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Time tracking in construction
clock in on site without driving anyone crazy

The "office" changes address every few months, the teams are spread across sites and no one has a computer to hand. Clock-in from the phone with geolocation, a kiosk in the site hut and multi-site management.

📱 Mobile app iOS/Android 📍 Geolocation at clock-in 📡 No-coverage mode 💶 From €1.20/user

Quick answer: construction has the hardest clock-in problem of all sectors. The "office" changes address every few months, the teams are spread across several sites, there are subcontractors coexisting on the same job and no one has a computer to hand. The solution that works in 2026 is clock-in from the phone with geolocation, plus a kiosk in the site hut for anyone who does not want to use their phone.

The 4 challenges of clock-in in construction

The working-time record obligation (RDL 8/2019, art. 34.9 ET) does not distinguish between office and site. Each challenge of the sector has a solution without driving anyone crazy.

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The site has no computer

Clock-in from each worker's phone, two taps on arrival and departure. Crews who prefer not to use their personal phone? A kiosk in the site hut, a tablet where everyone clocks in with their PIN, included in every plan.

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Clocking in from the site or from the bar?

Optional geolocation at the moment of clock-in: the record saves where the person clocked in, it does not track anyone during the day. It is the configuration recommended by the AEPD and it answers the site manager’s key question.

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Several sites at once

Teams that rotate between jobs, foremen who supervise three sites. Cleverfy shows the hours by site and by team without manual accounting, with reports by workplace included.

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Dawn with no coverage

Industrial estates, basements, rural areas. The app saves the clock-in even without coverage and syncs it as soon as the phone regains connection: the recorded time is the real one, not the sync time.

Real cases: when the record decides the lawsuit

The record is not just an obligation: in court it protects both the worker and the company that keeps it properly.

The KAEFER case (Avilés)

A court dismissed a claim for a substantial modification of working conditions thanks to the clock-ins the company was able to provide. The record also protects the employer.

Full analysis →

Without a record, the presumption plays against you

Since the CJEU doctrine and art. 34.9, if a worker claims overtime and you have no record, the burden of proof is yours, and you lose it.

The reversal of the burden of proof →

Refusing to clock in is grounds for fair dismissal

A court confirmed it in a case where the company reconstructed the working day with geolocation.

The case →

Clock-in systems for construction companies, compared

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Paper sheet in the site hut

Filled in on Friday from memory, illegible, impossible to keep for 4 years in good condition

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The site manager's Excel

Editable without a trace, dismissed as evidence in court

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Biometric terminal in the site hut

Restricted by the AEPD (fingerprint/facial) and hardware that fills with dust

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Call or WhatsApp to the foreman

No certain time or traceability, the foreman loses half an hour a day

App with geolocation + kiosk (Cleverfy)

Each worker clocks in where they are, the record says where and when, reports by site

How Cleverfy works in a construction company

Neither a site ERP, nor attendance control with turnstiles, nor an HR suite. To comply with the working-time record of your workers you need exactly that: a working-time record.

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Mobile app (iOS/Android)

Clock in with 2 taps and optional geolocation, plus a no-coverage mode: it saves the clock-in and syncs when the signal returns.

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PIN kiosk in the site hut

For crews who do not want to use their phone, included in every plan, no special hardware (any tablet).

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Reports by site

Hours of each job by workplace, ready for the site manager or for the Labour Inspectorate.

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Automatic overtime

With alerts, so that the "let’s finish it today" is recorded and compensated, not claimed in court a year later.

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Official app in ChatGPT

Check your working-time data and clock in from the chat itself, with controlled access. No other Spanish time-tracking tool has it.

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4-year history and traceability

Every change is traced and the history ready for the new RD. Onboarding and offboarding of workers in a minute, designed for the real turnover of the sector.

The maths for an installation company of 20 workers: €24/month on the annual plan. A single hour of admin time saved already pays for it; one avoided overtime claim pays for it ten times over.

What the record must contain on a site (and what the Labour Inspectorate looks at)

The Labour Inspectorate in construction visits the site without notice, asks for the list of workers present and cross-checks it with the records. If there are 12 people on the job and your record shows 8, the problem is no longer just about art. 34.9.

Worker identification

Each worker, including the subcontractor’s (in THEIR company’s record)

Start time of the working day

The arrival at the job, not the departure from home or the loading at the warehouse, unless your collective agreement provides otherwise: set the criterion in writing

End time

The real one of the last day of concreting, not the theoretical one

Workplace

The specific site, key when there are several at the same time

Overtime

Computed and communicated, with the collective agreement premiums apart

Worker validation

Each worker can check their records from the app

How to roll out clock-in in a construction company in 5 steps

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Decide the start-of-day criterion

Does the working day start at the warehouse, at the site or when getting into the company van? The construction collective agreement and your real practice rule, but decide it, write it down and apply it uniformly. Half the sector’s conflicts are born from this ambiguity.

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Choose the paths per profile

Skilled workers and labourers with their own phone: app with geolocation at clock-in. Crews who prefer not to use it: PIN kiosk tablet in the site hut, linked by scanning a single-use QR code, a minute per site. Foremen and technicians: app or web. All included.

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Configure sites as workplaces

Each site activates a workplace. Workers are assigned and the reports by site come out on their own, and also serve to allocate labour costs per project, even though the legal record and cost control are different things.

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A trial-run week with the foreman as an ally

The foreman of each site reviews the previous day’s clock-ins every morning. Missed entries are corrected with a trace. In the sector, adoption is decided by the foreman: if he clocks in, everyone clocks in.

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Routine and reuse

Monthly report of overtime per site, compensation up to date, and when opening a new site: create a workplace (2 minutes), reassign workers, done.

CASE STUDY

Electrical installation company with 22 workers on 4 sites

Situation: 22 workers spread across 4 sites (2 in industrial estates with poor coverage) and paper sheets that the foreman hands in on Fridays, when he remembers.

The risk: in the refurbishment of a premises, the client pushes on the deadline and two crews chain three weeks of 9.5-hour days. Nothing recorded. A disgruntled worker files a claim 8 months later: without a record, his version is presumed, over €4,000 per worker, and there were six on those sites.

The result with Cleverfy: €26.40/month on the annual plan. Onboarding of the 22 from the payroll Excel, 4 sites as workplaces, app with geolocation and a PIN tablet in the big site hut. The weekly report by site uncovers the 9.5-hour pattern: one more crew is rotated in and the remaining overtime is compensated that same month, documented. The following quarter’s Labour Inspectorate visit is resolved by showing the foreman’s phone.

Frequently asked questions about time tracking in construction

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