Construction crew attendance tracking with a clear daily routine

Construction crew attendance tracking connects the planned team with the working days actually recorded. Planium records shifts with a photo at clock-in and clock-out. The office verifies hours with both photos available and compares planned work with recorded shifts.

The supervisor needs a simple daily routine: check the expected crew, review records that raise questions and resolve them with the people involved. This keeps an incomplete entry separate from a confirmed absence.

A morning review and an end-of-day handover

Planium schedules sites and hours for each worker across the week, including multiple sites in one day. Workers see their week and today’s assignments in the app. Start with the expected crew list, including new starters and agreed moves between sites. A worker sent to a different project can otherwise appear to be missing. Check the change with the person who arranged it before drawing a conclusion.

At the end of the day, separate settled records from open questions. For each open item, identify the worker, date and point to clarify. Give it an owner and a time for review within the company process.

Record question	First conversation
Missing start	Ask when work began and what happened during recording
Missing finish	Clarify the end of the working day
Different project	Check the agreed site move
Reported absence	Confirm the period and the information needed by the office

Discuss a question while the people involved can still recall it. Use an appropriate private channel for personal information. A clear description of the missing fact is easier to resolve than a general complaint about attendance.

Workday records and the work itself

Planium also includes tasks and issue reporting. These help the team explain what happened during a recorded day. A crew may be present but waiting for an area to be released; the task and issue provide the context for the supervisor’s next decision.

The app saves the location associated with each clock-in so the supervisor can review it alongside the workday. Check it against the agreed site and any changes of destination when a record raises a question.

While a shift is open, the app checks location against the site radius. No route history is stored: each sample is compared and discarded. A normal shift keeps no location record beyond clock-in; flagged shifts retain a summary, not route points.

More than 30 minutes outside the site or insufficient location samples flag the shift and notify supervisors. Review the circumstances with the worker rather than treating the flag as proof of absence. If a worker denies permission, clock-in remains available and the shift is flagged for missing samples.

Give the office a clear status

Before the pay period closes, tell the office which questions are settled and which need another conversation. Planium holds shifts outside the plan and shifts exceeding planned hours beyond the configured tolerance out of payroll until the office confirms or excludes them. Clock-in remains available at an unscheduled site: the shift is flagged and supervisors are notified. Differences between declared and calculated hours are informational and do not create a hold on their own.

Payroll uses closed shifts and verified hours, not worker-declared hours. The office reviews the batch before payment. Planium records payments; it does not move money.

If the same problem recurs, review its cause. An unclear instruction calls for a better introduction; a device question calls for technical help. The mobile clock-in workflow covers preparation with the crew’s phones.

You can start with Planium and check the free-plan limits. For a wider buying decision, use the small construction crew software comparison.