A clock-in selfie is a quick front-camera photo your crew snaps the moment they clock in. It's a deterrent against buddy-punching, where one worker punches in for another who isn't on site yet. It's not face recognition. Clox saves the photo next to that shift so you can look at it and confirm the right person clocked in.
Turn it on for your workspace
This is a manager setting in the web app at app.getclox.com. It's off by default, and once you switch it on it applies to everyone in your workspace.
- Go to Settings → Time & pay and find the Shift behavior card.
- Find the Selfie at clock-in row.
- Flip the toggle on. It saves on its own, so there's no separate Save button.
What the worker sees
In the Clox app, the front camera opens as soon as the worker taps Clock in, and the schedule and worksite checks run when the punch reaches the server. In the web app, including a phone browser, the selfie is the last step at clock-in, on purpose. Clox checks everything else first so nobody takes a photo only to get blocked on something they can fix.
- In the web app, the worker taps Clock in.
- Clox runs the other checks first: a project if you require one, their schedule, and their worksite geofence.
- If those pass, the front camera opens in a Selfie for clock-in window.
- They take the photo and tap Use photo, and the shift starts.
Where managers see the photo
You don't get pinged for every selfie. The photo lives with the shift, so you review it when you're already looking at someone's time. On the Team page, under Pending approvals, any shift with a selfie shows a View selfie button. Tap it and the photo opens, labeled with who clocked in. If the face isn't theirs, that's your sign someone punched in for them.