Landscaping crews route days · seasonal crews · hours per property
A lawn care crew can hit six or eight properties before lunch, and the timesheet usually says "Tuesday, 9 hours". GEOTT gives each property its own geofence, checks the crew in on arrival, splits the day by property, and charges nothing in the months your crews are off.
$7 per active worker a month · $0 in months nobody works · 15-day trial, no card
Because a landscaping day isn't one job, it's a route. Paper and group texts give you the start and end of the day, not the 25 minutes at one property and the two hours at another. Without hours per property you can't tell which contracts lose money, and long lunch stops between yards stay invisible.
| What happens today | What GEOTT does |
|---|---|
| The foreman writes the whole crew's hours on Friday from memory | Each worker clocks in on the phone; the office sees punches the same day |
| Nobody knows how long the HOA common areas really take | Hours split by property at clock-out, or with a site change at each stop |
| A crew "starts" at the shop but rolls out 40 minutes later | The clock-in counts only inside the geofence of the first property, if you want it that way |
| Rural properties with one bar of signal | The punch is saved on the phone and uploads when coverage returns |
| Seasonal hires every spring | An invite link by text; the season's workers are billed only in months they clock in |
Add the properties you service every week as sites, each with a circle around the lot. Crews clock in at the first stop and switch site at each next stop, or split the day at clock-out if they prefer one tap. Setup takes about 2 minutes for the first property; the rest is a list of addresses.
Each recurring account becomes a site. Rename "Project" to "Job" or "Site" if your crews say it that way.
Put workers in crews to assign properties, send reminders to one crew and filter the reports.
A site change on arrival is one tap and is checked against the next property's circle.
Turn on break tracking and lunch is recorded as a break, not guessed afterwards.
Hours over 40 in the workweek are counted as overtime, with optional daily thresholds.
The by-project export shows the hours each property took this month, the basis for next year's price.
Below is a sample day with invented properties for a crew of three. Five stops, one with weak signal, one long lunch recorded as a break. At the end of the day GEOTT shows 24 worked hours for the crew, split across five accounts, instead of a single number on a Friday sheet.
| Time | Property (sample) | Crew hours | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7:00 a.m. | Office park, mowing and edging | 4.5 | 3 valid clock-ins at the gate |
| 8:30 a.m. | Two homes on the same street | 3.0 | Site changes on arrival |
| 9:30 a.m. | HOA common areas | 7.5 | Weak signal: saved, synced at 11:40 |
| 12:00 p.m. | Lunch | — | Break, 30 minutes |
| 12:30 p.m. | Church grounds, planting | 9.0 | Clock-out at 3:30 p.m. |
Entries saved without signal keep their original time. On an iPhone they upload the next time the worker opens GEOTT with signal. More on offline clock-in.
Outdoors, GPS works well: phones are typically accurate to about 4.9 m (16 ft) under open sky, per GPS.gov. Trees and nearby buildings make it worse. So a home lot needs a smaller circle than a park, and tall tree cover deserves some extra room.
GEOTT suggests a radius by type of site and tells you after the first week if honest punches land just outside. Details on geofence time tracking.
| Property | Suggested radius |
|---|---|
| Single-family home | 50 m (about 165 ft) |
| Commercial building with lawns | 100 m (about 330 ft) |
| HOA common areas | 300 m (about 985 ft) |
| Park, campus or estate | 500 m (about 1,640 ft) |
$7 per worker who clocked in that month, and nothing in months without clock-ins. A company with 12 workers from April to October and 2 in winter pays $84 in a summer month and $14 in a winter month. There is no annual plan, no base fee and no charge per property.
| Months | Active workers | Monthly bill |
|---|---|---|
| April to October | 12 | $84 |
| November and March | 5 | $35 |
| December to February | 2 | $14 |
Admins and office staff who don't clock in are free. How the count works: GEOTT pricing.
Landscaping questions
One that records time per property, not just per day, works on rural routes with weak signal and costs nothing in the off-season. GEOTT does those three, opens from a link without an app store, and can be tested with one crew for 15 days without a credit card.
Yes, if you add the shop as a site. Many landscapers prefer the first property as the starting point, so drive time isn't counted as time at a client. You decide per company, and you can let a worker clock in anyway outside the circle, with a flag for you to review.
No. GEOTT is not a vehicle tracker: it reads the phone's position only at clock-in, site change and clock-out. What happens between stops isn't recorded. That keeps the app acceptable to crews who use their own phones.
GEOTT gives you the hours. The by-project export lists the crew hours each property took in the month; put them next to what the contract pays and the unprofitable stops stand out. GEOTT doesn't do invoicing or payroll.
Any company whose people start the day on a job site instead of in an office. Each page takes one trade, its typical day and the radius that fits its sites.
Construction Two or three sites a day, basements with no signal.
Commercial cleaning Many buildings a night, short shifts, hours per building. Landscaping and lawn care Six properties a day, quiet winters that cost nothing.
HVAC Installs and maintenance contracts, rooftops and mechanical rooms.
Plumbing Rough-ins, remodels and service contracts, often below ground.
Electrical Long commercial jobs, crews split between projects.
Property maintenance A portfolio of buildings and hours you can bill per property.
Roofing One- to three-day jobs, weather stops, new site every week.
Painting Interior and exterior jobs, crews that move mid-week.
Solar installation A house or two a day, rural roads, big utility sites.
Restoration Emergency calls, drying visits, basements with no bars.
Pest control Commercial accounts and crews on recurring sites.
Security guards Fixed posts, night shifts and reliefs that start on time.
Agriculture Seasonal crews, large fields, no signal on the back forty.
Events and catering A new venue every day and temporary staff.Add the properties on one crew's route, send the link and let them clock in for a week. You will see hours per property on day one. The trial lasts 15 days, needs no credit card and doesn't bill anything when it ends.