Time Clock for Retail Stores — No Subscription

Clock In Now is a facial recognition clock-in tablet for retail shops — $89 one-time, no subscription. Sits in the back office, works offline, and gives you a clean CSV for payroll.

What retail owners are actually trying to fix

In a small retail team, the same three problems keep showing up: casual staff forgetting to clock in on their phone, disputes over who was actually on shift, and a monthly SaaS bill that's grown bigger than the problem it solves. A tablet on the wall in the back room fixes all three.

Face matching vs the alternatives, in a retail context

Phone-app clock-ins depend on staff having their phone, unlocked, charged, and on the shop wifi. In practice, one of those breaks most shifts.
PIN kiosks get shared inside a week. Someone covers for a mate; someone clocks in from home.
Fingerprint scanners hate cold hands, dry hands, and gloves.
Faces are always with the person clocking in, always visible, and hard to hand around.

How it handles two-shift days and split rosters

Staff clock out at the end of shift one and back in at the start of shift two. The end-of-week export shows each shift as its own row, with total hours per person for the pay period. If a manager needs to correct a missed clock-out, they do it on the tablet before export.

Multi-store retail: how the numbers stack up

Say you run three shops with six staff each. A per-user subscription workforce app at $30 a head is $6,480 a year. Three Clock In Now tablets is $942 (with the 10% bulk discount), and there is nothing after that. The break-even is just over a month.

Data ownership

Records live on each tablet. Optional cloud backup is free and needs no account. Export the CSV whenever payroll needs it. No platform is holding your timesheet history hostage to keep you subscribed.

Frequently asked

Can casual staff clock in without a phone?

Yes. That's the point. Face matching means no phones, no apps to install, no logins to remember. Great for underage casuals and phones-in-the-back-room policies.

Does it work across multiple shop locations?

Buy one tablet per shop. There's no per-location fee. Each location owns its own records and exports its own CSV.

Can it track breaks?

Yes. Staff tap 'start break' and 'end break' on their profile, or the manager corrects it in the shift summary before export.

What about loss prevention or theft?

Clock In Now records who was on shift at what time. That timeline is often what internal investigations need — a truthful record, not a guess from memory.

A retail clock-in tablet that just works.