Best time tracking software for construction in 2026

For a small or mid-size contractor running crews, busybusy is the best time tracking software for construction: GPS clock-in, cost codes and job costing are free for unlimited users, and the paid tiers add geofence verification, a kiosk and scheduling. ClockShark and ExakTime are the stronger picks when payroll accuracy matters more than price, Raken and Buildertrend make sense when time is one part of daily reports or a full construction platform, and Timen, our own free tool, only fits a solo trade that invoices hours by job and never needs a crew time clock.

Construction time tracking is a payroll and job costing problem before it is a productivity problem. A crew of eight on two sites generates sixteen clock-ins a day, each of which has to land on the right job and cost code, survive a dead spot with no signal, respect overtime and break rules, and come out the other end as a payroll file the bookkeeper trusts. A generic office timer does none of that, which is why the construction market has its own set of tools.

The ten tools below were compared on the parts of that chain that matter to a general contractor or specialty trade: GPS and geofencing, foreman or kiosk clock-in for a whole crew, cost codes that feed job costing, offline mode, overtime rules and payroll export. Every plan and price was checked on the vendor's own pricing or help pages in September 2026, and the review summaries paraphrase what G2 and Capterra reviewers keep repeating rather than quoting one happy or angry customer.

Quick picks

These picks are arranged around the questions contractors actually ask: which app the crew will use without complaint, which one the payroll person will trust, and which one costs the least once the admin fees are counted.

• Best overall for small crews: busybusy, for free GPS clock-in with cost codes and unlimited users, and a Pro tier with geofence verification and a kiosk when you need it.
• Best for payroll accuracy: ExakTime (Arcoro Time), for rugged job-site clocks, photo ID at clock-in and per-employee pricing that scales with the crew.
• Best for field service crews: ClockShark, for GPS, geofencing and scheduling on one flat-fee plan with the usual payroll integrations.
• Best for GCs who live in daily reports: Raken, for foreman-led crew time cards with unlimited cost codes next to the daily log.
• Best all-in-one platform: Buildertrend, if the whole business already runs there and you want labor hours to hit the job budget automatically.
• Best free option for a crew under ten: Connecteam, for a GPS time clock, kiosk and scheduling at no cost for up to 10 users.
• Best for a solo trade billing by the hour: Timen, for hours by job turned into invoices, free, with none of the crew features above.

What a construction time clock has to do

A construction time tracking app is judged on what happens between the clock-in and the payroll file, not on how nice the timer looks. Six things separate a construction tool from an office tool, and the comparison below scores every product against them.

• Cost codes: every hour needs a job and a cost code so labor lands on the right budget line. Without this, job costing is a spreadsheet exercise at month end.
• GPS and geofencing: a GPS stamp records where a clock-in happened; a geofence blocks or flags one that happens off site. Most contractors need the second, and only some need continuous breadcrumb tracking.
• Crew clock-in: a foreman clocking in a whole crew from one phone, or a kiosk tablet on the trailer wall, matters more than individual timers once the crew includes people who do not want an app on their phone.
• Offline mode: basements, rural sites and steel buildings lose signal. The app has to record punches locally and sync later without losing them.
• Overtime and break rules: daily and weekly overtime, state-specific rules such as California's, meal breaks and rounding all have to be set once and applied automatically.
• Payroll and accounting export: hours have to reach QuickBooks, Sage, Foundation, Viewpoint, ADP or Gusto without retyping. If you run prevailing-wage jobs, ask specifically whether the chain produces certified payroll reports, because none of the pricing pages checked here lists it as a plan feature.

