Almost every SME owner I talk to comes with the same fixed idea: "I need a fingerprint clock at the entrance." It is the mental image of "attendance control" that we have carried for twenty years. And sometimes it is the right decision. But more and more often, it is the expensive one, the risky one, and the one that least adapts to how people work today. Here is the no-frills comparison: the hardware biometric clock versus the attendance app on the phone, so you can decide with numbers and not with habit.