Gate Devices & Office Verification
Two ways Busiman confirms someone is physically at the office, without them doing anything extra.
Both of these exist to answer the same question — "is this person actually here?" — without turning attendance into a chore. They're optional, and a company can use either, both, or neither.
The office network check (desktop as a verification point)
Any desktop app on the office Wi-Fi can act as a proxy — a small local presence that phones on the same network can reach. This is what self check-in means by "network-verified": the phone tried to reach a registered office computer on the local network at the moment of check-in, and succeeded.
Set this up from Settings → Devices → This Computer on the desktop app (requires the "proxy" permission, granted per-employee by an Admin). Turning it on starts a small local server; anyone on the same office network checking in will verify against it automatically — nobody needs to do anything on the phone side.
Settings → Devices → Registry (Admin only) shows every device — proxy computers and gate beacons — registered to your account.
Gate beacon (automatic check-in)
For offices with a dedicated entrance, Busiman supports a small Bluetooth beacon device (registered the same way, via Settings → Devices → Registry) mounted near the door. When an employee's phone comes within range:
- The app detects the beacon in the background — no need to open Busiman.
- It checks in (or out) automatically, tagged with that gate's ID.
- A short voice confirmation plays, so there's feedback without needing to look at the screen.
To avoid duplicate triggers from someone lingering near the door, there's a short cooldown before the same gate can trigger another check-in.
Warning: This needs a development-grade native build of the app — it isn't available through Expo Go, and requires Bluetooth permission granted on the phone. If your team is on a standard app-store build, confirm with your admin whether gate hardware is deployed before relying on it.
Which one should you use?
- Just want check-in to be effortless when someone's connected to office Wi-Fi? The network check alone is enough, and needs no extra hardware.
- Have a single, controlled entrance and want check-in to happen without anyone touching their phone? Add a gate beacon there.
Either way, when neither is available, remote attendance is always the fallback — nobody gets stuck unable to check in.