An automated time and labor management solution thatexpands as your company grows — one software system,changing to meet the needs of your business.

Pendulum™Time & LaborManagement “Why can’t we have one system

that grows with our company?”A business owner is excited that his company is planning to hire ten newemployees this quarter. Once the payroll department hears the good news,they realize they will need a new time and attendance system to replace theiralready overloaded system. “Why can’t we have one system that grows withour company?” they ask.

Acroprint Time Recorder Company announces the release of Pendulum™, thenewest member of the Acroprint family of automated time and attendancesystems. Pendulum™ is an automated time and labor management solutionthat expands as your company grows — one software system, changing tomeet the needs of your business. Pendulum™ accurately collects employeetime and attendance data and applies your company work rules and paypolicies to calculate employee time cards.

Pendulum™ is the perfect time and attendance solution for yourgrowing business.

ExpandableAffordable

Upgradeable

SAVES YOU MONEY

Pendulum™Time & LaborManagement

“How can Pendulum help me?”

• No more manual tallying of time cards.

• Eliminates missing punch overpayments.

• Automates time and attendance tracking.

• Supports an unlimited number of employees, shifts, pay categories, pay rules,

departments and jobs.

• Provides payroll and management reports

• Allows “Cash” And “Charge” tiprecording & reporting

• Exports hours directly to third-partypayroll providers.

SAVES YOU TIMELet Pendulum effectively manage your company’s laborresources. Are you tired of the time it takes to manuallycalculate employee time for payroll? Eliminate Payday Panicby removing human errors and add valuable time to yourbusiness. Pendulum accurately reports employees’ hoursand reduces the amount of time spent preparing payroll.Automated time clock polling and report generation savesyou even more time. The system automatically polls theterminals for data, processes reports and has an optionavailbable to email them to supervisors or employeeswithout operator intervention. At the end of a pay period,administrators can simply review the time sheets via email.Data can be exported to third party payroll systems for easyprocessing.

As an option, Pendulum™ offers an array of job costinglevels so you can evaluate time per task/piece. The systemeven tracks tips by allowing employees to enter the tipamount at the clock, and generates reports displaying the tiptotals.

Time is Money. Did you know that taking control of your labor costs can save you thousands of dollars per year? Research studies show that lost minutes add up quickly. The chart below is based on 250 working days per year, showingactual time lost at the conservative rate of 20 minutes per day.

See for yourself how muchSee for yourself how muchSee for yourself how muchSee for yourself how muchSee for yourself how muchlost minutes can be costing you?lost minutes can be costing you?lost minutes can be costing you?lost minutes can be costing you?lost minutes can be costing you?

HOURLHOURLHOURLHOURLHOURLYYYYYRARARARARATETETETETE

COST PERCOST PERCOST PERCOST PERCOST PERMINUTEMINUTEMINUTEMINUTEMINUTE 22222 55555 1010101010 2525252525 5050505050 100100100100100

NUMBER OF EMPLNUMBER OF EMPLNUMBER OF EMPLNUMBER OF EMPLNUMBER OF EMPLOOOOOYEESYEESYEESYEESYEES

$6.00

$8.00

$12.00

$0.1000

$0.1333

$0.2000

$1,000

$1,333

$2,000

$2,500

$3,333

$5,000

$5,000

$6,667

$10,000

$12,500

$16,667

$25,000

$25,000

$33,333

$50,000

$50,000

$66,667

$100,000

TIME & ATIME & ATIME & ATIME & ATIME & ATTENDTTENDTTENDTTENDTTENDANCEANCEANCEANCEANCEAutomates your company’s timekeeping and attendance tracking.The Pendulum software collects transactions and your pay rulesare applied automatically. Applies pay policies and shifts to timeand attendance data.

EMPLEMPLEMPLEMPLEMPLOOOOOYEE MESSYEE MESSYEE MESSYEE MESSYEE MESSAAAAAGINGGINGGINGGINGGINGPendulum allows you to send messages to a data collectionterminal. These messages may include the employee’s name,Happy Birthday!, or company announcement.