How we compared these tools

A short note on method so you can weigh the picks:

• Documentation, not a demo. The feature claims come from each vendor's own help centre and product pages as they read in September 2026. We did not run crews on these tools, so where a feature is advertised but its day-to-day behaviour is contested in reviews, the reviews get the last word.
• Ratings. The G2 scores and review counts are what each product's G2 page showed on 3 September 2026. ExakTime no longer has an active G2 listing, so its Capterra score is shown instead.
• Pricing. Taken from the vendor's pricing page or help centre on the same day, including base and admin fees that per-user headlines leave out. Two vendors, Raken and Buildertrend, publish no prices at all, and that is stated rather than guessed.
• Order. Roughly how well each tool fits a contractor running crews on site. It is not a strict ranking, and Timen is last on purpose.

Construction time tracking software comparison table

The fast version: what each tool is for, which crew features it covers, and what it costs once the base fee is included.

Best time tracking software for construction in 2026

Each tool below solves the crew-hours problem from a different direction. Some start from the time clock and bolt on job costing, some start from the daily report or the construction platform and treat time as one module, and two are general-purpose timers that happen to have a GPS option. Knowing which direction you are coming from decides the shortlist faster than any feature list.

1. busybusy - best overall for small crews

Best for: Contractors with a few crews who want GPS clock-in and cost codes without paying per seat until the tool has proven itself.

• Pricing: Free plan with unlimited users; Pro $9.99 per user/month billed annually ($11.99 monthly); Premium $14.99 per user/month annually ($17.99 monthly). Both paid plans add a $40/month admin licence that includes the first user. Checked September 2026.
• Rating: 4.8/5 on G2 from 159 reviews

busybusy's free plan is the reason it leads this list. On the vendor's pricing page, the free tier includes clock in and out with GPS, location-based reminders, employee breaks, digital time card signatures, overtime calculations, offline mode, equipment tracking and job costing, for unlimited users. That is a working construction time clock at zero cost, which no other tool here matches.

Pro is where crews that need proof rather than trust end up: enhanced GPS with breadcrumbing and on-site verification, supervisor tools for clocking in a crew, clock-in photo verification, a kiosk or punch clock mode, scheduling, safety and time sign-offs, and labor budgets by project and cost code. Premium adds daily project reports, progress tracking, documents and team messaging. Integrations named on the site include QuickBooks, Sage 100 and 300, Viewpoint, Foundation, ADP and ComputerEase, and a BusyPayroll service is sold as an add-on. The $40 admin licence is easy to miss and matters for a three-person shop, where it roughly doubles the Pro bill.

Pros

• Free plan covers GPS clock-in, job costing, offline mode and unlimited users.
• Pro tier has the full crew set: supervisor clock-in, kiosk, photo verification, geofence-style on-site checks.
• Job costing and equipment tracking are built in rather than bolted on.
• Exports to the construction accounting systems contractors actually run.

Cons

• The $40/month admin licence on paid plans is not in the per-user headline.
• Reviewers report off-clock location tracking and occasional crashes in the field.
• Circular geofences can flag workers on large or irregular sites as off site.

What users say about busybusy

2. ClockShark - best for field service and trade crews

Best for: Trade contractors and field service companies that want GPS, geofencing and scheduling on one plan and already run payroll in QuickBooks, ADP or Gusto.

• Pricing: Standard $42/month base plus $9.50 per user/month; Pro $63/month base plus $11.50 per user/month. 14-day free trial. Checked September 2026.
• Rating: 4.7/5 on G2 from 343 reviews

ClockShark is the most conventional construction time clock in the group, in a good way. Both plans include GPS tracking, geofencing, job and task tracking, drag-and-drop scheduling and the integration list a small contractor expects: QuickBooks, ADP, Gusto, Sage, Xero and Paychex. Pro adds paid time off, advanced job costing controls, multi-department or multi-office controls, and shift wrap-up and compliance forms.

The base fee model suits a crew of ten to forty better than a crew of three: at three users, Standard works out at about $23.50 per person per month, and the per-user rate only starts to look cheap past a dozen. A separate ClockShark Kiosk app on the App Store covers the shared-tablet clock-in case. Reviewers like the setup and the per-job reports; the recurring criticism is GPS that lags or shows stale positions, which matters if you rely on the map to settle disputes.

