PHIT Time Clock — Free, Offline, Yours

Clock in and outrun it on the shop tablet, or pass the phone around

Job for the whole crew

Cost code

Hours by day, and how each worker’s week splits

Every punch this week

Date	Worker	In	Out	Break	Job	Code	Paid hrs	Note	Actions

A shift that runs past midnight is counted on the day it started, which is how most payroll systems do it. Approving a week locks nothing — it stamps who signed off and when, and that stamp goes on the printed timesheet and into the payroll CSV.

Jobs, estimated against actualhours are only worth logging if they land on the right ticket

Labor by job

Period

Job	Number	Est hrs	Actual hrs	Variance	Labor cost	Cost / est hr	Actions

Hours by cost code

Worker	Payroll ID	Rate	Burdened	PIN	Hours this week	Status	Actions

Deleting a worker deletes their punches too. You get one Undo, and a JSON backup never hurts. A PIN here is a courtesy lock for a shared tablet, not security — it is stored in plain text in this browser and anybody who can open this file can read it.

What payroll owes for this week

Worker	Payroll ID	Regular	Overtime	Double time	Total hrs	Rate	Gross pay	Approved

Gross pay is hours × rate with the premium multipliers from your rule set. It does not withhold anything — no federal or state income tax, no FICA, no garnishments, no benefit deductions. This is the hours-and-gross side of payroll, which is the part that goes wrong. The filing side still needs a payroll service or your accountant.

Which overtime rules do you run under?

Pick the state you work in, or set your own. Federal law is the floor everywhere; several states stack a daily rule on top of it, and where both apply the worker gets whichever produces more pay.

Weekly OT over (hrs)

0 turns weekly OT off

Daily OT over (hrs)

0 turns daily OT off

Double time over (hrs/day)

0 turns double time off

OT multiplier

Double time multiplier

Round punches to

Workweek starts

Auto-deduct unpaid break

Minutes. 0 = never auto-deduct

…on shifts longer than (hrs)

Seventh consecutive day rule. If a worker puts hours on all seven days of the workweek, the seventh day pays the first 8 hours at the OT rate and everything past 8 at double time. This is California’s rule.

Rounding, honestly. Federal rule 29 CFR 785.48(b) allows rounding to the nearest 5, 6 or 15 minutes, but only if it is neutral — it has to round both up and down over time and cannot systematically favour the shop. A quarter-hour rule that always rounds the start time up and the finish time down is wage theft, and California courts have been steadily hostile to rounding of any kind since Camp v. Home Depot (2022) where the employer could record exact time and rounded anyway. This clock records exact time. If you turn rounding on, you are choosing to lose that, and the safe default is to leave it off.

Business name on the printed timesheet

Business name

Who approves timesheets

What this clock will not do

Straight, so you find out now instead of in month three.

No GPS. It cannot prove anybody was on site. Worth knowing that GPS on the paid apps is widely defeated anyway — employees turn off location services after clocking in and the punch still lands.
No sync between devices. One device, one shop. Two tablets means two separate sets of data. Export JSON and import it if you need to move.
No payroll filing. It gets you hours and gross. It does not withhold, file or pay anything.
No phone app and no push notifications. It is a web page you can save to a home screen.
No scheduling or dispatch. This tracks time worked, not time planned.

What it does have that the cheap tiers usually don’t: job and cost-code tagging on every punch, daily overtime and double time, a real edit trail, and an export that isn’t held hostage. Your entries stay visible and editable, on paper if you want them that way.

A crew time clock nobody can charge you for.