Spectrum Research, Inc.


Web Based Time Clock Software


web based time clock software

Spectrum TimeClock - Reliable, Web Based

Spectrum TimeClock™ is powerful, flexible, easy to use web based time clock software. We offer Spectrum TimeClock as a hosted time clock solution, running from our dedicated web and database servers, for a low monthly, quarterly, or yearly fee.

Spectrum TimeClock is a Superior Solution

Using Spectrum TimeClock as a web based time clock service can be a superior, more cost effective option than running a time clock program from your own computer or servers.
  • Try it for now for free. Send us your 30 day Trial Request today.
  • No software to install! Spectrum TimeClock runs from a web browser. Note that we have add-ons that you can install on your desktop.
  • No setup, maintenance or installation fees.
  • No Charge for Technical support for a single HR administrator in your firm.
  • Our service is priced very competitively with other applications with similar power. What we quote you is what you can expect to pay.
  • No Charge for inactive employees, and their records stay in the system.
  • All of your data is retained unless you delete it. Some other services delete your old payroll data.
  • All support is handled from our corporate offices in the USA by phone and email.
  • Updates are free and are only deployed after passing all quality control tests.
  • Your I.T. department will love it. All backups are automatic.
  • Our servers are in a secure locked down network datacenter that has diesel electric generators for emergency backup power.
  • Satisfaction guaranteed. If you are not completely satisfied with the Spectrum TimeClock service within 30 days of your purchase, we will give you a full refund.

Ideal for Firms with Multiple Locations or Remote Management

Spectrum TimeClock is ideal for decentralized firms that have multiple locations, potentially across multiple time zones and need a multiple time zone clock, or those who have employees who work from home. Security options are in place to allow firms to block time clock punching from unauthorized computers while still allowing manager logins, or to totally block access from all unauthorized locations.

Easy to Learn and Use

Spectrum TimeClock has a short learning curve due to its intuitive user interface and menu system. Employees punch in or out by simply entering their assigned Punch-ID and pressing a Clock In / Clock Out button.

Managers have addition screens where they can manage their direct employees. One large customer was able to train 17 managers in less than 10 minutes. Administrators love its rich selection of reports, management and security features.

Cut Time Calculation, Time Conversion, & Time Rounding Error Costs

Spectrum TimeClock lets you replace employee time clocks and time cards with web based time cards, to accurately track employee time and attendance on any of the network workstations you designate. Managing time and attendance for employees in different locations and even different time zones is now easy and accurate.

Calculating time cards can be a costly headache for companies of any size. Based on American Payroll Association savings estimates, companies with 50 employees could save more than $2,500 from paid time saved by payroll personnel. Another $50,000 per year could be saved through the elimination of payroll errors due to time rounding, time calculation, time conversion, and data transposition errors.

Try our Return On Investment Calculator to find out how much Spectrum TimeClock could benefit your organization.

Request a Free 30 Day Trial

If you would like to evaluate Spectrum TimeClock to see how it might be a good fit for your organization, please request a quote and free trial. Add up to 15 employees to your free trial. If you select Spectrum TimeClock, all of your data will be retained! The trials include everything except for 3rd party payroll data export reports for ADP, Paychex, PayPro, Millennium, Excel, QuickBooks etc.

Security First

Spectrum TimeClock has multiple user security levels to control access to all application screens. Administrators have full access to every screen. Managers have more limited access. Employees have minimal access and can't edit their own time card data unless you let them.

You define which computers can be punch clock stations using any of several configurable techniques including IPSEC (IP Security) for IP Time Clock control, network routing, or flagged computers. Employees can't punch in from home unless you want them to.

Biometric Fingerprint Reader Support

Biometric devices can prevent "buddy punching", where one employee punches in or out for another employee. Spectrum TimeClock supports two different fingerprint scanners.

Use the SecuGen® Hamster™ Plus with our Spectrum TimeClock BioNetick™ module when one or more biometric fingerprint time clock stations will be used, and multiple employees will punch in from each time clock station.

