Spend 50% less time on team management with a construction time clock
Improve job costing and profit margins by tracking employees with Buildertrend’s construction time clock.
How Buildertrend’s time clock saves you countless hours of labor
For both crew members and office staff, few tasks are as manually tedious as time tracking. Project managers or your payroll admin have to stay on top of inboxes to record time tracking submissions, or go about it the old-fashioned way — paper time cards.
There’s a better way. The Buildertrend way. Our construction time clock software can help keep time tracking accurate and eliminate the need for double entry. Discover how Buildertrend can save your company precious labor hours.
| Buildertrend feature | What it does |
|---|---|
| Mobile and offline time tracking | Accurately record and manage project hours even in areas with limited internet connectivity. |
| Geofencing | Get automatic tracking and verification of worker attendance and hours based on location. |
| HR platform integration | Simplify payroll processing with the elimination of double data entry. |
| Syncs with payroll | Automate the transfer of time and attendance data. Save time and minimize errors. |
| Regular labor reports | Get valuable insights into workforce productivity and labor allocation to make data-driven decisions. |
Why contractors prefer Buildertrend’s time clock software
Using a digital timesheet for your employees is essential to maintain structure in your construction business. Because construction work takes place at different locations, it’d be impossible to keep track of billable hours, meet budgets and stay on time without documenting employees’ hours.
With its detailed record-keeping, Buildertrend makes it easy to track labor costs and save your business from legal disputes in the future.
Track labor costs accurately
Keeping detailed time sheets is important for builders to analyze job costs. Time tracking in construction will keep you organized and show the productivity of your crews. You’d have no way to accurately account for how much money you made or lost on a job without tracking labor costs.
In Buildertrend, you can track accurately with the help of cost codes. Cost codes communicate with your financial management tools like estimates and budgets, so you know where each labor hour is logged – design, demolition, etc.
Stay compliant with labor laws
Stay on top of labor laws with the ability to run regular labor reports. In the case of a financial audit, be prepared with detailed bookkeeping that shows wages and overtime pay. It’s essential to keep accurate records with all hours worked on the job while accounting for minimum wage and overtime pay as well. Since Buildertrend syncs with accounting software like QuickBooks, you’re able to run accurate labor reports at any moment.
Avoid legal disputes
With detailed records of each project, you can avoid the risk of legal disputes against your company or having to pay more than you need to.
Buildertrend helped Tankersley Construction when it had a sub stop responding with $3,000 left on a contract. In that moment, the Tankersley team had to pick up the slack and finish the work, just for the sub to come back a year later with the bill.
“We didn’t remember what happened, but because of Buildertrend, we were able to quickly figure it out,” said Steven Tankersley, president and owner. “We saw the amount remaining on the contract matched to invoices. Then we went through messages, timecards, punch lists and logs. Anybody picking up the pieces could figure out we didn’t owe him.”
Meet budget and time frames
Communicate precise time frames with your crew to reinforce accountability and help your projects stay on budget. Time is money in the construction business — the quicker the job is completed, the quicker everyone gets paid. That’s why Buildertrend has accurate budgets and timelines to show how long a project will take and how much it’ll cost.
What you get with Buildertrend’s construction time clock
Let us help keep your company on track and moving your jobs right along. With Buildertrend, you’ll have an easier way to track shifts and pay your workers. This also reduces the time that office administrators have to spend tracking hours and payroll. Learn more about the benefits of time tracking in Buildertrend.
Offline time tracking
Time tracking straight from the app is a breeze, but what if the job site is located in a Wi-Fi “dead zone”? Not to worry. Buildertrend has implemented offline tracking capabilities. You record as usual, and all information will sync once internet is restored.
Location tracking
Location tracking or geofencing will alert managers when employees clock in and out or if they leave the job site during work hours. When subs clock in from the field, their location will be shown so you can see which job they’re working on.
Budget sync
The Time Clock tracks labor hours and seamlessly syncs them with your budget. This enables you to easily identify the stage of construction to which each hour is allocated.
Gusto integration
Buildertrend integrates with a leading HR platform, Gusto, to make payroll easier. Gusto takes the recorded shifts from the time clock and automatically processes them in the digital payroll system.
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Construction time clock FAQs
Get answers to the most common construction time clock questions.
The best way to keep track of employees’ hours is with a construction tracking and time clock software. Employees can clock in and out of a digital time application and job hours will be directly applied to payroll. This software will track hours worked plus what projects were completed in that time.
The responsibility of tracking construction employee hours ultimately falls on the owner or manager. There’s a wide margin for error when using physical timesheets; they can be lost or subject to accounting errors. By using a time tracking software, owners and managers still oversee the payment process, but they don’t have to be responsible for tracking hours.
Be clear with your crew that the primary purpose of tracking hours is not to micromanage. Yes, you want to hold your team accountable, but digitally tracking hours also gets them paid faster. Plus, it brings transparency to exactly what you’re paying workers for and the job status — and most importantly, total job costs.