Attendance tracking · mobile app, time clocks, or both
With Idenua your team clocks in from their phone —Face ID, selfie and location— or at a fingerprint and face time clock. You see everything in one panel, with reports and Excel export. And if you use Odoo, punches land there on their own.
App $150 per 100 employees · Time clocks from $199 · VAT not included · No contract
NEWNo time clocks? Your team can clock in with the app aloneNot everyone works the same way: some walk into a plant, others work from home or on the road. Idenua covers both with the same panel, the same report and the same payroll.
$150 + VAT per month for every 100 employees
$199 + VAT per month, up to 3 clocks
Both? They add up in the same panel: an employee can use the clock at the office and the app when working from home.
There are four ways to record attendance. The difference that matters isn't the price of the device, but whether it stops a coworker from clocking in for someone else and how much work it leaves for HR.
| Type | Stops someone else from clocking in? | Hardware | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Card or code time clock | ✗No: cards and codes get shared | The cheapest | Basic control with few employees |
| Fingerprint time clock | ✓Yes | Affordable: the best seller | Offices. Struggles with worn hands, dust or cuts |
| Facial time clock | ✓Yes, and without touching the device | A bit pricier than fingerprint | Plants, warehouses, construction and staff with working hands |
| Phone app (Idenua) | ✓Yes: Face ID or the phone's fingerprint, selfie and GPS | None: it uses the employee's phone | Home office, field sales and branches with no clock |
Without software, clock-ins stay in the device: someone has to pull them over USB, gather them from each branch and build the report by hand. With Idenua they arrive on their own to a cloud panel, ready for payroll.
Choose a ZKTeco clock with the ADMS feature (it shows up in the menu as cloud server or Cloud Server). That's how it connects straight to Idenua, with no software or server to install. Not sure which one? Ask us on WhatsApp and we'll recommend the model.
You can buy your clock on your own —any ZKTeco with ADMS works— and manage it with Idenua. But if you'd rather not go hunting for one, we sell it to you already tested and ready to connect to Idenua, with the power adapter and shipping included. All three read face and fingerprint; what changes is how many people they hold. Pick one based on your headcount:
Ideal for up to ~100 people
Ideal for up to ~2,000 people
Same capacity as the MB160ID, but reads a face in under 0.35 s
Prices in Mexican pesos · 16% VAT not included · Power adapter and free shipping across Mexico · All ship configured and ready to connect to Idenua. Not sure which one fits? Ask us on WhatsApp and we'll tell you.
Add every location from a single dashboard: head office, plant or branches. Each site can have several ZKTeco time clocks.
In the ZKTeco reader's menu, enter the Idenua address in the cloud server (ADMS) option. Nothing to install on any computer.
Every punch shows up instantly in the Idenua dashboard, ready for your hours report. And if you use Odoo, the check-in or check-out is created in Attendances too, with no manual work.
When an employee enrolls their fingerprint, photo or face on any reader, the template replicates automatically to the other readers at the same site. Everything is managed from the Idenua dashboard, without opening the manufacturer's software.
If you add a new reader tomorrow, it automatically receives every fingerprint, photo and face of the employees already enrolled. Zero manual re-enrollment.
The platform keeps track of which reader already has each template, so nothing gets left behind or duplicated.
Not all your employees walk past a ZKTeco clock. With the Idenua app, people working from home or in the field record their check-in, lunch and check-out from their phone. Every clock-in confirms identity with Face ID or the phone's fingerprint, takes a selfie and stores the GPS location. It reaches the same platform and Odoo, alongside the clock-ins from your readers.
Before every clock-in the app asks for Face ID, Touch ID or the phone's fingerprint. The phone is linked to the employee with a QR code generated by HR, and there can only be one active phone per person.
The front camera takes a photo on every clock-in. It's stored in your dashboard as proof and, if you use Odoo, attached to the attendance too. Nobody can clock in for someone else.
HR marks the home office address and the allowed radius on a map. If someone clocks in outside it, the clock-in is recorded flagged with the distance, in the dashboard and in Odoo.
The app recognizes when the location comes from a GPS spoofing app and flags the clock-in for HR to review.
