Prerequisite for Biometric integration with Zoho People Attendance:

We do support MS SQL SERVER, MS Access and MYSQL database and the same query
format as mentioned below.

Note: It is mandatory that you need to have an IT person or your biometric vendor at your
side to help us with the integration during the call.

Query Requirements:

Please generate the below query format in order to fetch the information from your
database.

“Select employeeID, eventTime, isCheckin, downloadDate from Attendance”

*employeeID - Should be same as the employee-Id in Zoho People

*eventTime - Attendance In-punch and Out-punch (in date time format)
*ischeckin - 1/0 (1 denotes check-in and 0 denotes check-out)
*downloadDate - Date and time at which the attendance data is pushed to database (in
date time format).

Please find the sample table schema attached below for your reference
Software's that needs to be installed
Also, please have the below mentioned software's ready in your server system where the
database is located.

For Apache tomcat 8 :

Go to https://tomcat.apache.org/download-80.cgi
Click on 32-bit/64-bit Windows Service Installer Under Core.

For Java 8:

Go to http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-
2133151.html

Download a JDK file under Java SE Development Kit 8u121 that suits your windows
configuration.

Note:
 If there are multiple shifts, then shift for the employees has to be mapped in Zoho
People.
 If the biometric id is different from Zoho People employee id, then the biometric ids
has to be mapped in Zoho People from Attendance>Settings>Userid Mapping.