About Licenses

 
Astrow is a time and attendance flexible application, adaptable to different needs of its customers through its main licenses, VT, ESS and MSS, roles and customable permissions.
 
MSS, Management Self Service, is the management license; it ensures for managers the full control of the time and attendance of their teams in Team Manager (add/edit/delete bookings and absences for your team, bookings MC, add notes, change day programs, change cycles, view timecards, holiday cards, anomalies and generate attendance reports of your employees in Astrow Web) and for HR personnel full configuration permissions and administration of all employees.
 
VT license uses Virtual Terminal for real time bookings, as an evolution from a traditional time clock to a computer controlled terminal, through an internet browser. VT license is used by employees to make real time bookings directly from their computer.
 
Mobile VT license is a variation of VT, using mobile phones for bookings, through an internet browser on mobile operation systems. It was developed for situations when employees’ tasks are assigned in changeable locations, e.g. sales or other outsourced services, satellites offices, home working employees, leasing personnel etc.
 
ESS license, Employee Self Service, enables the possibility of sending absence requests to superiors, view personal timecard and holiday card, also team scheduled absences when sending an absence request. It also enables the authorizers to authorize absences of other persons. ESS license is used for employees to manage their own time and attendance and for authorizers to approve the absence requests of others.
 
Licensing the product will require at least 1 MSS. This is the core license and will be automatically assigned with the role of HR. The master user HR will have full configuration rights for all employees, thus also the role of Manager. It will be able to act as a Manager for the system group All employees. All employees is a system group which will be automatically updated whenever adding or deleting an employee in the system. All employees cannot be assigned to other users; in case there are more HR persons entitled to operate for all employees, we advice you to create new groups and include all employees manually.
 
Extra licenses for PIP, Counters export and Detailed log enable the possibilities of PIP views, payroll exports and log operations (see table below for more details).
 
Bio distribution is a license for distributing the templates on the terminals (see New/Edit iT30/iT300 and iT30/iT300 Terminal Commands for more details).
 
Morpho connection license enables the usage of Sagem Morpho terminals (see New/Edit Morpho 500+/200/J and Morpho 200/J/500+ Commands for more details). Please note that this is not possbile without a Bio distribution license.
 
File terminal is a license to import in / export from Astrow bookings / data (see New/Edit File Terminal for more details).
 
Data collection is a license to insert directly from the terminal (iT30/iT300) the number of operations of a type defined done during a working day, to be included in daily or periodic reports (see Data Collection for more information).
 
Illness Control is an extra module of reports developed for Norwegian market. Please contact the sales department for more details about this license.
 
Terminal Astrow is a mobile application that transforms a mobile phone into an Astrow data collection terminal. A mobile can be used instead of any terminal in order to make bookings. Employees can make bookings by PIN, employee number or by scanning a barcode / QRCode (see Bookings with Mobile Terminal). To define a mobile terminal, see New/Edit Mobile Terminal.
 
Activity Astrow is a mobile application that registers the time spent by a manager on performing some activities on a number of employees, e.g. doing trainings, presentations, etc. Settings and reports will be done in Astrow Web interface (see Activity Definitions and Activity Management in Astrow Web). Starting and ending the time for employees' activities will always be made with Activity Astrow mobile application (see Activity Mobile Application).
 
Pocket PIP is a mobile application to display the PIP status of employees. It also includes a roll call checking list in case of emergencies (see Pocket PIP).
 
You can find below a guide of the operations and roles enabled for each main license in Astrow Web.
 
For a full explanation of roles per license, please see Security Levels, Roles and Permissions.
For a full explanation of permissions per license, please see List of Permissions.
 
