# PunchMe > PunchMe by Hostspica is attendance, leave and payroll software for Indian businesses with shop-floor and field staff. Employees punch in from an Android app; each punch is checked with a device-bound key, Play Integrity, a liveness check, a server-side face match and the office geofence. Payroll covers PF, ESI, PT, LWF and TDS. ## Pages - [PunchMe home](https://punchme.online) - [Features](https://punchme.online/features) - [Security](https://punchme.online/security) - [Pricing](https://punchme.online/pricing) - [For factories](https://punchme.online/solutions/factories) - [For security agencies](https://punchme.online/solutions/security-agencies) - [For retail chains](https://punchme.online/solutions/retail) - [For field sales and service](https://punchme.online/solutions/field-teams) - [Download the app](https://punchme.online/download) - [About](https://punchme.online/about) - [Contact](https://punchme.online/contact) - [Help center](https://punchme.online/docs) ## Help center - [Getting started with PunchMe for owners and HR](https://punchme.online/docs/getting-started.md): Sign up, finish the setup wizard, add offices, shifts and employees, invite HR and top up your wallet in PunchMe, step by step. - [Company profile, offices and geofences](https://punchme.online/docs/company-and-offices.md): Set your company name, GSTIN, state and address, add offices with a radius or polygon geofence, and manage company-wide settings in PunchMe. - [Team roles, permissions and access scope](https://punchme.online/docs/roles-and-permissions.md): Invite HR and managers to PunchMe, choose built-in or custom roles, set permissions like attendance.manage, and limit access to one office or department. - [Billing, prepaid wallet, free trial and GST invoices](https://punchme.online/docs/billing-and-wallet.md): How PunchMe billing works: free trial, prepaid wallet top-ups via Razorpay, monthly per-employee charge plus 18% GST, invoices and paused accounts. - [Attendance overview](https://punchme.online/docs/attendance-rules.md): How attendance works in PunchMe: punching, shifts, working days, geofence, face check, punch rules and flagged punch review in one place. - [Punching in and out: how a punch is checked](https://punchme.online/docs/punching.md): Step by step: what happens when an employee checks in or out in PunchMe, every check the punch goes through, and in what order. - [Shifts, grace minutes and late marking](https://punchme.online/docs/shifts.md): Set shift start and end times and grace minutes in PunchMe, and learn exactly when a check-in is marked late, including night shifts. - [Working days, weekly offs and holidays](https://punchme.online/docs/working-days-and-holidays.md): Set working days and weekly offs, add company or office holidays, and choose whether PunchMe blocks punches on off days. - [Geofence, GPS accuracy and fake GPS](https://punchme.online/docs/geofence-and-gps.md): How PunchMe checks location at punch time: office radius or area, GPS accuracy limit, fake GPS detection, and office vs work-from-home days. - [Face check: enrolment, liveness and matching](https://punchme.online/docs/face-check.md): How PunchMe face check works: one-time enrolment, liveness steps, the match threshold, resetting a face, and how face data is stored. - [Punch rules: block, flag or allow](https://punchme.online/docs/punch-rules.md): Every rule in PunchMe's Punch verification settings, what triggers it, its default, and what block, flag and allow each do to a punch. - [Reviewing flagged punches](https://punchme.online/docs/flagged-punches.md): How flagged punches reach your review queue in PunchMe, what each flag means, and what approving or rejecting (marking absent) does. - [Attendance correction requests](https://punchme.online/docs/corrections.md): How employees ask to fix a wrong attendance day, how the two-step approval works, and exactly what changes when a correction is approved. - [Absent, half day and how daily status is set](https://punchme.online/docs/absent-and-half-day.md): How PunchMe marks a day present, late, half day or absent, when auto-absent runs, and how the half-day threshold works. - [Offline punch when there is no network](https://punchme.online/docs/offline-punch.md): How the PunchMe app saves a punch without internet, syncs it within 72 hours, and how HR reviews offline punches. - [Overtime pay and comp-off leave](https://punchme.online/docs/overtime-and-comp-off.md): How PunchMe calculates overtime from check-out times, pays it in payroll, and credits comp-off leave for work on off days and holidays. - [Office kiosk for shared face punching](https://punchme.online/docs/kiosk.md): Set up a shared tablet as a PunchMe kiosk so staff punch in and out with their face, without their own phone. Pairing, exit PIN and backup code. - [Field tracking, routes and client visits](https://punchme.online/docs/field-tracking.md): See field staff location while they are checked in, their day route and distance, and client visits. How consent, battery and 90-day deletion work. - [Leaves, balances, approvals and loss of pay](https://punchme.online/docs/leaves.md): Set up leave types and yearly quotas, approve leave in one or two steps, use the sandwich rule, and see how leave affects attendance and LOP. - [Expense claims and reimbursements](https://punchme.online/docs/expenses.md): Let employees claim travel, food, fuel and mileage with receipts, set monthly limits, approve claims, and pay them in payroll or outside it. - [Employee loans and salary advances](https://punchme.online/docs/loans-and-advances.md): Give employees loans or salary advances, set EMI or % of salary recovery with optional interest, and recover them automatically in payroll. - [Payroll: run, review and finalize monthly salaries](https://punchme.online/docs/payroll.md): How the monthly payroll run works in PunchMe: draft, re-run, maker-checker, finalize, corrections, bank files, RazorpayX payouts and Tally export. - [Salary structure: components, pay basis and history](https://punchme.online/docs/salary-structure.md): Set up an employee's salary in PunchMe: components, monthly, daily or hourly pay, effective dates, arrears and the Basic plus DA 50% wage rule. - [Statutory compliance: PF, ESI, PT, TDS and more](https://punchme.online/docs/statutory-compliance.md): How PunchMe calculates PF, ESI, professional tax, LWF, TDS, statutory bonus, gratuity and leave