Construction time clock app that survives the jobsite.

Construction time tracking is brutal. Sites are spread across three counties. Cell service is patchy. Half the crew works in steel-toed gloves. Foremen are paid to swing hammers, not chase timesheets. ClockOut is built for that reality: GPS-verified, kiosk-friendly, and ruthlessly fast to clock in.

Where construction companies lose money on time tracking

• Paper timesheets. Three weeks behind, illegible, argued about every Friday. Foremen are doing it from memory.
• No per-site hours.You finish a job and can’t say how many hours actually went into it, so you bid the next one by gut.
• Buddy punching.A foreman clocks in a crew member who’s 20 minutes late. Industry average leak: 4-7% of gross payroll.
• Compliance risk. Missed meal breaks in California are $50 to $100 per occurrence in liability. Without an automated system, you find out at audit.
• Prevailing wage projects. Manual tracking across DBA-affected jobs is where painful spreadsheet errors live.

What ClockOut does for construction crews

GPS clock-in with per-site geofencing

Set a geofence on every active job site: your shop, Smith Avenue, the strip mall on Route 9. When a crew member taps clock in, we capture their GPS and verify they’re inside the fence. If they’re at a Wawa, you’ll know. See how the GPS time clock works.

Per-site hours, not guesswork

Every punch is stamped with the job site it landed on and the GPS address, matched against that site’s geofence. So the hours on the timesheet are tied to a real location: Smith Avenue, the Pinewood remodel, or shop time, not a number written from memory.

Job costing by code

Set up a job code for each job or cost bucket (name plus an optional short code). The crew picks a code when they clock in and can switch it on the active shift; you can re-tag any entry later. The reports page totals hours by job code for any date range, and the generic ClockOut CSV export carries a Job Code column. So when you finish a job you can say what it actually cost in labor and bid the next one with real numbers. Job costing is on Starter and up.

Kiosk mode for shared devices

Park a tablet in the foreman’s truck or in the jobsite trailer. Each crew member punches in with a 4-digit PIN. No personal phones required. Turn on the optional clock-in photo and the kiosk takes a webcam snapshot at clock-in (with a live preview) and attaches it to the entry, so you can eyeball who punched in. It is a plain photo for a human to check, not face recognition, and if the camera is unavailable the punch still goes through.

Clock in from any phone browser, even offline

ClockOut runs in any phone browser and installs to the home screen like an app, with no App Store or Play Store download. If a phone drops signal at the moment of a punch, the clock-in or clock-out is saved on the device and syncs automatically when it reconnects, keeping the original tap time. The app has to have been opened on that phone before it went offline, synced punches are flagged so you can see they were recorded off the network, and a punch that could not be checked against the geofence is recorded and flagged for review rather than blocked. Punches older than 48 hours are not accepted, and breaks are online only. Where signal is thin all day, a shared kiosk tablet on the site’s wifi is still the simplest path for the whole crew.

Compliance rules for state OT and breaks

Federal FLSA weekly overtime is calculated out of the box. On the Pro plan, the compliance pack lets you configure daily overtime thresholds, meal and rest break rules, maximum hours per day and week, and consecutive-day limits. It also supports daily overtime and double-time pay: set the hours per day that pay at the overtime rate, the hours per day that pay at a fixed 2x, and a 7th consecutive day rule where the whole day runs at overtime and hours past the daily threshold run at 2x. Weekly overtime never double-counts hours already paid as daily overtime. That is enough to configure California-style daily rules (8/12/7th day), though it does not by itself guarantee compliance for any one state. When a rule is crossed, it surfaces in the exception inbox before it becomes an audit problem. See exactly what is included on the product facts page.

Two-click payroll export

At end of pay period, review the exception inbox (late arrivals, missed breaks, OT), approve, then download a CSV formatted for ADP, Gusto, QuickBooks, or a generic CSV. No transcribing from paper.

ClockOut vs the alternatives

Roll it out across your crew in a day

1. 01

   Sign up free

   Create an account at useclockout.com. Free for up to 2 employees while you test it.

2. 02

   Add active job sites

   Drop pins on each active site. Default geofence is 100m; adjust per site. Job sites can be added or retired any time without changing how time is recorded historically.

3. 03

   Onboard the crew

   Invite by phone number. Crews open ClockOut in a phone browser or use kiosk mode with a 4-digit PIN. Foremen get supervisor permissions to approve time and resolve exceptions.

4. 04

   Run the first payroll cycle

   Approve the exception inbox, export to your payroll system. You’ll typically save 3-6 hours of admin per pay period from cycle 1.

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