Connecting an attendance machine

What you’ll do: add your machine in Dexta Time, point the machine at Dexta, and approve it.

Who can do this: HR, with someone who can open the machine’s menu.

You need a machine that can send punches to a server (shown on the machine as Cloud Server Setting or ADMS). Most eSSL and ZKTeco machines can.

Steps

1. In Dexta Time, open Attendance machines under Administration and click Add a machine.
2. Fill in the Name, the Serial number (on the machine: Menu → System info → Device info), the Location, the time zone the machine’s clock uses, and what A punch means. Click Save machine.
3. Open How to connect a machine on the same page and copy the server address shown there.
4. On the machine, go to Menu → Comm. → Cloud Server Setting (or ADMS) and enter that address. Use HTTPS on port 443 where the machine allows it.
5. Back in Dexta, the machine appears under Machines asking to connect. Click Approve (or Not ours if you don’t recognise it).
6. Enrol each person on the machine under the number in their employee code. Then check Last heard from and Punches today in the list.

Good to know

• Punches the machine sends for a number Dexta doesn’t know wait under Punches waiting for a person. Who is who on the machines shows who is enrolled.
• A machine that can’t use HTTPS can send plain HTTP if you tick Accept plain HTTP from this machine. Those punches travel unencrypted unless you use an office relay.
• Have a machine that can’t connect at all? Use Import a machine’s file to bring in its export.

Related

• Employee codes
• Shifts and rosters
• Clocking in from the phone
• Dexta Time