How do you choose time and attendance software in Morocco?

There is no best software in absolute terms: there is the one that fits your time clocks, your hours and your payroll. For a Moroccan company, four requirements come first:

1. It reads your current time clocks, usually ZKTeco or Hikvision, without buying everything again.
2. It calculates hours under the Moroccan Labour Code: 44 hours a week, article 201 premiums, public holidays, Ramadan hours.
3. It tracks several sites, with managers who see only their own scope.
4. It produces a payroll-ready statement, without re-keying.

The table below lists the criteria to compare.

This is the first question, because replacing time clocks often costs more than the software. Ask for the list of models, the protocol used and which ones have been connected for real; see our catalogue.

Also ask what the site network needs: the ZKTeco or Hikvision comparison details these differences.

From more than one site, online software is almost always the right choice: punches from all sites arrive in one place, with no PC to leave on in each store. The HR manager, the store manager and the accountant work on the same data, each with their own rights.

Ask the vendor where your data is hosted and how to get it back. See online time and attendance.

Good Moroccan software applies the Labour Code by default and lets you adapt it to your collective agreement. In TEMPO, each attendance policy holds these rules:

• Overtime threshold: beyond the scheduled day or beyond 44 hours a week.
• Article 201 premiums: 25% by day and 50% at night on a working day; 50% and 100% on the rest day or a public holiday.
• Payment or time off in lieu, hour for hour, depending on the policy.
• Public holidays per site and Ramadan hours.

See the guides overtime in Morocco and legal working time.

Preparing payroll means producing each month, per employee, the days worked, normal hours, overtime by rate, leave, absences and advances, then freezing those figures.

TEMPO does this with closed pay periods, an activity statement per employee, integration reports and export templates in your payroll software’s format, then payslip distribution. See payroll preparation.

A time and attendance tool alone is enough when the rest of HR is already well kept elsewhere. An HRIS becomes preferable when the same employees live in three files: the time clock, the leave spreadsheet and the personnel file. The employee exists only once, and approved leave credits the day instead of marking it absent.

In TEMPO, time and attendance sits alongside the personnel file, contracts, leave, training, evaluations, occupational health, expenses and petty cash, mission orders, the fleet and equipment.

Yes, if some of your employees work without a time clock: sales reps, technicians, construction sites, small stores.

In TEMPO, the employee portal opens on the phone, with no app store. The employee clocks in within the site perimeter, with a selfie if needed, and checks their schedule, requests and payslips. See time and attendance app.

Ask three questions: who can see what, who changed what, and how sensitive data is protected. In TEMPO, each role has its scope, the activity log keeps the before and after of every change, and salary and bank details (RIB) are encrypted and masked.

For biometric time clocks, law 09-08 also applies: see data security and the guide biometric clocking and the CNDP.