This section covers:

Introduction
CamAttendance Integration – How does it work?
Ways to do integration with CamAttendance

Introduction

Integration helps different applications communicate and share data. CamAttendance offers adequate flexibility to integrate CamAttendance device to your HRMS/Attendance system. Every time an employee checks-in or checks-out, data gets stored onto a CamAttendance Cloud platform, which uses webhooks and other various ways to communicate and transfer that data to your HRMS/Attendance system. Thus, integration enables your system to receive data instantaneously.

CamAttendance Integration – How Does it Work?

CamAttendance integration enables your HRMS/Attendance system to receive data immediately whenever an employee checks-in or checks-out. The device synchronizes data onto CamAttendance Cloud. This data is then transferred to your HRMS/Attendance system. There are five ways for the clients to obtain data.

Webhooks
FTP Server Configuration
Scheduled Jobs
API Integration
Database Integration

(Refer to below diagram for integration approach)

Ways to do integration with CamAttendance

Webhooks: A webhook (also called a web callback or HTTP push API) is a way for an app to provide other applications with real-time information. A webhook delivers data to other applications as it happens, meaning you get data immediately.KENT CamAttendance cloud using webhooks, pushes the employees / attendance data (real time) into client’s environment where Webhook APIs at client side interprets the data and automatically updates the same in the client’s database.

Endpoint URL: This is where user needs client’s webhook URL. This will be provided by the client.

Sample Webhook URL: https://yourapp.com/recievedata/

When an employee get recognized in CamAttendance device, a Webhook event gets triggered from CamAttendance system which sends employee / attendance information to client’s environment in JSON (Refer to below sample of JSON file).

Sample JSON file


        [{"empId": "9999999","employeeName": "First Name Last Name","time": timestamp,"type": 1,-- 1 for recognized employee and 0 for unknown"imageUrl": "",-- In case of Unknown"accountId": 01,-- System generated"companyId": CO01, "mode": "",-- System generated"locationName": "44",-- System generated ID of location"deviceName": "ABC",--Device name"departmentName": "",--Name of Employee’s department"deviceId": "XXXXXXXX"--Device ID}]

An API at client side reads the information sent by Cam Attendance system and updates the relevant details in the HRMS / Attendance system of the client. This happens on a real time basis.

2. FTP/SFTP Server Configuration: FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a standard network protocol used to transfer files between a client and server on a computer network.

Built on a client-server model architecture, it is able to transfer data by having the server connect back to the client, after the port command is sent by the client.

3. Scheduled jobs: A job scheduler runs at CamAttendance device which will copy employee / attendance details (excel / .CSV file format) in a designated shared path provided by the client. (Access / login credentials to be provided by the client prior to configuring this setup).

Pre- Requisite: Access to Sharespace at client’s server where export of Excel / .CSV files from CamAttendance can be copied.

4. API Integration: Through API Integration, the data can be pulled via API calls. As soon as an employee checks-in or checks-out, the data gets stored onto the CamAttendance Cloud from where it can be pulled using the API Calls. API calls are secured using the secret tokens.

5. Database Integration: Database integration enables our technical team to access the database of the clients so that we send the transactions data directly to the client’s database, which can be synchronized/viewed with the client’s HRMS/payroll system.