Pros

• GPS, geofencing, job tracking and scheduling are all on the entry plan.
• Integrations cover the payroll systems small contractors actually use.
• Custom reports by job or employee are easy to pull for job costing.
• Kiosk app exists for crews who will not put the app on their own phone.

Cons

• The monthly base fee makes it expensive for very small crews.
• Reviewers report GPS positions that lag or fail to refresh in real time.
• Job costing controls and PTO are held back for the Pro plan.

What users say about ClockShark

3. ExakTime (Arcoro Time) - best for payroll accuracy

Best for: Contractors who have been burned by time card fraud and want photo ID at clock-in, rugged job-site clocks and per-employee pricing.

• Pricing: Time Essential from $9 per employee/month; Time Professional from $12; Time + Payroll from $20. All billed annually, with monthly and quarterly payment options and volume pricing above 200 employees. Checked September 2026.
• Rating: 3.6/5 on Capterra from 7 reviews (no active G2 listing)

ExakTime now sells as Arcoro Time, and its pricing page lists three tiers that all include mobile time and attendance, GPS location awareness, perimeter control for clock-in and clock-out, meal break tracking and custom forms. Professional adds workforce scheduling, job assignment and PTO administration; the top tier bundles Arcoro Payroll. The product pages add project and cost codes, photo ID capture, equipment tracking, offline capability and the rugged JobClock hardware the brand was built on. Integrations named include QuickBooks, Sage, ADP, Acumatica, Foundation and Viewpoint.

Per-employee pricing with no base fee is the practical difference from ClockShark and QuickBooks Time: a four-person crew pays $36 a month on Essential, not $70 or more. The trade is a product that reviewers describe as dated, with an accounting sync that needs more manual work than the marketing suggests. It is the pick when the job site is fixed, the crew is large and turnover is high enough that a photo at the punch is worth more than a polished app.

Pros

• No base fee, and inactive employees do not consume a licence.
• Photo ID capture and rugged hardware clocks stop buddy punching.
• Cost codes, geofence perimeters and offline mode are standard.
• Exports to the construction accounting systems, including Foundation and Viewpoint.

Cons

• Reviewers call the interface dated next to newer field apps.
• Accounting integration is a recurring complaint.
• Very few recent public reviews, so the rating is a weak signal either way.

What users say about ExakTime

4. Raken - best for GCs who run daily reports

Best for: General contractors and superintendents who already write a daily log and want the crew's time cards to live next to it.

• Pricing: Not published. The pricing page offers a demo and a sales call only. Checked September 2026.
• Rating: 4.6/5 on G2 from 110 reviews

Raken approaches time from the superintendent's side. Its time cards are supervisor-led: a foreman tracks time for the crew, rolls yesterday's card forward so nobody re-enters the same names, allocates hours to unlimited custom cost codes, and lets the system apply overtime automatically under custom payroll policies for overtime, breaks, rounding, shifts and pay types. Alongside that there is an individual time clock with geofencing and GPS, and a kiosk mode with location and identity verification for a shared device.

That is a strong crew-time design, but it is sold as part of a field platform with daily reports, production tracking, toolbox talks and checklists, and priced by quote. If time tracking is the only problem, it is more platform than you need. If the daily report is already the centre of your day, having crew hours and cost codes captured in the same app by the same person is exactly the point.

Pros

• Foreman-led crew time cards with roll-forward, the fastest way to log a crew.
• Unlimited cost codes and automatic overtime under custom payroll policies.
• Individual time clock, kiosk and crew cards all in one product.
• Daily reports and photos sit beside the hours, so the record is complete.

Cons

• No public pricing; you cannot budget without a sales call.
• Reviewers say the mobile app trails the web app, with some admin tasks desktop-only.
• Job costing integrations are described as incomplete by some users.

