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Employee time tracking · Job costing · Wage compliance

Your timesheets are
evidence. Keep them like it.

A time clock for companies with hourly employees. It tracks the hours, costs them to the right job, flags what you owe before payroll runs, and keeps a record that holds up when somebody asks.

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Free for up to 5 employees · No card · Built by people who run a payroll · Or have someone show you

Miguel Ontiveros Thu · Aug 13
6:52aClocked inOrinda Kitchen
11:04aLunch started—
11:26aLunch ended · 22 min—
2:15pSwitched jobLafayette Bath
5:58pClocked outLafayette Bath
10h 44m worked · 8.00 reg · 2.73 OT $486.21 burdened
Break premium owed — $38.00

Lunch ran 22 minutes. Your break rule requires a full 30, uninterrupted. One hour at the regular rate is owed for the day. Fix the record or pay the premium — either way it is written down.

This is the screen the office sees. Not a dashboard of green checkmarks — the one shift that is going to cost you.

The part generic time clocks get wrong

A missed break is not a rounding error.

Most time clocks record the punch and say nothing about it. They will happily store a 22-minute lunch, a fourteen-hour shift, and a week with no break at all, then hand you a total. Whether any of that costs you money is left for someone to notice later — usually after payroll has already run, sometimes years later, when the burden of proving it sits with you.

Per day
What a miss can cost

Where break rules carry a premium, it is owed per employee, per day it happens — and it is owed whether or not anybody noticed at the time.

Years
How far back it reaches

Wage claims look backward, and the employer is the one who has to show what happened. Records you cannot produce are records that did not happen.

Every shift
Where it accumulates

One short lunch is small. The same Thursday, across eight people, across two years nobody wrote down, is not.

What it does

Built around the day your people actually work.

Two sites before lunch. No signal in the basement. A supervisor punching in for somebody whose phone died. If your employees stay at one desk all day, almost any time clock will do. This one is shaped for the ones that move.

Meals

Lunch is never auto-deducted

The worker stamps the break themselves. Auto-deduction destroys the evidence that it was taken, on time, and uninterrupted — which is exactly what gets attacked.

Compliance

Premiums flagged before payroll

Short breaks, late breaks, missed second meals, and skipped breaks the worker declined — each one surfaced with the reasoning, so you decide rather than discover.

Overtime

Daily and weekly, on your rules

Over 40 in the workweek you designate, plus daily thresholds and seventh-day rules for the states that have them. You set the thresholds and multipliers; the app will not let you set them below the legal floor.

Offline

Works with no signal

New construction and hillside jobs have dead zones. Punches are held on the phone and sync when the bars come back. The office is told which times came in that way.

Jobs

Many jobs in one day

Switch sites without clocking out. Hours land against the right job with a cost code attached, so job costing reflects where the day actually went.

Supervisors

A supervisor can punch the team

Dead phone, forgotten password, new hire on day one. The supervisor clocks them in and the record says who did it — but breaks stay with the person taking them.

Costing

Burdened cost, not just hours

Pay rates are effective-dated and snapshotted onto the shift, so a raise today never rewrites what last quarter's job cost you.

Payroll

Export shaped for your provider

Approved hours by pay period, with meal premiums broken out separately, regular and overtime split, and anyone missing a payroll ID called out before you send it.

Record

An audit trail you did not write

Every edit, approval, and admin punch is logged server-side where it cannot be quietly changed. Reconstructed times are marked as reconstructions.

Two very different users

Simple in a truck. Serious at a desk.

On the job

For your employees

  • One big button. Clock in, pick the job, get to work.
  • A high-contrast outdoor mode for direct sun and gloves.
  • A reminder before a break deadline passes, not after.
  • Photos attached to the right project as they go.
  • Sign in with an employee number and a PIN — no email required.
  • A plain-language page explaining their own break rights.
In the office

For whoever runs payroll

  • A queue of exactly what needs a decision this period.
  • Approve a period, then export it for your payroll service.
  • Adjust hours or punch on someone's behalf — always logged.
  • Job costing by project, employee, and pay period.
  • Pay periods with your payday deadline shown.
  • Nightly backups, verified by actually restoring them.
Where this is going

What is running, and what is next.

Everything above is built and in daily use running a real payroll. These are not, and we would rather say so than let a feature list imply otherwise.

Running today

Time, breaks, overtime, job costing, payroll export

In production, running a real payroll every two weeks.

Running today

Break and overtime rules that follow your state

Worth being direct about this one. Overtime past forty hours a week at one and a half is federal and applies everywhere, and that is what you get wherever you are. On top of it some states add daily overtime, required breaks, or premium pay when a break is missed — we have those written in for California, Alaska, Nevada, Colorado, Oregon and Washington, because they are the ones specific enough to encode without guessing. For every other state we apply the federal floor and say so on your own settings screen, rather than quietly running one state's law against another's timesheets. Every threshold, multiplier and break window is yours to change. Tell us where you operate and that is how we pick which state to write in next.

Running today

Scan-to-clock-in at the jobsite

A code posted at the gate. Somebody arriving points their camera at it and clocks in to the right job in one tap, instead of finding it in a list — which is where clocking in to the wrong job comes from. We make no claim about attendance from it: paper can be photographed, and a promise like that is worth nothing the first time somebody tests it. What it does is stop the wrong job being picked, and leave a record that the code at that site was the thing used. If you want presence, set a radius on the job and the app records whether each punch was inside it — a check at the punch, not tracking anybody's phone all day. A worker can also choose to record which job site they are at while on the clock; that runs from clock-in to clock-out and never outside a shift.

Next

Español

The whole worker app, including the break-rights page. Translated by someone who actually speaks it — machine translation is not good enough for language that carries legal meaning.

Later

Direct payroll integration

Push approved hours straight to your payroll provider instead of exporting a file.

Pricing

Your first five employees are free. Not for a trial — for good.

Plenty of the companies we know are four people and a truck. If that is you, this costs nothing and always will. You pay when the team grows, which is the point at which a missed break starts costing real money anyway.

Starter
$0 / month

Up to 5 employees. No card, no expiry, no countdown.

  • Clock in and out, multiple jobs a day
  • Meal and rest tracking, never auto-deducted
  • Break premiums flagged before payroll runs
  • Daily, weekly and seventh-day overtime
  • Works with no signal
  • Payroll export every period
  • Job costing and the full audit trail

The per-worker price is not set yet, and we are not going to invent one to fill a box. Beta customers help us land it and keep a founding rate afterward. What is already decided: the free five stays free, the compliance features are never the paywall, and your data exports in full whenever you want it.

The crew app

CrewQR Time Clock, on the phone in their pocket.

Clock in, take the meal break, switch jobs, add a job-site photo — with or without signal. A worker installs it once, types the company code the office gives them (the first part of your CrewQR address), and signs in with their employee number and PIN. No email, no password to forget in the rain.

In review at the App Store and Google Play. Until it lands, the web app does the same job on any phone: open yourcode.crewqr.com in the browser and add it to the home screen.

The CrewQR Time Clock app: a carpenter on the clock at the Hayes St. Kitchen Remodel, meal break due by 6:47 PM

Put a team on it.

Setting up takes about a minute and you do not have to talk to anybody first. Your company gets its own address, your crew signs in with an employee number and a PIN, and the first five people are free for good.

It is early, and we would rather you knew that. If something is wrong we want to hear about it — hello@crewqr.com, or ask somebody to show you.

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