Worksites: the location check (GPS and WiFi)

Lock clock-in to specific job sites with a GPS radius, the site's WiFi network, or both. Off-site punches are blocked, and suspicious punches that get through are flagged for your review.

What worksites are

A worksite is a named location with a GPS coordinate and a radius. For an employee with geofencing turned on, Clox checks their phone's GPS at clock-in: if they're outside every worksite they're assigned to, the punch is blocked. Employees without geofencing can clock in from anywhere.

There are two ways to prove someone is on site: the GPS radius, and the site's WiFi network. Use either, or both. They're independent checks, and a worker with both turned on must pass both. WiFi is a strong choice for indoor or multi-floor sites where GPS drifts. The GPS check is covered next; the WiFi check has its own section below.

Creating a worksite

1. Go to Worksites (manager view)
2. Click + New worksite
3. Name it (e.g., "Hendrix Job", "Anderson Residence")
4. Pick the location on the map (or tap Use my location to drop the pin where you're standing)
5. Set the radius with the slider (200m by default; tighten or widen it to fit the site)
6. Click Add

Assigning crew members

Crews can be assigned to specific worksites, meaning they can clock in there but nowhere else. Useful when you have rotating crews on dedicated sites.

• Open the worksite
• Add team members from your roster
• Anyone with no worksites assigned, or with geofencing turned off, has no location restriction and can clock in from anywhere, including here

Turning geofencing on

Geofencing is set per employee, not org-wide. On the Team page, tap an employee to open their edit panel. Under Worksites, keep Enforce geofence at clock-in on (it's on by default) and check the worksites they're allowed to use. With it on, they can only clock in while inside one of those worksites. Otherwise the punch is blocked with a message to get on-site. Turn the toggle off for a roaming worker who should clock in from anywhere.

If a geofenced punch goes through but the phone's GPS fix is too coarse to trust, Clox allows it and flags it for review rather than silently trusting a bad location.

The site WiFi check

The second location check. Instead of (or as well as) the GPS radius, require the worker's phone to be connected to the site's WiFi network at clock-in. The phone checks its connected network name against the site's saved list before the punch goes through, and it works even with no internet, so a basement or a steel building with no signal still verifies. If the phone isn't on the site WiFi, the clock-in is blocked.

WiFi fencing takes three steps, and it does nothing until all three are done:

1. Edit the worksite and save the site's WiFi network name under Site WiFi (up to 8 networks per site)
2. Assign the worker to that worksite
3. On the Team page, open the worker and turn on Require site WiFi at clock-in

GPS permission

Geofencing needs location permission on the employee's phone, in the app or in the browser if they clock in from a computer. If they decline, a geofenced employee can't prove they're on-site, so clock-in is blocked until they allow it. Employees without geofencing enforced aren't affected.

Geofenced punches and proof of presence

When you enforce a geofence, the captured GPS, time, and any selfie become part of a tamper-evident record for that punch. From Reports you can export a Proof of presence file that a client or auditor can verify themselves at getclox.com/verify. To be clear about what this proves: it makes the record impossible to quietly edit or reorder after the fact. It doesn't make the GPS unspoofable. The location is still read from the worker's phone, so treat the geofence as a strong deterrent and use the proof export when you need a record an outside party can check. See the proof-of-presence article.

Reviewing punches on the map

Open Team, switch to Map, and pick a day or a range. Pins are where punches happened. Clox does not track location between punches.

Pick a day or a range with Day, Week, Month, and Custom, and the map redraws to the punches inside it. Biweekly plans also get a Pay period range. The circles are your worksites at their clock-in radius, so you can see who landed inside the zone and who did not.