Implement employee time clocks to your workflow for accurate time tracking
One flexible solution to track attendance and overtime, streamline payroll, and avoid buddy punching
What's an online time clock?
A digital employee time clock is a tool for tracking clock-ins and outs and hours worked per day. The more advanced time clock serves as time and attendance software, so enterprises or small businesses can rely on it to improve administrative processes.
With TimeCamp employee time clock and attendance software
How to set up an employee time clock?
It takes just minutes to set up your TimeCamp time clock. Access it for free and find out why thousands of teams entrusted employee time tracking to it.
Step 1
Signing up for a free employee time clock account takes just a few clicks, and you can do it here!
Step 2
Set up team preferences
Invite your employees to the account and assign their roles to set up separate user permission levels (do it also for projects in each project's view). In addition to team roles, you can also invite Guests—a special role dedicated to the side that participates in the project but is not involved in working on it, like clients or stakeholders. Guests' permissions are limited to browsing reports created for projects they're involved in.
Step 3
Start tracking time
Introduce how TimeCamp online time clocks work to your employees. Explain thoroughly how:
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use a web app to start a new timer or add time entries manually,
track hours automatically with a desktop app,
track location with mobile apps,
download and browser extensions for Chrome and Edge,
register clock in and out with a Time Clock Kiosk tool.
Don't forget to explain why your company decided to implement project time tracking software to log work hours. Unaddressed concerns may negatively affect the trust between employees and their supervisors, often leading to performance and motivation flaws.
Step 4:
Try out the integrations
Choose from direct integrations with 30+ tools that allow you to start the timer inside the tool or import the entire project structure to TimeCamp.
You can also connect TimeCamp with a Google Calendar account to automatically add meetings and events as separate time entries.
Step 5
Analyze performance
Use the time tracking data to create summaries of time spent across the projects and:
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regularly check your employees' performance to streamline workflows and manage time more efficiently,
show your clients proof of work based on employee time,
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check any project status and make adjustments in time if needed,
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compare how many billable and non-billable hours were tracked per project or task,
prepare accurate estimates for the next projects.
You can also invite each client as a Guest, which is a special role limited to reporting feature. Giving them permission to browse the reports will surely strengthen the mutual trust between parties.
You can export reports to PDF/CSV/Excel format, generate a handy link, or schedule periodical email reports.
Step 6
Manage attendance and overtime
With TimeCamp, clocking in and out is a breeze. The time clock tracks vacations, sick leaves, and remote work to keep paperwork in order, ensure accurate payroll records, and settle employee time fairly.
Key features
Timesheets
Producing many attendance spreadsheets each month is pretty tiresome, isn't it? With employee time clocks by TimeCamp, your company gets one reliable tool to do this all at once for the entire group.
Choose whether you want to track time automatically or add time entries manually. An automatic time clock solution works in the background and seamlessly assigns tracked time to projects based on keywords detected in window or app names. The manual way requires just a few clicks to add the start/end hour, choose a project or task, and save the record.
To use TimeCamp, you don't need to buy any pricey hardware—a desktop app is lightweight software for Windows, MacOS, and Linux.
Time Clock Kiosk
Field workers' attendance can be taken with a handy online time clock. Setting it up takes just minutes!
Place a device with a stable internet connection (a simple laptop, tablet, or mobile phone) somewhere within the facility, and pass 4-digit PIN codes on to your employees so they can easily clock in and out once they reach or leave the work site. Time clock records are sent to timesheets automatically and on the go, and you may rest assured about the accuracy of payroll lists.
Attendance solutions
Register employees' start/end hours worked, time-off requests, sick leaves, and overtime in full compliance with DCAA standards according to the DCAA Contract Audit Manual.
Office professionals will surely benefit from using timesheets, desktop time clocks, and mobile apps, which automatically fill attendance reports with their employee's time based on computer activity or time clock records. On the other hand, the Time Clock Kiosk and geofencing feature of mobile apps are perfect systems for tracking field employees' work hours.
Generating attendance software reports takes a second. Next, download them and print them, and enjoy keeping employees' payroll papers in perfect order when the pay period comes.
Efficiency monitoring
Discover how time clocking software can remodel the business approach to improving employees' efficiency without exposing them to stressful situations caused by unnecessary micromanagement.
A wide range of performance reports, available to managers and team members to browse, provide invaluable stats on productivity metrics, helping identify and address bottlenecks and squeeze the most from employee time.
Why use employee time clocks?
Whether a small business or an enterprise, your company deserves to switch from outdated time and attendance solutions to an automated employee time clock.
Streamline time tracking
Get yourself an employee time clock software and automate recording work hours, making it more accurate, efficient, and time-saving. Employees can easily clock in and out using various devices, such as computers, smartphones, or kiosks, ensuring precise time clocking.
Online time clocks like TimeCamp eliminate spreadsheet usage, reducing administrative workload and minimizing errors associated with manual tracking. Real-time data synchronization allows managers to monitor attendance and productivity instantly, facilitating better resource allocation and scheduling. Overall, time clock software enhances time tracking efficiency, leading to improved workforce management and operational effectiveness.
Keep data safe
Keeping time tracking records using traditional methods seems tedious these days, and they can be easily lost if not maintained properly. With an online time clock, you can access time and attendance software-related documents on demand and wherever you are.
Compared to hardware employee time clocks, web—and software-based time clock systems offer higher data protection and reliable security monitoring that prevent unauthorized access, loss, or theft. TimeCamp provides each business with data encryption and full compliance with GDPR and ISO27001 standards, ensuring the best security frameworks for its cloud-based structure and continuous support.
TimeCamp also accepts requests to host its systems in the private cloud or run TimeCamp on your own infrastructure, like a dedicated AWS server in a region your company selected.
Use more affordable solutions
Many companies choose not to use a time clock to track work hours just because the price of hardware employee time clock systems exceeds their administrative budget. Online time clocks help here, offering affordable, subscription-based pricing with no additional costs for downloading desktop or mobile apps.
With TimeCamp, even a small business can easily afford time tracking and attendance solutions. Teams with no budget benefit from the generously packed free plan with unlimited projects and for an unlimited number of users. Companies with a more specific demand can choose between four paid plans, with the price calculated based on the number of seats and type of billing (monthly or yearly; the latter comes with a decent discount). A free 14-day trial is also available to try the paid features before making a purchase decision.
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