encashment, and the ECR, ESI and TDS files it makes. - [Payslips: what's on them and how employees see them](https://punchme.online/docs/payslips.md): What a PunchMe payslip shows, when employees can see it in the app, how corrections appear, and how HR views and prints payslips. - [Employee profile, status and self-service](https://punchme.online/docs/employee-profile.md): What an employee record holds in PunchMe, what active, inactive and archived mean, and how employees edit their own details with or without HR approval. - [Employee documents, verification and expiry](https://punchme.online/docs/documents.md): Upload and verify employee documents in PunchMe, track expiry dates, and control who can see, upload or delete ID, address and other proofs. - [HR letters, templates and letterhead](https://punchme.online/docs/letters.md): Create offer, appointment, increment, relieving and experience letters in PunchMe from templates, add your letterhead, and share them with employees. - [Onboarding, resignations and exits](https://punchme.online/docs/onboarding-and-exit.md): Joining and exit checklists, pre-boarding links, resignations, last working day, asset return and full and final settlement in PunchMe. - [Performance reviews, review cycles and goals](https://punchme.online/docs/performance-reviews.md): Run review cycles in PunchMe with self, manager and anonymous peer reviews, HR calibration and release, plus goals with key results. - [Polls, pulse surveys and the kudos wall](https://punchme.online/docs/surveys.md): Run quick polls and recurring pulse surveys in PunchMe, keep answers anonymous, read results by round, and manage the company kudos wall. - [Helpdesk tickets and the Ask PunchMe help bot](https://punchme.online/docs/helpdesk.md): How employees raise HR tickets in PunchMe, how staff reply, assign, add internal notes and canned replies, set SLAs, and edit the Ask PunchMe bot. - [Company and office notices](https://punchme.online/docs/notices.md): Post announcements to all employees or one office in PunchMe, send them as push notifications, and see where employees read them in the app. - [PunchMe employee app for Android and iPhone](https://punchme.online/docs/employee-app.md): How employees sign in with an email code, punch in and out, see attendance, apply for leave and use payslips and HR help in the PunchMe app. - [PunchMe Manager app for owners and HR](https://punchme.online/docs/manager-app.md): Approve leave and requests, check today's attendance, review flagged punches, reach staff and post notices from the PunchMe Manager phone app. - [Device binding: one phone per employee](https://punchme.online/docs/device-binding.md): How PunchMe ties each employee to one phone for punching, what the device key does, and how to reset a device when someone changes phones. - [Notifications, push alerts and emails](https://punchme.online/docs/notifications.md): Which push notifications, in-app notifications and emails PunchMe sends to employees, managers and owners, and what triggers each one. - [Updating the PunchMe apps](https://punchme.online/docs/app-updates.md): How the PunchMe and PunchMe Manager apps tell you about new versions on Android and iPhone, and when an Android update is required. - [Data privacy, security and the audit log](https://punchme.online/docs/data-privacy-and-audit.md): What employee data PunchMe stores, how face templates, PAN and bank details are protected, who can see what, the audit log, data export and deletion. - [PunchMe frequently asked questions](https://punchme.online/docs/faq.md): Quick answers on PunchMe pricing, trial, employee app sign-in, device reset, face check, GPS, offline punches, approvals, payroll and data. ## Legal - [Privacy policy](https://punchme.online/legal/privacy.md): How Hostspica collects, uses, stores and protects personal data in PunchMe, and the rights you have under Indian law. - [Terms of service](https://punchme.online/legal/terms.md): The terms that apply when your company uses PunchMe, including trial, prepaid wallet billing, your responsibilities and our liability. - [Cancellation and refund policy](https://punchme.online/legal/refund.md): How cancellation works with PunchMe's prepaid wallet, which charges are refundable, and how to request a refund. - [Shipping and delivery policy](https://punchme.online/legal/shipping.md): PunchMe is online software, so nothing is shipped. Access is immediate and wallet top-ups are credited once Razorpay confirms payment. - [Data processing addendum](https://punchme.online/legal/dpa.md): How Hostspica processes employee personal data on behalf of PunchMe customers, and what each side is responsible for. - [Acceptable use policy](https://punchme.online/legal/acceptable-use.md): What you may and may not do with PunchMe, including rules on location tracking, face check, security and abuse reporting. - [Grievance Officer](https://punchme.online/legal/grievance.md): How to raise a complaint about PunchMe or your personal data with Hostspica's Grievance Officer, and how quickly we respond. - [Delete your account and data](https://punchme.online/legal/delete-account.md): How to delete your PunchMe account or employee data in the PunchMe, PunchMe Manager and PunchMe Owner apps by Hostspica, what is deleted and what is kept. ## Blog - [Tracking field staff fairly: what to measure and what to leave alone](https://punchme.online/blog/field-staff-tracking-fairly.md): A practical guide to location tracking for field sales and service teams in India: consent, duty-hours-only tracking, data retention and the reports that actually help. - [Fake GPS apps and attendance: how they work and how to catch them](https://punchme.online/blog/fake-gps-apps-attendance.md): How mock-location apps fool location-based attendance, the signals that expose them, and why a geofence alone isn't enough. - [Guard attendance for security agencies: proving the guard was at the post](https://punchme.online/blog/guard-attendance-security-agencies.md): Why guard attendance is hard to verify across many client sites, what clients ask for, and a practical setup using per-site geofences, face checks and kiosks. - [Buddy punching: how proxy attendance happens and how to stop it](https://punchme.online/blog/buddy-punching-proxy-attendance.md): How proxy attendance works on Indian shop floors, why registers and basic biometrics miss it, and the five checks that make a punch hard to fake.