Your software, our hardware — partner directly with the manufacturer.
Fortuna’s biometric hardware partner program lets software companies offer biometric devices to their customers without sourcing, reselling, or building hardware. Fortuna designs and manufactures its own biometric attendance and access-control devices — and partners with HRMS, gym, school ERP, visitor management, access-control, and workforce software. You get manufacturer-direct OEM pricing, an open REST API with no software lock-in, devices pre-configured to your platform, and white-label options at volume.
200,000+ devices deployed · 20,000+ organizations · 500+ channel partners across India · designed and made in India
At a glance
Who we partner with
Your customers keep asking for biometric attendance devices that work with your software. Instead of pointing them to third-party hardware, you offer Fortuna devices — pre-configured to your platform, API-integrated, optionally co-branded at volume — as part of your product. You control the full experience and add a hardware revenue stream.
Gym owners want biometric entry — face recognition at the door that verifies members and blocks expired memberships. Fortuna provides the terminals; your software runs the logic. Devices ship pre-configured to your endpoint, so the gym owner plugs in the terminal and it registers with your platform.
Schools want biometric attendance without adopting a second software vendor. Partner with Fortuna and offer face-recognition terminals at classroom and campus entry points that feed attendance into your ERP through the API — one vendor relationship for the school, one support channel.
You need reliable check-in hardware at client lobbies. Fortuna terminals handle face recognition and QR scanning at the door; your software runs the workflow. The device is a component of your product, not a separate vendor your customer manages.
You need biometric readers at entry points that report identity data to your platform. Fortuna devices support Wiegand and OSDP for direct door control, plus the REST API for cloud architectures — covering legacy controllers and modern access-control systems. Partnering with the manufacturer gives you support no reseller can offer.
Your clients need biometric time-capture at worksites and on the move. Fortuna's 4G and Wi-Fi handheld terminals — including iCON, the world's smallest biometric terminal — capture attendance on site, cache it offline, and sync to your platform through the API, pre-integrated so clients never touch a separate device console.
Partner benefits
What is a biometric hardware partner program?
A biometric hardware partner program lets a software company source biometric devices directly from the manufacturer — at OEM pricing, integrated through one API, and optionally white-labeled — instead of reselling third-party hardware through a distributor. Fortuna’s program is built for HRMS, gym, school ERP, visitor management, access-control, and workforce software companies.
Fortuna manufactures its own biometric devices. As a partner, you buy at OEM volume pricing — no distributor markup, no reseller margin. Because there's no middleman between you and the factory, your per-device cost improves as your deployment volume grows.
Fortuna devices don't require Fortuna software. The API is open and documented — pull transactions, manage and enroll users, monitor devices. Your software owns the workflow, the data, and the customer relationship. Fortuna's own attendance products (including timely.bio) are never bundled into the partnership.
Fortuna can ship devices pre-loaded with your integration endpoint and network defaults. Your customer powers on the device, connects it to the internet, and it registers with your platform — no on-site configuration, no IT intervention. Deployment becomes a plug-in step.
A single hosted instance manages many customer accounts in isolation from one another. As a partner rolling out across clients, you onboard each customer as a tenant without standing up separate infrastructure for every account — and manage them all through one API.
Beyond a minimum volume, Fortuna offers hardware customization — your logo on the device casing, your brand on the boot screen, your name on the packaging — so the device reads as part of your product. Available across the device families that support it; scope and tiers are agreed during the commercial conversation.
Run the integration platform in Fortuna's cloud, in your own cloud, or fully on-premise — so a client in banking, government, defence, or healthcare can keep identity data inside their network. Most biometric gateway services are cloud-only.
Device portfolio
Every networked Fortuna terminal connects to the same API, so you build one integration and offer your customers whichever device their environment needs. White-label is available at volume.
How it works
Submit the partner application. Fortuna's team reviews your software, target market, and estimated volume. If there's a fit, you join a short discovery call to align on integration scope, volume, and timeline.
