Getting started

Get your crew on the Clox app

Get your trade crew clocking in on a phone: install the Clox app from the App Store or Google Play, clock in from any phone browser, or set up a shared kiosk tablet.

Your crew clocks in from a phone. You run Clox from the web. This walks through installing the app on iPhone and Android, plus the two other ways to clock in for anyone who would rather not install it.

How the apps split up

You, the manager, run Clox in a web browser at app.getclox.com. That's where you set up worksites, review hours, and run payroll. Your crew doesn't need any of that. They just need a way to punch in and out from the jobsite.

iPhone: install Clox from the App Store (steps below).
Android: install Clox from Google Play.
Any phone: open app.getclox.com in the phone's browser and sign in.
No personal phone: use a shared tablet as a kiosk by the door or in the truck.

Get the app onto a phone

Clox is on the App Store and on Google Play. It's a free download either way, and it's how your crew gets Clox onto their phones.

Send your worker the link for their phone: Clox Time Tracker on the App Store for iPhone, or Clox Time Tracker on Google Play for Android. Text it, email it, or have them search their store for Clox.
They tap Get or Install, the same as any other app.
Open Clox from the home screen and sign in with the account you set up for them.

They don't make their own account

You add each worker from the web first, then they sign in. If they're not sure how, point them to the article below on signing in as an employee.

Prefer not to install it? Use the browser

Anyone can clock in from a phone browser instead, on iPhone or Android. Open app.getclox.com in Safari or Chrome and sign in. Everything for clocking in works: clock in and out, breaks, switching projects, even when the signal drops.

To make it open like a real app, use the browser's Install or Add to Home Screen option from app.getclox.com. That puts a Clox icon on the home screen that opens straight to the clock. It's the same web app, just with its own icon.

Install from the right address

Add to the home screen from app.getclox.com so the app caches on the right address and still opens if someone reloads while offline.

Shared tablet as a kiosk

If a worker has no personal phone, set up one shared device as a kiosk. A tablet by the door or in the truck works. First set a manager PIN under Account & security → Kiosk PIN so you can exit later, turn kiosk mode on under Settings → Kiosk in the web app, then tap Launch kiosk on this device. Workers tap their name and enter a PIN to punch in. Those punches get tagged as kiosk so you can tell them apart.

What it costs

The iPhone app is a free download on the App Store, and your Clox account starts with a 14-day free trial with no card to start. After the trial, Clox is a paid subscription. You can read the full Terms of Service and the current plans and prices.

Signing in as an employee →

What your crew does the first time they open Clox on their phone.

Set up PIN kiosk mode →

Turn one shared tablet into a clock-in station for the crew.