6 steps from sign-up to the month-end report
GEOTT turns your crew's phones into a GPS time clock that checks where each punch happens. Here is the real sequence, from the first job site and its geofence to what the office gets when the month closes.
Setup in about 2 minutes · clock-ins work without signal · admins are free
You draw a circle around each job site and give it a radius in meters. When a worker clocks in from a phone, GEOTT reads the position, checks it against that circle and screens it for faked GPS. The punch is accepted, refused or flagged, and the hours attach to that site.
Sign up in the browser and let the guided setup do the groundwork: company type, roles, clock-in mode (pick geolocation) and a first project built for you. About 2 minutes; the 15-day trial needs no card.
Place the site, call projects Site or Job if you prefer, and give the geofence a radius in meters. Size it to the site with a margin for GPS drift, then choose whether "clock in anyway" is allowed outside it.
Send each worker an invite by email, WhatsApp or link and assign them to the site. It opens in the phone's browser; nothing comes from an app store.
The worker taps to clock in. GEOTT checks the position against the geofence and screens it for mock locations. A valid punch starts the hours on that site; without signal it waits on the phone and syncs later.
At clock-out the worker divides the hours between the sites worked that day. A forgotten clock-out can close on its own; a missed punch becomes attendance only once a manager approves it.
Open the monthly report, compare expected and worked hours week by week, and export to Excel by project or by employee. Early the next month, GEOTT bills $9 for each worker who clocked in.
The phone reports its position, GEOTT measures it against the site's radius and runs an anti-spoofing check for mock locations. Inside the circle the punch counts and the hours go to that site. Outside, it's refused, or saved with a flag for the admin if you allow "clock in anyway". No signal? It waits on the phone.
Each clock-in starts on one site. When the worker clocks out, GEOTT lets them divide the hours of the day between the sites they actually worked, so a crew that moves from a morning pour to an afternoon repair needs no timesheet rewrite on Friday. The sample day below shows the math.
| Time | Where | What happens | What the office sees |
|---|---|---|---|
| 07:30 | Site 22, basement, no signal | Four clock-ins saved on the phones | Nothing yet |
| 09:40 | On the road to Site 9 | Phones find coverage and sync | Four punches on Site 22 from 07:30 |
| 10:00 | Site 9, rural lot, no signal | Work goes on, no punch needed | No change |
| 13:30 | Site 14, street job | Back from a 30-minute break | No change |
| 16:30 | Site 14, with signal | Clock-out: 2.5 h Site 22, 3 h Site 9, 3 h Site 14 | 8.5 h per person on three sites |
Nine hours from 07:30 to 16:30, minus a 30-minute break deducted automatically by an hours rule, leaves 8.5 per person, and GEOTT can show step by step how each punch became hours. Crews like this one: construction time tracking.
A month of punches already sorted by person and by site. GEOTT gives a monthly report of every employee by day, a weekly view that compares expected and worked hours, and four Excel exports: monthly summary, by project, by employee and detailed by employee. The same count of who clocked in sets the bill: $9 per active worker.
Early in the next month GEOTT counts the workers who clocked in during the month just closed and bills those alone; admins and anyone who never punched cost $0. Worked examples: GEOTT pricing. Records are kept for 5 years on servers in Italy (more on the About page).
It doesn't follow workers around: the position is read when someone punches in or out, not in between. It needs no badge reader or other hardware and nothing from an app store. And it doesn't decide what's legal where you operate: the rules on GPS at work vary by country and, in the US, by state.
Before you roll it out, read our guide on whether GPS tracking of employees is legal. Everything the app can do is on the features page.
Questions owners and foremen ask
Yes, that's what geolocation mode does. Each site has a geofence with a radius in meters, and a punch from outside it doesn't go through. If refusing it would stop real work, turn on "clock in anyway": the punch is saved and flagged to the admin instead of blocked.
A map pin alone proves little. GEOTT runs an anti-spoofing check on every geofenced clock-in to catch faked positions, and anything outside the circle is either refused or reaches the admin with a flag. The checks and options are covered on the geofence time tracking page.
With GEOTT, yes. It runs in the phone's browser from the invite link, so nothing is downloaded from an app store and old phones with little free storage cope fine. Those who want an icon can still install it. The interface is available in 6 languages.
Cover the whole work area, then add a margin for GPS error. According to GPS.gov, smartphones are typically accurate to a 4.9 m (16 ft) radius when the sky is open, and less so beside buildings, bridges and trees. Too tight flags honest workers; too loose lets the lot across the street count. Try it in the geofence demo.
The guided setup takes about 2 minutes; add the site's radius, send the invite, and the crew can punch in from their phones on the next shift. The 15-day trial asks for no credit card and doesn't turn into a charge by itself.