With the new Time and Attendance photo ID systems available today, employee punch cards are a thing of the past. Time and attendance tracking can be easily incorporated into your existing employee ID program with just a few simple components. Time and Attendance systems allow you to create employee ID cards that not only identify employees but also allow you to keep accurate time and attendance logs.

AlphaCard has added new visitor ID solutions from TEMPbadge, including a kit for schools, reusable badges for contractors and two general use badges.

Did you know AlphaCard carries a full selection of time-expiring badges that can help you run a more effective visitor management system? These low-cost temporary badges are super simple to use and come in a variety of styles. Most include a special pattern that fades over a certain amount of time. This makes it easy for you to spot visitors and quickly see whether or not their badge is current.

Visitor management is one of the most effective ways you can increase safety in and around your facilities. By controlling access at the point of entry, you can keep a thorough record of all those who come and go throughout the day. In the days of yore, most visitor management systems consisted of nothing more than a ball-point pen and a sign-in sheet. But now you have much more sophisticated and effective options at your disposal, including AlphaTrack visitor management software, a powerful platform that provides tools for secure badge design, employee and visitor tracking, and access control.

In response to increasing security risks, hospitals are implementing programs that make it easier to identify who is walking through their doors. With more than 4,000 visitors everyday, hospitals in the Cottage Health system in California are taking extra security precautions and employing a visitor identification badge system.

Alabama's Fort Payne Middle School is gearing up to install a new visitor management system that that can instantly run background checks on all visitors, and print out temporary photo ID badges. The school received a grant to acquire the system, which is part of a committed effort to increase school security.

New Jersey's Lenape Regional High School District has installed an electronic visitor management system know as LobbyGuard in each of its four schools. The system is used to monitor visitors on school grounds. Electronic visitor management systems are a major improvement over the traditional paper sign-in sheets of old. With these new systems, schools are able to print photo ID badges on the spot and track visitors, create databases, run background checks, and more.