Employee time tracking FAQ

Watchie is a time clock for every place your team works: the office, at home, overseas and out on job sites. It records hours and breaks, shows real activity for desk work, confirms field crews clocked in at the job, and turns approved hours into payroll.

Most teams are running the same afternoon. Create your company, set your break limit and screenshot settings, add projects or job sites, and send invite links. Each person accepts a plain-language notice before tracking starts.

Yes. Every new company gets a 14-day trial with every feature turned on, so you can try desk tracking, field clock-in and payroll before you choose a plan.

Office and remote staff use the Mac or Windows app. Field crews clock in from the browser on any iPhone or Android phone and can add it to their home screen. Managers use the dashboard in any browser, including on a phone.

Nothing is lost. The desktop app and the phone clock-in both save time on the device first and send it when the connection is back.

Yes. Contractors are tracked for billing. Schedules, break limits and scores are off for contractors by default, because controlling how a contractor works can turn them into an employee in the eyes of the law.

Keep it for scheduling, quotes and invoices. Watchie covers what those apps don’t: monitoring for your remote office team, one time clock for office and field, and payroll that follows state overtime and break rules.

You add each job site with an address and a boundary. Crews open Watchie on their phone, pick the job and tap Clock in. If the phone is outside the boundary, they have to give a reason, and the punch is flagged for a manager to approve or reject.

No. Watchie reads the phone’s location only at the moment someone taps clock in or clock out. Never in between, and never off the clock. Crews see this on the clock-in screen.

No. Crews use Watchie in their phone’s browser and can add it to the home screen for one-tap clock-in. It works on iPhone and Android.

When someone clocks out at one job site and clocks in at a different one within 2 hours, Watchie logs the time in between as travel. The drive from home to the first job isn’t counted.

Yes. Managers and foremen can select crew members and clock them all in or out with one tap from the job site.

The punch is saved on the phone and sent as soon as there’s signal again.

Watchie allows a little margin for normal GPS drift. If the reading is too imprecise to tell, the person is asked to step outside or turn on precise location before clocking in.

Per active person, per month. Yearly billing costs less than monthly. See the pricing page for current plans.

Anyone who tracked time in the last 30 days. Managers who only use the dashboard and people you’ve deactivated aren’t billed.

Yes. Monthly plans can be canceled anytime from the Billing page. Annual plans are paid yearly at the lower rate.

Time tracking keeps working so no hours are lost. The rest of the dashboard asks the owner to update billing.

Yes. For teams over 50 people, book a demo and we’ll put together a quote.