What users say about Raken

5. Buildertrend - best when the whole business runs on one platform

Best for: Home builders and remodelers already managing schedules, budgets and change orders in Buildertrend who want labor hours to hit the job budget without a second tool.

• Pricing: Custom quote only, based on builder type and annual construction volume. The pricing page lists unlimited users and unlimited projects, and 10% off for paying annually upfront. Checked September 2026.
• Rating: 4.3/5 on G2 from 230 reviews

Buildertrend's Time Clock is a module inside a construction management platform, and its help centre describes exactly what a builder wants from that: labor cost codes that link each shift to the job budget, a default cost code and labor rate per employee so clock-ins populate correctly, a site supervisor clocking in multiple employees at once, breaks, recorded shifts for missed punches, daily and weekly overtime calculated on a greater-of basis, quarter-hour rounding, and shift approval before payroll or client invoicing.

Two limits are worth knowing before you assume it replaces a dedicated time clock. Geofencing captures location only at the moment of clock-in and clock-out, flags out-of-radius punches for a manager to override, and does not track anyone during the shift, which is a reasonable privacy stance but not the breadcrumb trail some GCs want. And there is no kiosk mode in the documentation, so every worker needs the app. Buildertrend also dropped its published tiers in 2026 in favour of quotes tied to construction volume, so a two-million-dollar remodeler and a twelve-million-dollar GC are quoted differently for the same software.

Pros

• Labor codes feed the job budget directly, so job costing is automatic.
• Supervisor clock-in for a whole crew, breaks, PTO and shift approvals are built in.
• Greater-of daily and weekly overtime handles states like California correctly.
• Unlimited users, so a growing crew does not change the bill.

Cons

• Quote-only pricing, and reviewers consistently call it expensive for what they use.
• Geofence is a punch-time check only; no kiosk mode.
• Switching jobs while clocked in is called out as clumsy in the mobile app.

What users say about Buildertrend

6. Connecteam - best free option for a crew under ten

Best for: Small contractors with up to ten people who want a GPS time clock, kiosk, scheduling and team chat in one app at no cost.

• Pricing: Small Business Plan free for up to 10 users with all features. Operations hub Basic $29/month billed annually ($35 monthly) for the first 30 users, then $0.80 per extra user; Advanced $49 ($59) plus $2.50 per extra user; Expert $99 ($119) plus $4.20 per extra user. Checked September 2026.
• Rating: 4.6/5 on G2 from 3,505 reviews

Connecteam is a deskless-workforce app rather than a construction tool, but its time clock covers the crew basics well: GPS stamps on every clock-in from Basic upward, geofencing for up to 10 sites on Advanced and unlimited on Expert, a kiosk station on every paid plan, pay rates from Basic for a simple labor cost view, plus scheduling, forms and chat in the same app. The free plan's all-features promise for up to 10 users makes it the cheapest way to run a small crew with GPS and a kiosk.

The gap is job costing. Connecteam tracks pay rates and lets you tag time to jobs, but it does not have the cost code hierarchy, budgets and construction accounting exports that busybusy, ExakTime or Raken have. Past 30 users the per-user add-on pricing is cheap, which is why it shows up in cleaning, security and facilities companies as often as in construction.

Pros

• Genuinely free for up to 10 users with the time clock, kiosk and scheduling included.
• GPS stamps, geofences and a kiosk on paid plans, priced for 30 users at once.
• Scheduling, chat and forms mean one app for the crew instead of three.
• Payroll export and timesheet approvals reviewers describe as reliable.

Cons

• No construction-grade cost codes or job costing.
• Reviewers report a laggy app, slow location fixes and always-on tracking concerns.
• Geofences are capped at 10 sites until the Expert plan.

What users say about Connecteam

7. QuickBooks Time - best for shops that run payroll in QuickBooks

Best for: Contractors whose bookkeeper lives in QuickBooks Online and who want hours to flow into payroll and invoicing with no export step at all.

