Carval Time and Attendance (T&A) Software

 

Carval's Time and Attendance Software, Unitend, is for tracking and recording employee working times. It is the perfect solution for companies operating complex shift patterns or for the increasing number of organisations that offer their employees the benefit of flexible working practices.

Carval use a wide range of modern data capture methods to provide accurate real time information on your employees and their movements, enabling you to manage your business more effectively and ensure compliance with Working Time Directive rules. The information captured can be automatically converted to payroll data without the labour intensive and error-prone manual analysis associated with traditional clocking systems.

Carval's Time & Attendance Software can be used alone, with or without Employee Self-Service or integrated with our HR Software or Payroll Software to form a complete Human Resource Information System. It links with Microsoft Office and other popular packages.

Capturing Data: Carval offer a variety of modern data capture methods according to your budget and your business needs. This includes solutions for field-based staff, home workers and challenging environments. Our experienced consultants will discuss your requirements in detail and help you decide the best method for the way in which your employees work. Popular methods include:

• Bar Code Readers
• Magnetic Stripe Readers
• Proximity Readers
• Biometric readers
• Hand Readers
• Mobiles and PDA's
• Web Browser

Key features of Carval's T&A Software include:

Detailed Employee Records: Record comprehensive personal information for each employee, details of which shifts they do and to set any applicable rules for issues like overtime and holiday.

Holiday & Absence Management: Carval's hugely flexible absence control module allows you to enter unlimited different absence types and to set rules and parameters for each of them. It caters for global and team absence (e.g. Factory Shutdown) and shift changes allowing forward labour planning.

Comprehensive Shift Database & Rostering: To make light of planning the most complex working patterns. The virtually unlimited shift database enables you to create daily and weekly shift patterns and build annual rotas. Multiple starts of week, flexible rotas, flexi-time and rotating shifts are all catered for as are daily and weekly overrides. Monitoring of Working Time Directive compliance for both shift set-up and analysis is standard.

Banked Hours: Demand Scheduling is fully supported enabling you to match your employees' availability to the demands of your business.

Flexible Parameter Setting: Flexible parameter setting allowing you to set variable rules for overtime, breaks, handover allowances and much more.

Health & Safety: The system includes both safety-only clock-in and a visitor module to provide an accurate picture of who's on the premises for security or in the event of a fire alarm or other emergency.

Solutions For Flexible Working: A variety of tools and data capture methods are included to help you manage flexi-time and time-off-in-lieu, annualised hours, compressed hours, job shares, working from home and much more.

Information for Management: Powerful reporting tools allow you to make decisions based on exact knowledge of your workforce, no matter what type of business you operate. With almost 100 standard reports plus a Custom Report Writer, enquiries are quick and easy.

The handy Supervisor Enquiry facility enables supervisors and line managers to see instantly who should be in work but isn't, while comprehensive overtime, lateness and presence analysis will help them identify trends and take appropriate action. Security features allow supervisors to enter, view and update information for their own team without granting global access.

Information for Employees: Carval can provide a number of options for helping you reduce employee enquiries and the associated administrative burden. The most effective solution is to add our optional web-based Employee Self-Service module, Unity Online, which will enable your employees to clock in, submit time sheets, book and view holidays, view their flexi-time balances and update their personal details.

For those employees that do not use a PC at work every day, self-service access can be provided via kiosks in the work place or, as Unity Online is web-based, from the comfort of their own homes. Alternatively we can provide clocking terminals that allow employees to view holiday, flexitime balances and clock details.

Integrated Solutions: Carval's Time and Attendance Software naturally integrates with other modules from the Carval HR Unity range, but it also seamlessly links with Sage's payroll packages and MS Office. It can also import and export data using CSV and Excel files.

Time and Attendance Supplies: We also supply a wide variety of terminals, proximity fobs, cards and printers.