Vasgi Staff: attendance your staff can see and trust

What it does, and what it does not do

How it works, in four steps

1. The employer sets it up

   On the web dashboard, the business adds its staff, each person's working hours and its branch locations.

2. The employee installs it and reads what it does

   The employee is told what the app shares, when, and who sees it: our page for employees explains it. The app is designed to show the same explanation before it asks for any permission; this has not yet been checked in a released version of the app. The employee then scans a one-time QR code from the employer, and allows location "While using the app" and notifications.

3. The employee taps Start work

   Sharing starts only when the employee taps Start work, during their working hours. It continues with the screen off or another app open, and a notification with an End work button shows that it is sharing. It stops at End work or when working hours end. Outside working hours it collects no location. The employer sets the hours and can change them, and every change is recorded.

4. Both sides can see the same facts

   The employer sees check-in and check-out times, time on shift and location on the dashboard. A gap while someone is checked in is shown as "no signal", not as absence. The employee can ask to see the same data; the app's list of today's points has not yet been checked in a released version of the app.

Our transparency promises

These are part of how Vasgi Staff is designed. They are not settings an employer can switch off. Vasgi Staff is in early testing and some of them are still being built: the Privacy Policy lists which, and what happens until they are ready.

• You always know when it is on

  Sharing starts only when the employee taps Start work. The app never starts collecting location without showing a notification. The app icon is always visible. There is no hidden mode.

• Working hours only

  The phone collects no location before Start work, after End work, or outside the working hours the employer set. As a second check, our server throws away any location reading from outside those hours plus a 10-minute margin. Every change to the hours is recorded in the audit log.

• Staff can see their own data

  The app is designed to show the employee exactly what it has sent today; this has not yet been checked in a released version of the app. The app gives staff no way to see anyone else's data.

• Only the minimum

  Location, its accuracy and time, battery level, charging status and a fake-location flag. Beyond that, the phone model, software versions, when work started and stopped, with the reason sharing stopped, and when the phone last contacted our server during working hours. Our hosting provider also sees the phone's IP address when it contacts our server, and Google's QR code scanner, used during setup, sends Google its own diagnostics.

• Presence is not performance

  A gap in data is shown as "no signal", never as absence or slacking. A day without Start work is shown as "Not checked in", not as absent or late. Vasgi Staff never ranks or scores anyone.

• Looking is logged

  Views of location data on the dashboard are written to an audit log. The live map updates itself every minute, so while someone keeps it open it is logged once every 15 minutes.

• Each business sees only its own staff

  Every business's data is kept separate. A phone can only send its own data and fetch its settings; it can never read location data back.

• No lock-in for employees

  There is no uninstall protection. The employee can tap End work at any time. Only the employee's tap on Start work starts sharing, and only during the working hours set in the dashboard. Every change to those hours is recorded.

Who it is for