• Pricing: Time Premium $20/month base plus $10 per user/month; Time Elite $40/month base plus $12 per user/month. A 50% discount on the base fee runs for the first three months, then it renews at the full base fee. Both require an active QuickBooks Online account. Checked September 2026.
• Rating: 4.5/5 on G2 from 1,448 reviews

QuickBooks Time, the product that used to be TSheets, is the path of least resistance for a contractor already on QuickBooks Online payroll. Premium includes the Workforce mobile app, payroll and invoicing sync, scheduling, time off, alerts, photo attachments and a time kiosk. Elite adds the features construction actually needs: GPS mileage tracking, project tracking with estimates versus actuals, an activity feed and timesheet signatures. Intuit's pricing page lists geofencing only under its Workforce Elite bundle rather than the standalone Time plans, so ask before assuming it is included.

The catch is the same as ClockShark: a base fee plus per user, and here the per-user rate is the highest in the list. For a crew of five on Elite that is $100 a month before the QuickBooks Online subscription. Project tracking is customer-and-service-item based rather than a construction cost code structure, which suits a remodeler billing by customer better than a GC costing by phase.

Pros

• Hours land in QuickBooks payroll and invoices with no export step.
• Scheduling, kiosk and time off are on the entry plan.
• Elite's project tracking gives estimates versus actuals per customer.
• Large, mature product with strong scheduling and reporting.

Cons

• Highest per-user rate here, on top of a base fee and a QuickBooks Online subscription.
• GPS, project tracking and geofencing sit on the Elite tier or above.
• Reviewers report a learning curve and an app that feels stitched from several generations.

What users say about QuickBooks Time

8. Hubstaff - best for mixed office and field teams

Best for: Companies with an office team on desktops and a field crew on phones that want both tracked in one system, with job sites and geofences as an add-on.

• Pricing: Starter $4.99 per user/month billed annually ($7 monthly); Grow $7.50 ($9); Team $10 ($12); Enterprise $25 monthly or custom. No free plan, 14-day trial. The Locations add-on with mobile location tracking, job sites with geofences and work orders starts at $3.33 per user/month and is available on the Team plan, included on Enterprise. Checked September 2026.
• Rating: 4.4/5 on G2 from 2,302 reviews

Hubstaff started as a remote-work monitoring tool and still reads like one: screenshots, activity levels and app tracking are the headline features on the lower plans. For construction the relevant piece is the Locations add-on, which brings mobile location tracking, job sites with geofences that can start and stop the timer automatically, and work orders. Because that add-on requires the Team plan, a field crew effectively costs $13.33 per user/month billed annually, which puts it above busybusy Pro once you pass four people.

It earns its place for a specific company shape: an estimator, a project manager and a bookkeeper on desktops plus two crews on site, all tracked, paid and reported in one place with Hubstaff's payroll and payments features. A pure field crew is better served by a construction tool. If Hubstaff is on the shortlist, the Clockify vs Hubstaff comparison covers the cheaper option side by side.

Pros

• Office and field staff in one system with payroll and payments built in.
• Job sites with geofences can start and stop tracking automatically.
• Reviewers with field teams rate the GPS and geofencing highly.
• Integrations across payroll, accounting and project tools.

Cons

• GPS and geofencing are an add-on locked to the Team plan.
• No cost codes or job costing beyond projects and tasks.
• Support and timer responsiveness are recurring complaints.

What users say about Hubstaff

9. Clockify - the cheapest GPS timer

Best for: A small contractor who wants hours by project and task with a kiosk and optional GPS at the lowest per-seat price, and can live without geofencing or cost codes.

