A digital time clock in the phone or on a shared terminal

Where the time is recorded

One tap clocks in. The employee sees their running time counting up and their most recent entries with totals, which is enough for them to notice their own mistake before anybody else has to.

It works in the browser as well as in the app. That matters more than it sounds: a shared tablet by the staff room door is a legitimate setup, and it means the system does not depend on every member of staff owning and carrying a suitable phone.

Against the schedule

When a shift has been published, the clock-in is compared against it and the difference is shown on the time report the same day. A closing that ran over is a number on a row rather than something discovered at the end of the month.

Location, in Pro

Workplaces are set up with an address and a permitted radius, and you can require that the position is validated when somebody clocks in.

The position is read at the clock-in and not in between. Continuous tracking through the working day is a different thing entirely, and Timply is not built to do it.

The staff register, in the sectors it applies to

Where your premises is covered by the electronic staff register requirement, staff clock in once and that is enough. The same entry is used for the register and for payroll, so the shift is not recorded in two places.

That covers restaurants, hair and beauty, laundries, vehicle servicing and food wholesalers. Construction has its own rules with its own reporting, and Timply writes that file too. More on the electronic staff register page.

Connection

The clock records against the server at the moment of the clock-in, so it needs coverage then. There is no offline queue today. It is high on the list of what is being built next.