Know who is on site right now.
Everyone checked in and not yet out, by site and by gate, on one screen. In an emergency it is the muster list. On an ordinary Tuesday it is the answer to “is the contractor crew in yet?”
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How long until you have a list you would stake something on?
Not how long the evacuation takes — how long until somebody can say, with confidence, that everyone is accounted for.
Your muster today
An estimate of the counting, not the evacuation. How this is calculated: people × minutes per person for the method + assembly time. The point is the order of magnitude, not the decimal.
The list exists before you need it.
Every check-in and check-out already tells the system who came in and who left. The live view is simply that arithmetic, kept current: everyone who has checked in and not yet checked out, grouped by site, by gate, by team, and filtered to contractors or visitors when you need them separately. Nobody compiles it, because it is never out of date. In an emergency a supervisor opens it on a phone at the muster point. On an ordinary day it answers whether the crew arrived, whether the night shift has gone home, and who is still in the building at seven in the evening. One click exports it.
What it does not do: it shows who checked in and has not checked out. If somebody leaves through a gate without checking out, the list believes they are still on site — which is why exit discipline, or a barrier that enforces it, still matters.
There is no headcount system to buy. It falls out of the attendance you are already recording.
Timesheets, reports and the who-is-here view come with attendance on every plan, including Free for up to 5 employees. Visitors are priced separately, per check-in, on top of a paid plan. Liveness detection, GPS, geofencing, offline mode and access control are in the plan price — not add-ons.
Who is on site right now: the live view.
The view answers one question — who is in and not yet out — and answers it from the same records that produce the timesheet. There is no separate system to keep in step, which matters, because the usual failure of emergency headcounts is that the roll is drawn from an HR list of who was rostered rather than a record of who actually arrived.
Filtering is what makes it useful on a normal day. By site, so a head office can see three plants at once. By gate, where a large site has several. By team or group, so a supervisor sees their own crew. And by type, so contractors and visitors can be pulled out separately — usually the people least accounted for and most likely to be unfamiliar with the muster point.
Because it is a view of live data rather than a report you run, it is also the thing a security guard checks at the end of a shift to see who has not checked out. That is a far more common use than the emergency one, and it is the use that keeps the data honest enough to be trusted when an alarm does go off.
What it does not do: it is not a location system. It tells you a person is on site, not where on the site they are.
Can we see who is on site right now?
Yes — everyone checked in and not yet checked out, filtered by site, gate, group or type.
Can it show who has not checked out?
Yes, and it is one of the most-used views — it catches forgotten check-outs before they become timesheet corrections.
Can supervisors see the list on a phone?
Yes. That is the form it is most often needed in, because the person who needs it is standing at a muster point.
Contractors, visitors and staff on one list.
A headcount that covers only employees is the wrong headcount. On most sites the people whose presence is least certain are subcontractors, delivery drivers and visitors — precisely the people who do not know where the assembly point is.
Contractors are enrolled at the gate from a single photograph, on the same tablet used for check-in, without entering your HR system. Visitors come through visitor management: pre-registered before arrival or checked in at reception, with the same entry and exit record. Both appear in the same live view as staff, tagged by type so you can separate them when you want to and never lose them when you do not.
The result is a single answer to “how many people are on this site” that does not require anyone to combine a staff list, a contractor book and a reception ledger under time pressure.
What it does not do: visitor management is priced per check-in on top of a paid plan, and the visitor queue and visit notes are Premium features. The underlying entry and exit record is not.
Can it manage visitors and contractors at a public building?
Yes — staff, contractors and visitors share one entry and exit record and one live view.
How do we add a subcontractor crew quickly?
One photo each at the gate, or group enrolment from a single photograph where a crew arrives together.
Are visitors included in the headcount?
Yes, tagged as visitors so you can show or exclude them.
Muster points, gates and offline sites.
An emergency is exactly when infrastructure is least reliable, so the headcount has to survive a network that is down. Check-in stations hold what they need locally and keep verifying and recording when the link drops, syncing later. On an on-premises deployment the server is in your own building, so the live view does not depend on an internet connection at all — only on your own network.
Where a site is genuinely remote — a pit, a rig, a plant at the end of a long radio link — the same applies: a local server and local stations are a complete system. The muster list is held where the people are, not in a data centre on the other side of a connection that may be the first thing to fail.
