SFC Infratech Case Study | Onsite Construction Software
How SFC Infratech Eliminated Payroll Errors and Gained Labour Visibility with Onsite
SFC Infratech was tracking 50 to 100 workers across multiple North India sites through paper attendance registers with no identity verification. Payroll errors were compounding every cycle, ghost worker entries were impossible to detect, and monthly consolidation consumed three or more days of manual effort. Onsite changed all of that.
Payroll errors reduced to near zero across all active sites
25% reduction in labour costs through ghost worker elimination
3 days saved monthly on payroll processing and reconciliation
Company Overview
SFC Infratech Pvt. Ltd. is an infrastructure and road construction contractor operating across multiple states in North India, associated with Deepak Earth Movers which brings over 20 years of market presence to the business. Founded by Mr. SF Chougule, the company manages earthwork, road construction, and civil infrastructure projects with a workforce of 50 to 100 labourers deployed across concurrent sites at any given time. In an industry where labour costs represent the single largest project expense, the gap between paper attendance and actual site presence determines whether projects remain profitable or absorb silent losses every pay cycle.
CLIENT NAME
SFC Infratech Pvt. Ltd.
CLIENT LOCATION
North India
CATEGORY
Infrastructure and Road Construction
The Challenges SFC Infratech Faced Before Onsite
As Reidius Infra grew from managing a handful of projects to running multiple concurrent sites across Jaipur, the informal tools the team relied on began creating operational failures that directly affected client relationships and delivery commitments.
01
Paper Registers With No Verification Created Systematic Payroll Errors
Attendance at every SFC Infratech site ran on paper registers maintained by site supervisors. Workers marked attendance manually with no verification that the person present matched the record being created. Registers were submitted to the head office at the end of each week or pay cycle. By the time payroll teams received and processed them, errors from misrecorded attendance, duplicate entries, and absent workers marked as present had already compounded across the full workforce with no mechanism to identify which entries were accurate.
02
Ghost Worker Entries Were Invisible to Management
Without identity verification at the point of check-in, workers listed on payroll who were not present on site had no structural barrier preventing their entries from accumulating across pay cycles. Site-level attendance was entirely dependent on supervisor honesty and accuracy. Management at the head office had no visibility into who was physically present at any given site on any given day. Labour costs on individual projects were impossible to verify against actual deployment, and headcount overstatement was undetectable until it surfaced through financial reconciliation.
03
Multi-Site Payroll Consolidation Consumed Days Every Cycle
SFC Infratech’s expansion across multiple concurrent North India sites meant payroll was compiled separately at each location by different supervisors using different paper formats. Consolidating payroll required manual gathering of registers from every site, format reconciliation, discrepancy identification, and full workforce wage calculation before any payments could be processed. This consumed three or more days every pay cycle and still produced errors. Workers deployed across more than one site during a pay period created reconciliation problems that paper systems could not resolve cleanly.
How Onsite Solved It?
SFC Infratech implemented Onsite across all active sites. The implementation focused on four capabilities directly connected to their labour management and payroll challenges.
Face + GPS Verified
0 Proxy Entries Today
VERIFIED CHECK-INS TODAY
214
✓ 100% Verified
Face Recognition
ID Confirmed
GPS Location
Site Confirmed
Face Recognition Pass Rate100%
GPS Site Confirmation Rate100%
Proxy / Ghost Entries0%
214
Verified Today
0
Ghost Entries
6
Active Sites
Live Attendance Feed
Rajan K. — Face + GPS verified · Site 3
1m ago
Suresh M. — Face + GPS verified · Site 1
4m ago
Paper register removed · Site 5 migrated
Today
Geo-Tagged Attendance and Face Recognition Replaced Paper Registers
Workers at every SFC Infratech site began marking attendance through the Onsite mobile app using face recognition that verified identity combined with GPS confirmation that verified physical presence at the correct site. Both verifications had to pass simultaneously for the attendance entry to record. Proxy attendance and ghost worker entries became structurally impossible because every record required verified identity and confirmed site location. Paper registers disappeared entirely from the attendance workflow.
