People · Attendance
VanVed vs greytHR
for Attendance
Why businesses choose VanVed over greytHR
The attendance core here is unusually careful. Every check-in — admin, self-service, GPS, or a punch from a door terminal — goes through one function, so the approved-leave guard, the multi-punch archiving and the lateness rule cannot drift apart between entry points. A biometric terminal authenticates as a device rather than as a user, and that device's secret is also the tenant boundary, so a terminal configured for one customer cannot reach another customer's employee even when both enrol someone as user 7. Attendance is also a records store for people who are not employees at all — a gym member or a student — which greytHR has no concept of.
Capability by capability
Every row below is what our 2026 research found — including the rows we lose.
| Capability | VanVed | greytHR |
|---|---|---|
| GPS geofenced check-in | Yes — real distance against the branch's own coordinates and radius, and the app refuses to send anything if the GPS fix fails | Yes (GeoMark); live GPS tracking is a separate paid add-on |
| Selfie / face-recognition check-in | None — no photo is captured on any check-in path | Selfie capture and face matching with liveness detection |
| Biometric terminal integration | Yes — a device posts to a secret-authenticated endpoint; punches are stamped with the terminal's own clock, deduplicated on retry, and land through the same code path as every other check-in | Yes, through device partners |
| Regularisation requests | Yes — employee raises it, manager or HR approves, and the approval writes the corrected record back | Yes, with manager alerts |
| Multiple punches a day (breaks, split shifts) | Yes — each completed pair is archived and the total is re-summed, so a corrected punch lowers the total instead of leaving a stale one | Yes |
| Overtime | Priced from the minutes actually punched across the week, not from the shifts someone was scheduled for | Policy-driven OT from actual attendance, with an OT register and OT on the payslip |
| Muster roll and statutory registers | No muster roll, no register and no export of any kind — though the records list now filters by date range, employee, branch and status on the server rather than in the browser | Muster roll, attendance register and overtime register |
| Attendance feeding payroll | Yes, in the same product — paid days are recomputed from the records every time a run is generated, so a late correction is reflected immediately | Yes |
| Mobile app | Yes — GPS punch in and out plus a fortnight of history; no regularisation from the phone | Yes, including managers marking for their team |
Where greytHR is ahead of us today
greytHR can hand a labour inspector a muster roll and an overtime register. VanVed cannot export attendance at all — there is no CSV, no register and no report endpoint, though the records list at least filters server-side now. There is no selfie or face check-in, which is the control most Indian buyers ask for the moment they allow phone punching.
We publish this because a comparison that only flatters us is worth nothing to you. If one of these gaps is the thing you actually need, greytHR may well be the better buy.
What VanVed's Attendance module does
- Check-in / check-out
Records arrival and departure, with duration computed automatically.
- Late detection
Flags a late arrival against the expected shift or class time.
- Respects approved leave
A day covered by approved leave is not marked absent.