Digital attendance that takes a third of a second — and tells the parent instantly.

No. The Attendances app runs on ordinary Android phones and tablets, so most schools start with a phone the office already owns, mounted in a simple stand at the gate. You only add hardware if you want more scan points, or if you specifically want a wall-mounted eSSL or Hikvision terminal.

That is the difference our schools notice first. Your institution uploads each student's photograph once — the same photo used for the ID card and the School eDiary profile — and our system maps it for face recognition automatically. There is no separate enrolment queue, no standing in line in front of a device, and no re-enrolment when a device is replaced.

Between roughly 200 and 300 milliseconds per person. In practice a single phone comfortably clears 60 or more people a minute, which is why a 1,500-student gate does not back up. Schools with very wide entrances usually run two or three phones side by side.

A push notification through the School eDiary app the moment their child is marked IN, and again at OUT — with the time stamp, and (in the Regular version) the photo captured at the scan. SMS can be enabled as well at extra charge. Parents also get the monthly attendance percentage, notices, homework and more inside the same app.

Yes. Staff attendance runs on the same app, with a separate staff register and separate reports. Several of our schools mark students by face at the gate and staff by fingerprint on a terminal — both feed the same records.

With our premium photo verification option, yes — a live photograph is taken the moment the QR code or face is scanned, delivered to the parent with the notification and retained in the school's records. It is the single most effective deterrent to proxy attendance, because a borrowed card produces a photograph of the wrong face on the right parent's phone.

No. The app is built to run on a nominal amount of data, and captured images are deleted from the device once they have synced — so a school phone at the gate does not slowly fill with photographs.

Yes. The school administrator assigns class access per device — a gate phone can be limited to Classes IX–XII, a class teacher's phone to their own section only. You can also nominate exactly which device staff use to mark their own attendance, so staff punches cannot be made from a student-facing gate phone. There is a wide range of further device-level settings: scan windows, IN/OUT behaviour, auto-absent cut-offs, device names and notification wording.

A small but popular one: when a student scans on their birthday, the app wishes them by name and the greeting reaches the parent as well.

Scanning continues and records queue on the device, then sync when the connection returns. A dropped link delays the parent notification; it does not lose the attendance.

The institution owns its data. Records sit on our cloud infrastructure with access limited to authorised school users, and are exportable to PDF and Excel at any time. The Lite version exists specifically for schools that prefer that face images are never shared outward.

We quote per institution rather than publishing a single price, because it depends on your student and staff numbers, the modules you want and how many scan points you need — and ID cards are priced separately by card type. Please contact us for pricing and we will send a school-specific quote, usually the same working day.