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AMG Attendance System
Product Description
Copyright © 2009 AMG Employee Management, Inc.
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AMG Attendance System
General Description
AMG Attendance System:
• is a user-friendly, flexible and full featured employee
management tool which allows controlling your employees’
attendance by automating timekeeping and attendance
tracking.
• captures data from electronic data terminals such as Badge
Readers, Fingerprints, Biometric Hand Punches and
simultaneously allows optional PC entry
• automatically calculates employees’ working time and wages
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Advantages
AMG Attendance System has the following
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Is a Client-Server application
Can be customized and adapted to any software
Supports unlimited number of users
Can be easily configured with Settings Configuration Wizard
Has a database optimization tool
Supports multiple languages
Supports access via Internet connection
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Key Features
Storing Employee Info
AMG Attendance System
enables storing all relevant info
about employees, such as
personal information, contact
information, status information,
documents, comments, and
also 3 Custom Fields which
can be customized and used
for storing any specific data.
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Key Features
Organization Info
AMG Attendance System enables
storing information about
organization’s:
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Headquarters
Divisions
Departments
Groups
Jobs
The system is designed to support
multiple instances of all above
mentioned objects.
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Key Features
HR Functions
AMG Attendance System
enables performing such HR
functions as:
• tracking employee attendance
• tracking employee tardiness
• tracking transfers from one
department or job to another
• assigning schedule
• applying rounding to In and
Out punches
• calculating overtime
• calculating time and wages
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Key Features
Payment Policies
Can include as many policies as
you need. Policies define:
• general rules regarding pay
period and default values for
some punch operations
• holiday payment rules
• overtime payment rules
▫ 3 levels of overtime
▫ 3 modes of overtime calculation
(Daily Overtime, Weekly Overtime,
Consecutive Days Overtime)
• exceptions to be reported
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Key Features
Shifts
Can include as many shift templates as you need. Shift
templates can be:
• fixed (fixed start and stop times)
• flexible (no fixed start and stop times)
The system supports also floating shift, which assumes that
the system will use the Shift’s Cutoff value to find the closest
shift and automatically assign an employee to that closest
shift.
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Key Features
Shifts
In the AMG Attendance System you can use also Shift
Differentials.
Shift Differentials will give you a possibility
for each shift group to define some hours
(e.g. night hours) for which employees will
be paid at another (usually higher) rate.
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Key Features
Timecard
Timecard is one of the main features of the software, where all
transactions are being analyzed and total worked hours are
displayed.
In the Timecard table
You will see how many
hours, by what category
and at which payment
rate (Reg or OT)
employee has worked
each day. You will see
also all the absences
and missing punches.
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Key Features
Comprehensive Reporting System
• More than 30 reports are
available in AMG
Attendance System
• Reports can be generated
for any employee and for
any time period
• Generation of a report is
an easy process of a max.
3 steps
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Key Features
Comprehensive Reporting System
• Reports can be:
• displayed on the screen
• saved as several file
formats (.rpt, .doc, .xls,
.pdf, .rtf)
• printed
• automatically sent to any
e-mail recipient
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Key Features
Punch Analysis
In AMG Attendance System there is a possibility to view the
analysis of committed IN, OUT, LUNCH and BREAK punches.
In the analysis are being compared scheduled and actual punch
times and based on
those differences you
can see:
• How early or late
punches were
committed
• How many hours
more or less than
scheduled employee
has worked
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Key Features
Payroll Export
AMG Attendance System
enables generating payroll
reports which are to be
used by 3rd party payroll
systems.
The following payroll
exports are being
supported:
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ADP for Windows
Quick Books Pro
Paychex Preview
Peachtree 2003
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Key Features
Settings Configuration Wizard
Settings configuration wizard
is designed to help first-time
users to configure system's
main settings.
Settings configuration wizard
• gives step-by-step
instructions,
• shows the right order of
configuring system’s settings.
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Key Features
Bell Ringing
This module allows creating bell schedules, according to
which devices will be activated to ring a bell. The schedule
defines days of the week, time of the day and duration of the
ring.
