Workers clock in on their phone, at a tablet kiosk by the gate, or through their supervisor. AttendIQ checks who they are, whether they are on site and whether they are cleared to work, then turns the clock-ins into weekly timesheets. It keeps working when the signal does not.
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Most sites still run on a signing-in book in the welfare cabin, a turnstile that only covers one gate, or a spreadsheet the site manager fills in on a Friday. Workers sign each other in. Subcontractor gangs turn up before the cabin opens. Hours are written down from memory at the end of the week, and when the fire alarm goes nobody can say for certain who is still inside.
The Working Time Regulations 1998 require employers to keep records that show working time limits are being met. CDM 2015 expects the principal contractor to stop unauthorised people getting onto site and to make sure everyone working there has had a site induction. A paper book makes both hard to do and harder to prove when the HSE or a client asks.
Bad attendance data also flows straight into payroll. Disputed hours cost time, damage relationships with subcontractors and pull site managers away from running the job.
Construction workforces are mixed. Some workers live on their phones, some leave theirs in the van, and some days the signal drops out the moment you walk past the hoarding. AttendIQ gives every site the same three routes, and every one of them runs the same compliance check and lands in the same attendance record.
Workers open the free AttendIQ app on iOS or Android and choose the site. Each site sets the identity check it wants: a face check with a liveness test, matched to the photo the worker enrolled with, the phone's own Face ID or fingerprint, or a PIN. Large buttons and big text mean it works one-handed with gloves on.
Mount a tablet at the site entrance for workers without a smartphone. The worker looks at the camera and is matched against the workers assigned to that site, or types their six-digit worker ID number instead. If a worker is blocked, a supervisor can review and override it remotely.
Supervisors sign workers in and out from the AttendIQ app by searching for them by name or scanning the QR code on their digital ID card. It works from a cached list of the site's workers, so it carries on with no signal, and a whole gang can be signed out together at the end of the day.
Clock-ins made offline are stored on the phone with a device ID and an offline session token, then sent when signal returns. A clock-in sent twice is only recorded once. Each site decides whether offline clock-ins are accepted, accepted and flagged for review, or rejected.
A clock-in is more than a time stamp. Before a worker is recorded as on site, AttendIQ runs the same checks whichever route they used.
Each site has a boundary: a radius around the site, or on the Complete plan a shape drawn around the actual footprint. You choose whether a clock-in from outside it is refused, or accepted with an alert to the site manager. A phone with no location counts as outside.
The access rules for the site are checked: right to work, required cards and competencies, site induction, job role, RAMS sign-off and more. A ban, a frozen passport or expired right to work stops the check straight away. Otherwise every failing rule is shown at once, so the worker knows everything that needs fixing, not just the first thing.
The server records its own time for every clock event. The phone's time is stored separately so differences can be spotted. Offline clock-ins that arrive late keep the time they were made, within limits, and large backdates are flagged for review.
The app, the kiosk, supervisor sign-in and offline sync all share one clock state. If a worker clocks in at a second site while still clocked in at the first, the first shift is closed at that moment and flagged. Overlapping shifts cannot be approved for payroll.
When a supervisor needs to let someone through, they can override a non-critical failure with a written reason. Bans and frozen passports can never be overridden. To see how these checks combine to prove who was on site without anyone driving round to check, read about site attendance verification.
The Live view on the Attendance page shows who is clocked in on each site, grouped by zone, and refreshes every 30 seconds. The Workers On Site report exports the same picture to CSV or PDF for your records or a client.
If the alarm sounds, supervisors start an Emergency Muster from the AttendIQ app. It builds the roll call from the clock-in record, so the people being counted are the people who actually clocked in, including subcontractors and anyone signed in by a supervisor. Our emergency muster procedure guide covers how to plan and drill it.
Every night, clock events are turned into attendance records, and each week a timesheet is created for every worker on every site. Nobody types hours in.
The site manager approves the hours, then payroll approves them. Either step can be switched off if your business does not need it. Overlapping shifts are caught before approval.
Approved timesheets export to CSV. On Complete you can also send approved hours to Xero or QuickBooks whenever payroll is ready. More on approvals, pay rates and overtime in digital timesheets.
Comparing options? Our guide to construction timesheet and payroll software sets AttendIQ against four other apps used by UK contractors.
On the Complete plan, AttendIQ checks hours every hour through the shift. A worker approaching or passing 48 hours in the week is flagged, and admins and the supervisors on that site are alerted. Daily shift length and rest breaks are checked too, opt-outs from the 48-hour limit are recorded (and can be withdrawn), and a working time report is ready when you need to show your records. See fatigue management for the detail.
Competency tracking, the skills matrix and expiry alerts for up to 250 workers. No clock-in or timesheets.
Clock-in by app, kiosk, supervisor and offline. Face, device biometric or PIN identity checks. Radius site boundaries, access rules at the gate, Emergency Muster, weekly timesheets with two-stage approval and CSV export.
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There are three routes. Workers with a smartphone clock in on the free AttendIQ app for iOS or Android. Workers without one use a tablet kiosk at the gate, either by looking at the camera or by typing their six-digit worker ID number. A supervisor can also sign workers in and out from their own phone by searching for them by name or scanning the QR code on their digital ID card. Every route goes through the same compliance check and lands in the same attendance record.
They can use the site kiosk, or their supervisor can sign them in. Supervisor sign-in works from a cached list of the site's workers, so it still works with no signal, and the supervisor can sign a whole gang out together at the end of the day.
The app stores clock-ins and clock-outs on the phone and sends them when signal returns. Each event carries a device ID and an offline session token, so a clock-in that is sent twice is only recorded once. Compliance is checked when the event reaches the server, and each site decides whether offline clock-ins are accepted, accepted and flagged for review, or rejected.
You set a boundary for each site, either a radius around a point or, on the Complete plan, a shape drawn around the site. Each site chooses what happens when a worker clocks in outside it: the clock-in is refused, or it is accepted and the site manager is alerted. Zones within a site can have their own boundaries.
Yes. Attendance is processed every night and weekly timesheets are created for each worker on each site. A site manager approves the hours, then payroll approves them, and either step can be switched off. Approved timesheets export to CSV on Essential. On Complete you can also send approved hours to Xero or QuickBooks whenever payroll is ready.
On the Complete plan, yes. AttendIQ checks hours through the shift and flags a worker approaching or passing 48 hours in the week, alerting admins and the supervisors on that site. It also checks daily shift length and rest breaks, records Working Time Regulations opt-outs (and withdrawals), and produces a working time report.
Essential and Complete. The free Foundation plan covers competency tracking and the skills matrix but not clock-in. You can try Essential or Complete free for 30 days with up to 25 workers, with no card needed.
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