One phone scans worker badges at the gate. It confirms each face, applies your shift rules, fills the live board, and exports payroll CSV.
Mark attendance
Day shift 09:00–18:00 · grace 15 min
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Interactive demo · sample data · nothing is stored or sent. Photo confirm, shift rules and the debounce window are the shipped defaults.
This is the real scan flow on sample data. Tap the camera, then confirm — nothing records until you do.
01The gate
A time clock is the record of who worked when. A paper register is not a time clock — it is a memory, and it cannot prove a time, which is exactly what payroll asks it to do.
It is 7:40. The queue is at the gate, the pen is cold, and the register is a column of handwriting that only means something to the person who wrote it.
The paper register
At the gate
02How it works
Three steps, and one of them is printing a sheet of paper. No terminals, no biometric hardware, no per-seat maths.
Each worker gets a badge with a random code — one A4 sheet, or one per person. Lost or shared badge? Rotate the code; attendance history stays untouched.
One phone, one scanner role. The worker's photo, name, and designation appear for confirm — auto IN/OUT, or force IN or OUT before you scan. Nothing records until the operator confirms.
Live present, half-day, absent, late, and inside-now counts. Month matrix plus CSV export for payroll. Corrections are audited, never silent.
03What you get
Each badge carries a random token, with a short code printed underneath for when the camera will not cooperate. Unknown codes are rejected loudly, and a lost or shared badge is rotated without touching a single attendance record.
The gate phone gets the scanner role and nothing else. Workers stay rows in the register — not accounts with passwords to reset.
The operator sees the worker's photo, name, and designation and presses confirm. That is the check against buddy punching — one worker clocking in on another's badge — without a fingerprint terminal, which gloves, masks and dust defeat.
A forgotten OUT auto-closes at shift end and is marked No OUT punch — never silently counted as a full day.
Daily board plus an employee × day month matrix, CSV out for payroll, and manual fixes that demand a written reason. Nothing is ever deleted.
Set day and night shifts, grace period, half-day threshold, weekly offs and holidays. Nothing is baked in: days are recomputed at read time rather than stored, so editing a rule corrects the whole past instead of only the future.
A GPS stamp on every punch, inside a geofence — clock-in only registers when the phone is within the site's boundary. Not shipped, so it is not priced in.
04The arithmetic
One person writes the names, one at a time — at check-in, and again at check-out, when nobody trickles out and the whole crew reaches the gate together. Everybody queued behind that pen is on the clock and not at their station. Then the month gets rebuilt by hand so payroll can use it.
None of that appears on an invoice, so it never gets counted. Move the two sliders to match your floor and the figures on the right are what the book costs you — against the plan you would actually buy.
What the book costs
Everyone who signs the book.
Counts twice: check-in and check-out.
The book
$15,642
per year
GatePunch
$49
per month
26.6×
recovered per $1 of plan
72.4 paid hours a month — about 9 working days.
30 workers: 72.4 paid hours a month keeping the register, about $1,304, or $15,642 a year, 26.6× the $49 plan.
An estimate from your inputs, not a survey. GatePunch gives those hours back and hands payroll a CSV; it does not refund the wages.
05What it costs
Unlimited scans on every tier. Annual prepay knocks roughly 20% off, and prices lock after our first 10 shops.
$29/month
One gate, one phone, full board and reports.
Start 7-day trial$49/month
The typical single-gate shop. Our pilot entry point.
Start 7-day trial$99/month
Bigger floor, same one-phone gate.
Start 7-day trial$149/month
Large site, still no terminals.
Talk to usIf that made you wince, the value is real — start a 7-day trial on one gate phone and watch the board fill itself.
