The Facial Attendance app is used for attendance management for course sessions, meeting sessions or any group activities by using member's face as primary ID. It detects member's faces from group photos and uses them to create a visual user interface for taking attendance. It privides a method of data merge to associate member's face with their contact information such as email address and cell phone number. It supports session management such as creation, rename, deletion and data merge. It also supports customized attendance reporting and group communication. It helps the instructors or group leaders to remember student or group member's names and streamline group communication.