Time and attendance management — With the addition of an optional third-party software package, ESI Presence Management can document employees’ time records based on scanning into and out of the building. Integration among the ESI phone system, ESI Presence Management, and ESI TimeLine simplifies timesheet preparation and payroll functions. An Ethernet® connection is provided to the customer’s LAN via ESI’s NSP*, which passes RFID scanning activity to the customer’s workstation PC running the time and attendance software application. The host PC is not required to be a dedicated unit, nor does it need to be a server.

The third-party software formats the attendance history of each scanned employee in a way that is easily imported into many payroll software packages, such as ADP® and QuickBooks®. Many companies that initially believe such an automated payroll application is out of their reach financially or too sophisticated for their company find that, in fact, this option saves countless hours in payroll preparation, error correction, and employee negotiation over time worked and absences