ZKTeco ZPAD+ User manual

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USER MANUAL
ZPAD+ User Manual

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About This Manual
⚫This document introduces the user interface and menu operations of ZPad+.
⚫All design and specification declared are subject to change without notice in
advance.

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Important Claim
Firstly, thank you for purchasing this facial and fingerprint hybrid terminal, before
use, please read this manual carefully to avoid unnecessary damage. ZKTeco Europe
(the company) reminds you that proper usage will improve the use effect and
authentication speed.
No written consent by our company by any unit or individual allows to excerpt,
copy the contents of this manual in part or in full, also the distribution in any form.
The product described in the manual may include software which copyrights are
shared by licensors including our company. Except for the permission of the
relevant holder, it is explicitly forbidden to copy, distribute, revise, modify, extract,
decompile, disassemble, decrypt, reverse engineering, leasing, transfer, sub-license
the software, as other acts of copyright infringement, limitations applied to law
excluded.
Due to the constant renewal of products, the company cannot assure the
compliance between the product and the information contained in this document,
including the technical parameters of the product. Please forgive any change
without notice.

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Table of Contents
About This Manual.................................................................................................................................................2
Important Claim......................................................................................................................................................3
1. Device operation................................................................................................................................................6
1.1. Finger Placement .......................................................................................................................................6
1.2. How to use touch screen ........................................................................................................................6
1.3. Card Placement...........................................................................................................................................7
1.4. Desktop Screen...........................................................................................................................................7
1.5. Punching Operation..................................................................................................................................7
1.5.1. 1:N Verification ...................................................................................................................................7
1.5.2. 1:1 Verification .................................................................................................................................10
1.5.3. Force Attendance Event Selection............................................................................................ 12
2. Applications ...................................................................................................................................................... 13
3. Employee Management ............................................................................................................................... 14
3.1. Add a New Employee............................................................................................................................ 14
Fingerprint Enroll........................................................................................................................................16
Card Enroll..................................................................................................................................................... 17
Password Enroll ...........................................................................................................................................17
3.2. Edit existing employee.......................................................................................................................... 18
3.3. Delete a registered employee............................................................................................................20
4. T&A Records.....................................................................................................................................................21
5. Messages Management ............................................................................................................................... 22
5.1. Add a New Message.............................................................................................................................. 22
5.2. Message Display .....................................................................................................................................24
5.3. Messages Edit...........................................................................................................................................25
5.4. Messages Delete.....................................................................................................................................25
6. Attendance Events Management..............................................................................................................26
6.1. Add a New Attendance Event............................................................................................................26
+ Events.......................................................................................................................................................... 28
6.2. Edit an Attendance Event..................................................................................................................... 29
6.3. Delete an Attendance Event............................................................................................................... 31
7. Roles Management ........................................................................................................................................33
7.1. Add a New Role....................................................................................................................................... 33

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7.2. Editing an Existing Role........................................................................................................................ 35
7.3. Deleting an Existing Role..................................................................................................................... 36
8. T&A Settings..................................................................................................................................................... 38
8.1. Punch Settings ......................................................................................................................................... 38
8.2. Manage Data............................................................................................................................................ 39
8.3. Push Settings............................................................................................................................................ 40
8.4. Web Server................................................................................................................................................ 40
8.5. Relay Settings........................................................................................................................................... 41
8.6. Data Info..................................................................................................................................................... 42
9. System Settings ............................................................................................................................................... 43
9.1. General Settings......................................................................................................................................43
9.2. Network...................................................................................................................................................... 44
1. Wired Ethernet........................................................................................................................................45
2. Wi-Fi............................................................................................................................................................ 46
9.3. Test Hardware........................................................................................................................................... 47
9.4. Device Info................................................................................................................................................. 48
9.5. Location...................................................................................................................................................... 48
10. Firmware Updater......................................................................................................................................... 50

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1. Device operation
1.1. Finger Placement
Recommended fingers: The index finger, middle finger or the ring finger; the thumb and
pinkie finger are not recommended (since they often present more difficulties to be
recognized).
The finger is flat to the surface and centered in fingered guide.
1.2. How to use touch screen
Use finger pulps slid or click the touch screen. The fingertip and fingernail may affect the
using of touch screen.
Slanting
Not flat to the
surface
Off-center
Off-center

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1.3. Card Placement
RFID Cards must be placed below the fingerprint sensor in order to be recognized.
1.4. Desktop Screen
The device has different widgets on the desktop at the factory status: The basic attendance
events, which are Check In, Check Out, Break In, Break Out, Overtime In and Overtime
Out, access to the rest of the functions, which are + Events, Keyboard and Apps, and the
display of the Current Date and Time
1.5. Punching Operation
As said previously the basic attendance events are Check In, Check Out, Break In, Break
Out, Overtime In and Overtime Out. These are the events that are created in the device by
default. It is possible to add more attendance events which will appear on the desktop as
those or they will be accessed by the + Events function, in the lower left position of the
screen.
The operation of registering a punch in the device depends on the configuration of the
verification and if the if the selection of an attendance event is set to mandatory
1.5.1. 1:N Verification
This is the default and most used configuration. If no extra configuration is done, this is
how the punches are registered in the device. This type of verification consists in the device
comparing the punch registered to all the values of the same type of punch in the
database. The operation is as follows.
1. Select the event that the punch is going to be set, either from the desktop, either

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from + Events. This is optional. If no attendance event is selected, a default “0”
attendance event is going to be selected.
An attendance event in the Desktop can be selected or in the + Events screen
Desktop
+ Events
2. Punch the device by Fingerprint or by Card. If the punch is going to be registered
by Code, click on Keyboard in order to input Code and Password

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3. The device will test if the Fingerprint, Card or Code/Password set corresponds to
a registered employee. If the device can identify the employee, a positive
verification message will be shown.
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4. On the contrary, a negative verification message will be shown.

