Opsicle Terminal

OPSICLE Terminal turns a tablet by the staff door into a clock-in station.

Staff tap their name and enter a four-digit PIN, or clock in by face where their employer has switched it on and they have agreed to it. Clock in, start a break, end a break, clock out - a few seconds each, and an auditable record in OPSICLE straight away.

WHAT IT DOES
• Today's rota on screen - who is due in, who is in, who has gone home
• Clock in, breaks and clock out by PIN
• Optional face recognition, with a manager-confirm route whenever a face is not recognised
• Manager options behind a PIN: attendance corrections, the site timeline, biometric enrolment and consent, and terminal settings
• Day or dark appearance and three interface sizes, set per tablet - two terminals in one business are read from different distances
• Landscape, screen kept awake, built to sit on a wall

FACE RECOGNITION IS OPTIONAL, AND CONSENTED
Matching runs on the tablet against a bundled model, so no Google Play Services are required and the app runs on Amazon Fire tablets too. No photograph is ever stored. What is stored is a mathematical template that cannot be turned back into a face. Every employee is shown a consent notice and agrees with their own PIN before anything is captured, and consent can be withdrawn at any time, which erases the template. Declining costs nothing - the PIN route is complete on its own.

WHAT YOU NEED
An OPSICLE account. In the web app, Settings > Terminals issues a pairing code for one site; you type it into the tablet once and it holds its own credential from then on. There are no user accounts on the tablet itself, and nothing to sign up for here.

OPSICLE is operations software for shift-based businesses in UK retail and hospitality - scheduling, attendance, leave, documents, hiring and compliance, across a web app, this terminal, and a mobile app for staff.