Use the Microsoft Fingerprint Reader to make Spectrum TimeClock operate as a biometric time clock when every employee has their own workstation and fingerprint readers.

Barcoded Employee Badge Support

You can also use Spectrum TimeClock with our Code39 Barcode Label Software to create barcoded employee id badges that can be used for barcode time and attendance punches. The barcode generator is included at no additional charge in our hosted accounts. Employee badges with barcodes can be read into Spectrum TimeClock using USB keyboard wedge barcode scanners.

When Spectrum TimeClock is in biometric time clock or barcode time clock mode, the keyboard can not be used as a punch-in device.

Built in Messaging / Workplace Communication System

Spectrum TimeClock has a built in, patent pending, messaging and workplace communication system that understands your company's chain of command. The workplace communication system will let your administrators and managers send verifiable messages to subordinates. Employees can send messages to their immediate superior. All employees can reply to any message sent to them.

Handles Complicated Shift, Job and Overtime Pay Rules

Spectrum TimeClock calculates all normal and overtime hours for an employee's payroll period, as well as hours for overtime exempt employees. California overtime, double-time, and the 7th day rule are supported, as well as the California four day alternate work week.

Shift differential pay is supported as a percentage of an employee's base pay rate.

Pay Rate / Job Codes are now supported to allow employees to punch in and be paid differently for different tasks or jobs.

The payroll calculation engine so powerful it allows you to use all of these options and computation formulas at the same time!

Flexible Pay Periods and First Day of Week Setup

We don't lock you into our idea of what a pay period should look like. You can configure our time clock software to use any day of the week as the first day of the week for overtime calculation.

For example, if your first day of week for overtime calculations is Sunday, and your payroll is from Tuesday the 15th until the end of the month, Spectrum TimeClock will look back at Sunday and Monday the 13th and 14th to see if an employee goes into overtime Tuesday the 15th, through Saturday the 19th - even though Sunday and Monday were paid on the previous payroll run.

If your first day of the week is configured some other day, the overtime calculation engine will look back to that day, regardless of the actual payroll start and end dates specified.

All types of payroll periods are supported:

  • Weekly Payroll
  • Bi-Weekly Payroll (pay every two weeks)
  • Semi-Monthly Payroll (pay on the 1st and 15th of the month)
  • Monthly Payroll
  • Any other date range

Additionally, for semi-monthly, monthly and other period payroll runs, Spectrum TimeClock knows how to calculate overtime regardless of what day of the week (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc.) the starting day of the payroll period falls on.

Track Employee Time Spent on a Job - Time Tracking Software

Employers using the Pay Rate / Job Code features built into the software can run reports to find out how many hours one or more employees working on a particular job took. This is great for tracking contract work for client billing!

Competitive Pricing with No Hidden Fees, and Guaranteed

We believe that you will find our pricing to be very competitive. You may also be pleasantly surprised to know that there are no hidden fees. We don't charge anything for setup, maintenance, or tech support for hosted service clients. What we quote you is what you can expect to pay.


Spectrum TimeClock Features

Manage employees in different locations.
Monitor time clock punches from any computer.
Accurately track employee work time and wages.
Timeclock uses the server's time. Employees can't change the computer's time.
TimeClock servers use the NIST Internet Time Service for accurate time.
Group employees by department.
Managers can manage employees in their direct workgroup or subgroups.
Managers can approve time clock punches.
Lower your time clock investment costs. Existing computers can be time clocks.
Reduce costs associated with rounding and calculation errors. (ROI Calculator)
Pay different amounts depending on shift or job.
Easily audit management time card changes.
Store and recall time clock punches as long as you want.
Simplify your holiday pay through automatic generation of holiday hours.
Manage an almost unlimited number of employees, depending on license.
Payroll hours can be batch generated for later retrieval.
Supports Time Zone adjustments via IP range or domain for multiple locations.
Export time clock data to payroll software like ADP, Paychex, QuickBooks & more.
Run the "Time Clock" clock module from any number of your workstations.
Login to administrate from any number of workstations.
Assign normal and overtime pay rates
Built in expandability - add new custom reports as they are written by you or us.
Optionally round time to nearest 5 minutes, 6 minutes (1/10th hour), 15 minutes.
Automatic lunch break adjustment for non-paid breaks.
Employees can login and view their paid hours and unpaid hours.

