What Punchless tracks. And what it doesn't.

Start of shift

Open Punchless and begin your shift. The app confirms your current state (At shop) and activates geofence monitoring. That's it: you can put your phone away.

During the day

The app works silently in the background. When you arrive at a job site, it records the time. When you leave, same. Your timecard builds itself while you work.

End of shift

Return to the shop and end your shift. Your draft timecard is visible immediately - review it, edit any entries if needed, then submit. Your manager approves from there, usually within 24 hours.

Do I need to manually clock in or out?

No. The app detects when you arrive and leave job sites automatically. You don't need to open the app or tap anything during your shift.

Can I see my own timecard before my manager does?

Yes. The Punchless app shows your current shift state (on site, in transit, at shop) and the draft timecard being built in real time. You can edit entries yourself before submitting, so you can correct anything before your manager ever sees it.

What if the GPS got my arrival time wrong?

Fix it yourself before submitting - you can edit any draft timecard entry directly in the app. If it's already been submitted, flag it for your manager. Every edit, yours and theirs, keeps what the entry said before alongside who changed it.

Does the app run when I'm off the clock?

Location tracking is only active during your registered shift hours (Work Mode). Outside of shift, the app is idle. You can also log out completely, which disables all background activity.

Will it drain my phone battery?

Less than continuous tracking, because the app does not poll continuously. It asks for your location at most once a minute, at battery-friendly balanced accuracy rather than high precision, and only after the phone has moved about 30 metres - so sitting at a job site, it goes quiet. We do not publish a battery percentage, because we have not measured one across enough phones and shift lengths to stand behind it. Watch it on your own phone for a week and hold us to what you see.

Do I get paid for drive time?

That is your employer's policy, not ours - but Punchless measures it either way, so it is a number rather than an argument. Driving between the shop and a job site, or between jobs, is work and is recorded as its own line on your timecard. The drive from home to your first job is the one that depends: federal law treats an ordinary commute as unpaid, California treats travel your employer controls as paid wherever it starts. Your employer picks a policy, it is applied consistently, and the commute still appears on your timecard marked paid or unpaid rather than vanishing.

Does Punchless know it is really me carrying the phone?

No, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. Punchless tracks a device. If you hand your phone to a colleague, the record follows the phone. There is no face scan, no fingerprint and no photo check-in - we use no biometrics at all, which we think is the right trade for a tool that runs in your pocket all day. What the record does show is a continuous, consistent pattern of movement that is difficult to fake convincingly, which is a different and more honest claim than proving identity.

Can I see my own GPS history?

Yes. You can view your own GPS path data and shift events in the app - the same records your manager can see. Historical GPS data is automatically deleted after your company's retention window - 12 months by default, with a 30-day minimum.