Working with TimeKeeper
The main change this month was connecting Pulse to Mintage TimeKeeper, so clock events from the kiosk land where shifts and timesheets are managed. Enrolment and clock retries were reworked so they stay secure across TimeKeeper and Workforce.
TimeKeeper also decides what the kiosk offers. A company can choose which clock-in methods it allows, and Pulse only shows those. After someone is identified, the kiosk shows only the actions that are valid for them at that moment: Clock In, Clock Out, Start Break or End Break. After a confirmation, or a short wait without a choice, it goes back to waiting for the next person.
More than one way to clock in
Faces do not work for everyone every time, so Pulse gained other routes. Employees can enter a PIN, and the kiosk takes a photo at the same moment unless the company has chosen not to require one. They can also hold up a rotating QR code from Mintage Connect; the kiosk checks the code on the device itself, and we raised the camera resolution so codes shown on a phone screen read more reliably.
Where a company allows it, there is also a profile wall: a grid of names, now with real profile photos, for anyone the camera and a PIN cannot serve. The wall refreshes after each clock. Several fixes made the QR path recover cleanly when a code is rejected or the wrong action is chosen.
A new look
Pulse moved to a new design direction we call Aurora: a deep navy background with soft moving light, frosted-glass panels and one bright accent for the main action on each screen. A new app icon, a clock face with a pulse line through it, replaced the old one on both square and round launchers.
This article was written from Mintage Pulse’s commit history for August 2026. See Mintage Pulse today