Remote and mobile staff send in to clock in and out to clock out, to your PunchClock WhatsApp number. The punch lands on the same timesheet as a face or card punch, priced by the same rules.
In your dashboard: Workforce & staff, edit the person, scroll to WhatsApp punches, choose the location their punches belong to, and press Update.
Your account has its own PunchClock WhatsApp number. The worker adds it as a contact, like any other.
One word at the start of the shift, one at the end. PunchClock replies with the time it recorded.
A WhatsApp punch is accepted only from the phone number saved on that worker’s record. A message from any other number is ignored. Nobody clocks in for a mate from the car park.
WhatsApp punches sit beside face, card, pin, QR and geofence punches for the same person. Overtime, holiday and late rules apply the same way.
Each worker’s WhatsApp punches go to the location you chose when you enabled them, so site attendance and job costs stay right.
Ask who is on site right now and WhatsApp clock-ins are counted with everyone else’s.
A driver can tap a fob at the depot in the morning and send out from the port in the evening.
Clock in at the depot gate or from the cab. Overtime from a late run shows the same day.
Clock in at the client’s door without a device at every home.
A post with a chair and no gate still gets a clock-in, from the guard’s own phone.
No card to issue, no app to install, nothing to collect when the job ends.
Crews moving between properties all day, clocking in and out as they go.
Start the day from wherever the first call is.
No. WhatsApp is enough. Workers who do have the app can also clock in with geofence or QR.
It is ignored. The number must match the phone field on their record. Update the record if they change phones.
Yes. Every punch carries its method, so the timesheet shows which were face, card, pin, QR, geofence or WhatsApp.
Yes, like any method. The timesheet flags an open punch and Ask PunchClock lists who forgot to clock out.