# Use the kiosk

Turn a shared tablet into an attendance kiosk, choose how employees identify themselves, by badge, by name or with a PIN, and see what they see when they check in and out.

The kiosk is a page for a tablet at the entrance: employees check themselves in and out there without signing in to anything. Each check-in or check-out made there is recorded with the mode **Kiosk**.

## Before you start {#before-you-start}

- Opening the kiosk needs **Officer: Manage all attendances**; its settings need **Administrator** on **Attendances** and the right to manage the settings of the database.
- The kiosk lists the employees of the company it belongs to. Its labels follow the language of the company's contact, not the language of the person who opened it.

## Choose how employees identify themselves {#modes}

1. Open **Attendances/Configuration/Settings**.
2. In **Kiosk Mode**, choose:
   - **Barcode / RFID**: employees scan their badge, nothing else;
   - **Barcode / RFID and Manual Selection**, the default: they scan, or pick their name with **Identify Manually**;
   - **Manual Selection**: they pick their name from a list.
3. When badges are used, set **Barcode Source**: **Scanner** for a reader plugged into the tablet, or the **Front Camera** or **Back Camera** of the tablet.
4. To ask for a PIN after a name is picked, tick **Employee PIN Identification**. Scanning a badge never asks for it.
5. **Display Time** sets how many seconds the greeting stays on screen; here, 60. Click **Save**.

![The Kiosk Settings group, saved with the greeting kept on screen for 60 seconds.](https://jaah.app/web/image/15084-5c1dd23d/attendance-use-the-kiosk-kiosk_settings-en.png)

Each employee's badge number and PIN are on the **Settings** tab of the employee's form, under **Attendance/Point of Sale**: **RFID/Badge Number**, with **Generate** for a random number, and **PIN Code**.

## Open the kiosk {#open}

- On the tablet itself, open **Attendances/Kiosk Mode**. The app **signs you out first**, then shows the kiosk in the same tab, so that nobody at the tablet can reach your account.
- On any other device, open the address shown in **Attendance Kiosk Url** in the settings. No sign-in is asked: treat the address like a key. **Generate new URL** replaces it, and the old address stops working at once.

## Check in at the kiosk {#check-in}

1. On the kiosk, click **Identify Manually**. The departments are on the left, each with its number of employees, and every card shows **On site** for someone checked in at the kiosk, **Online** for someone checked in another way, or **Absent**.
2. Type the start of a name in the search box to narrow the list.

![The kiosk list of employees, narrowed by a search on the name; the label Absent means checked out.](https://jaah.app/web/image/15089-5af46e2c/attendance-use-the-kiosk-kiosk_list-en.png)

3. Click the name. With a PIN required, the kiosk asks for it first.

The greeting says **Welcome** and the time of the check-in, or **Goodbye** and the time of the check-out with the hours of the day. With **Display Extra Hours** turned on, a check-out also shows the extra hours of the day and in total. **OK**, or the end of the **Display Time**, brings the kiosk back.

![The greeting after a check-in at the kiosk, with the time recorded.](https://jaah.app/web/image/15097-ad9887dd/attendance-use-the-kiosk-kiosk_welcome-en.png)

A badge works the same way: scanning it checks its owner in, and the next scan checks them out.

## Try the kiosk without signing out {#try}

**Attendances/Configuration/Onboarding** opens a trial kiosk and keeps you signed in. It starts with **Choose how to record attendances** and three pictures; choosing one changes the **Kiosk Mode** of the company, as the settings would.

## FAQ {#faq}

### Why was I signed out when I opened Kiosk Mode? {#signed-out}

On purpose: the tablet stays on the kiosk all day, and nobody should find your session behind it. Sign in again from another tab or device.

### The kiosk says a wrong PIN. {#wrong-pin}

The PIN typed differs from the **PIN Code** of the employee's form. An officer can read and change it there.

### Can the kiosk record where people are? {#location}

Only with **Device & Location Tracking** turned on in the settings: the kiosk then records the location, IP address and browser of each check-in and check-out. See [Attendance settings](attendance-settings#device-tracking).

### An employee is missing from the kiosk. {#missing}

The kiosk lists the employees of its company only. Check the **Company** of the employee on its form.

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- Source: https://jaah.app/docs/attendance/use-the-kiosk
- Updated: 2026-10-28
- Version: Attendances 19.0.2.0
- Verified: 2026-10-28