Biometric Time Clock Company

At Count Me In® it is our Mission to empower Main Street Businesses to focus on core business challenges. This is accomplished by providing large enterprise time tracking tools & innovative boimetric technology solutions scaled for small business needs & budgets, providing a strong focus on Customer Service and Client-Driven Enhancements.

All of our solutions incorporate a biometric interface, featuring our exclusive LightningID™ fingerprint identification engine, which enables companies to achieve fast, accurate and positive identification of their employees or members. All of these solutions are user-friendly and robust Windows®-based applications.

Our History

How We Began

What could be more important than ensuring the safety and security of an innocent, young child? Those were the thoughts of Norman and Judith Katz, owners and operators of the Minee Subee early education and childcare centers located throughout Chicago's northwest suburbs. They founded the childcare centers in 1974, and witnessed the nation's escalating preoccupation with child safety issues.

Responding to these concerns, they developed and implemented fool-proof security measures at their childcare facilities.

The Door Monitor Provides Security Solutions

In 1990, Norman, a visionary and inventor, with "hands-on capabilities," created an entry system that admitted only Minee Subee parents and employees. The Door Monitor, a state-of-the-art, PC-based, time clock control system, secured doors and granted access privileges only to specific people and only at specified times. The extra bonus was that the time clock system permitted the center's directors to focus on the core business and more efficiently manage their staff and their facilities.

Technology Evolves into Timecard Monitor: Companion Software for Time and Attendance

After implementing the time clock control system in their centers, the Katzes integrated the existing technology with a timecard application module that preprocessed payroll information. The system, which they named Timecard Monitor™, ran without a hitch for more than five years and in 1995, Judith and Norm decided to market the door access and timecard products to other providers in the childcare industry.

The tremendous demand for these products validated the need to offer boimetric time clock applications to other industries. Small to mid-sized businesses were also interested in implementing new safety and security measures to manage their employees and payroll.

Commercial Time Clock Application

Norm hired a software engineer and shortly thereafter, son Neal, to explore more advanced and reliable recognition technology.

In 1999, they began working with biometric fingerprint recognition and joined the technology's early pioneers, partnering with Digital Persona, a California-based company developing sensing devices. Their goal was to create a system that would "know" who the individual was before the verification of the person's identify could take place.

Norm developed biometric software that extended Digital Persona's technology, enabling it to identify individuals as well as verify their identity without using personal identification numbers (PINs), badges, or other devices. This new feature made "Buddy Punching" (the act of an employee inserting another’s timecard into the time clock) obsolete, giving employers an effective way to control entry as well as to accurately verify employee hours. After two years of development and beta testing the biometric clock, Count Me In, LLC® was officially launched in 2001 with the release of Timecard Monitor.

Later that year, Count Me In joined the Intuit Developer Network, making it easier for its customers to link data from their Timecard Monitor time and attendance programs with Intuit’s QuickBooks products. Similarly, it exposed millions of QuickBooks users to Timecard Monitor’s fast and accurate timecard processing capabilities and its secure biometric recognition features.

The next step was the company's introduction of Door Monitor, which used the same advanced biometric technology for the time clock control and security application as it did for the time and attendance product.

In early 2005, the company released Version 6.0 of its product, which offers a wider spectrum of biometric time clock applications allowing customers to pick a best suited price point. All of Count Me In's products include the exclusive LightningID™ fingerprint identification engine.