A GPS time clock for crews that work on site

What a GPS time clock does

Paper timesheets and text messages tell you what someone says they worked. A GPS time clock adds a second fact: where their phone was when they pressed the button.

That matters most for crews that move between buildings, properties or sites during the day, where nobody from the office can see who actually showed up.

How HourStake's GPS clock works

You set up each job site once by searching its address on a map and choosing how close people must be. Work that is not tied to one address, like an office or a software project, can be a project instead, which has no location check unless you ask for one.

• Your crew opens HourStake in their phone's browser, picks the location or project and clocks in.
• HourStake checks the phone's location against that site's radius.
• The clock-in is saved with the result. A clock-in away from the site, or with no usable location, is kept and flagged for a manager to review. It is never hidden.
• The live view shows who is clocked in right now and where, and timesheets show the same flags.

What it does not do

HourStake does not follow people around all day. It records location at the moment of clock-in and clock-out, not in between. That keeps the data you hold small and makes the clock easier to explain to your crew.

A phone needs location permission for the check to work. If it cannot give a good location, the punch still goes through and is marked so you can look at it.

What you get on top of the location

Timesheets that add up by person and by week, with overtime. Notes, photos and short videos that workers add to a shift. Optional lunch breaks. Optional face check. A change log of every edit to anyone's time, with a reason. And a CSV download for payroll.