So you bought a new Time Clock on the web?

p It has become increasingly easy to buy a a href=http://www.timeandattendanceconsultant.com/ target=_blanktime clock/a on line often at a bargain price. There are literally hundreds of time clocks available of the web with most manufactured China. You can easily find bundy clocks using clocking cards, RFID devices and a range of biometric options many of which are replicas of existing and more established brands. This is the face of manufacturing in China. China have become very good at copying western technologies and their manufacturing cost base allows for a very competitive pricing model/p
pAs a a href=http://www.timeandattendanceconsultant.com/ target=_blankTime and Attendance/a Consultant I have had quite a lot of experience with these devices and I have to say that, from a purely manufacturing perspective, these a href=http://www.timeandattendanceconsultant.com/ target=_blankbundy clocks/a are usually of reasonable standard. Assembly quality is good as is the as is the finish . It is difficult to comment on the likely longevity of the product but given that most are purely electronic , it is likely that that the main area which they would be likely to be failure is power surges. This is because it is costly to manufacture robust electronic devices which are less likely to fail if there is a power surge of voltage spike. ./p
p So what are the negatives? nbsp; The answer to this is in all areas that are important . Documentation is likely to be poor with inadequate instructions in ill phrased English. Bundled software is likely to struggle with anything but the simplest overtime calculations. More often than not the software will suffer frequent crashes. After sales support will be non existent or will be severely limited by communication or time zone barriers. If the unit fails then you will almost certainly have to wait a long time for repair or exchange ./p
p This is all due to anbsp; lack of focus on your operational requirements. The entire focus is moving stock and this is done by limiting the cost of getting a product to market and reducing the manufacturing costs. Documentation is not a focus, software development is not a focus and after sales support is not a focus./p
pIf you buy a time clock over the Internet from e-bay or from an overseas supplier or in one of those shopping sites which carry a plethora of consumer goods you will almost certainly have an unsatisfactory experience. If you buy from a local suppler who is committed to a product your experience will be entirely different. Certainly, you will pay more for the locally provided product from a specialized provider but it is much more likely that the product will have been developed with local operational requirements in mind. This means better functionality and this will translate into the benefits you were looking for when you decided to invest in a new time clock in the first place./p
pYou can pick up a biometric time clock on the Internet direct form China for under $500. By comparison, anbsp; local, quality product with local support is likely to cost you double that but the difference in the product will be chalk and cheese . The local product will almost certainly save you the difference in price and more simply by doing what it was designed to do and that is meet the requirements of the domestic market./p
pJames Bell/p
pTime and Attendance Consultant/p
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