Seasonal peaks and the contract workforce
Harvest seasons, festival demand and export orders push headcount up for weeks at a time, usually through contractors. That is exactly when contractor bills are hardest to check and attendance is most likely to be kept on paper at the gate.
- Seasonal workers enrolled from a phone or at the kiosk, at the gate rather than in an HR office
- Contract workers on the same roster as permanent staff, grouped by contractor
- Each contractor's bill reconciled against verified attendance, not the declared headcount
Touchless attendance in hygiene-controlled areas
Where hands are washed, gloved or sanitised before entering production, a shared fingerprint reader is both a hygiene question and a source of failed reads. Face recognition on a tablet at the entrance avoids both, and kiosk mode keeps the tablet locked to the attendance app.
Many sites, one number
Processing plants, cold storage and depots each run their own shifts. In Ankastra each site is a unit with its own reporting, and from Growth they roll up into one view for head office. Where a site has unreliable connectivity, the kiosk app captures punches offline and syncs when the line comes back.
A modelled scenario follows a food processing and cold chain business growing from two plants to nine while its HR team grows by one person, with the arithmetic published.
What it costs
Face recognition attendance, shifts and leave are in every plan, from ₹2,999 a month for 50 employees. Device integration, multi-location roll-ups and canteen and visitor modules are in Growth, from ₹5,999. Statutory payroll is in Pro, from ₹9,999. Annual billing takes 15% off, and GST is charged on top. The pricing calculator works out your headcount.
Questions people ask
How are seasonal workers enrolled?
From a phone or at the kiosk, so enrolment happens at the gate on the first day rather than in an HR office.
Can we see contractor attendance site by site?
Yes. Contractor-wise headcount is reconciled against actual attendance, and with each site set up as a unit, reporting is site by site.
What happens at a cold storage site with poor connectivity?
The kiosk app captures punches without a connection and syncs them when the line comes back, so attendance is not lost.