Police verification status
The committee marks a helper police verified from the app. Until then, every flat sees Verification pending.
Maid management app
Domestic help management app for societies, from the gate to the payslip
One register for every maid, cook and driver who works in your society, with gate attendance that pings each flat they work for. Society staff get a muster roll, payroll and ID cards on the web dashboard. Part of SocietyConnect, free for 90 days.
- Shared help register
- Arrival push to flats
- Police verification status
- Staff payroll and ID cards
Sunita works in four flats across two wings. Four families want to know when she arrives, and the guard knows her only as “the maid from A-wing”.
Daily help is the biggest flow of people through a society gate, and the least recorded. Each family keeps its own idea of who comes when. The guard waves familiar faces through. When a cook stops coming, nobody tells the gate, and when a new maid joins, nobody checks her ID.
SocietyConnect keeps one record per person. If three flats add the same maid by her phone number, she is one entry linked to all three. The guard marks her in once at the gate and every one of those flats gets a push. The committee can mark her police verification, and a person the committee deactivates cannot walk back in on a resident’s say-so.
Three people, one record
What the maid, the resident and the guard each see
Resident
- Adds their help with photo, type, phone, ID proof, working days and timings
- Gets a push when the help checks in at the gate
- Sees today’s status and recent attendance
- Rates the help from 1 to 5 stars
Guard
- Finds the help by name on the Daily help tab
- Marks them in and out, once for all their flats
- Is stopped from letting in someone the committee deactivated
- Can register a new helper for any flat
Maid, cook or driver
- Has one profile across every flat they work in
- Carries a police verified or pending status
- Builds an average rating from the flats they serve
- Shows full ID proof only to the committee and the flat that added them
For residents
Your help, their timings and today’s status
The resident’s Daily help screen lists each person with their type, working days and hours, police verification status and whether they have arrived today. A row of stars lets the flat rate them, and the profile page shows recent attendance.
- Types: maid, cook, driver, nanny, caretaker or other
- ID proof: Aadhaar, voter ID, PAN, driving licence or other
- Other flats see only the last 4 digits of an ID number
- Removing help from your flat does not remove them from other flats
At the gate
What happens when the cook arrives at 7:30 am
- 1
Guard finds her by name
On the Daily help tab of the guard app, the guard searches her name and sees the flats she works for.
- 2
One tap marks her in
The arrival time is saved once for the day. A second tap cannot move it.
- 3
Every linked flat gets a push
Each flat she works for gets “Daily help arrived” on their phones.
- 4
Marked out when she leaves
The guard marks her out. A night caretaker who leaves after midnight closes the previous day’s entry.
Checks and controls
The safeguards a domestic help attendance app for a society needs
Deactivated means out
A helper the committee deactivates is stopped at the gate with a message to ask the committee. A resident cannot bring them back by adding the same phone number.
No duplicate records
Helpers are matched by phone number, so the same person working in five flats has one history.
Ratings from real employers
Only flats that employ the helper, and the committee, can rate them. The profile shows the average and the count.
Recent attendance
Each helper’s profile shows recent days in and out, so a family can check without asking the guard.
ID numbers kept private
Full ID numbers show only to the committee and the member who added the helper.
For guards
Daily help has its own tile and tab at the gate
Guards reach the daily help list from the Daily help tile on the gate screen or the Help tab at the bottom. Committee members have a separate Staff attendance screen in their own app to mark society staff in and out for the day. More on the gate app is on the security guard app page.
Daily help and society staff
Two kinds of workers, two sets of tools
| Daily help (maid, cook, driver) | Society staff (guards, housekeeping, gardener, plumber, electrician) | |
|---|---|---|
| Who employs them | Individual flats | The society |
| Who adds them | Residents, guards or the committee | The committee on the web dashboard |
| Attendance | Marked in and out at the gate, push to linked flats | Marked in and out in the app, plus a monthly muster roll |
| Verification | Police verified or pending, set by the committee | KYC documents kept on the staff record |
| Pay | Paid by the flat outside SocietyConnect | Payroll with payslips, posted to the society’s books |
| Papers | Profile with rating and attendance | ID card, appointment letter, relieving and experience letter |
Society staff on the web dashboard
Staff attendance and payroll for the society’s own workers
For staff on the society’s payroll. Agency guards can still use the gate app without a payroll record.
- Staff roster by role and wing, with salary and KYC documents
- Gate app logins for guards, created, reset and disabled by the committee
- Monthly muster roll: present, absent, half day, leave and week off, pre-filled from gate punches
- Payroll with loss-of-pay days suggested from the muster roll, advance recovery and other deductions
- Salary slips and a monthly payroll register
- Marking salaries paid posts the expense to the society’s accounting books, with an undo
- Staff ID cards, one at a time or a batch for the whole roster
- Appointment letter from an editable template, and relieving and experience letters
Straight answers
What it does not do yet
What residents ask for that we do not have yet.
- There is no 6-digit entry code for daily help at the gate yet. The guard picks the person from the list.
- Residents cannot pay salary or an advance to their own help through the app.
- There is no search for helpers with free time slots.
- Face or fingerprint attendance is not offered.
- The guard app is in English only and needs an internet connection.
- The apps are not on the Play Store or App Store yet. We share the Android apps during setup, and iPhone users use the web portal.
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FAQ
Daily help and staff: common questions
What is a domestic help management app for a society?
It keeps a register of the maids, cooks, drivers and nannies who work in the society, records when they come and go at the gate, and tells each family when their help arrives. SocietyConnect also handles the society’s own staff with attendance and payroll.
If my maid works in three flats, do we add her three times?
No. Helpers are matched by phone number. When another flat adds the same number, SocietyConnect links her to that flat as well, so there is one record and one attendance history.
How do I know when my maid arrives?
The guard marks her in at the gate from the guard app, and every flat she works for gets a push notification. Your Daily help screen also shows today’s status and recent attendance.
Can the committee check police verification?
The committee marks each helper police verified from the app. Until then the helper shows as Verification pending to every flat.
Does SocietyConnect run payroll for society staff?
Yes. The web dashboard has a staff roster, a monthly muster roll, payroll with loss-of-pay, advances and deductions, salary slips, a payroll register and staff ID cards. Marking salaries paid posts the entry to the society’s books.
Can I pay my maid’s salary through the app?
Not yet. Daily help is paid by each flat outside SocietyConnect.
Is the daily help module free?
It is free for 90 days with every module on. After that we give a written quote based on your flats and the modules you keep.
More in SocietyConnect
Other parts of SocietyConnect
Security guard appShift handover by code, QR patrol rounds, blacklist warnings and a gate log on the guard’s phone.Visitor managementGuard logs the visitor, the flat taps Allow or Deny, the register stays locked.Members, flats and tenantsResidents join with a society code, the committee approves, and owners, tenants, family and vehicles sit under each flat.Society accountingDouble-entry books that fill themselves from bills, receipts and expenses, with Tally XML export.SocietyConnect overviewEvery module, the 90-day free trial and how setup works.
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