Spectrum TimeClock Reports

Quick payroll calculations including gross pay, overtime, vacation, sick and holiday hours.
Recent logins.
Employees clocked in.
Employees clocked out.
Employees who worked on a day.
Employee time clock detail for today.
Employee time clock detail for yesterday.
Unapproved time clock punches.
Employee time clock exceptions.
Employee time clock exceptions by group.
Payroll batch summary - overtime report.
Days worked by an employee.
Time clock punch notes.
Employee Pay Rate Codes
Employee Working on a Specified Day (totals)
Attendance Report
Employee Badges
System Metrics
Pay Rate Code / Job Timesheet Totals
Pay Rate Code / Job Timesheet Totals By Employee
Bad clock-in attempts.
Raw clock log.
Time clock punches by type and date.
Payroll system export (by special request).
And More...

Spectrum TimeClock Security Features

Five different user security levels with usernames and passwords.
User security credentials checked on every screen and operation.
Optionally limit time clocks to specific IP addresses or IP address ranges.
Optionally require manager login before accepting punches to eliminate punches from home.
Employee Punch-IDs are easily changed to prevent 'buddy punch' problems.
Biometric Device Support

System Architecture

"Spectrum Time Clock" is a Classic ASP (Active Server Page) employee time clock software application that uses a SQL Server database for data storage. Companies with existing Microsoft Windows 2000/2003 Servers using Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005 can put "Spectrum Time Clock" on their own intranet server.

*Licensed Customer* Minimum Server Specifications

Microsoft Windows 2000/2003 Server
Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Server) 5.0 or better
Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005
Licensed Time Clock Installation Guide.

Minimum Client Web Browser Specifications for Hosted Time Clock and Licensed Customers

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or better
Mozilla FireFox 1.0 or better
Netscape 6.0 or better
Opera 7.0 or better
Safari web browser with some limitations.
(Any of the above running on any operating system including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac, Linux, etc.)

Spectrum TimeClock can do all time and gross pay calculations, but does not calculate federal tax withholding, deductions, fica, or the final pay check total. We recommend 3rd party payroll and accounting services for those functions.

    Features Coming Soon

  • Employee Scheduling


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Customer Comments
We looked at 8 different systems and it (Spectrum TimeClock) was by far the best.
-Joe E., New York, NY
I think your product is great and has been working perfectly for us. I have given your information out to a lot of my business associates.
-Tom B., Sellersville, PA
This year has been the smoothest ever as far as employee time goes; your program has really worked well for us.
-Martin T., Panama City, FL
Today we introduced your program to all management and leads. Training time was less than 10 minutes for 17 people on 1 PC. 17-0 all agree that Spectrum is a lot easier to learn and use.
-John S., Atlanta, GA
It works great on my Mac!
-Allyson O., Seattle, WA
Everything's going great (after one year). We've had absolutely no problems whatsoever. We love it.
-Ana F., San Antonio, TX
We looked at 8 to 10 different systems and were completely impressed with Spectrum TimeClock. It had every report we wanted.
-Katrina M., Pineville, NC
The owners and management team believe that you have a superior product... we feel very comfortable recommending your services to the numerous small business owners in our circle of associates.
-Jeffrey M., Greensboro, NC
Everything runs so smoothly! I've recommended it to my husband's firm.
-Samantha B., Matthews, NC
We are really enjoying this new system. It is working great!
-Jennifer, D., Midland, TX
We looked at several and nothing could hold a candle to Spectrum TimeClock!
-Shanna B., Paris, TX
You're time clock system is the best!
-Agnes B., Windsor, CO

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