Overhauling Tea Garden Industry with Tea Garden System from Star Link

The quiet and quaint surroundings of tea gardens cover up the complex web of situations. At tea gardens workers, management team, and owners find themselves in some or other issues every day due to lack of automation, and digitalization. We also believe that it is easy to keep track of daily operations like managing thousands of workers to tea plucking, attendance and wage payments in a tea garden.

The old system has some weaknesses like manual record keeping for the time clock, time theft and human error, wage disputes, buddy punching and other forms of attendance fraud for financial gain, and poor insight into how the business operates on a daily basis. All these issues in totality accumulated over years are leading to huge financial losses for the garden owners and chaos in the work environment to the employees.

Star Link has taken on the challenges and innovated a holistic, technologically advanced solution to address them now- The Tea Garden Solution. This robust blending of hardware and software harmonize each and every fundamental operation in a tea estate guaranteeing accuracy, transparency, and efficacy across the board.

Introducing Tea Garden Solution from Star Link

Tea Garden Solution is a total management solution for the tea industry. It reduces dependence on manual processes and digitizes a few critical operational workflows like attendance management, tea leaf weighment and payroll processing.

Attendance System : As Per Category And Accurate

In view of the fact that the employees are very large in the tea garden, it is not feasible to monitor all these people through manual approach. Star Link India addresses this with its chain of Biometric Attendance Machines particularly-designed for the tea industry.

Key Features:

• Worker Classification: Workers are classified into types such as: Permanent, Temporary and Adhoc for improved segregation and administration.
• Work-Heads Integration : Various work activities such as tea plucking, watering, labour work etc are set as “work-heads” in the system.
• Location Based Tracking: Workers get tagged with location cards and garden administrators can track farmer attendance based on the block or field they are attached to.

How It Works:

Every employee registers his/her fingerprints in the biometric machine and just places it on the biometric machine in the morning when he enters the workplace. The system records category of employment, assigned work-head, and location. This multi-modal attendance tracking prevents buddy-punching, verifies the appropriate worker proximity and generates accurate head count information in real time.

Tea Leaves Weighment

Tea leaf quantity in the past was relatively easily affected by subjective manipulations. Star Link India solves this by merging digital weighing scales with biometric systems.

After tea plucking, workers proceed to the weighment station where their identity is confirmed through biometric validation. The scale has built-in memory to record the previously measured water volume. The software is real-time and you can view current data against worker profile achievements immediately.

With real-time data capturing, manually entered errors are history and there is no longer the risk of data being tampered with while fair and honest payment has become transparent.

Process Payroll the Fast and Accurately

It’s a complex, time-honoring task to calculate the wages of hundreds or thousands of tea garden workers, who each have different structures and patterns of pay. The Tea Garden Solution automates this whole procedure using integrated payroll software:

Key Features:

• Wages calculated based on work-heads
• Daily or weekly schedules
• Compatible with any type of pay system: Day wages, week wages, and quantity based wage (based on the amount of tea leaves).
• Auto-generate reports for salary distribution, TDS and more.

Comprehensive Reports with Total Visibility

Tracking daily output, and even who was missing and who was there, is hard. At the software, management get daily, weekly and monthly summaries. More than that, you get these reports as well.

• Category-wise and location-wise reports
• Work-head-specific performance
• Discrepancy reports such as:
• Employees who did not call attendance
• Workers who skipped weighment
• Reports generated in. convenient sharing and analysing in xls format

With this analytics capability, tea garden owners, and managers have complete visibility into their operations allowing them to make informed decisions based on real-time insights.

Why Star Link’s Tea Garden Solution is Best?

1. Multiple report generation – Location-wise, work-head-wise, category-wise
2. Wage/payment process in a single click
3. Digital weighing system reduces manual interference
4. Fast & secure attendance recording
5. Data retention for over 1 year
6. Detailed discrepancy reporting
7. Tea garden mapping for better workforce distribution
8. Fully aligned with government norms

If you’re ready to eliminate inefficiencies, cut operational costs, and streamline your tea garden’s workforce and productivity management, it’s time to adopt the Tea Garden Solution by Star Link.