What IT services does Beathan Technologies offer?

Beathan Technologies offers comprehensive enterprise IT solutions including server management, mobile device management (MDM), Sentry time & attendance systems, secure collaboration tools, data storage solutions, and 24/7 managed infrastructure services.

What is the Sentry Time & Attendance system?

Sentry is a modern workforce management system featuring smart time tracking with geofencing, NFC, face recognition, QR codes, advanced scheduling, live monitoring, incident management, and automated reporting. It's designed for industries including security services, facilities management, healthcare, and retail.

Does Beathan Technologies offer on-premises or cloud infrastructure?

Beathan Technologies offers flexible deployment options including on-premises infrastructure, cloud solutions, or hybrid environments. You decide the best approach for your business needs.

What industries does Beathan Technologies serve?

Beathan Technologies serves various industries including security services, facilities management, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, and any enterprise requiring robust IT infrastructure, workforce management, and secure collaboration tools.

Staff Management

Workforce software built for teams that don't sit at a desk — security guards, field technicians, cleaning crews, construction site staff and lone workers. Real GPS, real panic, real timesheets.

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TL;DR — Quick Summary

Beathan's staff management offering centres on Sentry — a workforce platform purpose-built for distributed, mobile and lone workers. It handles geofenced clock-in, multi-method identity verification (face, NFC, QR, PIN), live GPS tracking, WhatsApp-integrated panic alerts, push-to-talk radio over cellular, automated lone-worker welfare checks, smart scheduling, leave, occurrence books and invoicing direct from timesheets — through a native Android guard app that keeps working without signal.

Built for guards, field crews and lone workers
Geofenced clock-in with face & NFC verification
WhatsApp panic alerts with live GPS
Lone-worker welfare checks with escalation
Invoice direct from approved timesheets
Android guard app, white-label ready

The Problem With Generic HR Software

Most workforce platforms were designed for office workers — fixed desks, single sites, predictable hours, reliable wi-fi. They fall apart the moment your staff are spread across thirty client sites, working night shifts, walking patrols alone, or operating in areas where 4G drops in and out.

Beathan's staff management category exists for exactly those teams. Whether you run a security company with hundreds of armed response and guarding officers, a cleaning contractor servicing fifty buildings a night, a fleet of field technicians, or a construction site with rotating sub-contractors, you need software that assumes the worker is mobile, the network is unreliable, safety incidents are real, and every minute on a timesheet is money that has to be invoiced and collected.

Who This Is Built For

Security & Guarding

Static guarding, armed response, event security, mall and estate teams. Patrol verification, control-room dashboards, panic with live GPS, client portal access.

Cleaning & Hygiene

Contract cleaners across dozens of client sites. Geofenced clock-in proves the right person was on the right site, on time, for the contracted hours.

Field Services

Installers, electricians, plumbers, solar technicians. Job assignment, travel time, on-site time and parts captured into one timesheet.

Construction Sites

Site sign-in registers, sub-contractor tracking, induction records, daily attendance reports for clients and project managers.

Lone Workers

Welfare check prompts at configurable intervals, automatic escalation when a worker stops responding, and panic SOS with live location.

Multi-Tenant Operators

Run multiple client companies on one Beathan instance with full white-label branding, custom domains and isolated data per tenant.

The Core Capability Set

Multi-Method Clock-In

Geofencing, NFC tap, face recognition, QR codes, PIN and kiosk mode — choose what fits each site. Every punch carries a GPS pin and timestamp.

Panic & Welfare

One-tap panic sends a WhatsApp alert with live GPS to the control room. Configurable welfare check intervals catch silent emergencies before they become incidents.

Push-To-Talk & VoIP

WebRTC push-to-talk over cellular replaces traditional two-way radios. Control room can VoIP-call any guard direct from the dashboard.

Smart Scheduling

Shift templates, standby rosters, EasyRoster CSV import, automatic guard allocation, WhatsApp + email distribution to staff.

Occurrence Book & Reports

Digital site occurrence book with photos, GPS and signatures. Auto-generated client reports replace handwritten OB books.

Invoicing & Client Portals

Approved timesheets convert directly to invoices. Clients get PIN-protected dashboards showing live presence on their sites.

Why It Works in South African Conditions

Three design decisions make this platform survive the realities of SA operations:

Android guard app that works without signal — guards on a patrol route in a basement parkade or a farm beyond cellular range still log every punch, photo and occurrence. The app queues everything on the handset and syncs the moment signal returns.
WhatsApp as the channel — schedules, panic alerts and shift confirmations land on WhatsApp because that is the channel every South African worker actually opens. No proprietary app the worker forgets to install.
Runs on cheap Android — the worker app runs on Android 6+ entry-level handsets. You don't need to issue every guard a flagship device.

Sentry — Time & Attendance

The full Sentry platform — 34 core capabilities covering clock-in, scheduling, panic, PTT, occurrence books, compliance documents, client portals and billing. See the dedicated page for the complete feature breakdown and screenshots.

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FAQ

Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about workforce management for mobile, field and lone-worker teams.

How is this different from a generic HR or time-tracking app?

Generic HR tools assume employees sit at a desk in one office. Our staff management software assumes the worker is mobile, often alone, frequently on a site without reliable internet, and that a missed welfare check or a panic press may be life-or-death. Every design choice — an Android app that works without signal, geofencing, WhatsApp integration, panic with live GPS, PTT over cellular — comes from that assumption.

What industries do you typically work with?

Security and guarding companies are the largest segment, but the platform is used by cleaning contractors, field service businesses (installers, technicians, solar crews), construction site managers tracking sub-contractors, and any operation with lone workers needing welfare monitoring.

Does the worker need a smartphone?

For full functionality, yes — but it can be a low-cost Android 6+ device. For sites where the company supplies a single shared device, kiosk mode + NFC tap or face recognition lets multiple workers clock in and out from one tablet.

What happens to clock-ins when the site has no signal?

Every action — clock-in, occurrence entry, photo, panic — is captured locally on the device and queued. The moment the device gets signal again (cellular or wi-fi), everything syncs to the server with its original GPS coordinates and timestamp. Nothing is lost.

How does the panic feature actually work?

A worker taps the panic button on their device. The system immediately fires a WhatsApp alert to the configured control-room contacts, attaches the worker's live GPS location, opens a live audio channel via push-to-talk, and starts logging the incident in the occurrence book automatically. Response times and escalations are recorded for compliance.

Can I run this for multiple client companies on one instance?

Yes — the platform is fully multi-tenant with white-label branding per tenant, custom domains, isolated data and tenant-specific roles. Operators running services across multiple branded entities use this constantly.

How does invoicing from timesheets work?

Approved timesheets feed directly into an invoicing module. You define hourly rates per role, per client, or per shift type; the system calculates the billable hours from actual clock-ins (filtered by approved entries) and generates client invoices ready to send. Disputes get resolved against GPS-verified timesheet data, not handwritten registers.

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Last updated: 12 June 2026

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