Solution

Kiosk, system, mobile app and open API

Four parts that work together. Employees clock in at the kiosk or on their phone. Managers plan and review the work in the system. Your other software exchanges data through the API.

Kiosk

Clock in at the entrance in seconds.

The kiosk is an app for recording working time on a tablet or touchscreen at your premises. Employees clock in, clock out and record breaks, and each entry goes straight to the FjordHub system.

  • €25 per device per month
  • Data transfer included
  • Maintenance included

Camera version

An Android tablet. The employee holds their ID card up to the camera and the kiosk reads the QR code. It runs on mobile internet, which is included in the price.

NFC version

A touchscreen with a built-in NFC reader. The employee taps a chip or card and a light shows the status. It connects through a PoE network cable, which also powers it, or through Wi-Fi.

Works offline too

Entries are stored on the device and sent when the connection is back.

Real-time overview

Managers see in the system right away who is at work and who has not clocked in yet.

Surveys

After clocking in, the kiosk can ask the employee questions that you set up in the system.

Remote support

We manage the devices with an MDM system. If something stops working, we fix it remotely, and this is included in the price.

System

A control panel for scheduling, time tracking and reports.

The system runs in the browser and is used by managers, planners and accounting. This is where schedules are made, hours are calculated automatically and payroll data is prepared.

  • Runs in the browser
  • Multiple sites and companies
  • Export to Horizon and Jumis

Planning calendar

Build schedules by site and zone. Create recurring shifts once. The system checks weekly rest time and warns you when hours exceed the norm.

Shift requests

Offer a shift to an employee by SMS or in the app, and they accept it with one tap. Unfilled shifts can be published as open shifts.

Automatic calculations

Overtime, night hours and public holiday work are calculated automatically. The lunch break is deducted and hours are rounded by your company's rules.

Absences

More than 30 absence types in one place. Employees see their vacation balance in the app, so they don't have to ask accounting.

Reports and export

Reports on hours, overtime and costs. Payroll data can be exported to Visma Horizon, Tilde Jumis and ERP systems.

Morning summary

Every morning managers get an email summary of deviations from the plan. The anomaly report helps spot unusual entries early.

Who is at work

See in real time who is at work and who has not clocked in. In an emergency, see which employees have marked themselves as safe.

Multiple sites and companies

One employee can work at several sites without you paying twice. Several companies can be managed on one platform.

Audit and corrections

Every change keeps a full history. Managers correct entries with a note, and a correction can be undone.

Mobile app

Schedule, hours and messages on the employee's phone.

In the app employees record their working time, see their shifts, respond to shift requests and get messages from their manager. Employees who work on sites or on the road can clock in without a kiosk.

QR code to download the app

Get it on Google Play

Scan the QR code with your phone to install the app.

Google Play

Clock in with GPS

Employees clock in and out on their phone. The GPS location is saved with the entry, so managers can see where work started.

My schedule

Employees see their shifts on their phone and get a notification as soon as the schedule changes.

Shift requests

Employees accept or decline an offered shift with one tap. Open shifts are shown in the app too.

Vacation balance

Remaining vacation days are always visible in the app. Employees don't need to write to accounting to find out.

Messages and work chat

Company announcements, shift changes and a work chat in one place. Important information doesn't get lost among private chats.

Start the same day

Import employees from Excel. Each one gets an SMS with a link to the app or a QR code and can start using FjordHub the same day.

Open API

Everything important is also available through the API.

All main FjordHub functions can also be used programmatically. The API is documented with Swagger (OpenAPI), so your developers see every request, its parameters and the response format in one place.

  • Employees and their data
  • Schedules and shifts
  • Time entries and hours worked
  • Absences
  • Data for reports and payroll

HR systems

Keep your employee list in your HR system and sync it with FjordHub. New employees don't have to be entered twice.

Payroll and ERP

Read hours worked, overtime and absences straight from the API and pass them to your payroll or ERP system without a manual export.

