Sound Familiar?
- Shift workers across departments
- Buddy punching at the clock
- Overtime and shift tracking
How Kloqk Helps
Department Tracking
Tag hours by department or line for accurate labor costing.
Photo Punch
Stop buddy punching at the shared floor terminal.
Bulk-import Staff
Onboard a whole crew from a CSV in minutes.
Free, With Everything You Need
- Unlimited employees on the free plan
- Kiosk PIN punch + mobile punch with GPS
- Webcam photo at clock-in (buddy-punch prevention)
- FLSA & state overtime + break rules
- One-click payroll exports (QuickBooks, Gusto, ADP…)
- Live who's-in board and timesheet approvals
Shop-floor Timekeeping at Shift Scale
Shift starts are where warehouse timekeeping wins or loses: twenty people punching in a five-minute window needs a clock that takes two seconds per person. A wall tablet with PIN entry clears the line; photo capture at the punch eliminates the buddy punching that shared floor terminals invite.
Department tagging turns the same punches into labor costing — hours by line, shift, or cost center, exported next to your production numbers.
Rounding, Grace Windows, and the Law
Manufacturing inherited quarter-hour rounding from the punch-card era. It's still legal federally if it's neutral, but the safest modern setup records exact minutes and pays on them — and if you do round, the actual punch times must still exist in the record.
Manufacturing & Warehouses Time Tracking: Frequently Asked Questions
What's the best time clock for a warehouse?
A wall-mounted tablet kiosk with PIN punches and photo capture — fast enough for shift changes, and the photo ends buddy punching. Kloqk's is free.
Is quarter-hour rounding still legal?
Federally yes, if neutral over time — but exact-minute payment is safer, and some state courts have turned against rounding. Keep raw punches either way.
How do you track hours by department?
Tag employees (or punches) to departments and run hour reports per department for labor costing alongside production data.
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