Business / Corporate

HRM & Biometric Attendance Management System

Full-Stack HRM & Biometric Attendance Management Platform

HRM & Biometric Attendance Management System

Project Overview

A comprehensive Human Resource Management and Attendance Management System built to automate employee management, biometric attendance tracking, working hours, leave management, attendance exceptions, reporting, and payroll-related processes.

The system integrates ZKTeco biometric fingerprint devices with a Laravel-based HRM platform to automatically synchronise employee attendance records. It provides separate dashboards and role-based access for Super Admin, HR Manager, Department Manager, and Employees.

The platform includes employee management, departments, designations, shifts, biometric device management, attendance processing, late tracking, overtime and short-hour calculations, leave management, attendance exception handling, employee self-service, notifications, and detailed attendance reports with Excel and PDF export functionality.

My role involved designing and developing the application architecture, backend business logic, database structure, biometric device integration, attendance processing, role-based access control, reporting, and user-facing interfaces.

Challenges & Solutions

One of the major challenges was integrating multiple ZKTeco biometric devices with the HRM system and reliably processing attendance logs from different devices.

The system was designed to synchronise attendance records from multiple biometric devices, map biometric user IDs to employees, prevent duplicate attendance logs, and process raw biometric punches into meaningful attendance records.

Another challenge was handling attendance across multiple floors where separate IN and OUT biometric devices were installed. The system processes these device logs to determine employee check-in and check-out records and calculate working hours.

Additional business rules were implemented for late arrival, grace periods, overtime, short hours, half-day attendance, leave balances, attendance exceptions, and shift-based calculations.

The application also uses role-based permissions to ensure that HR, managers, administrators, and employees only have access to the features appropriate to their roles.

Project Details

ClientEden Prime
Year2026
CategoryBusiness / Corporate
StatusCompleted

Tech Stack

PHP Laravel 12 MySQL JavaScript HTML5 CSS3 Bootstrap Blade ZKTeco SDK REST APIs Spatie Laravel Permission Laravel Excel DomPDF