Your own reports

Load the data into your data warehouse or reporting tool and combine it with sales, production or other figures.

Automation

Create schedules and shifts from another planning system. Repetitive tasks run automatically instead of by hand.

Documentation in one place

The Swagger documentation describes every request and data structure. Developers don't have to wait for support to get started.

The same data

The API works with the same data you see in the system and the app. Changes made through the API show up there too.

One platform for everything

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FjordHub camera kiosk: a tablet in a wall mount in a factory hall, showing the clock and the clock in and clock out buttons, with a sign showing how to hold the QR code
Camera kiosk. The employee holds the card's QR code about 30 cm from the screen.
FjordHub NFC kiosk: a touchscreen on a concrete wall in a factory hall with a violet light around the frame, showing the clock and the clock in and clock out buttons
NFC kiosk. The violet light means the kiosk is ready. The light colour can be set in the system, for example to your brand colours or any other colour.

System

All system features

The system runs in the browser. These are all the features available in it, grouped by topic.

Time and attendance

  • Clock in and out in the mobile app
  • Clock in with NFC chips and devices on site
  • Clock in with a QR code
  • Time records linked to the planned shift
  • Automatic closing of open records when an employee forgets to clock out
  • Automatic lunch break deduction
  • Time rounding by company rules
  • Warnings about arriving too early and leaving too late
  • Penalty time for late arrivals
  • Overtime and night hours calculation
  • Work on public holidays, tracked separately
  • Editing, merging and deleting records with notes
  • Creating records in bulk
  • Restoring records after mistakes
  • Real-time view of who is at work at each site
  • List of inactive employees
  • Daily and monthly summary of hours worked for each employee
  • Anomaly reports on differences between the plan and actual time
  • Action history with undo and redo

Shift scheduling

  • Monthly planning calendar by site, department and zone
  • Creating, editing and copying shifts to the next day or another month
  • Recurring shifts and shift patterns for employees
  • Copying an employee's monthly shifts
  • Bulk deleting shifts and resetting a pattern
  • Changing the zone for one or several shifts at once
  • Overtime shifts, also recurring
  • Comments and notes on plan days
  • Employees shared between several sites
  • Plan import from Excel and a downloadable shift template
  • Department shift plans with approval
  • Hour plans and planning above the norm
  • Weekly rest time checks
  • Period approval that locks the plan
  • Monthly statistics of planned hours
  • Printing the plan and actual time

Shift requests

  • Employees can apply for open shifts
  • Managers approve or decline requests, also all at once
  • Request history and activation
  • Shift request report

Absences and vacations

  • Absence records: sick leave, vacation, day off, business trip, remote work and more, over 30 types in total
  • The list of absence types can be adjusted for your company
  • Absence calendar
  • Absence hours calculated and included in the plan
  • Vacation overview in the mobile app
  • Public holiday calendar

Sites and structure

  • Clients with their own feature settings
  • Sites with headcount and statistics
  • Departments and regions
  • Zones within sites
  • Positions
  • Cities and countries
  • Organisation chart
  • Site and employee import from Excel

Employees and users

  • Employee profiles with roles: administrator, manager, moderator, employee
  • Assignment to sites, departments, regions and zones
  • Deleting and restoring employees
  • Creating and resetting passwords, also with an SMS code
  • Sending the app link and a QR code to an employee
  • API token generation
  • Sign-in with a Microsoft account (Azure AD)
  • Map of employee activity and location (GPS)
  • Onboarding tour for new users

Projects and tasks

  • Projects with assigned employees
  • Tasks with groups, statuses, assignees and attachments
  • Task activity history
  • Time tracking for a specific task in the mobile app
  • Routes and route reports

Communication and notifications

  • Messages to employees in the mobile app
  • Bulk messages by site, position or employee group
  • SMS sending
  • Push notifications
  • System notifications marked as “seen”
  • Comments on time records and the plan
  • Email notifications and reports by email

