Linking Biometric Attendance Data to Payroll: A Practical Guide for Indian Firms

Many Indian companies use biometric or face-recognition attendance devices but still transfer data to payroll manually through Excel exports, a process that becomes error-prone as headcount grows. The guide recommends checking what your device supports, such as CSV export, local database access, cloud APIs or push-to-URL, and storing every raw punch rather than just summaries. It stresses writing down attendance rules like shift timings, grace periods and overtime eligibility and configuring them in the system so results are consistent. It also covers a correction workflow with manager approval, a monthly attendance cut-off and parallel runs against the old process before switching over.