Face recognition confirming verified worker identity at every check-in
GPS location proof confirming physical presence at the correct site
Proxy attendance and ghost worker entries structurally eliminated
Automated Payroll Calculation with Integrated Advance Tracking
Once attendance was verified through Onsite, payroll calculations ran automatically from the system based on agreed wage rates, verified attendance records, approved advances, and applicable deductions. The manual consolidation process that previously consumed three or more days was replaced by automated calculations drawing from centralized verified data. Advances recorded throughout the pay period reflected automatically in final wage calculations, eliminating the separate advance register reconciliation that had been a recurring source of errors.
Auto-Calculated
3 Days → Minutes
Site A
Site B
All Sites
NET PAYROLL THIS CYCLE
₹8.4L
✓ Auto-Calculated
Wages computed from verified attendance · advances deducted automatically
Payroll Calculation Breakdown
Gross Wages (Attendance-Based)
+₹11.2L
Advances Deducted
−₹2.1L
Other Deductions
−₹0.7L
Net Payable
₹8.4L
Payroll Automation Rate100%
Advances Auto-Reconciled68%
Manual Register Collection0%
143
Workers Paid
₹2.1L
Advances Cleared
<1 day
Cycle Time
Payroll Activity
Site A payroll calculated — 62 workers · ₹3.8L
Auto
Advance ₹8,500 deducted — Ramesh D., Site B
Auto
Multi-site consolidation complete — 3 sites merged
Cycle end
RK
Rajan Kumar
Mason · Site 3 · June 2025
Attendance — 26 days
26 days × ₹650/day
₹16,900
Advance deducted
−₹3,000
PF deduction
−₹528
Net payable
₹13,372
Calculated from face + GPS attendance data
Rajan K.
Suresh M.
Anita D.
Payslips generated
214
this cycle · auto
Disputes raised
0
down from 31 last month
Resolution time
<2 min
show slip → resolved
Manual errors
0
vs 12 last cycle
Payroll disputes per month
Before and after digital payslips
Onsite deployed → disputes dropped to zero
Worker trust score — by site
Instant Payslip Generation Eliminated Worker Disputes
Every worker received a digital payslip showing the exact days attended, wage rate applied, advances deducted, and final payment amount generated automatically from the same verified data that drove the wage calculation. When workers questioned their payment, supervisors showed them the verified attendance record tied directly to the payslip calculation. Disputes dropped immediately because workers could see their own attendance history and confirm how wages were calculated rather than arguing against an opaque manual process.
Digital payslips generated automatically from verified attendance data
Complete wage calculation breakdown visible to workers and supervisors
Worker trust in payroll accuracy improved across all active sites
The Results
Within the first two months of Onsite implementation, measurable improvements appeared across payroll accuracy, labour cost control, and management visibility.
Payroll errors reduced to near zero
The structural elimination of proxy attendance and ghost worker entries through face recognition and GPS verification removed the primary sources of payroll error from the process entirely. Errors that previously entered through manual register compilation, inconsistent supervisor recording, and advance reconciliation failures could not occur within a system where attendance was verified at the point of entry and payroll calculated automatically from that verified data. SFC Infratech’s pay cycles shifted from error-prone processes requiring post-cycle correction to reliable processes producing accurate outputs the first time.
25% reduction in labour costs
Eliminating ghost worker entries and proxy attendance removed workers who were being paid without verified presence on site. The 25% reduction in labour costs reflected the gap between what manual paper attendance was billing to projects and what verified face recognition attendance confirmed was the actual workforce present. For a company operating at INR 40 to 50 crore annual revenue with labour representing a significant share of project costs, the recovery from ghost worker elimination had direct impact on project profitability across all active sites.
3 days saved monthly on payroll processing
The manual consolidation that required three or more days of head office effort every pay cycle to gather registers, reconcile formats, calculate wages, and resolve multi-site discrepancies was replaced entirely by automated calculations running from centralized verified data. Payroll teams that previously spent most of a work week on compilation work shifted to oversight and exception handling. The recovered time went toward higher-value finance and operations work rather than administrative reconciliation of paper records from multiple sites.
Message from the Founder of SFC Infratech
I never imagined that my business would be digitized so easily. Before Onsite, managing attendance and payroll across our sites required constant follow-up with supervisors and still produced errors we could not fully explain. With Onsite, attendance is verified at the point of check-in and payroll calculates itself. Our workers trust the numbers now because they can see exactly how their wages were calculated.
