Time clock for machine shops and job shops
Clock in at a kiosk on a computer you already own, switch jobs from the floor, and get timecards by employee, job and pay week. 20 employees included for $49.99 USD/year.
The shop floor
Most machine shops still run on paper. The cards live in a rack by the door, the punches are in pencil, and by Thursday half of them are illegible. Someone copies the times onto a summary sheet at the end of the week, and that sheet is where the arguments start.
Then there is the whiteboard. It says who is on the mill and who is deburring, and it is right until about nine in the morning. After that it is a suggestion: a rush job comes in, a fixture needs reworking, a machine goes down, and people move. Nobody writes it down, because everybody is busy making parts.
So when the next quote needs a real number, you guess which job a man was on at 2pm. Three people remember three different answers. That is the cost of paper: the hours nobody can account for, and the quotes built on a guess.
On the floor
The kiosk is a web page. Put it full screen on any computer, laptop or tablet on the floor.
Employees clock in with facial recognition or fingerprint. No card to lose, no password to forget, no queue at the door.
If a scan does not read — gloves on, bad light, safety glasses — the PIN is always available as a backup. It sits on the same screen and records to the same timecard.
When the work changes, the employee picks the next job from the kiosk screen. Hours before the switch stay with the first job, and everything after lands on the second. No walk to the office.
In the office
The office side is where the paper gets replaced.
The same punches read three ways: one person's week, every hour charged to a job, or the shop's pay week. Nobody rebuilds a spreadsheet to change the view.
A punch gets missed, or a shift ends without a punch-out. A manual entry fills the gap and an approval puts a name against it, so every correction has an author.
Attendance, employee summaries and overview reports show who was on the floor, who was late and where the hours went.
Request types, accrual balances, and a queue to approve or reject. Approved time off shows on the calendar, so you see the gap before you build the week around it.
Schedules live in the same place: shifts on a calendar with time-off requests already showing, and machine time on Gantt-style calendars, one per machine, so two jobs are not booked on the same spindle.
Price and requirements
20 employees are included for $49.99 USD per year. That is the whole bill for the shop, with no per-employee fees on top of it, and everything described above comes with it.
The guarantee is simple: 30 days to decide, money back if it does not fit, cancel anytime.
What you need is already in the building. The kiosk runs on any computer, laptop or tablet you already own — no dedicated hardware. A device with a camera handles face clock-in, a fingerprint reader handles the other option, and the PIN covers the rest.
Setup takes an afternoon: register the company, add departments and employees, put a device on the floor in kiosk mode. Your data stays yours — punches, timecards, schedules and balances are your company's record of the work your people did.
FAQ
No. The kiosk runs in a browser on any computer, laptop or tablet you already own. No dedicated hardware to buy.
The PIN is always available as a backup, and it records to the same timecard as a scan.
Yes. The employee picks the next job on the kiosk screen, mid-shift. Hours before the switch stay on the first job, hours after land on the second.
By employee, job and pay week, so the same punches read three ways. Manual entries cover a missed punch, approvals put a name against each correction, and reports come off the approved punches.
20 employees are included for $49.99 USD per year, with no per-employee fees and a 30-day money-back guarantee. You can cancel anytime.
20 employees included. $49.99 USD for the year, with a 30-day money-back guarantee.
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