Attendance for people who are never in the office
A van salesman, a service engineer and a delivery driver all have the same problem with attendance: there is no gate to walk through. tBiz checks them in where they actually are, against the site they were supposed to be at.
- 09:12
- Check-in · Nakoda Steel, Ludhiana — within geofence
- 11:40
- Visit · Vidyut Electricals — order taken, ₹ 86,000
- 14:05
- Visit · Sundaram Traders — payment collected
- 17:26
- Check-out · 6 visits · 41 km
What you get
Geofenced check-in
A check-in outside the site’s radius is flagged with the distance, rather than being silently accepted or bluntly refused.
Visit logs that are worth reading
What was done at each stop — order taken, payment collected, complaint logged — against the party in the ledger.
The day’s route
Where somebody actually went, in order, so a route can be planned better next week rather than argued about this one.
Orders from the doorstep
Take the order on the phone against live stock and the customer’s credit position, and it is in the system before the van moves.
Collections recorded on the spot
A receipt entered at the customer’s premises settles against their open invoices immediately.
Consent, twice
Tracking requires the employee’s own consent as well as the company’s setting, and it runs while the app is open — not silently in the background.
How it works
- Set the sites. Customer premises, branches and depots, each with a location and a radius, picked on a map.
- Staff check in on the app. Android, with the location captured at check-in and the distance from the site recorded.
- Log the visits. Each stop against the party, with what happened and what it was worth.
- Read the day. Route, visits, orders taken and money collected, per person and per day.
Field tracking questions
Does tBiz track staff all day in the background?
No. Location is captured while the app is open — at check-in, at each visit and at check-out. Continuous background tracking needs a native build and is not what ships today, and we would rather say so than let you assume otherwise.
What happens if somebody checks in from the wrong place?
The check-in is recorded and flagged with the distance from the site. It is not refused, because a genuine reason is common — the customer moved the meeting — and a flag that a supervisor reviews is more useful than a block that gets worked around.
Do employees have to agree to be tracked?
Yes. There are two switches: the company enables it and the employee consents on their own device. Without both, no location is captured.
Can field staff take orders offline?
They can take an order wherever there is a signal, against live stock and the customer’s credit limit. A patchy signal delays the sync rather than losing the order.
Related
Check in your field team properly
Start free, map one customer site, and see a geofenced check-in land in the attendance register.