With the TimeKeeper biometrics time and attendance solution available from IDtek, companies with fewer than a hundred employees will be able to accurately track the time and attendance patterns of employees. It is a biometrics time and attendance solution that entails an optical scanner attached to a normal computer. Software is loaded onto the computer and even though it is such a simple procedure accurate reports regarding daily attendance, periodic attendance, as well as absence patterns can be tracked. There are also shift reports and departmental reports available through the TimeKeeper biometrics time and attendance solution. It operates from the standard Windows platform and the data can be exported to text or xls formats which can be used for payroll calculation.