• Pricing: Free for up to 5 users; Basic $3.99 per seat/month billed annually ($4.99 monthly); Standard $5.49 ($6.99); Pro $7.99 ($9.99); Enterprise $11.99 ($14.99). Checked September 2026.
• Rating: 4.5/5 on G2 from 202 reviews

Clockify is a general timer with two features that make it usable on a job site. Kiosk mode lets a crew clock in on a shared tablet with a PIN from the Basic plan, a QR code from Standard and photo capture on Pro. GPS tracking on Pro records the location whenever a timer starts or stops in the mobile app and whenever the user moves more than about 500 metres while it runs. Clockify's own help pages describe no geofencing, so it can show you where a punch happened but cannot stop one that happens off site.

Projects, tasks and tags stand in for jobs and cost codes, and they work for a two-crew remodeler who mainly needs hours by job for invoicing and a rough labor cost. Scheduling, expenses and time off arrive on Standard and Pro. What it lacks is everything payroll-shaped: overtime rules by state, break enforcement, and exports built for construction accounting. Reviewers like the price and the setup speed and dislike the mobile app, which is exactly the part a crew would use.

Pros

• Free for five users and cheap beyond that.
• Kiosk with PIN, QR and photo options on the paid tiers.
• GPS location on timer start and stop from the Pro plan.
• Familiar timer and timesheet that office staff can share with the crew.

Cons

• No geofencing, cost codes or construction payroll exports.
• Mobile app sync and bugs are the most common review complaint.
• Kiosk sessions expire after 24 hours on the free plan and need relaunching.

What users say about Clockify

10. Timen - only for a solo trade that invoices by the hour

Best for: A one-person or two-person trade that bills clients by the hour and wants tracked time to become an invoice, with no crew to manage.

• Pricing: Free, every feature included, including invoicing. Checked September 2026.

This is our tool, so here is the plain version. Timen is not construction time tracking software. It has no GPS and no geofencing. There is no kiosk or crew clock-in; each person logs their own time. There are no cost codes, no job costing, no labor budgets, no overtime or break rules and no payroll export, certified or otherwise. It has iPhone, Android and Mac apps, but they are personal timers and timesheets, not a crew time clock: no GPS stamp, no kiosk mode and no supervisor view of who is clocked in. A contractor with a crew on site should stop reading this entry and pick one of the nine tools above.

Where it does fit is the electrician, plumber or handyman business that is one or two people, bills time and materials, and needs hours by client and job to turn into an invoice without paying for a payroll platform. Timen has a timer and manual entries, projects with a billable rate, clients, tags, a calendar view for catching missed hours, reports by project, person or client with CSV and PDF export, and invoices built from tracked time that download as PDF or go straight to QuickBooks Online, Xero, FreshBooks or Wave. Rates can be set per project or per person, and every feature is free with no seat count. If your week ends with an invoice rather than a payroll run, the hours to invoices workflow is what it is built for.

Pros

• Free with invoicing included, where most timers gate it behind paid tiers.
• Hours by client and job become an invoice in a few clicks.
• Invoices export to QuickBooks Online, Xero, FreshBooks and Wave.
• Imports from Toggl, Harvest, Clockify, Timely, Hubstaff and Jibble if you are switching.

Cons

• No GPS, geofencing, kiosk, cost codes, overtime rules or payroll export.
• Mobile apps not yet released, so no offline clock-in from a job site.
• Newer product with little third-party review coverage so far.

Why a solo trade might still pick Timen

Time tracking for contractors: crew or solo?

Time tracking for contractors splits cleanly on one question: does anyone other than you need to clock in from a job site? If yes, you need a construction time clock with GPS or a geofence, cost codes and a payroll export, and the choice is between busybusy, ClockShark, ExakTime, Raken or Buildertrend depending on crew size and what else you run. If no, you are a solo or two-person trade and the problem is different: hours by job that turn into invoices, which is where Timen, Clockify or QuickBooks Time on a single seat make more sense than a crew platform.

