bobwhite
time tracking
articles
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add your first worker
set up the people on your crew so they can punch in from a phone, the kiosk, or by text.
4 steps·~2 min - 02
punch in and punch out
the daily workflow. every punch tags a photo and a gps pin so you know who's actually on site.
3 steps·~2 min - 03
tag a shift to a crawdad job
job-coded shifts mean labor cost flows back to the matching crawdad job — so you can see what each job actually cost in time.
3 steps·~2 min - 04
add a manual entry for an offline punch
for shifts that didn't get punched live — a worker forgot, the phone died, the job site had no signal.
3 steps·~2 min - 05
approve the week and feed pecan for payroll
monday morning ritual. eyeball the entries, fix anything weird, lock the week. approved hours flow to pecan for the next pay run.
4 steps·~2 min - 06
spot buddy-punching with photo + gps
previewthe photo + gps on every punch is what makes time tracking honest. here's how to spot when something's off.
3 steps·~2 min - 07
set a worker's hourly rate
the hourly rate is what you use to translate hours into dollars when you push to pecan. set it on the worker; it follows every entry.
3 steps·~2 min - 08
watch the live counters at the top
the dashboard surfaces four numbers across the top — workers on the clock right now, hours so far today, hours so far this week, and unapproved hours.
3 steps·~2 min - 09
filter the timesheet by worker or window
as your crew grows, the timesheet stacks up. filter by worker (one person at a time), or by time window (today, this week, last week, this month).
3 steps·~2 min - 10
edit a punch entry — the audit trail keeps the original
if a punch is wrong (a forgot-to-punch-out, a typo'd start time), edit it and add a reason. bobwhite never silently overwrites — the original time and the edit reason live side by side on the entry.
3 steps·~2 min - 11
deactivate a worker who's no longer with you
when someone leaves the crew, deactivate them rather than deleting. their historical entries stay intact for payroll and audits, but they no longer show on the punch row.
3 steps·~2 min - 12
see how much labor each crawdad job ate
every entry can carry a job code that links the shift back to a crawdad job. the matching crawdad job rolls up total approved hours so you can see what each job actually cost in time.
3 steps·~2 min
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