Several gates on one site are handled by having a station at each, all reporting to the same view. A mobile station at the assembly point itself is a tablet, which is worth knowing before you need one.
What it does not do: if the stations themselves lose power and have no battery, they stop recording like anything else. Siting and power at the gate are part of the design, not an afterthought.
Does it work if the network is down during an emergency?
Stations keep working offline, and an on-premises server keeps the live view available on your own network with no internet at all.
Does it work underground and at remote pits?
Yes — offline stations and, where needed, a local server. This is a common mining and oil and gas configuration.
Can we have a station at the muster point itself?
Yes. It is a tablet, so an extra one at the assembly area is an inexpensive piece of preparation.
Three ways to count heads in a hurry.
| A printed roster | Supervisors on radio | NCheck | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Based on | Who was rostered | Who each supervisor can see | Who actually checked in |
| Includes contractors | Rarely | If they are with a crew | ✓ |
| Includes visitors | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Time to a complete list | Minutes, and contested | Minutes, and partial | Already on screen |
| If the network is down | Unaffected | Unaffected | Unaffected — offline stations, local server |
| Who has not checked out | Unknown | Unknown | Listed |
| Afterwards | A sheet of paper | A memory | An exportable record with times |
Who this is for — and who it is not.
Best for
- HSE and site managers responsible for an evacuation roll-call that has to be right
- Mining, oil and gas, refinery and high-security sites with formal muster procedures
- Principal contractors accountable for crews they did not employ
Not for
- Offices that only need a reception sign-in book
| If this is your situation | The setup is |
|---|---|
| One site, several gates | A station at each gate, one live view |
| Several sites, one head office | Stations per site; filter the view by site |
| Remote site with poor connectivity | Local server plus offline stations |
| Formal muster points | An extra tablet station at the assembly area |
| Lots of visitors and deliveries | Visitor management feeding the same list |
"We are using this software across different locations and it just works. A great fit for small and medium-size organisations."
What is a muster list?
A muster list, or roll call, is the record used to account for everyone on a site during an emergency evacuation. Its job is narrow and absolute: confirm that each person who entered has reached the assembly point, and identify quickly anyone who has not. The common weakness is that the list is drawn from who was expected — a roster, a shift plan — rather than from who actually arrived, and that it usually excludes contractors, drivers and visitors. A live headcount built from verified check-ins avoids both problems, because it is a record of entry rather than of intention. Requirements for roll-call procedures vary by country and industry; this is general guidance, not legal advice.
What to check before you commit.
- Is the headcount built from who actually checked in, or from who was rostered?
- Are contractors and visitors on the same list as employees?
- Does the list survive the network being down — and have you tested that, not just been told it?
- Can a supervisor open it on a phone at the assembly point?
- Does it show who has not checked out, as well as who is in?
- Can it be filtered by site, gate and team without building a report?
- Can it be exported immediately for an incident record?
- What happens to the count when somebody leaves without checking out?
Before you ask us.
Is this a separate product from attendance?
No. It is a view of the same check-in data, so there is nothing extra to buy or keep in step.
What if someone forgets to check out?
They stay on the list until corrected, which is the safe failure. The view is also how you spot it the same evening rather than at month end.
Can we require a check-out at the gate?
Where the station drives a turnstile or barrier through access control, yes — exit becomes a check-out.
Does it track people around the site?
No. It records entry and exit. There is no location tracking between those two moments.
Can we print the list?
Export it in one click, print from there. On a site with a formal procedure, an exported copy is usually what the incident file wants.
How current is the view?
As current as the last check-in, which with online stations is immediate; offline stations reconcile when they sync.
Does it work on the free plan?
Yes, for up to 5 employees. Real muster use starts at the Standard plan, where employee numbers are unlimited.
Keep reading.
Access control
Making exit a check-out, not an honour system.
Visitor management
Visitors and contractors on the same record.
Mining
Remote pits, muster points and offline stations.
Oil, gas and refineries
Contractor control in hazardous areas.
High-security facilities
Formal procedures and strict accounting.
Timesheets and reports
Where the live view gets its data.
Have the list before the alarm.
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Last reviewed: October 2026. Templates, not photos; deleted on request; on-premises keeps everything inside your network. Details on the security and compliance page.