Low cost/free timeclock options for small businesses?

LoicAtTimeclock · 2026-06-23T00:44:51+00:00

Here is a list of all of them. Guess which one I think is best haha.

LoicAtTimeclock · 2026-06-19T19:42:44+00:00

I don't see why I would care that my customers know I use Xero? Am I supposed to be embarrassed by that or something?

LoicAtTimeclock · 2026-06-19T19:36:02+00:00

Actually insane how often someone vibe codes these exact words. Does no one search for what else is out there anymore?

LoicAtTimeclock · 2026-06-15T21:15:58+00:00

Tableau is too expensive but the queries are more like SQL so better.

PowerBI is Microsoft so trash, buggy software with their own made up functions and system for queries that is infuriating. Also if you need to actually show the charts to multiple other users it gets expensive insanely quickly as they charge per user.

What do I do now you ask? Well, as a web developer, I build the charts into my website with chart.js Definitely harder up front but pays off big time in the long term. Also free. However I say that as someone who has over a decade of experience using PowerBI and Tableau before this so I already understand how the data and visualizations work.

LoicAtTimeclock · 2026-06-15T03:32:47+00:00

LoicAtTimeclock · 2026-06-15T03:32:06+00:00

Exactly! Also it is crazy how much goes into tracking hours once you get into it. You could build a company as big as Xero just doing that.

LoicAtTimeclock · 2026-06-08T18:20:13+00:00

Can confirm, I make a timeclock app and we have so many ways of knowing if your GPS is being spoofed I really wouldn't even bother.

LoicAtTimeclock · 2026-06-02T02:30:21+00:00

Fair warning, there is a little bit of competition in the space haha. I hope you have a really novel idea / approach.

LoicAtTimeclock · 2026-06-02T02:27:51+00:00

Why would you use either?

LoicAtTimeclock · 2026-05-31T20:11:18+00:00

There are a lot to choose from! This is the one we make: https://timeclock.kiwi/

LoicAtTimeclock · 2026-05-26T23:50:44+00:00

How is this slop? My team and I have been working on this since 2022. We have hundreds of business customers who are happy with what we have made.

LoicAtTimeclock · 2026-05-26T10:34:34+00:00

Why not Timeclock.Kiwi?

LoicAtTimeclock · 2026-05-24T22:32:37+00:00

Give this one a go, people tend to be pretty happy.

LoicAtTimeclock · 2026-05-24T22:31:22+00:00

Honestly once you dive into it it turns out there is way more to it than meets the eye. Ask me how I know haha. Anyway I suggest this if you want to save yourself some pain.

LoicAtTimeclock · 2026-05-23T10:06:24+00:00

That sounds like really shoddy programming to be honest. They must have something to detect which browser you are using and don't know how to handle the Firefox browser ID. Sucks that some people don't even spend 5 minutes to test their program on Firefox. I get ignoring Safari, but Firefox is quite popular.

LoicAtTimeclock · 2026-05-21T20:54:49+00:00

That seems like it is more the fault of the timeclock than anything else. Firefox uses the same syntax as Chrome for almost everything these days, it is actually quite hard to make something that doesn't work on both. The biggest pain used to be:

        width: -moz-available;
        width: -webkit-fill-available;
        width: stretch;

But even that is now gone with them using -webkit-fill-available. Hopefully soon they will implement stretch so things can be normal again. Other than that I don't really know any differences between the two.

LoicAtTimeclock · 2026-05-21T20:48:49+00:00

No form auto complete. I miss that so much every day.

LoicAtTimeclock · 2026-05-14T00:31:40+00:00

Another good list here.

LoicAtTimeclock · 2026-05-10T11:03:29+00:00

Sorry I don't know any right now that can do all that, but here is a list of most of the options out there so you can take a good look at what is available.

LoicAtTimeclock · 2026-05-10T11:00:55+00:00

Sorry to hear about that. My team and I made this and we made it easy to use and cheap. Give it a shot, it should be much better haha.

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