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Restoration time tracking, visit by visit

A restoration job starts with an emergency call at any hour, goes on with daily drying visits, and ends with demo and rebuild. Each visit is short, often in a basement with no signal, and every hour has to be backed up for the file. GEOTT records each visit on the job's geofence, works offline, and adds up the hours per loss.

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$7 per active worker a month · works in basements without signal · 15-day trial, no card

Restoration technician drying a flooded basement with air movers — Day three of a water loss: a short monitoring visit, recorded with its time and place.

Why is time tracking hard for restoration companies?

Because the work comes in bursts. A crew answers a midnight call, a tech drops in for 40 minutes each day to read moisture, then the demo crew spends two days on site. Paper sheets lose the short visits and round the night calls. GEOTT records every visit on the job it belongs to, with its real start and end.

The restoration week, and what GEOTT records
Phase	Typical problem	What GEOTT records
Emergency response	Called at 2 a.m., hours guessed the next day	Clock-in at the property at 2:47 a.m., night window applied
Drying and monitoring	Daily 30-minute visits forgotten on the sheet	Each visit as a site change on that job
Demo and cleanup	Basement, no signal	Clock-ins saved on the phone, synced later
Rebuild	Crew moves between three jobs	Hours split per job at clock-out

What does one water loss look like in GEOTT?

A sample job with invented times: a burst pipe in a finished basement. Over five days GEOTT records 30.5 crew hours on that loss, from the night call to the last moisture reading, each visit with its own clock-in inside the property's circle. The by-project export gives the total for the file.

Sample data: one water loss, five days
Day	Visit	Crew hours	Note
Day 1, 2:47 a.m.	Emergency extraction	9.0	2 techs, night window applied
Day 1, afternoon	Demo of wet drywall	12.0	3 techs, no signal in basement
Day 2	Monitoring	1.5	Readings, equipment moved
Day 3	Monitoring	1.0	Site change from another job
Day 4	Monitoring	1.0	—
Day 5	Final readings, equipment pickup	6.0	2 techs

GEOTT is a time clock: estimates, moisture logs and photos stay in your restoration software. What GEOTT adds is a record of who was on the property, when, for how long. On an iPhone, visits saved without signal upload when GEOTT is next opened with coverage.

How fast can a crew start on an emergency call?

As fast as they arrive. An admin can create the job from the office while the crew drives, or on the doorstep with "I'm here", which reads the admin's own position once. The crew clocks in with one tap. A reminder can check, at the time you set, that nobody forgot to clock out after a long night.

A site per loss

Every claim address is its own site; close it at the end and its history stays for the file.

Night calls

A night-work window counts after-hours time in its own category, the same way every time.

Basements, no bars

Clock-ins are kept on the phone and sent later, with the original time and the geofence check already done.

Change log

Every edit to hours keeps who, when, before and after, and why. That's what makes the record defensible.

What radius fits a home or a commercial loss?

Under open sky phones are typically within 4.9 m (16 ft), says GPS.gov; inside and underground the error grows. Ask techs to clock in at the door, then go down to the basement. A home needs a small circle, a commercial building a larger one.

More: geofence time tracking.

Starting points for restoration jobs
Loss	Suggested radius
Single-family home	60 m (about 200 ft)
Apartment building	120 m (about 395 ft)
Commercial building	150 m (about 490 ft)
School or campus	300 m (about 985 ft)

How much does GEOTT cost for a restoration company?

$7 per technician who clocked in that month. Ten techs cost $70 in a month when all of them worked; after a quiet month with six on calls, $42. Project managers and estimators who don't clock in are free. No base fee, no charge per job.

More examples: GEOTT pricing.

Restoration questions

What is the best time clock for a restoration company?

One that records short visits and night calls on the right job, works in basements without signal and keeps a log of every correction. GEOTT does those for $7 per active worker, from a link on any phone, with a 15-day trial and no card.

Does GEOTT replace my restoration job software?

No. Estimates, moisture maps, photos and insurer communication stay where they are. GEOTT records labor time: who was on the property, when and for how long, with the hours per job in an Excel export.

How do I handle a tech who forgot to clock out at 4 a.m.?

The session closes on its own after the limit you set and is flagged. The tech can request a correction with a reason; a manager approves it, and the change stays in the log. No 20-hour shift lands on payroll by accident.

Are homeowners' properties tracked?

GEOTT reads the technician's phone position only at clock-in, site change and clock-out, to check it against the job's circle. It records nothing else about the property and nothing between punches.

Which other crews use GEOTT?

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.

How do I test GEOTT on my next losses?

Create the jobs you have open this week, send the link to the crew and let them clock in on every visit, including the night calls. In two weeks you'll have every loss's hours in one export. The trial lasts 15 days, no card needed.

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