Mr. SF Chougule, Founder
SFC Infratech Pvt. Ltd., North India
See How Onsite Works for Your Construction Business
If your company tracks worker attendance through paper registers, calculates wages manually from compiled sheets, or discovers payroll discrepancies only during financial reconciliation, Onsite gives you the verified attendance, automated payroll, and multi-site labour visibility that infrastructure contractors need to control their single largest project cost.
FAQs
What problems did SFC Infratech face before using Onsite?
SFC Infratech managed workforce attendance across multiple North India sites through paper registers with no identity verification at the point of check-in. This created systematic payroll errors through proxy attendance, ghost worker entries, and manual compilation mistakes compounding across every pay cycle. Multi-site payroll consolidation required three or more days of manual head office work every cycle. Workers who disputed their wages had no way to verify their attendance history, creating recurring disputes that damaged site relationships and consumed supervisor time.
Which Onsite modules did SFC Infratech implement?
SFC Infratech implemented Onsite’s Labour Management module, specifically face recognition attendance with GPS verification, automated wage calculation, advance and deduction tracking, instant payslip generation, and multi-site labour visibility. The implementation focused entirely on the labour and payroll workflow because that was where SFC Infratech’s most significant operational and financial problems were concentrated. Labour productivity tracking connected to activity progress entries gave management operational intelligence across all active sites.
How does face recognition attendance work for infrastructure construction sites?
Workers mark attendance through the Onsite mobile app using face recognition that verifies the person checking in matches the registered worker profile, combined with GPS confirmation that verifies physical presence at the correct site. Both verifications must pass simultaneously for the attendance entry to record. This makes proxy attendance and ghost worker entries structurally impossible because no manual override exists. Attendance data flows directly into payroll calculations without any manual compilation step.
How did Onsite reduce SFC Infratech’s labour costs by 25%?
The 25% reduction came directly from eliminating ghost worker entries and proxy attendance that had been accumulating undetected under the paper register system. Ghost workers are workers listed on payroll who are not present on site but receive payment because manual systems have no verification mechanism to catch them. Face recognition attendance with GPS verification made ghost worker entries impossible because every attendance record required simultaneous identity verification and confirmed physical presence at the correct site.
What results did SFC Infratech achieve with Onsite?
SFC Infratech achieved three measurable outcomes. Payroll errors reduced to near zero as face recognition and GPS verification structurally eliminated the proxy attendance and ghost worker entries that had been the primary error sources. Labour costs reduced by approximately 25% as verified attendance replaced paper registers that had been overstating workforce headcount. Monthly payroll processing time reduced by three or more days as automated calculations replaced manual multi-site register consolidation, directly improving project profitability and management control.
Is Onsite suitable for infrastructure and road construction companies?
Yes. Onsite is specifically suited for infrastructure and road contractors managing large labour-intensive workforces across multiple concurrent sites. The face recognition and GPS attendance features address ghost worker and proxy attendance problems that are particularly acute in infrastructure construction where site supervisors operate with limited direct management oversight. Multi-site labour visibility and automated payroll calculation work across distributed deployments of any size. Companies managing 50 to 500 workers across three or more concurrent sites gain the most immediate impact from Onsite’s labour management capabilities.
How long did Onsite implementation take for SFC Infratech?
Onsite’s labour management module is designed for rapid deployment without lengthy technical implementation. The core attendance and payroll features are operational within days of account setup. Workers are registered with face recognition profiles during onboarding and supervisors use the mobile app which requires no technical expertise beyond basic smartphone usage. Most infrastructure companies see measurable improvements in payroll accuracy and processing time within the first complete pay cycle after go-live.
Can Onsite scale with infrastructure companies managing a growing workforce?
Yes. Adding a new site to Onsite takes minutes. New workers are registered with face recognition profiles through the mobile app without office involvement. Payroll calculations automatically include any new site and any new workers registered within the system. Management visibility scales automatically as new sites are added. SFC Infratech’s experience shows that companies can expand across additional concurrent sites while maintaining the same payroll accuracy and management control without adding administrative headcount.