KING OF TIME Review: Japan's Flat-Rate Attendance and Payroll System

Name: KING OF TIME
Brand: Human Technologies, Inc.
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KING OF TIME is a Japanese cloud attendance, HR and payroll system run by Human Technologies, Inc., a company listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth market since December 2023. The product launched in December 2003 and reports 4.55 million users across 75,000 companies as of July 2026.

Its pricing is a single flat rate of ¥300 per user per month with no setup fee, covering attendance, HR and labor administration, payroll, year-end tax adjustment and data analytics. A 30-day free trial is available.

Maya Patel·Editor·Updated October 17, 2026·Fact-checked by Chandrasmita

The verdict

KING OF TIME is a clear choice for a Japanese employer that needs attendance tracking to hold up under Japan's working-hours rules, and wants the price to be one number. At ¥300 per user, a 200-person company pays about ¥60,000 a month with no implementation fee, which is easy to model.

Its strength is the time clock itself. The vendor lists around 18 clock-in methods, from free PC and mobile punching to IC cards, fingerprint, finger vein and face recognition on iPad, plus links to building entry systems, alcohol checkers and chat tools.

It is the wrong tool for anyone outside Japan. Payroll and year-end adjustment follow Japanese rules only, and although the product has English support for foreign staff, none of the Indian, Southeast Asian or Gulf statutory work that other vendors in this group handle applies here.

Where KING OF TIME fits

Who it suits

KING OF TIME suits Japanese companies, from single offices to multi-site chains, with shift, flex-time or variable working-hour arrangements: retail, logistics, construction, manufacturing, welfare, education and IT firms all appear in its industry list. Customers named on the site include Mercari, Factory Japan Group and Nippon Parking.

What it does differently

What sets KING OF TIME apart is scale in its home market and the range of time clocks. It cites Fuji Chimera Research's 2026 report as ranking it first by user IDs in Japan's attendance SaaS market for fiscal 2025, and few systems anywhere support as many clock-in options at one flat per-user price. User IDs passed 1 million in 2018, 2 million in 2021 and 3 million in 2023, according to the operator's company history.

How it gets bought

Commercially, the flat ¥300 rate removes the module-by-module negotiation that other vendors in this group require. Human Technologies holds Privacy Mark and ISMS certification and has a development subsidiary in Singapore and a sales entity in Thailand, though the product's statutory content is Japanese.

KING OF TIME pricing: ¥300 per user, no setup fee

KING OF TIME charges ¥300 per user per month, with no initial fee. The vendor says all functions are included at that one price, including attendance, HR and labor administration, payroll calculation, year-end adjustment, data analytics and system logs.

Hardware is the cost that sits outside the software price. PC password, My Recorder, cloud time recorder, mobile location and app-based punching are free to use, while IC card terminals and biometric readers require devices.

Plan	Published price	Annual
KING OF TIME (all functions)	¥300 per user per month, ¥0 setup	Not stated

Pricing last checked September 25, 2026. View source

What ¥300 per user buys

The flat rate covers the KING OF TIME attendance module and the HR and labor, payroll and data analytics modules. That is unusual: most Japanese HR suites price payroll and HR separately from attendance, so the total rises as you add modules. KING OF TIME E-Contract, launched in February 2025, is part of the same series; confirm whether your plan includes it.

A worked example

A 50-person clinic pays ¥15,000 a month and a 1,000-person retailer ¥300,000 a month, before any time-clock hardware. Because the rate is per user rather than per module, adding payroll or the HR and labor module later does not change the bill. Compare that with vendors in this group that quote each module and headcount band separately.

Trial and online quote

A 30-day free trial is offered with support available during the trial, so you can configure real shift rules before paying. The site also offers an online estimate and a downloadable brochure.

KING OF TIME features: attendance, payroll and analytics

Attendance management

Attendance covers schedules and shifts, overtime tracking, flex-time and variable hours, paid-leave management, approval workflows, alerts and reports exportable to Excel, CSV and PDF.

Telework. Remote work, work-from-home and staggered hours are supported with location-based mobile punching.

English support. English and overseas support appear in the attendance feature list for companies with foreign staff.

HR, labor and payroll

KING OF TIME HR and Labor launched in 2015 and handles onboarding procedures and employee records. KING OF TIME Payroll, launched in February 2023, calculates pay and issues web payslips.

Year-end adjustment. Year-end tax adjustment is included in the flat price.

External payroll. Attendance data can instead feed third-party payroll software.

Data analytics and e-contracts

KING OF TIME Data Analytics, launched in October 2018, analyzes attendance data. KING OF TIME E-Contract followed in February 2025.

