JCards Launches Time-Tracking App for Mobile Workforces

JCards has launched a time-tracking app designed for mobile workforces.

Companies in the construction, trade industries and other workforces operating across multiple locations and worksites can use the app to capture workers’ clock-in and clock-out times, JCards said in a Friday (April 7) press release.

“Out on a work site, getting the best out of a team comes down to time management because time is money,” the company said in the release. “JCards is a game-changing app that saves businesses by making it easy for mobile workforces to log their time accurately and share their site location and progress.”

The JCards app allows employees to log their time with a couple of buttons, according to the press release.

For managers, the app has features that let them assign tasks, schedule jobs, track progress on jobs, follow employee movements via GPS and generate detailed reports on hours and productivity, the release said.

“As an alternative to paper-based time tracking, JCards is easy to use and cost effective whilst being simple to onboard new team members,” the company said in the release. “JCards was designed to save time and money associated with cumbersome time management and administrative practices so businesses can focus on the job at hand.”

There is plenty of opportunity to optimize time tracking through technologies more sophisticated than many might assume — and certainly more efficient than paper and physical timecards — Timerack CEO Adam Day told PYMNTS in an interview posted in 2021

These include using time and attendance tracking information to deliver insights to payroll professionals, using tools like biometric identity verification and geo-tracking to help employers better manage their workforce, and ensuring that time tracking solutions collaborate with multiple payroll providers, Day said at the time.

“One of the biggest struggles was they didn’t have integration with partners,” Day said. “Everybody has a third party, and integration never went smoothly.”

Connecting accountants and payroll providers to employee time-tracking data can also help prevent manual and double data entry, OnTheClock Business Partner Mark Mathews told PYMNTS in an interview posted in 2019.

Payroll and accounting are “codependent functions,” Mathews said at the time.