The Best Time Tracking App for Event Planners

Time tracking features for event planners

With Buddy Punch, your employees and contractors can clock in and out from anywhere. GPS tracking ensures they’re where they’re supposed to be, and multi-location scheduling makes it easy to coordinate teams. It’s everything you need to save time, keep a pulse on your business, and reduce your labor costs.

Mobile time tracking apps

Buddy Punch gives you three different ways for employees and contractors to clock in and out. They can use their mobile phones, you can install the app on a tablet to create a time clock kiosk everyone can use, or you can use group punch to have a supervisor clock everyone in and out at the same time.

Geofencing

If you’re worried about employees clocking in and out on their phones when they’re not on site, you can use geofence time tracking. It validates that employees are at the location you set before they’re allowed to perform the clocking in or out action, preventing all offsite punches.

Location tracking

GPS tracking features in Buddy Punch let you keep track of employees as they move from location to location. You can log their locations when they clock in and out to make sure they were at the right location, and you can also track their locations in real-time throughout the workday.

Job costing

Buddy Punch’s job costing time clock makes it easy to track time by event, client, or task (e.g., setup, AV, coordination). When employees clock in, they choose the applicable job code from a dropdown list. After that, you can run reports showing exactly how many hours were spent on each job code you created.

Overtime tracking and prevention

Buddy Punch’s overtime tracking software tracks overtime hours based on your overtime policies and automatically calculates overtime pay for you. Want to avoid paying overtime? Set up notifications that will alert you when employees are nearing overtime so you can adjust their schedules.

How Buddy Punch expedites payroll

Buddy Punch compiles all employee clock-in and out data into timesheets for you. Regular hours, overtime hours, and pay are all calculated automatically.

When it’s time to run payroll, you have three options:

• Download a report formatted perfectly for your payroll processor.
• Use one of Buddy Punch’s integrations to send your time data to payroll instantly.
• Use Buddy Punch as your payroll provider to pay employees through Buddy Punch.

With any of these options, you can transform your payroll process from something that takes an entire day every pay period into a short, 30-minute task.

How Buddy Punch simplifies scheduling

Build, publish, and update work schedules in minutes with our drag-and-drop schedule maker. You can assign employees to work in specific roles and at specific locations.

You can also:

• Set repeating shifts for employees who work the same schedule each week.
• Let team members request shift trades and covers that you can review and approve.
• View employee availability and scheduled time off while creating your schedule.

Employees can view their schedules anytime in the Buddy Punch app, and they can get email or push notifications when new schedules are published.