Warehousing and logistics operations don’t run like a standard nine-to-five office. You’re running 24/7 shift patterns, managing a mix of permanent staff, agency workers, and HGV drivers — often across multiple sites or warehouse zones. Every minute of delay at a terminal during shift changeover costs you productivity.
We’ve worked with businesses in this sector long enough to understand what goes wrong. Agency hours that don’t match the invoice. Drivers clocking on two separate systems. Skills gaps on the shop floor because no one checked who held a valid forklift licence. Payroll queries that take hours to unpick at the end of the week.
Focus.net is designed to handle exactly this. A cloud-based time and attendance platform that connects your warehouse floor, your drivers, your agency partners, and your payroll — all in one place.
Key Challenges
Workforce Management Challenges in Warehousing & Logistics.
Clocking queues at shift changeover
When hundreds of staff clock in at the same time, slow terminals back everything up. Every second counts at a busy shift handover.
Agency worker admin
Fast onboarding, accurate hour tracking, and end-of-week reconciliation with multiple agencies is a drain on management time — and errors are costly.
Drivers on two systems
HGV drivers already use digital tachograph cards. Asking them to use a separate clocking system creates duplication, confusion, and compliance gaps.
Skills and licence compliance
Putting the wrong person on a shift because forklift licences or HGV entitlements weren’t checked isn’t just an operational problem — it’s a liability.
Labour cost visibility
Without granular cost centre tracking by zone, department, or agency, it’s near impossible to know where your labour budget is actually going.
Complex rosters and Working Time Regulations
24/7 rotations, night shift premiums, overtime rules, and driver hours compliance under Working Time Regulations require a system that can keep up.
How We Help
How Focus.net Works for Warehousing & Logistics
High-speed, high-volume clocking
Our biometric terminals — fingerprint and facial recognition — are built for high-throughput environments. Deploy multiple terminals across your warehouse floor or gate to eliminate bottlenecks. Enrolment records transfer automatically between terminals, so onboarding a new agency worker takes minutes, not a morning. For gate entrances, yard areas, or anywhere a fixed terminal isn’t practical, Focus Wave lets employees clock in simply by tapping the NFC wall tag with their smartphone.
- High-capacity biometric and proximity terminals
- Focus Wave NFC tap-to-clock for flexible locations
- Proximity card/fob and tablet kiosk options
- Automatic enrolment sync across terminals
Tachograph integration for drivers
Focus.net integrates directly with FTA Vision and Tachomaster, so your HGV drivers clock in using their existing digital tachograph card. One card. One system. No duplication, and full visibility of driver hours against Working Time Regulations.
Agency and cost centre control
Track hours by warehouse zone, department, cost centre, or agency. At the end of the week, Focus.net pulls together the costings per agency per site — ready to cross-check against invoices before they’re approved. Multi-level timesheet approval means site managers, area managers, and payroll teams each sign off at the right stage — no more chasing authorisation at month end.
- Activity code and cost centre capture
- Agency-level reporting
- Multi-level timesheet approval (up to 3 levels)
- Export-ready payroll data for Sage, Iris, Earnie and others
Skills and rota compliance
Build rotas using the Drafting Bench — a drag-and-drop visual planner that highlights skills and qualification gaps before you publish. If a forklift licence is expiring, a fire marshal isn’t rostered, or an employee is approaching their Working Time Directive limit, the system flags it so you can act before the shift goes live.
- Skills and qualifications management (forklift, HGV licence, first aid, fire marshal, etc.) with expiry alerts
- Shift pattern management for fixed, flexible, rotating, and 24/7 operations
- Working Time Directive awareness — flags potential breaches during rota planning
- Shift bonuses, night shift support, and complex overtime calculations
Fire safety and site visibility
The Focus Attendance Board gives you a real-time rolling view of who’s on site, on which shift, and in which zone. Live Fire Roll Call is accessible on mobile — so in an emergency, your muster is never dependent on a single terminal or office PC. For sites with regular contractor or visitor traffic, the built-in Visitor Management system handles registration and roll call in one place.
Key Benefits
Focus Attendance Board – rolling shift attendance display
Roster planning
Cost Centre analysis
Integration of tachograph for drivers – FTA Vision & Tachomaster
Access control integration
Automated fire alarm muster reporting
Export to payroll
Shift bonuses, night shifts, complex rostering, overtime
Trusted by Businesses Across Logistics
Cargo Express is a Birmingham-based logistics solutions provider delivering tailored transport services to businesses across the globe. With 130 staff split between warehouse and road, flexible last-minute rosters, four different pay rates, and a need for app-based clocking with geotracking — they needed a system that could handle real complexity, quickly.
Focus.net was fully configured and rolled out in under six weeks, including bespoke shift rules, payroll export to Brightpay, and geolocation mapping for drivers on the road.
“The system is very easy to use, requiring little time to set-up, training on the system is very quick and you are up and running with it in no time at all. After service help is second to none.”
— Neil Buckley, Compliance Director, Cargo Express
Built for the Demands of Your Sector
- Cloud-based — no on-site server, accessible from any browser
- Multi-site capability with centralised management
- Multi-level timesheet approval (up to 3 levels)
- Biometric terminals (fingerprint + face recognition) for high-volume clocking
- Focus Wave NFC wall tag — tap-to-clock via smartphone
- Proximity card, fob, and tablet kiosk options
- Tachograph integration — FTA Vision and Tachomaster
- Working Time Directive awareness — flags potential breaches during rota planning
- Visitor Management — registration and fire roll call in one place
- Skills and qualifications management with expiry alerts
- Cost centre and activity code capture by zone, department, or agency
- Bradford Factor and absence management
- Fire muster and Live Fire Roll Call on mobile
- Access control integration
- Employee Self-Service app with geofencing for off-site and driver clocking
- Payroll integration — Sage, Iris, Earnie, and more
- Automatic enrolment transfer for fast agency worker onboarding
If your operation runs around the clock, your attendance system should too.
Get a no-obligation walkthrough of Focus.net configured for warehousing and logistics — and see how quickly it could fit into your operation.