Distributed teams are where ERPNext attendance quietly breaks down. Field-sales reps, delivery riders and site technicians never touch the office biometric device or the desk kiosk, so their attendance is either back-filled manually or trusted on faith. ERPNext core gives you the Employee Checkin and Attendance DocTypes and a shift framework, but out of the box a check-in is just a timestamp — there is no location proof, no radius enforcement around a customer site or branch, and no live view of where your people actually are. Employee Checkin can log a latitude/longitude if a client sends one, but nothing stops a punch from a couch ten kilometres away, and nothing reconciles a day of valid field punches into a single Attendance record with route context. Standard geofencing add-ons live in a separate HR SaaS, forcing a fragile two-way sync back into ERPNext.

ECOSIRE builds a proper Frappe application — its own module, installed onto your bench — that closes those gaps natively. We define new DocTypes such as Geofence Site (a named location with center coordinates and an enforcement radius, optionally linked to a Customer, Warehouse or branch) and Field Punch (the raw punch carrying GPS coordinates, accuracy, device, a selfie Attach Image, and a server-computed distance-to-site). A mobile-friendly check-in surface — delivered as a Frappe web page or a Client Script-driven form using the browser Geolocation API — captures the salesman's live coordinates and selfie at punch time. On save, a hooks.py doc_events handler (a validate/before_insert server script) computes the haversine distance from every candidate Geofence Site, rejects or flags punches that fall outside the allowed radius, and stamps the matched site. Whitelisted methods (frappe.whitelist()) exposed over the Frappe REST API let a companion mobile view or PWA submit punches and pull the assigned route for the day.

Valid punches are promoted into ERPNext's own HR flow rather than a parallel silo. A scheduler event (a scheduler_events cron/daily hook) rolls each employee's first and last valid Field Punch of the day into a native Attendance record with IN/OUT Employee Checkin entries, so payroll, shift, and leave logic keep working unchanged. A live map — a Frappe Dashboard page or workspace using a Leaflet/OpenStreetMap tile layer fed by the REST API — plots current field-staff positions and the day's visit trail, and Query/Report DocTypes deliver route history, visit-per-site counts, and geofence-violation exceptions. Access is governed by ERPNext permissions and role profiles: a "Field Supervisor" sees the map and exceptions for their team, a salesman sees only their own punches, and the whitelisted endpoints enforce the same permission checks server-side.

Because this is build-to-order, you are not downloading a fixed marketplace app and hoping it fits. After a short scoping call we confirm your geofence sites, radius policy, selfie/liveness requirements, how a "present" day is defined for your shifts, and which ERPNext version you run (we support Frappe/ERPNext v15 and v16). We build against that scope, run UAT on a staging bench, and only then install on production. Typical delivery is one working week from confirmed scope. You receive the installable source, install and configuration, technical and user documentation, a training session, and a post-go-live support window — and the git repository is handed over so the code is genuinely yours.