Comparison
Punchless vs. Workyard
Workyard is a construction-first workforce platform with genuinely strong job costing. On time capture the two products diverge more than the marketing suggests: on Workyard's entry tier, geofencing reminds a worker to clock in rather than clocking them in.
Choose Punchless if
You want the timecard written for you on every plan, with no dwell threshold, no connectivity requirement and no tier upgrade to unlock it.
Choose Workyard if
You need labor costed by cost code, with Workers' Comp folded into the numbers, and deep Sage or NetSuite integration. That job costing is better than ours.
The core difference
Workyard
On the Starter tier, Workyard's own help documentation describes geofencing as recognising arrival and sending a reminder to clock in. True automatic clock-in is a separate named feature on Pro and Autopilot, and it requires five minutes of dwell inside the geofence plus an active internet connection. Offline, the worker clocks in manually.
Punchless
One mechanism on every plan. The crossing is the entry, there is no reminder because nothing is being asked, and there is no tier where the behaviour changes.
Pricing
Punchless
$29, $49 or $79 per user per month. Billed monthly, cancel anytime, no contract and no platform fee. 30-day free trial with full access and no credit card.
Full pricing and feature matrix →Workyard
Starter $8 per user per month, or $6 annually. Pro $16 per user per month. Both add a flat $50 per month company base fee. Autopilot is quote-only. Above 50 users, pricing is by quote.
The $50 base fee matters most to small crews: at five users, Starter is $90 a month rather than $40. Workyard's annual per-user rate for Pro is not published on their pricing page.
Workyard pricing taken from their own published pricing and verified July 24, 2026. Vendors change pricing without notice, so confirm at the source before deciding.
Punchless is the better fit when
- →You want automatic timecards without upgrading a tier to get them
- →Five minutes of dwell before a clock-in starts would distort your short visits
- →Your crews work where connectivity is unreliable
- →You want invoicing, estimates or dispatch alongside the hours
- →A flat base fee on top of per-seat pricing is a problem at your crew size
Workyard is the better fit when
- →You need labor costed by cost code, not just by job site
- →Workers' Comp allocation inside labor reporting matters to your bidding
- →You run Sage 50, Sage 100, Sage Intacct or Oracle NetSuite
- →Kiosk mode with photo verification is a requirement for your sites
- →You want per-trip mileage allocated to specific projects
Moving from Workyard
Bring across your project list
Export projects and addresses from Workyard and load them as job sites. Set the radius per site rather than accepting a default, especially on tight residential work.
Decide what happens to cost codes
This is the honest friction in this move. Punchless attributes hours per person per site, not per cost code. If your bidding depends on cost-code labor, plan to keep costing where it is and export approved hours into it.
Run one crew in parallel
Keep Workyard live and put a single crew on Punchless for a pay period. Compare how many entries each system needed a manager to correct.
Switch payroll export last
Move the payroll export once the hours look right. Both tools export to the major payroll providers.
Punchless vs. Workyard: common questions
Does Workyard clock employees in automatically?+
On the Pro and Autopilot tiers, yes, with conditions. Workyard's help documentation describes automatic clock-in as requiring five minutes of dwell inside the geofence and an active internet connection; without connectivity the worker clocks in manually. On the Starter tier the behaviour is different: geofencing recognises the arrival and sends a reminder to clock in, which still needs a tap.
Is Punchless cheaper than Workyard?+
No, not on headline price. Workyard is $8 to $16 per user per month plus a $50 monthly base fee, and Punchless is $29 to $79 per user with no base fee. For a large crew Workyard is likely cheaper. What you get for the difference is that automatic timecards are not a tier upgrade, and at our Pro and Elite tiers, invoicing and dispatch are in the same system.
Which is better for construction job costing?+
Workyard, clearly. It breaks labor down by customer, project, employee and cost code, and folds Workers' Comp into the reporting. Punchless gives you accurate hours per person per job site, which is the input job costing needs, but it does not do cost-code-level allocation. If that is central to how you bid, Workyard is the better tool and we would rather say so.
Does the five-minute dwell requirement matter?+
It depends on your work. On a construction site where crews arrive and stay, five minutes is irrelevant. On short-duration service stops it is a real distortion, because a twenty-minute visit loses a quarter of itself to the threshold before the clock even starts. Punchless tunes dwell to the tracking mode rather than imposing a fixed wait.
Can Punchless replace Workyard entirely?+
For time tracking, scheduling and the field service office, yes. For cost-code job costing, no. Companies that move usually do so because the timecard accuracy matters more to them than the costing depth, or because they already run costing in an accounting system and only needed the hours to be right.
Run both for a week and compare.
Thirty days free, no credit card. Put one crew on Punchless, keep the rest where they are, and see which set of hours you would rather pay against.