Surveys

  • Creating surveys from a question library
  • Sending surveys to employees, departments or zones
  • Copying surveys and sending them by email
  • Filling in surveys in the mobile app
  • Exporting survey results

Safety and emergencies

  • Emergency registration and the employee status “I am safe”
  • Overview of employee status at a site during an emergency
  • Safety reports

Reports and analytics

  • Site and employee report with filters that can be saved
  • Actual hours report
  • Planned hours report
  • Daily and monthly hours reports
  • Overtime report
  • Trends report
  • Monthly client report
  • Department shift plan report
  • Project and task reports
  • Route report
  • Time record notes report
  • User roles report
  • Analytics charts by site and department
  • Automatic daily and weekly reports by email
  • Export to Excel and PDF
  • Invoice generation and download

Payroll and integrations

  • Hours worked as the basis for payroll
  • Visma Horizon: time export and shift import
  • Tilde Jumis: time export
  • Export formats for Axapta and Scala
  • Public REST API documented with Swagger
  • Data exports to external systems

Devices

  • Managing clock-in devices and monitoring their activity
  • NFC chip management
  • Error log of unrecognised chips
  • Linking devices and employees to sites

Administration

  • Turning features on and off for each client
  • Several clients and sites on one platform
  • Full change audit with version history
  • Languages: Latvian, English, Lithuanian and Norwegian

Kiosk

How the kiosk works

The kiosk is an app for recording working time. It is installed on a tablet or touchscreen at your premises. Employees use it to clock in, clock out and record breaks, and the entries go to the FjordHub system.

Two versions

They differ in the device and in how employees identify themselves. All other functions are the same. Both versions use one FjordHub account and can be used at the same time.

Camera

Device
Android tablet with a camera
Identification
The employee holds their ID card up to the camera and the app reads the QR code on the card.
Extra equipment
None needed

NFC

Device
NFC card reader with a touchscreen, built-in NFC reader and LED indicator
Identification
The employee taps an NFC chip or card on the reader.
The LED colour shows the status
  • Violet: ready
  • Orange: reading
  • Green: recorded
  • Red: error

How clocking in works

  1. The employee presses Clock in or Clock out.
  2. They identify themselves with an ID card or NFC chip.
  3. They choose the action: start or end of work, start or end of a break.
  4. The screen shows the recorded action and time.
  5. The entry is sent to the FjordHub system.

If the card or chip is not linked to an employee, the kiosk shows an error and no entry is created.

Features

  • Time recording. Clock in, clock out, start and end of a break.
  • Works offline. Entries are stored on the device and sent when the connection is back.
  • Surveys. After clocking in, the kiosk can show survey questions. You set them up in the FjordHub system.
  • Languages. Latvian and English. The language is set in the FjordHub system.
  • Company branding. Your logo and colours are loaded from the FjordHub settings.
  • Device pairing. A new kiosk is linked to your company with a 6 digit PIN from the FjordHub system.
  • Disabling a device. A kiosk can be disabled from the system, after which it can no longer be used for clocking in.
  • Remote support. We manage the kiosk devices with an MDM (mobile device management) system. If something stops working, we fix it remotely. This is included in the subscription price.

What you need

Camera

  • Android tablet with a camera
  • Mobile internet, included in the price

NFC

  • NFC card reader
  • Internet: PoE network cable or Wi-Fi
  • NFC chips or cards for employees

Both versions need a FjordHub account where cards or chips are linked to employees.

Frequently asked questions

What happens if there is no internet?

The kiosk keeps recording entries and sends them when the connection is back.

Can we use our existing NFC access cards?

Yes, with the NFC version, if the reader supports the cards. The cards need to be linked to employees in the FjordHub system.

What if the kiosk stops working?

Contact us. We manage the kiosk devices with an MDM system, so we fix problems remotely. Support is included in the subscription price.

How do I set up a new kiosk?

Create a PIN in the FjordHub system and enter it on the kiosk. The device is then linked to your company.

How do I change the language or branding?

In the FjordHub system settings. The changes appear on the kiosk automatically.