ClocDot
How accurate it actually is, where it works and where it does not, what happens when positioning fails, and exactly what ClocDot records about employee location — including what it deliberately does not.
Basics
GPS clock-in replaces the physical time clock with the phone your employee already carries. When they press clock in, the device reads its coordinates once and sends them with the punch. The system compares that position against your registered office locations and labels the punch Office, Remote or field work automatically.
The practical consequence is that nobody has to be anywhere in particular for attendance to be recorded, and nobody has to self-report where they were. For a company running several sites, or staff who go straight from home to a client, that difference is the entire point.
Accuracy
5–10m
Parks, car parks, open intersections. Strongest satellite signal, smallest error.
10–20m
Office buildings, streets, commercial districts. This is the realistic accuracy for most punches.
30–50m
Basements and tightly packed buildings. WiFi signals are used to supplement positioning here.
ClocDot's default clock-in radius is 100 metres — deliberately much wider than normal GPS drift, so an employee standing in the lobby never fails to clock in because the signal wobbled. The radius is adjustable per site if you need something tighter or looser.
The other thing worth being upfront about: positioning sometimes just fails — a basement, a factory floor, a denied permission. ClocDot flags those punches instead of blocking them. The record still gets created with a note that location was unconfirmed, and a human decides what it means. Locking someone out of clocking in because of poor reception creates a worse problem than it solves.
Use cases
Register every location once. Each punch is matched to the nearest registered site, so you never need a device per office.
Staff who go straight to a client in the morning. Time and place are recorded where the work actually happens, with no detour to the office to badge in.
Work locations change from week to week. Adding a site takes a moment, and nothing needs installing on-site.
Punches from outside any registered site are tagged Remote automatically, so office and remote hours separate themselves without anyone labelling their own days.
Teams that are moving all day. Offline punches queue on the device and sync once there is a connection again.
Privacy
Plenty of employees hear "GPS" and assume they are about to be followed around all day. That concern is reasonable, and it is worth answering directly rather than burying it — a rollout goes much better when staff know the boundaries up front.
If continuous location is genuinely unacceptable to your team, the alternative worth considering is WiFi or IP verification for office days — it confirms someone is on the company network without recording any coordinates at all. Many hybrid teams end up combining the two: network verification on office days, GPS on remote days.
FAQ
Roughly 5–10 metres in open outdoor areas, 10–20 metres in a typical urban setting (which covers most punches), and 30–50 metres indoors or among dense high-rises, where WiFi helps supplement positioning. ClocDot's default radius is 100 metres, comfortably wider than normal drift.
No. Location is captured once, at the moment the button is pressed. There is no background tracking and no route history. If an employee has not punched, the system does not know where they are.
The punch is flagged rather than blocked. The record is still created, with a note that location could not be confirmed, and a manager decides what it means. Blocking someone because a basement has poor signal creates a worse problem than it solves.
Yes. Multiple sites are supported and addresses are geocoded automatically, so each punch is matched against whichever site is nearest. The radius is adjustable per site if 100 metres is too tight or too loose.
It raises the bar without being absolute. Coordinates and timestamps can be cross-checked, which makes casually punching for a colleague far more visible than it is with a shared card. Where physical presence really matters, pairing GPS with WiFi or IP verification is the stronger setup.
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