biotime – Time Clocks & Time and Attendance
Verified attendance. Payroll-ready time.
biotime supplies Affinity customers across Australia and New Zealand with advanced biometric time clock hardware and full time & attendance, backed by a direct API integration. Send either raw clock times or fully interpreted time straight into your payroll. No manual entry. No guesswork.
Explore BiotimeComplex workforces create payroll complexity.
Managing changing rosters, shift variations, overtime, penalties, allowances, breaks, and employee agreements can create uncertainty between the hours employees work and the information payroll receives.
biotime removes ambiguity before payroll begins.
Our intelligent Time and Attendance platform captures verified employee attendance, applies agreed workplace rules, manages approvals, and delivers accurate payroll-ready time data directly into your payroll solution.
Turn employee time into trusted payroll inputs
biotime helps organisations:
Capture verified employee attendance through biometric, mobile, and flexible time capture solutions
Reduce manual timesheet interpretation and payroll adjustments
Apply configured award, EBA, overtime, allowance, and exception rules before payroll processing
Place ownership where it belongs — employees capture time, managers review and approve exceptions
Maintain a clear audit trail from attendance capture through to payroll output
Integrate seamlessly with existing Payroll, HR, and Workforce Management platforms
Why biotime and Affinity?
About Affinity
Affinity's SaaS platform combines secure cloud infrastructure and powerful, flexible payroll functionality for accurate and compliant payroll across Australia and New Zealand. Its comprehensive API enables seamless integration with specialist workforce tools like biotime.
About biotime
Because payroll accuracy starts before payroll begins. biotime provides the trusted pre-payroll control layer that helps Australian and New Zealand organisations improve confidence, reduce administration effort, and create clearer payroll outcomes.
Where verified time becomes trusted pay.
Who benefits?
Business owners and directors
When something goes wrong, it lands on your desk. biotime gives you the visibility and controls to prevent time fraud, stay compliant with awards, and reduce the risk of a costly payroll event before it happens.
HR and payroll teams
Australia and New Zealand's award structures are complex, and manual processes make it harder. biotime takes the admin burden off your team with automated, accurate time capture that feeds directly into Affinity, so pay runs are cleaner and compliance is easier to demonstrate.
Finance and CFO
Overpaid hours and unchecked time theft have a real dollar impact. biotime gives you accurate, auditable workforce data so your labour costs reflect reality and your forecasting is grounded in clean numbers.
Built for complex frontline workforces
biotime specialises in industries where workforce complexity creates payroll challenges:
Manufacturing
Freight & Logistics
Labour Hire
Supporting organisations with:
Technology backed by local expertise
Great payroll outcomes need more than software. biotime combines highly configurable technology with experienced ANZ implementation and support specialists who understand complex workforce environments.
Our focus is simple: Verify the time. Apply the rules. Approve the exceptions. Deliver payroll-ready results.
T&A specialists
Time and attendance is all we do. Your workforce data needs are our entire focus.
Biometric hardware
Our time clocks combine a responsive multi-touch screen, proprietary bioscan software and the latest in biometric readers, built to withstand a range of environments and high scanning volumes.
Direct API integration
Our API integration enables a direct, automated data exchange between our time clock system and Affinity, ensuring attendance data flows securely and reliably with every punch.
Local support
Real people, based locally in Australia and New Zealand, with the expertise to support your team and interpret your awards correctly.
Our time clock hardware
biotime 817
Built for high-volume environments with up to 5,000 employees per device. Supports fingerscan, RFID card, virtual keypad and QR code authentication, with sub-second scan times. Custom push technology sends time punches directly to the server, and the device works offline when needed. Includes job, department and cost centre tracking.
biotime 505
Everything in the 817, plus facial recognition as the primary authentication method with sub-0.5 second fingerscan speed. Supports up to 1,000 employees per device and adds custom prompts, time off requests, roster and timesheet viewing, door lock control and certificate posting.
Both models are compatible with biotime software and Affinity via Web API.
What biotime brings to your Affinity environment
Biometric time clocks
Bespoke facial and fingerprint recognition delivers a high-accuracy match result, eliminating buddy punching and capturing attendance data accurately in real time.
Award interpretation support
Proactive compliance expertise to ensure your time data is captured and coded correctly for your industry and workforce across Australia and New Zealand.
API integration with Affinity
By leveraging our API integration, joint clients benefit from a direct, automated data exchange between biotime and Affinity Payroll. Send raw clock times for Affinity to interpret, or fully interpreted time ready to pay – whichever suits your setup – reducing manual intervention and keeping your records in sync.
Ready to connect biotime with Affinity?
Bring accurate, biometric time capture into your specialist AU/NZ payroll for cleaner pay runs and easier compliance