System logs. System log access is part of the one-price package.

Security. The operator holds Privacy Mark and ISMS certification.

KING OF TIME pros and cons

Strengths

One flat price per user
¥300 per user per month with no setup fee covers attendance, HR and labor, payroll, year-end adjustment and analytics, which makes budgeting simple.
Wide choice of clock-in methods
Options include PC password, PC logon and logoff on Windows, mobile location punching, IC cards on PC readers or dedicated terminals, fingerprint, finger vein, face recognition and chameleon-code authentication on iPad, building entry integration, alcohol check integration and chat integration.
Built for Japan's working-hours rules
Overtime management, flex and variable working-hour systems, alerts and settings for the Work Style Reform laws are part of the attendance module.
Links to common Japanese payroll software
Customers who keep a separate payroll system can export to products such as freee HR, MF Cloud Payroll, Bugyo Cloud Payroll and Rakuten Hayatoku Payroll.

Limitations

Japan-only statutory content
Payroll, social insurance and year-end adjustment follow Japanese law. Companies with staff in other Asian countries will need another payroll system for them.
Japanese-first interface and support
The site, trial, brochure and support are in Japanese. The feature list includes English and overseas support, but a non-Japanese HR team should test the admin screens during the trial before committing.
Attendance heritage shows in the talent layer
The product started as a time and attendance system. I found no performance review, recruiting or engagement modules comparable to Keka or Darwinbox.

KING OF TIME is a Japanese cloud attendance system priced at a flat ¥300 per employee per month with no setup fee and a 30-day free trial. It supports more than 18 clock-in methods, including IC cards, fingerprint and face recognition, and reports about 4.55 million users across 75,000 companies.

KING OF TIME buying motion: 30-day trial and hardware

KING OF TIME is sold through a free trial, an online estimate and a sales team in Japan, with a partner program for resellers.

Start the 30-day trial with one real shift pattern and your overtime rules, because attendance configuration is where most of the setup effort goes.
Decide which clock-in hardware each site needs before you quote, since free PC and mobile punching cost nothing extra but IC and biometric terminals do.
Confirm whether you will use KING OF TIME Payroll or keep your current payroll software, because the export links to freee, MF Cloud and Bugyo change the rollout plan.
Ask whether E-Contract is included at ¥300 or billed separately, because the one-price statement lists the core modules explicitly.

Frequently asked questions about KING OF TIME

How much does KING OF TIME cost?

¥300 per user per month with no setup fee, covering attendance, HR and labor, payroll, year-end adjustment and data analytics.

Is there a free trial?

Yes. KING OF TIME offers a 30-day free trial with support during the trial.

Who operates KING OF TIME?

Human Technologies, Inc. (株式会社ヒューマンテクノロジーズ), listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth market since December 2023.

What is the KING OF TIME website?

The current site is kingoftime.jp. The older kingtime.jp address redirects there.

Can KING OF TIME be used outside Japan?

Its feature list includes English and overseas support, but its payroll and compliance content is built for Japan.

Does KING OF TIME include payroll?

Yes. KING OF TIME Payroll launched in February 2023 and is covered by the same ¥300 per user rate, along with web payslips and year-end adjustment. Companies can also keep their existing payroll software and export attendance data to it.

What clock-in methods does it support?

PC, mobile and app punching, IC cards, fingerprint, finger vein, face recognition and chameleon-code on iPad, plus entry-system, alcohol-check, payment-terminal and chat integrations.

Alternatives worth comparing

KING OF TIME is a Japan specialist. The alternatives below make sense when your workforce sits elsewhere in Asia.

Product	Pricing model	Free trial	Why buyers shortlist it
Rippling	Modular pricing	Not stated	Rippling is the HR platform that refused to stay in its lane.
HiBob	Custom quote	Not stated	HiBob, marketed as 'Bob', is the HR platform that mid-market companies choose when they want something more modern than [BambooHR](/software/bamboohr) but less enterprise than [Workday](/software/workday).
greytHR	Tiered pricing	Yes	greytHR pairs attendance and payroll for Indian employers, with rupee pricing and PF, ESI and TDS compliance.
Darwinbox	Custom quote	Not stated	Darwinbox is a multi-country enterprise HCM for India, Southeast Asia and the GCC, with talent modules KING OF TIME does not offer.
Workday HCM	Custom quote	Not stated	[Workday](/software/workday) HCM is the enterprise human capital management platform that competes head-to-head with SAP SuccessFactors and Oracle HCM Cloud for the largest organizations in the world.