Cut Payroll Time in Half: How Construction Companies Win with Timeero
Jessica Helms
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March 25, 2025 9:30 AM
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Growing construction companies that serve multiple clients are always looking for ways to reduce overhead costs and eliminate unnecessary spending, especially when it comes to payroll processes.
As the saying goes, “time is money” and every hour you spend on payroll alone could be spent securing new clients that translate to profit.
Timeero, a leading GPS time and mileage tracking app, is designed to optimize your company’s payroll process. With an arsenal of time tracking tools under your belt, your company can accurately calculate and issue employee pay, expedite mileage reimbursements, and automatically track employee time – even when your crew members are working in remote locations.
Real Results: How One Construction Company Eliminated Payroll Headaches
For this case study, we’ll look at how a successful construction company reduced their weekly payroll processing time by implementing Timeero. Before the switch, they struggled with:
Inaccurate timecards
Excessive administrative burden
Increased labor costs
Managing remote workers
Developing customized solutions for their team
Each feature listed in this article was used specifically to help them meet their operational goals.
Eliminate costly mistakes by automating payroll calculations
Calculating employee work hours can be extremely time consuming, especially if you have to read handwritten time entries. Most businesses report that their most costly mistakes are due to errors on timecards.
Timeero’s time-tracking tools significantly increase your company’s productivity and efficiency by automating basic timekeeping functions.
User-friendly time clock
Instead of writing clock-in and out times on a paper log or inputting hours into a spreadsheet, Timeero’s mobile time clock records the shift times of your crew without any additional work on your end. Once the data is captured, it is automatically uploaded to employee timesheets for accurate recordkeeping.
Automatic timesheet calculations
When your company is small and only has 1-10 employees, it’s fairly easy to manually approve and calculate employee hours. But when your company grows, calculating pay for 25+ employees becomes more complicated.
Timeero allows you to set custom pay rates for employees which are then used to calculate weekly pay. When employees work overtime, the app applies your company’s custom overtime rules to provide accurate overtime calculations.
Run reports by user to view totals for specific date ranges.
Wipe out time theft with transparent time tracking
If you allow your employees to write down their own time entries each day, there is a chance they may exaggerate the amount of hours worked, which means you end up paying for labor that was never performed.
However, an automated time tracking app like Timeero eliminates fraudulent time entries through various methods:
GPS time clock: The exact location from which an employee clocked in is recorded and then made visible through the app’s “Who’s Working” dashboard.
Geofencing technology: Create virtual boundaries around your job site that restrict employees’ ability to clock in or out unless they are located within the geofence.
Facial recognition technology: Available on the Timeero Kiosk app, Timeero’s facial recognition technology scans employees’ faces against their profile photo before allowing them to clock in, eliminating buddy punching and other instances of time theft.
Prohibiting time rounding: Stops employees from rounding up to the next 30-minute interval or hour mark to claim unearned wages.
Create custom geofences around job sites.
Experience hassle-free mileage reimbursement
Construction crews frequently travel between multiple job sites weekly, if not daily. To claim mileage reimbursements, your crew members will need to track their total mileage each day.
As a mileage tracker, Timeero makes this step easy, as the app automatically records every mile driven once the vehicle speed exceeds your company’s predefined threshold.
Once an employee ends their shift and mileage totals are finalized, Timeero calculates the total pay for mileage reimbursement according to your company’s specific mileage rate. This data can then be exported to your payroll software of choice through Timeero’s many integration options for accurate employee reimbursement.
Timeero calculates the total mileage reimbursement amount for employees.
Never miss a minute with offline tracking
Many times the struggle companies with remote workers face is the extent to which they can trust the timecards employees submit as well as the consistency of recordkeeping.
Construction managers may ask themselves…
Should I double check this employee’s totals for the week or can I trust what is written?
Did this employee actually show up to work today and work their full shift?
With a reliable offline time tracker like Timeero, you never have to second guess the entries on an employee’s timesheet. Timeero’s offline tracking capabilities are accurate and consistent, capturing the time, mileage, and location of your employees in the event internet connection is absent or spotty. Once your employees’ devices reconnect to the internet, all of the data recorded is uploaded to the cloud with no time left unaccounted for.
Build success with Timeero
For construction managers finding themselves pulled away from the field and into the office completing administrative tasks, Timeero is worth looking at. The app offers a seamless user experience while accurately and reliably tracking time and mileage so you can get back to managing your crew.
Jessica is a skilled writer and proofreader with a unique flair for crafting engaging and impactful content. Her work reflects her ability to connect with clients on a personal level while successfully addressing their most pressing concerns. Jessica's professional background includes: teaching, social media marketing, and e-commerce. She resides in Alabama and loves the Golden Girls sitcom.
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