The buttons change on their own: check-in, lunch break, back from lunch and check-out, based on the schedule assigned to them —the one in your Odoo if you use it—. It warns them if they went over their lunch time.
With no internet, the clock-in is saved on the phone with its real time and sent automatically as soon as the connection is back.
Clock-ins from the app show up with selfie, address, GPS accuracy and geofence result, next to the ones from your ZKTeco clocks. From there you activate phones, deactivate them when someone leaves the company and draw geofences. On Odoo 17 or later, the attendance also stores the location in its native fields with the selfie attached.
Odoo 20 ships the Attendances ZKTeco BioTime module. Its own documentation makes it clear: the integration connects to the BioTime software, not to ZKTeco readers. To use it you need to buy BioTime, install it on a server and run Odoo 20 Enterprise. Here's how the two options compare:
| What to compare | Idenua And nothing else |
Native Odoo 20 requires BioTime PRO + a server + setup |
|---|---|---|
| How it connects | ✓Straight to the ZKTeco reader over ADMS | Odoo queries the BioTime server; BioTime talks to the readers |
| Extra license | ✓None | ✗Separate BioTimePro license: the smallest one (5 devices, 500 employees) ~$10,500 to $13,600 MXN, perpetual and tied to one server |
| Server | ✓Not needed: runs in the Exdoo cloud | ✗Your own server running BioTimePro, always on and reachable from Odoo |
| Odoo versions | ✓10 to 20 | Odoo 20 only |
| Odoo edition | ✓Community and Enterprise | Enterprise |
| When clock-ins arrive | ✓In real time | Every 12 hours, or when you press “Fetch” |
| Adding employees | ✓Created in Odoo and pushed to the readers automatically | Added in BioTime, then the “ZKTeco employee ID” is entered on each Odoo employee |
| Fingerprints and faces | ✓Enrolled once and replicated to every reader at the site | Managed in BioTime, outside Odoo |
| From clock-in to attendance | ✓Automatic, hands-off | They arrive as “transactions” to be processed; failed ones are fixed and reprocessed by hand |
| Clock in from a phone (home office) | ✓iPhone and Android app with Face ID, selfie and GPS | ✗BioTime's mobile app is a separate license; Odoo allows browser clock-ins without verifying who clocks in |
| Geofences and fake GPS | ✓Geofence per employee and spoofed-location detection | ✗Not included; requires third-party modules |
| Monthly fee | From $199 MXN + VAT (3 readers) | No monthly fee for the connector (included in Enterprise) |
Example: a company with 3 ZKTeco time clocks currently running any Odoo version from 10 to 19.
Official Odoo integration
Straight from the reader to Odoo
Reference prices from ZKTeco distributors in Mexico (September 2026), VAT included in the license. They may vary by distributor and edition. Still want to upgrade your Odoo? Check out our Odoo migration service.
The official integration only exists in Odoo 20. With Idenua you connect your time clock today, on the version you already run, and when you decide to upgrade your Odoo the connection comes with you.
Idenua works across all 11 versions, so you connect your clocks today without migrating. The integration shipped with Odoo exists only in 20 Enterprise and needs BioTime.
Keeping attendance control isn't only about knowing who showed up late. In Mexico, the Federal Labor Law puts the burden of proving your staff's working hours on the employer.
If an employee claims overtime, the law asks the company to show how long the workday lasted. Without reliable records, what the worker says is what counts.
If you keep attendance controls, you must produce them in court. Idenua stores them in the cloud with date, time, location and selfie: nothing is lost, nothing is erased and no one alters them.
The worked-hours report comes out of the panel and exports to Excel, or lands in Odoo if you use it. No more paper attendance sheets or Excel built by hand.
General information about the Federal Labor Law, not legal advice. Consult your labor attorney for your case.
Base plan with up to 3 time clocks across the sites you need. VAT not included.
for every 100 employees clocking in from their phone. It can be purchased on its own, with no time clocks at all: from $150 + VAT per month.
Prices in Mexican pesos · 16% VAT not included · No minimum term · Cancel anytime
No BioTime, no server and no upgrade. Plus an app for people working from home. We'll help you set up your first site.
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