The free time clock, spelled out.

Most “free time clock” pages stay vague on purpose, because the free tier is a trap door into a sales call. This one does the opposite. Below is the ClockOut free plan described to the exact employee count, the exact features, and the exact moment you would need to pay. If a feature is not on the free list, it is not free. That is the whole promise.

What the free plan includes

The free plan is the actual product, capped at 2 active employees, not a countdown timer. Everything in this list works on Free with no trial clock and no card on file:

• Up to 2 active employees. You, plus one other active person, or two staff members. The limit is on active headcount, not total accounts ever created.
• GPS-stamped clock in and clock out. Every punch records the device GPS location and a resolved street address and stores them on the timesheet entry. This happens on every plan, including Free.
• Basic scheduling. Create shifts and assign them to your employees.
• Pay estimates.Worked hours turn into estimated pay using each person’s hourly rate.
• CSV export of timesheets. Download your timesheet data as a CSV file, unrestricted, on the free plan.

What the free plan does not include, plainly

These features are real and shipping, they are just not on the free tier. Here is the honest split, with the exact plan and price that unlocks each group.

Requires Starter ($3 per employee per month)

• Geofence enforcement (block off-site clock-in, auto clock-out on leaving)
• Multi-location support
• Recurring schedules
• Overtime alerts
• Break compliance
• Open shifts and shift swaps
• In-app notifications
• PTO management
• Exception inbox
• Employee availability
• Timesheet approvals
• Kiosk mode (shared tablet)
• Tasks and document sharing
• Workplace announcements
• Tips tracking
• Shift confirmation
• Job costing (job codes at clock-in, hours by job code)

Requires Pro ($5 per employee per month)

• Payroll runs (lock and export a pay period)
• ADP, Gusto, and QuickBooks-formatted CSV exports
• PDF reports
• Monthly attendance
• API access
• Compliance pack
• Daily overtime and double-time rules
• Scoped roles and departments
• Skills and certifications
• Labor budgeting and forecasting
• Mileage between visits (straight-line estimate)

Free, Starter, and Pro side by side

For the full pricing breakdown and the annual option, see the pricing page. For a plain-language rundown of exactly how every feature behaves, see the product facts.

What triggers an upgrade

There are exactly two reasons the free plan stops being enough:

• You add a 3rd active employee. The app blocks the third active person at the limit. To go past 2, you move to a paid plan.
• You need any gated feature above. Want geofence enforcement, notifications, PTO, kiosk mode, or payroll export? Those live on Starter or Pro. Nothing you set up on Free is lost when you upgrade.

Both paid plans come with a 7-day free trial, so you can turn on the paid features and confirm they fit before you are charged.

Is the free plan right for you

The free plan fits a team of 1 to 2 active people who need honest, GPS-stamped time records and simple scheduling. Solo owners, a two-person shop, or a first hire on trial: Free covers you at $0 with no expiry.

At 3 or more active employees, you pay per employee per month. The math is simple and per-head:

• 3 employees on Starter: 3 × $3 = $9 per month.
• 5 employees on Starter: 5 × $3 = $15 per month.
• 5 employees on Pro: 5 × $5 = $25 per month.

If you are at 2 people and geofence enforcement is the only thing you are missing, that alone is the reason most teams move to Starter. GPS on the punch is free, but a hard boundary that blocks off-site clock-ins is a Starter feature.

Honest limits worth knowing

A couple of things are true across every plan, free or paid, and we would rather you read them here than discover them later:

• Offline punches queue and sync (on Free too). If the phone has no connection when someone taps clock in or clock out, the punch is saved on the device and syncs automatically with its original tap time once it reconnects. The honest caveats: the app has to have been opened on that phone before it went offline (it is a PWA running from a cached app shell), synced punches are flagged for admins, a punch that could not be checked against a geofence is recorded and flagged for review rather than blocked, punches older than 48 hours are rejected, and breaks are online only.
• ClockOut is a web app.You open it in your browser or add it to your home screen (it installs like an app). There is no ClockOut listing in the Apple App Store or Google Play Store. Apps named “ClockOut” in those stores are unrelated products from other developers, not this one.

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