Discover how integrating your T&A system with Payroll & HR boosts accuracy, compliance, and efficiency. Book your free demo today.
The ROI of Connected HR Systems in 2025
If your Time and Attendance (T&A) system isn’t integrated with the rest of your business software, you’re creating extra work, unnecessary errors, and wasting money.
Integration is simply the secure handshake between two software programs, allowing them to share data seamlessly. Why is that so important? It eliminates the painful, costly, and time-consuming manual steps that bog down your HR and Finance teams.
Ready to see how a single connection can transform your operations? Here are the four biggest benefits of integrating your Time & Attendance solution.
1. Eliminate Payroll Headaches and Costly Errors
This is the integration most businesses need, and for good reason. Manually calculating hours, overtime, and leave from timesheets is the #1 source of payroll mistakes.
Accurate data, guaranteed: Your T&A system automatically calculates all complexities, including overtime rules, shift differentials, and holiday accruals. That clean, validated data then goes straight to your payroll service (Sage or Xero etc).
Reduce manual data entry: You drastically reduce the hours your team spends exporting, manipulating, and re-entering timesheet data. Think of how many fewer errors you’ll have.
Stay Compliant: Integration enforces your company’s pay policies and current labour laws before the money goes out the door, ensuring you’re always compliant and audit-ready.
2. Streamline Security with Access Control
Door readers and security gates do more than keep people out. When integrated with your T&A system, they become powerful, secure time-capture devices.
- One Action, Two Functions: An employee uses their key card, fob, or biometric scan to enter the building, and that single action simultaneously opens the door and records a secure clock-in event in your T&A database.
- Save on Hardware: By utilising your existing access control hardware, you don’t need to purchase or maintain a separate set of clocking terminals.
- End “Buddy Punching”: Using biometric integration is the most effective way to eliminate time theft, ensuring the person clocking in is actually the employee who should be there.
3. Achieve a Single Source of HR Truth
Managing payroll can be a complex and time-consuming task. With RotaOne Time & Attendance, businesses can automate payroll processes and ensure accurate calculation of employee wages. By integrating with other systems, such as HR software, RotaOne Time & Attendance eliminates manual data entry and reduces the risk of errors, resulting in streamlined payroll operations and significant time savings.
4. Unbreakable Audit Trails
Manual processes are messy; integrated systems are not. Every piece of data transferred is logged and dated, creating a clear, unassailable audit trail.
- Straightforward audits: If an employee questions their pay or an external auditor requests records, you can quickly produce timestamped, verified data that’s been approved by both your T&A and Payroll systems.
- Mitigate Risk: This electronic paper trail drastically mitigates the risk of human error and data tampering, providing solutions for your HR, Finance, and Legal teams.
Why Choose Thinking Software for Integration?
Integration is what we do best. For over 30 years, Thinking Software has led the industry in connecting time and attendance with mission-critical business applications. We’ve mastered the APIs for over 45 different systems, guaranteeing you a reliable, seamless connection. #
Ready to see how simple a truly integrated solution can be?