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, offline-capable, 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 job costing. You finish a job and have no idea if it was profitable. 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 $50–100 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.

Per-job hour allocation

Crew tags each time block with a job code. End of week, you get clean job-costing data: 28.5 hours on Smith Avenue, 14 hours on the Pinewood remodel, 4 hours of shop time. Bid the next job with real numbers.

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 — optionally with a photo capture so you can verify identity at clock-in. No personal phones required.

Offline-first mobile app

The app caches clock-ins, breaks, and clock-outs offline. GPS coordinates are recorded at the moment of the action, not at sync time. When the truck rolls into coverage, everything syncs automatically.

Compliance engine for state OT and break rules

Federal FLSA weekly OT applies out of the box. On the Pro plan, configure California daily OT, double-time after 12 hours, 7th consecutive day rules, and meal break premiums. Missed breaks flag automatically before they become an audit problem.

Two-click payroll export

At end of pay period, review the exception inbox (late arrivals, missed breaks, OT), approve, export to ADP / Gusto / QuickBooks or 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 install the app or use kiosk mode with a 4-digit PIN. Foremen get supervisor permissions to approve time and switch job codes.

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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