Fixing wrong transactions
The system tracks all transactions with wrong badge
numbers, wrong department codes, and wrong job
codes. This can be fixed later by assigning them to the
correct ones.
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Key Features
Device Polling
This feature enables polling information from data collection
devices, and also synchronization of changes of PC’s date
and time with devices. Data can be polled both directly from
the connected devices, and from the Log files.
Badge Transfer
Using this feature, AMG Attendance System users are given
a possibility to transfer employee info included in devices
(badge number, biometric data, etc.) from one device to
another.
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Key Features
Badge Backup/Restore
These features give a possibility to backup the badges
enrolled in the devices and then restore the badges to other
devices (of same or compatible model).
Manage Badges
Using this feature, AMG Attendance System users are given
a possibility to edit the security level of badges enrolled in
the devices from the software.
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Key Features
Auto Processes
• Enables automating the
execution of the following
tasks:
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Running File
Polling Device
Optimizing Database
Running Report
Database Backup
• The information is being
stored locally on the
user’s PC.
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Key Features
Alarms
Enables warning users
about some actions which
should be performed in
order to ensure the full
functioning of the system.
All alarm types are
optional and, if not
needed, can be disabled
from the program’s
Settings.
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Key Features
Benefit Accruals
This feature allows assigning an employee a benefit time,
such as Vacation time or Sick time, and automatically
calculates the balance of that benefit time.
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Key Features
PC Clock
PC Clock allows employees
to perform all time clock
actions at their PC.
This feature can help you to
ensure the continuing work
of the system in case there
are some problems with
data collection devices and
data cannot be captured
from them.
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Key Features
Database optimization
AMG Attendance System offers a database management
tool, such as database optimization, which will ensure
efficient use of server hard disk.
Database backup and restore
AMG Attendance System provides also a database backup
and restore tool, which is a very valuable tool for archiving
the data of the system and minimizing the risk of losing
information.
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Key Features
Employee Messaging
AMG Attendance System enables displaying any message
defined by you at data collection terminals after employee
validation.
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Key Features
Status Board
This feature is a good control tool which gives the
supervisors a possibility to find out what employees are doing
at the current time or at any moment in the last 99 hours.
It defines the following six
statuses:
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Working
Absent
Outside
Lunch
Break
Overtime
 Daily
 Weekly
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Key Features
Access via Internet
In AMG Attendance System there is a possibility to access
the Server via Internet connection. The only thing that you
will need for that is to have Internet connection on your PC
and on the server where the program’s database is stored.
This is an excellent feature for those cases when the
database should be available from the remote locations. Due
to this feature, for instance, top managers will have a
possibility to access the program’s database while being
abroad.
This feature will ensure more convenient use of the software,
and may also result in reducing costs.
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Minimal Hardware Requirements
Hardware Requirements (Client)
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Processor: Pentium 600MHz
RAM: 128Mb
Free hard disk space: 70 Mb
Resolutions: 1024x768 or higher
Hardware Requirements (Server)
• Processor: Pentium 1000MHz
• RAM: 256Mb
• Free hard disk space: 100 Mb and more (depending on your
database size)
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Minimal Software Requirements
Software Requirements
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Operating System: Windows 2000 SP4 / XP or higher
Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 *
Windows Installer 3.1 *
Crystal Reports 10.2 *
MS Visual C++ 2005 Runtime *
UltiDev Cassini Web Server for ASP.NET 2.0 *
* Included in the software package
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How can AMG Attendance System
help you?
AMG Attendance System can help you by:
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Automating payroll processing
Reducing time needed to verify attendance data
Reducing payroll processing time and cost
Eliminating mistakes in calculating work hours and wages
Eliminating unauthorized overtime
Automatically generating reports and payroll exports
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Benefits for your Business
Using AMG Attendance System you will gain the
following benefits:
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Better control of labor force
Improved work productivity
Better control over cost distribution
Efficient use of human and financial resources
Support for decision-making process