Zorik · Staff attendance

How the phone marks your attendance

The institute has an area drawn around it. When you walk in, your phone tells the institute you are there; when you leave, it says that too. You do not have to open the app every day — it is set up once, and the six screens below are that once.

Open the app and go to Attendance

Sign in with the login your institute gave you and open Attendance. Tap Register this phone. This is done once, on the phone you carry to work.

Attendance

This phone is not registered

Your institute decides which phone belongs to you. Only that phone can mark your attendance.

More → Attendance

Android asks about location — say yes twice

Android asks twice on purpose. On this first question tap While using the app. The app then opens Android's own settings page for the second one.

Allow Zorik to access this device’s location?

Your institute marks attendance when you reach the institute.

While using the app

Only this time

Don’t allow

First: While using the app

Choose “Allow all the time”

This is the one that matters. Pick Allow all the time. Zorik only ever asks whether you are inside the institute area — it does not follow you anywhere else, and your institute sees the time you came and the time you left, nothing more.

Location permission

Zorik

Allow all the time

Allow only while using the app

Ask every time

Don’t allow

Without "all the time", the phone can only tell the institute where you are while the app is open on the screen — so your arrival would be missed.

Settings → Location → Allow all the time

Wait for your institute to approve the phone

The institute sees your phone in Staff Attendance → Device Management and approves it. One phone per person, so nobody can mark attendance from somebody else's phone.

Attendance

Waiting for approval

Your institute has to approve this phone once. You will see it here when they do.

Phone: Redmi Note 12

Asked on: 23/09/2026

The institute approves it once

That is all — it now works on its own

From now on the phone reports by itself, with the app closed and in your pocket. You never have to open it to be marked present.

Attendance

Tracking is on

Main Campus · this phone is registered

Today

In 09:02 AM · Out —

Inside the institute now

You can close the app. Keep location switched on.

Nothing to tap, every day

Two things that stop it working

Location switched off, or the permission set back to "only while the app is open". The screen says which, and what to do. After you restart your phone, open Zorik once — Android forgets the institute area on a restart, and opening the app puts it back.

Attendance

Location is switched off

Switch location on, then open this screen once.

Open phone settings

Allowed only while the app is open

Change it to “Allow all the time”.

What it looks like when something is wrong

Questions people ask

Is the institute watching where I go?

No. The phone only says when you cross into the institute area and when you cross out of it. Nowhere else you go is sent, and there is no map of your day.

Does it use my data or battery?

Very little. There is no map running and no constant GPS — Android tells the app about the two crossings, and each one is a few hundred bytes.

My in or out time is a minute or two off.

That is Android deciding you have really crossed rather than passing the gate. A minute or two is normal.

The time was hours late.

That happens when the phone was asleep or the app was stopped by battery saver, so Android told us much later. The institute sees that the report was late and can correct the day.

I forgot to open the app for days.

That is fine — it keeps working with the app closed. Only a phone RESTART needs the app opened once afterwards.

I changed my phone.