AAAAAUTUTUTUTUTOMAOMAOMAOMAOMATED TIME CLTED TIME CLTED TIME CLTED TIME CLTED TIME CLOCK POLLINGOCK POLLINGOCK POLLINGOCK POLLINGOCK POLLINGAllows users to set a specific date/time to poll the informationfrom the data collection devices. Pendulum will poll the timeclocks, process reports and can even email them to supervisorsand/or employees automatically without operator intervention.

REPORT GENERAREPORT GENERAREPORT GENERAREPORT GENERAREPORT GENERATIONTIONTIONTIONTIONThere are over 70 reports available, which can be run by payperiod or by any selected date range. Reports can be displayedon screen, printed, emailed, or sent to a data file.

SIGNAL CONTROLSIGNAL CONTROLSIGNAL CONTROLSIGNAL CONTROLSIGNAL CONTROLAllows you to define bell-ringing schedules and program the datacollection devices to ring a bell or horn at specific times and daysof the week.

EMAIL MODULEEMAIL MODULEEMAIL MODULEEMAIL MODULEEMAIL MODULEAdministrators can simply log on to Pendulum edit/approve timecards and send them via email. Pendulum can send emails toSupervisors or Employees. Reports can be generated in HTML,WORD, PDF or text and emailed as an attachment.

LOCKOUT MODULELOCKOUT MODULELOCKOUT MODULELOCKOUT MODULELOCKOUT MODULEDefines times when employees can clock in or out controllingunauthorized overtime. This module can also be used with theAccess Control to define what time and day the employee canclock in and unlock the door.

JOB COSTINGJOB COSTINGJOB COSTINGJOB COSTINGJOB COSTINGAccurately tracks time and labor costs and distributes them tojob costing levels. Allows the system to provide four levels(Department, Job, Step and Operation) of data collection, reportingand exporting. This allows the employee to record the Cost Centersand Job information at the data collection terminals. Theinformation is then polled by Pendulum and reports and exportsmay be generated.

INPUT VINPUT VINPUT VINPUT VINPUT VALIDALIDALIDALIDALIDAAAAATIONTIONTIONTIONTIONAllows for validation at the terminal, so when an invalid job isentered the terminal will reject it and notify the employee.

ACCESS CONTROL MODULEACCESS CONTROL MODULEACCESS CONTROL MODULEACCESS CONTROL MODULEACCESS CONTROL MODULEAllows the Pendulum system to accept or deny accessvia a locked door.

CUSTOMIZECUSTOMIZECUSTOMIZECUSTOMIZECUSTOMIZEAdministrators have the ability to change the names of key fieldswithin the menu and reporting system.

HUMAN RESOURCE TRACKINGHUMAN RESOURCE TRACKINGHUMAN RESOURCE TRACKINGHUMAN RESOURCE TRACKINGHUMAN RESOURCE TRACKINGTracks employee attendance, department transfers, job transfers,schedules and automates employee time and wage calculations.

PPPPPAAAAAYRYRYRYRYROLL PROLL PROLL PROLL PROLL PROCESSINGOCESSINGOCESSINGOCESSINGOCESSINGPendulum comes standard with an export feature that allowsyou to send data to a third party payroll system without the needto re-enter this information into the payroll software.

SECURITSECURITSECURITSECURITSECURITYYYYYEach user has a unique User ID and Password. Filters are includedto allow supervisors to access only their respective employees.

IMPORT/EXPORTIMPORT/EXPORTIMPORT/EXPORTIMPORT/EXPORTIMPORT/EXPORTPendulum contains a built-in import/export function that allowsusers to bring data into the system and export data out to othersoftware packages.....

MULMULMULMULMULTIPLE SCHEDULER ADTIPLE SCHEDULER ADTIPLE SCHEDULER ADTIPLE SCHEDULER ADTIPLE SCHEDULER ADJUSTERJUSTERJUSTERJUSTERJUSTERThis scheduling tool makes quick work of scheduling entiredepartments on one easy to read screen.

