How it works
The longest part is deciding where to put the tablet. Everything else takes about ten minutes, once.
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Name it and pick its timezone. Every hour it records is counted against that location's own local day, daylight saving and all. Two branches in two timezones each keep their own days.
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A name and a six-digit PIN each. No email addresses, no invitations, nothing for anybody to download. PINs are stored hashed, and you can change one whenever you need to.
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Add it to the home screen and it runs fullscreen, like a proper app. Your crew taps a PIN and one big button. It says back what it recorded, in words, every single time.
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Pick your period — weekly, semi-monthly or monthly — and export to CSV, Excel or PDF. The totals match the times on screen, because they're built from the same table.
Nothing changes for the person clocking in. They tap, it confirms, they get on with their shift. The tablet holds each punch and syncs when the connection comes back — with the time they actually tapped, not the time the wifi returned.
A report template saves how hours are counted, and every setting in it is optional — with none, you get exact hours and nothing else. Each location can have its own template, because a kitchen and an office rarely count the same way.
Round to the nearest 5, 10 or 15 minutes if your payroll expects it. The exact tap is always kept and always shown beside the rounded one, so nothing is quietly rewritten — and the report warns you if you choose to round down every punch, which shortens real worked time.
Set how many hours a day you count as standard and the report splits each person's total into Counted and Excess, compared day by day. It tells you where the hours fell against the line you drew. What they are worth is your payroll's decision, not ours.
Report the hours worked between any two times — 22:00 to 06:00, say. The window can run past midnight, and it is measured in each location's own clock. The column is headed with the window itself, so the report states when the work happened and nothing more.
Set an expected start with a grace period, or expected hours a day, and you get a Late or Undertime column. Set neither and those columns do not appear at all — never a column of zeroes claiming nobody was ever late, which is not something we know.
Run weekly, semi-monthly or monthly — or give exact from and to dates, both counted in full. Export to CSV on any plan, and to Excel or PDF on a paid one. Every format is built from the same table, so the screen and the file cannot disagree. Add your own payroll code to each person and it travels onto the export.
You correct it, and the original stays. HoursDone never edits or deletes a punch. A correction is recorded next to it with a reason and your name, and you can withdraw it later. All of it stays on the audit trail, which is what you want the day somebody queries their pay.
What sets us apart
Every one of these is something the software actually does, and most of them name what the alternative does instead.
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It runs in the browser on a tablet or phone you already own — add it to the home screen and it behaves like an app. Most time clocks want you to buy a terminal, and then you own their hardware, at their prices, for as long as you use them.
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Punches are stored on the device and sync when the connection returns, stamped with the time they were actually tapped rather than the time the wifi came back. A cloud time clock that needs the cloud is a clock that stops.
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Take on six extra hands for the holidays and your bill does not move. Per-seat pricing quietly punishes you for hiring, and gets expensive exactly when the season is busiest.
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A punch is never edited or deleted — the database physically refuses it. Corrections are recorded beside the original with a reason and a name, and that is true on the free plan too. It protects staff from a bad manager and it protects you from an accusation.
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No app, no account, no email address, no phone. They tap four digits on the shared tablet and that is the entire interaction. Anything that needs every employee to own a smartphone excludes some of them.
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Each site has its own timezone, and every day boundary, report period and displayed time resolves through it — daylight saving included. Tools that use one account-wide timezone silently move shifts between days at every site but one.
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One location and up to 5 people, indefinitely, with no card. CSV export works on it, because a product that holds your own hours hostage is not free. It is smaller, not crippled.