Time Tracking for Trades – Simple via App or NFC

Record working hours directly at the customer's site, on the construction site or on the go. With Jobilino, trade businesses document their hours easily, digitally and clearly.

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Time Tracking via App

Employees record their hours directly on their smartphone – simply and quickly.

NFC for Fast Check-In and Check-Out

With NFC tags, time can be started at job sites or on-premises with a quick scan.

Project and Job Assignment

Working hours can be assigned to the relevant construction sites, projects, or client orders.

The problem

Challenges in time tracking for trade businesses

In many trades businesses, working hours are still recorded on paper, via WhatsApp or in Excel. This wastes time, leads to queries and makes evaluation unnecessarily complex. Especially with changing job sites, construction projects and multiple orders per day, a quick overview is often lacking.

Working hours are recorded incompletely or late
Paper timesheets get lost or are difficult to read
Employees work on various construction sites and at clients' premises
Project hours can only be allocated correctly with great difficulty
Preparing payroll and post-calculation takes up a lot of time
There is no central overview of all recorded hours

The solution

The solution: Digital time tracking for trades businesses

With Jobilino, employees record their working hours directly via app, NFC or terminal. Times can be assigned to orders, projects or job sites and are immediately visible in the system. This allows trades businesses to reduce administrative effort and create a solid basis for payroll, project overview and internal organisation.

Overview in the Dashboard

In the office, you can view all times centrally and keep track of your team.

Multilingual Use

The app is easy to use for international employees as well.

How it works

How time tracking works with Jobilino

Start of Working Hours

The employee starts their time via app, NFC, or terminal.
Select project or order

Working time can be assigned directly to an order, project or location.
Record time on an ongoing basis

Start, end and breaks are documented digitally and stored centrally.
Overview in the office

Administrators and managers can see all entries collected in the dashboard.
Evaluation and Export

The recorded times can be used for payroll accounting, monitoring and internal evaluations.

Your benefits

Less paperwork and manual rework
Faster and cleaner recording of working hours
Better overview of job sites, orders and employees
Fewer queries from the office
Simpler payroll preparation
Suitable for small and medium-sized craft businesses
Practical for mobile teams in everyday use
Digital and traceable documentation

For whom

Which trades businesses is Jobilino suitable for?

Jobilino is suitable for small and medium-sized trades businesses with mobile employees, changing job sites and multiple orders per week. The solution is particularly beneficial for companies that want to record working hours more easily, reduce administrative effort and gain greater visibility over projects and employees.

Try time tracking for trades now

Try Jobilino free of charge and see how simple digital time tracking in the trades sector can be. Ideal for businesses looking to move away from paper and Excel.

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Frequently asked questions

Is time tracking legally required in the trades?

In the EU, yes. Since the Court of Justice ruling C-55/18 in 2019, employers must record working time in an objective, reliable and accessible way; each member state implements this through its own national law. Trade businesses are not exempt, even when staff are on the road all day. Paper timesheets do count as records, but they are hard to defend in an audit because they are written after the fact.

How do I record travel time between two customer sites?

Through the site-change function: the technician clocks the change when leaving a site, the drive runs as its own entry, and working time on the next job starts on arrival. You set an upper limit per company so a forgotten clock-out does not turn into a four-hour drive. Travel time stays working time without distorting the costing of the job.

Does time tracking work without internet in a basement or shell construction?

Yes. The app stores every clock-in on the device first and transmits it automatically once there is reception again. The employee notices nothing and has nothing to enter later. In the trades this is the normal case rather than the exception: plant rooms, basements and unfinished buildings rarely have a stable signal.

Can hours be assigned to individual jobs and customers?

Yes, and that is the whole point. The technician picks the job when clocking in and switches with two taps during the day. Costing then falls out of the data without any extra recording: you see the hours actually worked per job and can price the next comparable job on that basis.

How do I evidence chargeable extra hours to the customer?

Additional work is noted at the site itself, with time and location. At month end you export the hours per job as documentation for the client. The difference from paper: the entry is created while the work is happening, not in the evening from memory.

Do my technicians need a company email address?

No. Sign-in also works with a mobile number and a one-time code. In the trades that is often the more practical route, because many field staff have no company email and would rather not hand over a private address. With an NFC tag at the site, clocking in needs no sign-in step at all.

Does this also suit apprentices, casual and part-time staff?

Yes. Every employee gets their own time account regardless of contracted hours. For apprentices and part-time staff clean records matter most, because vocational school days, irregular weekly hours and extra hours otherwise slip through unnoticed.

How quickly can a trade business be up and running?

Budget about half an hour for setup: enter jobs and staff, define teams, hand out the app. The technicians need no training – clock in, pick the job, clock out. It works best to start with two or three people in the first week before switching the whole business over.