The middle case is a contractor with two or three employees who all bill by the hour and work at one site at a time. Connecteam free covers the clock-in with GPS and a kiosk for up to ten people; busybusy free covers clock-in with GPS and job costing for unlimited users. Either beats a general timer, and both cost nothing until the crew needs verification features. What a small contractor should not do is buy a base-fee product like ClockShark or QuickBooks Time for three people and pay $20 or more per head for features built for forty.

A subcontractor billing a GC by the hour has one more decision: whether the GC's own system will accept your hours. Raken and Buildertrend both let a GC log subcontractor time inside their platform, so ask before you buy your own tool whether you will be entering time in theirs anyway. For a small team that is mostly office-based with occasional site visits, the broader small team trackers list is the better starting point than anything with a geofence.

Which tool should you choose?

Match the tool to the crew and to where the hours have to end up:

You run a few crews and want job costing without a big bill: busybusy. Start on the free plan, move to Pro when you need the kiosk, supervisor clock-in and on-site verification, and count the $40 admin licence in the budget.

Payroll accuracy is the whole point: ExakTime for photo ID and hardware clocks on a fixed site, or ClockShark for a field service crew that moves between jobs and needs geofences and scheduling on one plan.

Time is one part of the daily report or the platform: Raken if the superintendent's daily log is the centre of your operation, Buildertrend if schedules, budgets and change orders already live there and you want labor to hit the budget automatically.

Fewer than ten people and no budget: Connecteam for a free GPS clock, kiosk and scheduling, or busybusy free if job costing matters more than scheduling.

Everything already runs through QuickBooks Online: QuickBooks Time, on Elite if you need project tracking and GPS, and only if the base fee plus per-user rate works for your crew size.

Office and field in one system: Hubstaff on the Team plan with the Locations add-on, or Clockify Pro if you can live without geofencing and want the lowest per-seat price.

Solo trade billing by the hour: Timen. Hours by client and job, invoices out to your accounting system, free, and none of the crew features, which is the honest trade.

FAQ

The questions that usually come up after the shortlist is made.

Do construction crews need live GPS tracking, or is a geofence enough?

For most small contractors a geofence is enough: it confirms the clock-in and clock-out happened on site, which is what settles a payroll dispute. Live GPS breadcrumbs only earn their keep when crews move between sites during the day or drive company vehicles, and reviewers of every tool that offers it complain about battery drain and off-clock tracking.

What is the cheapest way to track crew hours by cost code?

busybusy's free plan is the only one checked here that includes GPS clock-in, job costing and unlimited users at no cost. Connecteam is free for up to 10 users but its cost code handling is lighter, and Clockify's free plan has projects and tasks but no GPS or geofencing until the Pro tier.

Which of these tools produce certified payroll reports?

None of the pricing or documentation pages checked in September 2026 lists certified payroll (WH-347) reporting as a plan feature. Vendors such as busybusy, ExakTime and Raken export hours to construction payroll systems that generate those reports, so if you work prevailing-wage jobs, confirm the full chain from time clock to WH-347 with the vendor before signing.

Is Timen suitable for a construction company?

Only for a solo contractor or a small trade that bills hours by job and invoices from them. Timen has no GPS, geofencing, crew clock-in, cost codes, overtime rules or payroll export, and its iPhone and Android apps are personal timers rather than a crew clock, so a company running crews on site should pick a construction time clock instead.

Conclusion

Construction time tracking comes down to where the hours have to land. If the answer is a job cost report and a payroll file, start with busybusy and step up to ExakTime or ClockShark when verification or scheduling matters more than price. If the answer is a daily report or a builder platform you already pay for, Raken or Buildertrend keep the hours where the rest of the work is.

Connecteam, QuickBooks Time, Hubstaff and Clockify each cover a narrower case: a free crew clock under ten people, a QuickBooks payroll shop, a mixed office and field team, or the cheapest GPS timer. And if the answer is an invoice, because it is just you and the hours are the bill, Timen does that for free, with the clear caveat that it has none of the crew features above. Still weighing what free actually covers? The free tracker limits comparison is the useful next read.