Workforce Attendance for Dubai Non-Desk Teams
GPS check-in with AI face verification from the staff member's phone. No fingerprint readers at the gate, no kiosks, no shared touch surfaces. Multi-site, WPS-ready, and PDPL-compliant by default.
Multi-site · Mobile-first · WPS-ready · PDPL-aligned · Free up to 10 staff
The Dubai workforce doesn't queue at a single gate any more
A fingerprint reader at a single reception worked when everyone came to one office. Dubai workforces — construction across project sites, security across posts, healthcare on shifts, hybrid teams between home and the office — don't fit that shape. The right attendance system records where each staff member actually is, verifies that they are who the record says they are, and produces a clean WPS-ready hours export your payroll system can consume. AiyaHR does that without any hardware at the gate.
GPS check-in
A geofence per site, branch, or post. Staff check in inside the zone; out-of-zone attempts are flagged.
AI face match
Live selfie matched against the enrolled face on every check-in. Stops buddy-punching without a shared scanner.
Phone-based — no kiosks
Works on any modern phone. Offline-capable: check-ins cache locally and sync when connectivity returns.
Shift-aware
AI shift drafting; mandatory rest, prayer break, lunch, and overtime caps applied automatically.
Multi-site, multi-supervisor
Central operations sees every site; each supervisor sees only their own. Strict role-based access.
WPS-ready exports
Hours, overtime, and absences export cleanly into your payroll or bank WPS gateway. AiyaHR does not process payroll directly.
Live operational dashboard
Who is on site right now, where, with what face-match confidence. History on demand, trends per shift and per site.
UAE PDPL handling
Consent-captured, encrypted biometric data, configurable retention, processed on enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure.
What is specific to Dubai
Dubai concentrates a set of workforce conditions that exist elsewhere in the country but rarely all at once.
Multi-site is the default, not the exception
Companies here routinely operate across several emirates or several sites within Dubai. Attendance built around a single office is outgrown almost immediately.
Workforces are highly multilingual
A crew may share no common first language. Anything depending on reading detailed instructions on screen will be used inconsistently, which is an argument for a two-tap interaction rather than a form.
Compressed hours for part of the year
Ramadan working hours change for a defined period. A system that cannot express that produces a month of exceptions everyone learns to ignore.
Traffic makes rigid lateness unfair
Commutes across the city are genuinely unpredictable. Patterns over weeks tell you something; a hard cut-off applied to one morning mostly tells you about the road.
WPS is the downstream consumer
Attendance feeds a salary transfer with a fixed format and a deadline. That makes unresolved exceptions a payroll problem on a date rather than an open item.
From decision to live attendance — under two weeks
Map your sites
Draw a geofence around every site, branch, or post. 30 minutes per site.
Onboard staff
Excel bulk import. Photo enrolment for face matching, 60s per staff member.
Daily check-in
Staff check in from their phone at the site; live dashboard updates for supervisors.
Review exceptions
Out-of-zone, low-confidence, unusual patterns — flagged for managers, never silently accepted.
Export to payroll
WPS-ready hour exports feed your existing payroll system or bank gateway.
Built around UAE compliance, not adapted to it
UAE Labour Law working hours
Daily limits, mandatory rest, prayer break, lunch, and overtime caps per Federal Decree-Law No. 33 of 2021.
Inspection-ready audit trail
Each check-in records face-match confidence, GPS, device fingerprint, and server timestamp. Retained for the legally required period.
UAE PDPL biometric handling
Explicit consent on first use, encryption at rest and in transit, processed on enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure, configurable retention.
WPS-ready exports
AiyaHR produces exports your payroll or bank gateway accepts cleanly. We do not dispatch WPS ourselves.
Frequently asked questions
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The deep dive on face + GPS verification.
Read more →Pricing
Start free up to 10 employees · paid plans from AED 3 per employee/month, billed annually.
Read more →Book a Demo
See a live phone check-in in 20 minutes.
Read more →See the attendance flow on one of your sites
20-minute demo. We will set up a geofence for a real Dubai site of yours and run a live check-in from a phone.