Getting started

Get your crew on the Clox app

Get your trade crew clocking in on a phone today: install the Clox iPhone app via TestFlight, 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 getting an iPhone on the Clox beta today, plus the two other ways to clock in for anyone who doesn't have an iPhone yet.

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 the Clox app through Apple's TestFlight beta (steps below).
Android: coming soon. For now, Android phones clock in from the browser.
Any phone, right now: 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 an iPhone on the app through TestFlight

Clox is on iPhone right now through a private TestFlight beta, ahead of the public App Store launch. TestFlight is Apple's own app for trying beta versions before they hit the App Store. It's free, and it's how your crew gets Clox onto their iPhones today.

Send your worker the Clox TestFlight invite link: testflight.apple.com/join/y7xFsdFP. Text it, email it, or have them scan the QR code.
They tap the link on their iPhone. It opens the App Store and asks them to install TestFlight first. Install it.
Tap the invite link again (or open TestFlight). They'll see Clox with an Install button. Tap it.
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.

No iPhone? Clock in from the browser

Anyone can clock in from a phone browser today, 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.

It's a beta, and that's the deal

Clox is in private beta. It's free while it's in beta, and there's no card to start. Beta software can have rough edges, so don't treat it as your only record yet: keep your own copy of anything that matters for payroll until the public release. You can read the full beta terms for the details.

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.