sent to any e-mail recipient. Here are the half part of payroll exports, that are being supported by AMG Attendance System:

  • Accpac
  • ADP (Canada)
  • ADP for Windows
  • ADP Payline
  • Advantage/Safeguard
  • Arrow Export
  • Attache Payroll
  • BBSI
  • CBS Payroll (4.0 -up), Intuit
  • Ceridian Powerpay
  • Ceridian Source 500
  • Quick Books Pro
  • Paychex Preview
  • Peachtree 2003

 

Settings Configuration Wizard

Settings configuration wizard is designed to help first-time users to configure system´s main settings by giving detailed step-by-step instructions and showing the right order of configuring system´s settings.

 

Bell Ringing

This module allows creating bell schedules according to which devices will be activated to ring a bell. The schedule defines days of the week, time of the day and duration of the ring.

 

Fixing Wrong Transactions

The system tracks all transactions with wrong badge numbers, wrong department codes, and wrong job codes. This can be fixed later by assigning them to the correct ones.

 

Device Polling

This module enables polling information from data collection devices, and also synchronization of changes in PC’s date and time with devices.

 

Auto Process

Auto Processes feature is a powerful tool for efficient use of time, as it enables automating the execution of some daily tasks. Each user can define any schedule for execution of tasks according to his convenience, as this information is being stored locally on the user´s PC. The tasks being supported by AMG Attendance System are as follows: Polling Device, Generating and Sending Report.

 

Alerts

This module enables warning about some actions which should be performed in order to ensure the full functioning of the system. All alert types are optional and, if not needed, can be disabled from the program’s Settings.

 

Benefit Accruals

AMG Attendance System supports 2 types of benfit hours' assignment: either manually or by automatically accruing. In case of accrual, system supports 6 types of posting period: annually, semiannualy, monthly, semimonthly, biweekly and weekly, at the end of which entered amount of benefit hours will be granted to the employee. The system also keeps track of used benefit hours and automatically calculates the balance.

 

Security

Security of the system is being ensured by authorization of users with the help of their unique User names and Passwords. System administrator and all those users, who have the same permissions, can also limit users’ access to the system by not granting permission to some of its features or by not allowing to access employee data of some divisions and groups.

 

Web Clock

Web Clock allows employees to perform all standard in/out actions at their PC. As far as it can completely imitate the performance of Time and Attendance devices, this feature can help you to ensure the continuing work of the system in case there are some problems with Time and Attendance devices and data cannot be captured from them.

 

Database Backup and Restore

AMG Attendance System provides also a database backup and restore tool, which is a very valuable tool for archiving the data of the system and minimizing the risk of losing the information.

 

Employee Messaging

AMG Attendance System can enable displaying any message defined by you at data collection terminals after employee validation.

 

Status Board

This module is a good control tool which gives the supervisors a possibility to find out employees IN/OUT status 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. Also, if employee is working overtime, this screen also shows overtime hours.

 

Punch Analysis

In AMG Attendance System there is a possibility to view the analysis of committed IN, OUT, LUNCH and BREAK punches. In the analysis are being compared scheduled and actual punch times and based on those differences you can see:

  • How early or late punches were committed
  • How many hours more or less than scheduled employee has worked or has had lunch/break

 

Job/Department Costing

This module will allow defining an hourly wage for each job and/or department and calculating employees total wage based on the job they have done or on the department they have worked in. This feature will also give a possibility to find out how much is spent on each job and/or department.

 

Forecasting

This module will give a possibility to see the forecasted worked hours and wages of company’s employees for any time period. Data can be provided either for each employee separately or grouped by job, department, division, group, or headquarters.

 

Import

In AMG Attendandce System there is a possibility to import employees from .txt and .csv files. Can be imported the following data: code, badge, first name, last name, middle name, passport id, ssn, gender, birth date, hire date, dismissal date, fiscal date, all contacts, custom fields and comments.

 

Employee Login

This feature is created to give employees a possibility to login into the system and view their timecard, schedule and benefits. Also employees will have an opportunity to send and receive messages to and from users and employees, as well as send time off requests for benefit categories which can be either approved or denied by the corresponging system user.