Case Study #26 - Don Carter All Star Lanes
Bowling Center Strikes Over 90% of Payroll Prep Time
May 20, 2006
Ingersoll Rand Recognition Systems HandPunch® Saves Don Carter All Star Lanes Time, Money
Industry:Recreation
Application:Time and Attendance
Biometric:HandPunch®
Users:700
Geography:United States
“The HandPunch® has saved me a lot of time, effort and inaccuracies.”
- Adam Wyse, Proprietor and General Manager, Don Carter All Star Lanes
Summary
Don Carter All Star Lanes is saving valuable time and money by switching from ID badges to the Ingersoll Rand Recognition Systems HandPunch® biometric hand reader.
Business Need
With 700 employees at its nine venues in three different states, Don Carter All Star Lanes was spending too much time and money manually processing payroll. Also, with their former employee badge system, fraud caused by “buddy punching” – workers punching in for their fellow employees who were late – added to unnecessary costs. “Before the HandPunch, it took us about three hours to calculate payroll manually,” said Adam Wyse, Proprietor and General Manager. “Now, we can do the entire payroll in 15 minutes.”
Challenges
“We wanted a time clock system that would keep people honest,” said Wyse. He explained that the HandPunch was recommended to him by his human resources department.
“We had been using a magnetic stripe system but the HandPunch assures the person checking in is physically there.
That eliminates buddy punching,” he said.
They also wanted a faster, more accurate and automated time and attendance system. “The HandPunch has saved me a lot of time, effort and inaccuracies,” said Wyse.
Solution
Each Don Carter All Star Lanes locale employees between 50 and 80 people. Each employee has his or her own code, which is keyed into the HandPunch.
They then present hands to the HandPunch, which verifies their identities based on the unique size and shape of their hands within one second and clocks
them in.
Managers at each location create the database, then upload the information to the corporate office where the payroll is run. “We like the system because it
functions well,” said Wyse. “We did the installation ourselves and it was very easy.”
Result
Don Carter All Star Lanes now saves significant money and time with Ingersoll Rand Recognition Systems HandPunch. They have streamlined their payroll system and eliminated time fraud through buddy punching.
Industry:Recreation
Application:Time and Attendance
Biometric:HandPunch®
Users:700
Geography:United States
“The HandPunch® has saved me a lot of time, effort and inaccuracies.”
- Adam Wyse, Proprietor and General Manager, Don Carter All Star Lanes
Summary
Don Carter All Star Lanes is saving valuable time and money by switching from ID badges to the Ingersoll Rand Recognition Systems HandPunch® biometric hand reader.
Business Need
With 700 employees at its nine venues in three different states, Don Carter All Star Lanes was spending too much time and money manually processing payroll. Also, with their former employee badge system, fraud caused by “buddy punching” – workers punching in for their fellow employees who were late – added to unnecessary costs. “Before the HandPunch, it took us about three hours to calculate payroll manually,” said Adam Wyse, Proprietor and General Manager. “Now, we can do the entire payroll in 15 minutes.”
Challenges
“We wanted a time clock system that would keep people honest,” said Wyse. He explained that the HandPunch was recommended to him by his human resources department.
“We had been using a magnetic stripe system but the HandPunch assures the person checking in is physically there.
That eliminates buddy punching,” he said.
They also wanted a faster, more accurate and automated time and attendance system. “The HandPunch has saved me a lot of time, effort and inaccuracies,” said Wyse.
Solution
Each Don Carter All Star Lanes locale employees between 50 and 80 people. Each employee has his or her own code, which is keyed into the HandPunch.
They then present hands to the HandPunch, which verifies their identities based on the unique size and shape of their hands within one second and clocks
them in.
Managers at each location create the database, then upload the information to the corporate office where the payroll is run. “We like the system because it
functions well,” said Wyse. “We did the installation ourselves and it was very easy.”
Result
Don Carter All Star Lanes now saves significant money and time with Ingersoll Rand Recognition Systems HandPunch. They have streamlined their payroll system and eliminated time fraud through buddy punching.