Textin
Cut employee slack with SMS-based timesheets
You place our tiny digital attendance code generators (Clockers) where you want to track your workers. You add your worker phone numbers to Textin. Workers text us the ever-changing number on the Clocker's display. You see the work get done in real time on Textin dashboard. Generate reports of logged work-hours, export data to anywhere or connect to your billing software through our API. It's simple!
Managing workers can be tricky. You can't always be around to watch over them.
Textin is a smarter, easier and more effective time & attendance solution. It uses tiny digital attendance code generators, we call them Clockers. Think of clockers as tiny punch clocks and your worker's phones is their punch cards, just without all the hassle of issuing and collecting those cards. And all the timesheets are instantaneously there for you and available 24/7 for your convenience.
Although the technology behind Textin is state of the art, it works with any phone that has basic text-messaging capabilities. So keeping up with your outsourced or temporary workers is as simple as SMS.
We're here to provide you with an ease of mind. Spend less time running your business to enjoy what really matters to you.
THIS PROJECT IS BUILT USING
Textin uses one-time-password (OTP) generators we call Clockers. Workers send the OTPs as a text (SMS) messages, and, based on that, we store this event as a checkin in a Percona SQL database. The OTP algorithm is HOTP (time-based). Our telephony services are provided by Nexmo and backend is written in PHP on Zend framework 2. Frontend is Jquery based and relies heavily on Ajax requests to provide data in real-time. There is also a RESTFUL JSON API. We're set up on AWS EC2 server running Ubuntu 14.04. For additional data security we perform continuous on-the-fly DB replication to a S3 bucket.