ATS Lite

Time & Attendance for Micro Businesses

No bloat, no enterprise licensing, no complexity. ATS Lite gives small teams accurate attendance tracking without the overhead of a full-scale workforce management system.

What is ATS Lite?

Attendance Tracking Simplified — built for businesses with a handful of employees who just need it to work.

ATS Lite is a lean, desktop-based time and attendance application designed specifically for small and micro businesses in South Africa. If you have 5, 10, or 50 employees and you are tired of spreadsheets, but a full enterprise system is overkill — ATS Lite is for you.

It runs as a standalone Windows executable — no servers to configure, no cloud subscriptions, no internet required. Install it on one PC and you are ready to go.

Best of all, we can take the raw log files from your existing biometric readers or clocking machines and format them to work seamlessly with ATS Lite. You keep your hardware — we make the data usable.

        Who It’s For
        ✓ Small businesses with 5–50 employees
✓ Micro enterprises moving off spreadsheets
✓ Businesses with biometric readers but no software
✓ Companies that want one-time purchase, not a subscription
✓ Offline operation — no internet dependency

      

Key Features

Everything a small business needs to track employee time accurately.

Import From Any Biometric Reader

We can take the raw punch logs from ZKTeco, Suprema, or any fingerprint / facial recognition reader and prepare them for use in ATS Lite. You do not need to replace your existing hardware.

Monthly Reports

Generate detailed monthly reports with normal hours, overtime, double-time, late minutes, early-outs, and leave balances. All exportable to Excel and CSV.

Leave Management

Track annual, sick, and family responsibility leave with configurable leave types, annual entitlements, and automatic balance calculations.

Shift Patterns

Define standard shifts with start/end times, break durations, overtime thresholds, and public holiday rates. Assign patterns to individual employees.

Dashboard & KPIs

At-a-glance view of who is present, absent, late, or on leave. Visual charts show attendance breakdowns and monthly trends.

Local & Private

All data stays on your PC. No cloud uploads, no third-party servers, no monthly fees. Your employee data remains yours.

How It Works

Simple setup, straightforward operation.

Install

Run the single-file installer on any Windows PC. No server setup or cloud configuration required.

Import

Send us your biometric reader logs. We prepare them for ATS Lite and send you a ready-to-load file.

Configure

Add employees, set up shift patterns, define leave types. Takes minutes, not days.

Run Reports

Generate monthly attendance reports, export to Excel, and hand over to payroll. Done.

Biometric Reader Compatibility

Keep your existing hardware — we handle the data.

Most biometric readers can export punch logs as text or CSV files. We take those raw logs, clean them up, and format them for direct import into ATS Lite. Supported systems include:

ZKTeco
All fingerprint & facial models

Suprema
MultiBio, BioStation & XPass

Not sure if your reader is supported? Send us a sample export and we will confirm within 24 hours.

Ask About Your Reader