TCP Direct time clocks for Workday
The best time clocks for Workday
Workday Time gives HR leaders visibility into schedules, hours, and pay across your entire workforce. But those insights are only as trustworthy as the punches feeding them. That’s where TCP Direct comes in. Our intelligent time clock hardware is built to send Workday Time the clean, audit-ready punch records it needs to deliver accurate pay.
Time clock hardware that’s perfect for Workday teams
A complete solution with TCP Direct
Made for Workday, TCP Direct brings together our time clocks, reliable middleware, and TimeClock Plus software for cleaner data and configurable compliance, labor, and job-costing capabilities.
Workday-ready punch data
Each punch is cleaned, verified, and timestamped at the device so time data that lands in Workday is already audit-ready
Customized to meet your needs
Layer on add-ons for attestations, job costing, premium calculations, and union compliance to extend the power of your HCM
You set the sync cadence
Choose real-time streaming, scheduled batches, or manager-approved syncs into Workday to fit your payroll rhythm
Future-proof time clocks
TCP Direct hardware is built to flex with Workday and your business for the long haul.
Why choose TCP hardware for Workday
The right clock vendor doesn’t just ship boxes — they understand how punches becomes paychecks. Here’s what Workday customers gain with TCP Direct.
Workday-certified compatibility
Skip the CSV exports and overnight batch jobs. TCP Direct sends clean punch records straight into Workday Time, mapped to the worker types, positions, and time-entry codes you’ve already configured.
Intelligent timekeeping for unique use cases
Workers attest to their hours at the device —while the clock handles unlimited job codes, departmental transfers, and shift-rule logic Workday alone can’t enforce.
Advanced biometrics
Wipe out buddy punching with fingerprint authentication at the device so only validated punches reach Workday to keep your labor data clean and your bottom line protected.
Best-fit punch options
No two frontlines look alike. Choose from multiple time capture methods to fit your environment and employee workflow, including:
- Fingerprint scanning
- RFID and barcode badges
- PIN entry
Reliability you can trust
Manufacturing floors, hospital wings, school districts, and 24-hour operations all run on TCP clocks. Our hardware survives tough environments and stays updated with the latest timekeeping functionality.
No bolted-on middleware
Our middleware acts as an intelligent translation layer between your clocks and Workday Time. It applies pay rules, queues exceptions for supervisor review, and only releases finalized records once they’re ready for payroll.
Get more from your Workday HCM
Need timekeeping power that goes past native Workday Time? Layer any of these modular TCP capabilities to your system:
What is TCP Direct?
TCP Direct isn’t just a time clock — it combines hardware, middleware, and software, to help you get even more value from your Workday HCM. Where most clock vendors stop at simply collecting punches, TCP Direct applies your pay rules, validates exceptions, and packages every record so it’s ready and actionable the moment it’s ingested by Workday.
Do TCP clocks integrate with Workday?
Yes. TCP Direct provides a Workday-certified integration. Pre-validated punch data lands in Workday Time, ensuring HR teams spend less time chasing exceptions and more time closing payroll on schedule.
What other functionality can I add to the clocks?
Because every TCP clock is backed by our TimeClock Plus software, you can layer on advanced workforce capabilities as your operational needs change. Optional add-ons cover advanced time calculations for shift differentials, hour-limit tracking to manage margin impact, comprehensive leave management, and guardrails for complex union compliance. Any of these rules can be configured to run right at the clock, giving you tighter labor control and more accurate job costing.
What if I change my HCM or ERP platform?
Your hardware investment isn’t locked to Workday. If you ever move to Oracle or SAP, we simply re-point the integration — no rip-and-replace of the physical clocks or new procurement cycle. That portability is part of why TCP hardware reliably runs ten or more years across multiple system migrations.
What kind of support does TCP offer?
Workday customers get the full, award-winning TCP support stack that includes dedicated implementation specialists, role-based training for HR admins and frontline managers, and ongoing technical assistance whenever you need it. Live agents answer in under a minute, around the clock, every day of the year. If a unit ever fails, we overnight a replacement from our Texas warehouse to virtually any address worldwide.
What happens if my clock goes down?
TCP clocks are engineered for continuous operation, even when the network isn’t. During an outage, punches are buffered on the device itself; the moment connectivity returns, they’re pushed back through our middleware and into Workday Time in the correct sequence. Your supervisors keep a real-time view of who’s on the floor, and your Workday data stays gap-free.
No more disparate systems
When time clocks can’t reliably talk to your Workday software, HR teams burn hours tracking down punches and correcting errors. TCP removes that friction by acting as a single, dependable bridge between your frontline workers and your back-end Workday system.
