Employers can't reliably track who showed up across multiple sites. Employees can't prove they arrived at work. Jem Time & Attendance creates a single source of truth for both sides.
Trusted by 200+ employers and 250,000+ deskless workers across Africa
Around 4% of monthly payroll leaks through no-shows, late arrivals and shifts that were paid but never verified. Use your own workforce size and average wage to see what that costs you.
R 1,600,000
Leaking per month
R 320
Per employee, per month
R 19,200,000
Leaking per year
Jem T&A makes this visible in real time for R50 per employee per month.
Book a demoMulti-site deskless workforces don't behave like office or factory teams. The tooling has to follow.
There's no hardware to install, no app to push to thousands of phones and no training programme to run. WhatsApp is already on your employees' phones, and they already use it every day. You switch Jem on, register and can start clocking in immediately.
No NFC fobs, no biometric scanners, no app downloads. The delivery channel is WhatsApp.
Employees clock in and out via WhatsApp. Works on any phone with WhatsApp.
Every clock event is verified against the employee's assigned site. Out-of-location attempts are flagged the moment they happen.
Know within minutes when someone misses clock-in. Dispatch relievers before compliance penalties kick in.
See who's on site, who's late and who hasn't arrived, across every site and shift, in real time.
Rostered and actual hours reconciled in one view. Stop paying for shifts that weren't worked.
Every clock event creates a WhatsApp receipt the employee can reference for pay disputes or overtime claims.
Workers don't see attendance tracking. They see a chat that gives them a receipt every time they show up: proof for pay disputes, overtime claims and a record of every shift they worked.
No. Location is checked only when employees clock in and out, not between clock events or outside working hours. Nothing runs in the background, and employees keep a WhatsApp receipt of each event.
Employers see attendance information: clock-in and clock-out times, location at clock events and hours worked. Jem does not give employers access to employees' personal WhatsApp conversations or track their movements between clock events.
Employees can clock themselves in on any phone that runs WhatsApp, with nothing extra to install. If an employee doesn't have a compatible phone, a supervisor can clock them in through WhatsApp, or a manager can use the Jem Hub.
A supervisor or manager can record the employee's clock-in or clock-out from their device or the Jem Hub. These alternative channels are built in, so a broken, lost or flat phone doesn't have to leave a gap in the attendance record.
Clocking happens inside WhatsApp and uses very little data: a clock-in message is around 30 KB. GPS is checked only at clock-in and clock-out, with no separate app running in the background. If an employee can't clock themselves in, a supervisor or manager can help.
At sites where taking out a phone creates a theft risk, employees don't need to expose their own devices. A supervisor or manager can clock them in with a photo instead.
Clocking prompts are available in English, isiXhosa and isiZulu. A supervisor or workplace champion can guide employees through their first clock-in. Employees can also choose Contact Us in the Jem WhatsApp menu to reach customer support.
Supervisors can be assigned to multiple sites or marked as roaming. Clock-ins are checked against their assigned sites, and events outside those locations are flagged for review rather than automatically rejected.
Each clock event creates a timestamped attendance record and a WhatsApp receipt for the employee. Managers and employees can refer to the same record when checking hours, overtime or a payroll query, rather than relying on a paper register.
No. Rostering tools plan who should be on shift; Jem records who actually clocked in and reconciles rostered and actual hours. It works alongside payroll to provide cleaner hours data. Speak to our team about the export or integration setup for your existing systems.