License Core MSS (HR master and Administrator)
License MSS
License ESS
License VT
License Mobile
Menus
Operations
Operations
Operations
Operations
Operations
Manage Requests (bookings MC)
Manage Requests (bookings MC)
New Request
New Booking
New Booking on Mobile
Team Manager
Team Manager
Missing Booking Request
 
 
Team Anomalies
Team Anomalies
Time Card
 
 
Communicate Status
Communicate Status
Manage Requests
 
 
Activity Manager (with Activity license)
Task Scheduler (Auto Import Employees license extra)
My T&A Status
 
 
Team T&A Status
Employee Files
 
 
 
Task Scheduler (Auto Import Employees license extra)
 
 
 
 
Bulk Documents Upload
 
 
 
 
Freeze Period
 
 
 
 
Employee Files
 
 
 
 
View
View
View
View
View
Dashboard
Dashboard
My Requests
Terminal Results
Messages
Messages
Messages
Holiday Card
Messages
 
PIP (with PIP license)
PIP (with PIP license)
Yearly View
 
 
Notes
Notes
Messages
 
 
Operation Log (with Detailed Log license)
 
Team View
 
 
 
 
Requests History
 
 
 
 
My Anomalies
 
 
 
 
My Files
 
 
Configuration
Configuration
Configuration
Configuration
Configuration
Employees (Auto Import Employees license extra)
 
 
 
 
Departments
 
 
 
 
Groups
 
 
 
 
Authorization
 
 
 
 
Day Programs
 
 
 
 
Pay Groups
 
 
 
 
Cycles
 
 
 
 
Break Groups
 
 
 
 
Overtime Groups
 
 
 
 
Chop Groups
 
 
 
 
Rounding Groups
 
 
 
 
AutoDP Table
 
 
 
 
Absences
 
 
 
 
Seniority Schemes
 
 
 
 
Holiday Settings
 
 
 
 
Counter Definitions
 
 
 
 
Counter Operations
 
 
 
 
Master Codes
 
 
 
 
Cost Centers
 
 
 
 
EWTD Counters
 
 
 
 
Activity Types (with Activity license)
 
 
 
 
Activity Destinations (with Activity license)
 
 
 
 
Communication
Communication
Communication
Communication
Communication
Terminal Manager
 
 
 
 
Terminal Groups
 
 
 
 
Terminal Configuration
 
 
 
 
Result Groups
 
 
 
 
Signal Definitions
 
 
 
 
Signal Exceptions
 
 
 
 
Special Card Manager
 
 
 
 
Terminal Commands
 
 
 
 
Command Log
 
 
 
 
Communication Queue
 
 
 
 
Data Collection (with Data Collection license)
 
 
 
 
Security
Security
Security
Security
Security
Users
 
 
 
 
Roles
 
 
 
 
Reports
Reports
Reports
Reports
Reports
Report Definition
Report Definition
 
 
 
Report Archive
Report Archive
 
 
 
Export Definition (with Counters Export license)
Export Definition (with Counters Export license)
 
 
 
Export Archive (with Counters Export license)
Export Archive (with Counters Export license)
 
 
 
Bradford Factor (with Bradford license)
Bradford Factor (with Bradford license)
 
 
 
HR (with HR1 license)
HR (with HR1 license)
HR (with HR1 license)
HR (with HR1 license)
HR (with HR1 license)
Groups
 
 
 
 
Locations
 
 
 
 
Equipments
 
 
 
 
Skills
 
 
 
 
Training institutes
 
 
 
 
Free items
 
 
 
 
Languages
 
 
 
 
Access (with Access license)
Access (with Access license)
Access (with Access license)
Access (with Access license)
Access (with Access license)
GS Manager
 
 
 
 
Access Groups
 
 
 
 
Cards
 
 
 
 
Event Logger
 
 
 
 
GS Definitions
 
 
 
 
Settings
Settings
Settings
Settings
Settings
Preferences
Preferences
Preferences
Preferences
Preferences
System
Change Password
Change Password
Change Password
Change Password
Tools
 
 
 
 
Change Password
 
 
 
 
Roles
Activity Manager (system) with Activity license
Activity Manager (system) with Activity license
 
 
 
Administrator (system)
Manager (System)
Authorizer (system)
VTUser
MobileVTUser (system)
HR (system)
RunReportsExports (system)
Employee
 
 
Manager + HR (only for the master user)
 
ESSUser (system)
 
 
RunReportsExports (system)
 
TrustedUser
 
 
TerminalManager