Manufacturing and plants

Shifts, punches and overtime, straight into payroll.

For plants, factories and multi-site operations. Keep the attendance machines you already own, run shifts and rosters, work out overtime under the Labour Codes, and pay everyone correctly in every state you operate in.

Shifts and overtime

The shop floor's week, the way the Labour Codes count it.

Shifts, night shifts and rosters

Start, end, break, late and early grace, half-day and full-day hours, and a default shift for each location. Night shifts cross midnight with the night punch handled. Rotation patterns and weekly offs go on a roster grid you edit, publish and assign in bulk.

Shift swaps

A worker asks a colleague to swap. The colleague agrees first, then the manager approves, through a multi-level chain if you set one.

Overtime against the 48-hour week

Counted daily, weekly or both, against the 48-hour weekly limit, with Wage Rules rounding. Dexta warns at 144 hours in a quarter. Employees claim, managers approve, and Pay pays overtime at twice the hourly rate.

Comp-off and late marks

Work on a rest day becomes overtime or comp-off. Comp-off expires after 60 days by default and the oldest credit is used first. Every N late marks can cost X days of leave or pay; HR can waive marks, and the result goes to Pay each month.

Everything in Dexta Time →

Attendance

Keep your eSSL and ZKTeco machines.

Most networked eSSL and ZKTeco models, and their look-alikes, speak the ADMS push protocol. They send each punch to Dexta Time as it happens.

Live punches

Only registered serial numbers are accepted. A new machine waits for HR's approval, and HR can limit a machine to the plant's IP range.

Older machines

For machines that can't push, import the CSV or Excel export from eTimeTrack, ZKTime/Att2000 or BioTime, or a USB download. The file is checked before it is saved.

Phone clock-in for field and site staff

Clock in from the phone, checked against the site's location and radius (200 m by default). Out-of-fence clock-ins can be allowed, flagged or refused. An optional selfie is never used for face recognition, and under-18s are never location-tracked.

Machines need to be ADMS-capable for live punches. Machines that can't use HTTPS send punches unencrypted unless an office relay is used; we'll check your models with you.

Reaching the floor

Alerts for staff without a work email.

Payslip ready, something to approve, a leave update: short WhatsApp or SMS alerts go to people who opt in and confirm their number. No amounts, PAN or bank details are ever sent, and nothing goes out between 21:00 and 08:00 by default.

Needs your own MSG91, Gupshup or Twilio account, DLT registration for SMS, and Meta-approved templates for WhatsApp.

  • Phone notifications for anyone who installs Dexta from the browser
  • Names print correctly on payslips in nine Indian scripts and Urdu
  • Old and new tax regime side by side, on the phone
  • Delivery reports for every WhatsApp and SMS

Payroll across states

Every location, its own rules.

PT and LWF for every state

Professional tax slabs and labour welfare fund rules for all 36 states and union territories, collected in the months each state collects them. Dexta reminds payroll when a state hasn't notified the year's cap.

Holidays per location

Several holiday calendars (for example one per state), with public and restricted holidays, and Saturday patterns per work week. Each location's staff follow their own.

Labour Codes in every run

The 50% wage rule, the 50% cap on deductions, a leaver's pay within two working days, gratuity for fixed-term staff after a year, and earned leave at one day per 20 days worked.

PF, ESI and statutory bonus

PF at the ₹25,000 ceiling with the ECR file, ESI and the ESIC upload file, and Payment of Bonus Act amounts proposed from the year's payslips.

Everything in Dexta Pay →

Stock and the books

Dexta Books also keeps your stock.

Inventory

Godowns, batches, stock entries and count sheets, valued by weighted average or FIFO (AS 2).

Production

Bills of materials and production orders that move stock through work in progress at cost.

Job work

Delivery challans for goods moved without a sale, and the ITC-04 job-work return from them.

Everything in Dexta Books →

Built: day-rated and hourly workers, paid a day or hour rate for the days or hours worked, taken from Dexta Time or entered in Pay. Not built yet: piece-rate wages, contract-labour management and visitor management. Flexi hours are limited to grace minutes on a shift. If these matter to your plant, tell us in the demo.

Try Dexta

See a plant's month in Dexta.

A 30-minute demo on a sample company: a roster published, punches from a machine, overtime approved, and the payroll run.

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