Fortuna ships test devices to your development team and provides API documentation and a Postman collection so your engineers can start building against a real device.
Connect the API to your software's attendance, check-in, or access-control logic. Validate the cases that matter — offline recovery, multi-device sync, bulk enrollment — against your test devices before you go live.
Finalise OEM volume pricing and, if your volume qualifies, white-label specifications. You're ready to offer Fortuna devices as part of your product — to new customers and existing ones who've been waiting for a biometric hardware option.
As you deploy at customer sites, Fortuna handles manufacturing, quality assurance, and shipping direct from the factory. Your team manages devices remotely through the API, onboarding each customer as its own tenant. Pricing improves as your volume grows.
Why a manufacturer
Most software companies reach biometric devices through middleware — a gateway service relaying events. That adds a network hop, a dependency you don't control, and often a per-transaction cut. Partnering with Fortuna gives you a direct API connection to the hardware — no third-party gateway between your software and the device.
When you resell another vendor's hardware, your support ends at their documentation. As a Fortuna partner, firmware, hardware, and the integration platform all come from one company — so recognition-threshold tuning, connectivity edge cases, and firmware behaviour are handled by the team that designed the device, not a reseller relaying your ticket.
Reselling from a distributor puts you behind their inventory, markup, and shipping timeline. Partnering with the manufacturer gives you production visibility, custom order scheduling, and direct-from-factory shipping to your customers or your warehouse.
Resellers offer the device as-is; manufacturers offer customization. At volume, Fortuna partners can request firmware adjustments, hardware branding, and factory pre-configuration of your endpoint and network settings — so the device reads as a native part of your product.
When your software ships with integrated, pre-configured biometric hardware that works on plug-in — and, at volume, carries your branding — switching costs rise. Customers are less likely to churn to a competitor that can't offer a unified software-plus-hardware solution. The partnership deepens your product's defensibility.
Partner directly with the manufacturer — OEM pricing, an open API, pre-configured devices, and white-label options at volume. Apply and we’ll scope the integration with you.
FAQ
Any software whose product benefits from biometric hardware: HRMS and payroll, gym and fitness software, school and college ERP, visitor management SaaS, access-control software, workforce and staffing platforms, and POS systems. If your users need to be identified or authenticated at a physical location, the partnership is relevant.
No. Fortuna’s own software products (including timely.bio) are separate and are never bundled into the hardware partnership. Partner devices communicate with your software through Fortuna’s open API. You control the user experience, the data, and the business logic end-to-end.
There’s no minimum to enter the program — test devices are provided during integration. Production pricing follows OEM volume tiers that improve as you deploy more devices. Some options, such as hardware white-labeling, become available beyond a minimum volume.
Yes, at volume. Beyond a minimum order volume, Fortuna offers hardware customization — your logo on the casing, your brand on the boot screen, your name on the packaging — across the device families that support it. The exact scope and volume tier are agreed during the commercial conversation.
It depends on how much of the API you implement — a basic attendance pull is quick; full user-management and device-monitoring integration takes longer. You build against real test devices from the start, so you can validate before going live.
Yes. A single hosted instance is multi-tenant — it manages many customer accounts in isolation. You onboard each client as a tenant and manage them all through one API, which suits partners rolling out across many end customers.
Yes. It deploys in Fortuna’s cloud, your cloud, or on-premise — so customers in banking, government, defence, or healthcare can keep biometric and attendance data inside their own network.
Fortuna manufactures in India and ships across India, with export to select international markets. Tell us where your customers are and we’ll confirm what we can support for your deployment.
There’s no third-party middleware in the path taking a per-transaction cut. Commercial terms — device pricing by OEM volume tier and any platform terms — are agreed during the partnership conversation.
Complete the partner application below. Fortuna’s team reviews your submission and follows up to scope the partnership. Technical detail about the API is on the biometric device API for software integration page.
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Tell us about your software, your customers, and how biometric hardware fits your product. We’ll review your application and follow up with next steps — including test devices and API access.
