employee number +PIN Clock-In.

How a punch works

1. The employee types their employee number and presses Enter.
2. They type their 4–6 digit PIN and press Enter.
3. The kiosk shows their name and whether they are clocking in or out, and they confirm.
4. The screen returns to the keypad by itself, so the next person never sees who was there before.

Two punches within a minute count as one, so an accidental double tap never creates an extra shift.

Built to stop guessing

PINs are stored only as secure hashes. Five wrong PINs for the same employee number lock that number for five minutes, and a separate limit stops anyone trying number after number from the same device. Each location can also be locked to its own internet address, so nobody can clock in from home with a remembered link.

When a PIN is the right choice

A PIN works everywhere, costs nothing extra and needs no consent forms, which is why it is the default in PunchMan and always remains the fallback. Its weakness is that a PIN can be shared. If buddy punching is a real problem at a location, add a fingerprint scanner or an optional face check on top; the PIN keeps working when a finger will not read or the camera cannot see.

What managers get

Every punch appears on the manager dashboard, adds up into day-by-day timesheets, and flows into the automatic bi-weekly hours report, the payroll CSV and the QuickBooks IIF export. A manager fixes a forgotten punch-out in Timesheets, and the activity log keeps a signed, dated record of the change.