GPS time clock with geofencing
Crews punch from their phones. Each punch records where it happened, is matched to a job site you added by address, and is flagged if it was made anywhere else.
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Punch from the Field
Workers clock in from their own phone; location is read once, at the punch, never in between.
Job Sites by Address, with Dates
Type the address and the days the job runs; the default radius is 150 m (about 490 ft). Anyone inside it is stamped with the site.
Off-site Punches Flagged
A punch outside every live site is recorded with its street address and a map link for a manager to accept, or blocked, your choice.
On the Premium Plan
GPS and job sites are part of Premium at $59 per location per month, with a 30-day trial that starts on the first phone punch. The tablet clock stays free.
Frequently asked questions
How does geofencing work?
Add a job site by address on the Job Sites page, with a radius (default 150 m) and the days it runs. Employees punching from their phone inside that radius are stamped with the site; outside every site the punch is flagged with its address, or blocked if you choose. GPS job sites are on Premium at $59 per location per month.
Does it work on iPhone and Android?
Yes. It uses the phone browser's location with the employee's permission, and it can be added to the home screen like an app. If location is refused, the message says where to turn it on.
Does the app track employees all day?
No. Location is read only at the moment of a punch. There is no background tracking and no battery cost between punches.
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How a GPS time clock works
A GPS time clock records where an employee was at the moment they clocked in or out. The employee opens the clock on their own phone, taps Clock In, and the phone asks for its location once. The punch is saved with the time, the coordinates, and the phone's accuracy reading, and the timesheet shows the job site the punch was inside and how far it was from that site's marker. Nothing is tracked between punches: the phone's location is read only when a button is tapped, which is the difference between a time clock and a tracking app.
What geofencing adds
A geofence is a circle around a job site: a centre point and a radius. In Kloqk a site is added by typing its address, which is turned into the centre point, and the radius defaults to 150 metres (about 490 feet), enough to cover a house and its street; a large commercial site can be set to 5,000 metres. A punch inside the circle is stamped with that site. A punch outside every live site is, depending on the setting, recorded and flagged with the street address it came from, or refused with a message like “You're about 1.2 mi from Johnson residence. Get within 490 ft of it to punch.”
Sites can carry dates. A job that runs Monday to Wednesday stops matching punches on Thursday and drops off the crew's list without anyone deleting it, and punches already made there keep the site's name for good. When two fences overlap, the punch goes to the site whose centre is closer.
What the employee sees
The same record the office sees. Each punch on the phone shows the time, the site and the distance from its marker (“Johnson residence, 90 ft from the site marker”) with a map link, or the street address when the punch was off site. Which job sites are live today, and their radius, are listed above the buttons, so a refused punch is never a mystery. If the phone will not share location, the message says exactly where to turn it on for Safari or Chrome, and a punch at a roaming location still goes through without a fix.
Accuracy, battery and privacy, plainly
- Phone GPS is usually accurate to 5 to 20 metres outdoors and worse indoors; the accuracy reading is stored with each punch. A radius under 100 metres will produce false off-site flags on a big roof.
- Because location is read once per punch, there is no background tracking and no measurable battery cost.
- Employers may collect location at the punch in every US state; a written policy that says so is good practice and required in a few. See employee geofencing and privacy.
- Off-site acceptance is recorded with the manager's name and time, so an audit sees both the flag and the decision.
GPS time clock apps compared
List prices as published by each vendor, checked 4 September 2026. Monthly unless noted; annual billing is usually cheaper.
| Product | Free plan | Paid from | GPS / geofence | Tablet kiosk |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KloqkGPS job sites with a radius and live dates on Premium (30-day trial starts on the first phone punch). Never per user. | Free at one location, unlimited employees, kiosk and phone punch | $29/location/mo (Pro); $59/location/mo (Premium) | Yes / Yes | Yes |
| ClockShark14-day trial, no free plan. A 6-person crew on Standard is $99/mo. | None (trial only) | $42/mo + $9.50/user/mo (Standard); $63/mo + $11.50/user/mo (Pro) | Yes / Yes | Yes |
| TimeeroMileage tracking is the differentiator; no base fee. | None (trial only) | $5/user/mo (Basic); $7.50 (Pro); $10 (Premium) | Yes / Yes | No |
| busybusyBuilt for construction; equipment and project tracking on paid plans. | Free plan with GPS time tracking | $9.99/user/mo billed annually + $40/mo admin licence (Pro); $14.99/user/mo (Premium) | Yes / Yes | Yes |
| Buddy Punch14-day trial, no free plan. | None (trial only) | $4.99/user/mo + $19/mo base fee (Starter); $5.99 and $6.99 tiers above | Yes / Yes | Yes |
| ConnecteamPriced per hub; geofencing and job-site features sit on higher Operations tiers. | Free for up to 10 users | $29/mo for the first 30 users (Operations Basic, billed annually), then per extra user | Yes / Yes | Yes |
| QuickBooks TimeGeofencing is on Elite. Tightest QuickBooks payroll integration. | None (trial only) | $20/mo + $8/user/mo (Premium); $40/mo + $10/user/mo (Elite), list prices | Yes / Yes | Yes |
| HomebaseThe free plan caps headcount at 10; unlimited employees start at Essentials. | Free for one location, up to 10 employees | $30/location/mo (Essentials; $24 billed annually); $70 Plus; $120 All-in-One | Yes / Yes | Yes |
How we compared: each vendor's public pricing page, read the same day. Free means a plan with no time limit. A vendor's own page is the source for its row; ours is /pricing.
Who this is for
Any business whose staff work where the customer is: roofing, landscaping, cleaning, HVAC, plumbing, electrical, delivery, home care. The people who never leave the shop keep punching on the free tablet clock; the crews punch from their phones. See the construction time clock, landscaping and cleaning pages, or job site time clock.
Questions people ask about this
How does gps time tracking work?
The employee's phone reports its location at the moment they punch, and that coordinate is stored with the time entry. It is a snapshot at the punch, not a continuous track, which is both the privacy answer and the practical one: it tells you the punch happened at the job site without following anyone around. Kloqk includes GPS geofencing on Premium at $59 per location.
Can my employer track my location while clocked in?
In most US states an employer may collect location data on a company device or with the employee's consent, and several states require that consent to be explicit and in writing. The narrower and better-defended approach is to capture location only at the punch rather than continuously, and to say so in the handbook. Tracking someone off the clock is a different matter and attracts real legal risk.
What is geofencing for time clocks?
A geofence is a radius drawn around a work site. When it is switched on, an employee can only clock in while inside that radius, so a punch from a car three miles away is refused rather than quietly recorded. It is the difference between knowing when someone punched and knowing they were at the site when they did.
How do construction crews track hours?
The workable pattern is punching from a phone at the job site with a geofence, because crews move between sites and there is rarely a fixed clock to walk up to. The alternative most sites still use is a foreman writing hours on a sheet at the end of the week, which is a reconstruction rather than a record, and it is the first thing to fall apart in a wage dispute.
Still deciding? Try the free calculators or read the wage-and-hour guides for your state.