DDDDDAAAAATTTTTA COLLECTION DEVICESA COLLECTION DEVICESA COLLECTION DEVICESA COLLECTION DEVICESA COLLECTION DEVICESHardware like data collection terminals, hand biometric readersand fingerprint readers can be added with Pendulum.

MULMULMULMULMULTI-USER OPTIONSTI-USER OPTIONSTI-USER OPTIONSTI-USER OPTIONSTI-USER OPTIONSAllows for 5, 10, 15 and 25 concurrent administrative users onthe system. These levels are activated with a code and maybeupgraded at any time. Optional Modules such as job costing oraccess control may be activated at any time making the systemexpandable and affordable.

FEA FEA FEA FEA FEATURE RICH - HELPING YTURE RICH - HELPING YTURE RICH - HELPING YTURE RICH - HELPING YTURE RICH - HELPING YOUR BUSINESS DOUR BUSINESS DOUR BUSINESS DOUR BUSINESS DOUR BUSINESS DAILAILAILAILAILYYYYY

Know exactly where youremployees’ time and yourdollars are spent!

EXPANDABLE AFFORDABLE UPGRADEABLE

Over 70 report options capturing valuable datalike unauthorized overtime, employee status,departmental costs, job costing and much more.

Standard Package (Single Administrative User)Time and attendanceEmployee MessagingAutomated Time Clock PollingReport GenerationSignal Control

Five & Ten Administrative User PackageTime and attendanceEmployee MessagingAutomated Time Clock PollingReport GenerationSignal ControlEmail Module

Fifteen User PackageTime and attendanceEmployee MessagingAutomated Time Clock PollingReport GenerationSignal ControlEmail ModuleLockout Module

Twenty-Five Adminstrative User PackageTime and attendanceEmployee MessagingAutomated Time Clock PollingReport GenerationSignal ControlEmail ModuleLockout ModuleJob CostingInput ValidationAccess Control Module

Feature UpgradesAdministrative UsersJob CostingSignal ControlAccess ControlEmail ModuleLockout ModuleMessaging Module

TrainingEnd user training must be purchased withpackages; software/hardware installation/setup.

Pendulum is available in various pricing configurationsbased on the number of administrative users,allowing businesses to expand their time andattendance system easily as their employee basegrows. Time & attendance labor tracking expandableto meet your business needs.

REPORTSAccessActual vs. BudgetApproaching OvertimeAttendanceAttendance CountBenefitCategory CountCategory Summary

Group Wage SummaryHoursJob HourlyJob WagePiece WageQuantitySchedule ExceptionsShifts

Daily HoursDepartment SummaryDivision SummaryEmployee WageExceptionsExport Time CardFunction KeyGroup Hourly Summary

Time CardWho’s InWho’s In By ShiftAdditional Reports

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTSSYSTEM REQUIREMENTSSYSTEM REQUIREMENTSSYSTEM REQUIREMENTSSYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

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Operating since 1969 with headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina, Acroprint Time RecorderCompany is a leading global manufacturer and distributor of time and attendance productswith more than one thousand dealers/distributors across the United States andproducts that are exported to 70 foreign countries.

www.acroprint.com

Pendulum Single Specifications:IBM PC Compatible ComputerIntel Pentium 233 MHz or higher64 MB Memory170 MB available hard disk spaceWindows 98, 98SE, NT4.0 (SP4.0 or higher), 2000, XP

Pendulum Network Specifications:Server PC:IBM PC Compatible ComputerIntel Pentium II 400 MHz or higher256 MB Memory500 MB available hard disk spaceWindows NT4.0 (SP4 or higher), 2000 server

Client PC:IBM PC Compatible ComputerIntel Pentium 233 MHz or higher64 MB Memory170 MB available hard disk spaceWindows 98, 98SE, NT4.0 (SP4.0 or higher), 2000, XP

5640 Departure DriveRaleigh, North Carolina 27616

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E-Mail: sales@acroprint.com

DDDDDAAAAATTTTTA COLLECTIONA COLLECTIONA COLLECTIONA COLLECTIONA COLLECTIONMany data collection options are available includingmagnetic stripe, bar code or biometric technologyusing fingerprint readers or hand geometry scanners.

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