Arth Saathi
GPS attendance

GPS attendance app for shops, sites and field teams.

Set your shop’s location once. Your staff can only mark themselves present when they’re actually there. Optional selfie verification for full trust.

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  • Shop radius you control
  • Selfie verification
  • Map-based proof
  • Daily cutoff time

✦ The problem

Buddy-punching is real. So is the cost.

If your staff marks themselves present from home — or worse, from a friend marking attendance on their behalf — you’re paying for hours that didn’t happen. For a 20-person team, even one buddy-punched day a month per employee adds up to ₹15,000+ a year in salary you didn’t need to pay.

Biometric machines fix this for fixed locations, but they break, they cost ₹15,000+, and they don’t move with your team. Field teams, multi-site setups and home-service businesses can’t use them at all.

GPS attendance turns every employee’s phone into a verified check-in point. You set the location and radius. They mark themselves present only when they’re inside. The system stores location, time, and (optionally) a selfie. Done.

✦ What you get

Built for the messy reality of Indian small businesses.

Set your shop’s coordinates

Tap the map at your actual shop / site / branch. Pick a radius (default 50m). Save. That’s the setup.

Lock self-mark to the radius

When an employee opens the self-mark screen, their location is checked against the shop. Outside the radius? Self-mark is blocked.

Optional selfie verification

Turn on selfie capture. The employee’s phone takes a selfie at mark-in, timestamped and tied to the attendance record.

Daily cutoff time

Set a cutoff time per day (e.g. 11 AM). After that, self-mark is closed. Late marks become explicit, not silent.

Map-based audit

Every self-mark stores the GPS pin and the reverse-geocoded address. You can see, on a map, exactly where each mark happened.

Works on any Android

No special hardware, no biometric machine, no SIM cards to manage. Just the employee’s existing phone with GPS turned on.

Anti-spoof basics

Mock-location detection blocks obvious GPS spoof apps. Add selfie capture for higher trust. Audit trail catches the rest.

Different rules per business

Run multiple shops? Each has its own coordinates, radius, cutoff, and selfie rule. Set them once, forget them.

Owner can still override

If an employee was genuinely outside the radius for a valid reason (delivery, errand), the owner can mark them present manually with a note.

✦ How it works

Turn on GPS attendance in three steps.

  1. 01

    Pin your shop on the map

    Profile → Location. Tap the map at your shop. Pick a radius. Tap save.

  2. 02

    Decide on selfie verification

    Toggle ‘require selfie’ if you want a photo with every mark. Most retail shops keep it off; field teams turn it on.

  3. 03

    Let your staff self-mark

    Employees open their app, tap Mark Present. Their location is checked, selfie captured if required, and the record is saved.

✦ Pricing

Cheaper than a notebook.

All features on every paid tier. Free for small teams up to 10 people.

Starter

₹0/ month

Up to 10 employees

  • All features included
  • Unlimited data & free updates
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Growth

₹500/ month

10–25 employees

  • All features included
  • Unlimited data & free updates

Scale

₹1000/ month

25+ employees

  • All features included
  • Unlimited data & free updates
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✦ FAQ

GPS attendance app — common questions

Is GPS attendance free?

GPS attendance verification is a plan-gated feature — available on the Growth (₹500/month) and Scale (₹1,000/month) plans. The first 14 days are free on Growth. Current sign-ups get full feature access free during our growth phase.

How accurate is the location check?

GPS on an Indian smartphone is typically accurate to 5–15 metres outdoors. We recommend a 30–50 metre radius for retail shops, 100 metres for larger sites. You can tune per business.

Can my employees use mock-location apps to fake it?

We check for the standard mock-location flag on Android, which catches the common fake-GPS apps. For higher trust, turn on selfie verification — even a perfect GPS spoof can’t produce a real selfie at your shop.

What if GPS is weak indoors?

We use a combination of GPS and cell/Wi-Fi signals. If signal is truly weak, employees can mark just outside the door — within radius. Or, for indoor-only setups, owner-marked attendance is always available as a fallback.

Does it drain employee battery?

GPS is requested only at the moment of mark-in — not continuously. Battery impact is negligible (less than a minute of GPS per day).

Can I use this for field teams without a fixed location?

Yes. Set a large radius (e.g. an entire city) and require selfie verification. The selfie + timestamp + GPS pin gives you the proof you need, without restricting movement.

Is the location data stored?

Yes — we store the GPS pin and reverse-geocoded address for every self-mark, encrypted and isolated per business. You can view it on the audit map; employees see only their own marks.

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