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1.5.2. 1:1 Verification
The device can also perform a 1:1 Verification. This kind of verification consist in the
employee identifying itself first by Code and registering the punch with Fingerprint or
Card after this identification. This punch data is compared only to the identified employee
data. This is used to provide an extra layer of security, or when the Fingerprints or Cards
are difficult to read by the device.
The punching operation when this kind of identification is selected is the following:
1. Select the event that the punch is going to be set, either from the desktop, either
from + Events. This is optional. If no attendance event is selected, a default “0”
attendance event is going to be selected. An attendance event in the Desktop can
be selected or in the + Events screen.
Desktop
+Events
2. Click on Keyboard to enter the employee Code

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3. Punch the device by Fingerprint or Card. The device will only issue a positive
verification if the punching registered corresponds to the user whose code has
been entered.
4. On the contrary, a failed verification message will be issued.

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1.5.3. Force Attendance Event Selection
In the previous section it is specified that the selection of an attendance event prior to the
punching is optional. The device can be configured so it is mandatory to set an attendance
event prior to the punching. If this is activated (View T&A Settings –Punch Settings)
section trying to set a punch without selecting an attendance event first will show the
following error on screen.

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2. Applications
Click Apps to enter the Applications interface:
App Name
Usage
Employee
Add, edit or delete the basic employee information: enroll Pin, Name,
Fingerprint, Card and Password; assign Department as required.
T&A records
List of registered punches. The device shows the list of registered punches
by date. Punches are identified by User Photo, Name, Code, Punch type
and Date
Message
Add or delete public or personal messages as required.
Attendance Events
Add, edit or delete attendance events as required.
Role
Set permissions for the different functionalities of the device
T&A settings
List of available T&A settings, in order to configure the behavior of the
device as needed
System settings
List of system settings, such as Network Configuration, Language,
Date&Time, etc.
Firmware Updater
Internal software update. Only select this option when required by the
distributor.

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3. Employee Management
This app manages the employees of the device, allowing the registry, modification or
deletion of the employees of the company the device.
In order to register an employee, its Code, Name, and at least a punch type, such as
Fingerprint, Card or Password must be provided. Optional fields are Department and Role.
When there is a change in the employees, it must be carried over to the device in order to
maintain the correctness of the information. That is why the modification of an already
registered employee is possible
Lastly, when an employee is dismissed, it must be deleted from the device in order to delete
them from the registries of the company.
Click Employee on the Apps page in order to access the employee app.
3.1. Add a New Employee
These are the steps needed to add a new employee to the device.
1. On the Employee app click on the New Employee icon (marked with the green
arrow in the following screenshot)
2. In the following screen, fill in the details of the employee. The Code and Name
fields are mandatory, but the Department and Role fields are optional. Click on the
smiley face in order to add a photo of the employee, which will be set as a User
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3. When selecting the Department, there is an option to create a New Department.
4. The following dialog is presented in order to create de Department, which will be
assigned automatically to the employee being registered

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5. Click on any of the punch types available in order to enroll a Fingerprint, Card or
Password for the Employee
Fingerprint Enroll
6. If Fingerprint is selected, a finger selection screen will open
7. Select the finger to enroll and punch the device three times in order to save the
enrollment

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8. Once all the wanted fingerprints are enrolled, click on the left arrow, on the upper
left position in order to go back to the previous screen.
Card Enroll
9. To enroll a card, click on the Card icon. Punch the card in the screen that appears
next to enroll the card to the employee.
10. Once the card is enrolled, click on the left arrow on the upper left position in order
to go back to the previous screen
Password Enroll
12.In order to enroll a password, click on the ***** icon. It is required to input the
password twice in order to save the password. Warning:Do not forget to click on
SAVE on this screen in order to save the password, as clicking on the upper left
arrow will NOT save the password.

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11.Click on SAVE in order to register the employee. From now on the employee is
available in order to register punches.
3.2. Edit existing employee
As creating a new employee, it is possible to edit and existing employee.
1. Select the Employee that needs to be edited, to do it, just click once on it. In the
following example the employee no.3 is going to be edited

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2. The details of the employee will be shown on screen. The Code of the Employee can
not be edited. In order to edit any other of the fields, just click on the field to be
edited, and after editing click SAVE.
3. Enrolling a Fingerprint, Card or Password to an existing Employee is done as it
was done when registering the employee. If a Fingerprint, Card or Password is
already enrolled and we want to change it, a dialog asking if we want to Delete the
previous punch type or we want to cancel the operation. In the example, we are
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4. Remember to SAVE after doing all the edits needed. If the upper left arrow is
clicked the changes will NOT be saved.
3.3. Delete a registered employee.
When an Employee is dismissed, it is possible to delete the registry in the device. Be
careful doing this as any of the T&A records of this employee will also be deleted. The
process to delete an existing employee is the following.
1. On the Employees screen, swipe left the employee that needs to be deleted. A red
Delete icon will show on the right of the screen.
2. Click on the Delete icon to delete the employee. A confirmation message will
appear for safety.