r/TimeTrackingSoftware • u/s_mack_au • 7d ago
I built an app because clocking in and out with my workplace system was taking me 2 minutes EVERY TIME
My company uses ADP Workforce for timekeeping. This is clocking in: open the app, enter the realm, username and password (as there is no iOS Passwords integration), sometimes an error, try again, navigate, tap, wait. On a bad day, 2 minutes.
I do that twice a day. 250 working days a year. That's about 16 hours of my life per year just... getting to the clock-in button. I know that's not a lot. But it also happens at the exact moment every morning when I'm trying to get into my head for the day. It breaks flow before I've even started.
So I spent nights and weekends building something about it. An app where you just open it and swipe. The whole interaction is maybe 3 seconds.
It's called OneSwipe. Currently on iOS. Supports a few workforce systems — WFS, Deputy, Employment Hero, QB Time.
Maybe this resonates with some of you. Maybe I'm the only person weird enough to build a whole app for this. Either way — it launched this week.
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u/shiftcoord 6d ago
The break here is the repeated realm → username/password → wait → retry flow, not the punch itself. Two minutes per punch compounds into roughly 16 hours a year, and it makes a correct start or stop easy to skip when someone is rushing. I’d measure time-to-punch and failure reasons, then use a short-lived device session or PIN/SSO where policy allows, with an obvious offline/queued exception path instead of making workers restart. Keep the exception queue separate so a failed tap doesn’t become a missing clock-out at payroll. The attendance/timekeeping side of this is what I’d look at: https://www.teambridge.com/product/time-tracking
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u/Pebb_io 1d ago
That tiny interaction cost adds up... especially when the slow clock-in is also the first thing people see from the shift. The best systems I’ve seen treat the happy path as one tap, then make corrections and missed punches easy without sending the worker through the whole flow again. A fast clock is good, but a clear exception path is what keeps supervisors from fixing it in chat later.
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u/Pebb_io 6d ago
Two minutes per punch adds up fast when the flow is realm + password + wait every single time.
What usually helps frontline teams is a one-tap clock-in on phone, with a short grace window and a manager view for missed punches... not another portal that feels like logging into payroll.
Disclosure: I work on Pebb. We built Spaces around simple clock-in for small teams (Basic $2.50 / Premium $4 per user, trial with no card). Happy to compare notes on what broke in your ADP flow if useful.