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Employee time tracking for nonprofits

Track paid nonprofit staff hours by program before payroll.

Clockspot is an employee time clock. Staff can select a program when they clock in, and managers can review corrections and approvals before exporting hours for payroll.

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  • Keep employee hours organized by program
  • Review corrections before approval
  • Export clear payroll records

Time Clock

Food Access

8:30 AM

Riverbend Community

Clock In

Job hours

Food Access86h 24m
Northside outreach program64h 18m
Youth Programs51h 42m

Approvals

Submitted7
Needs review2
Approved5

Clock-in options

Give paid staff three ways to record program hours.

Record program hours from any web browser.

Each employee signs in and chooses the program before clocking in.

Let staff clock in by phone when internet is unreliable.

A personal PIN, the calling number, and an optional voice check help identify the employee and preserve the clock event.

Let on-site staff share one PIN clock.

Choose which employees can use the kiosk. Optional photos add an identity check without blocking the time entry if the camera fails.

One employee record

Keep approved employee time organized by program.

Clockspot jobs are simple labels for work such as Food Access, Training, or Administration. The selected job stays with each time entry through corrections and approval. It does not replace a grant, fund, budget, or accounting code.

Riverbend Community

One paid-staff work record

Workweek review

Choose the program

Food Access

The paid employee selects the program work before clocking in.

Record the shift

8:30am – 4:42pm

Clock-ins, breaks, and the selected job stay with the employee record.

Request a correction

Training began at 3:15 PM

The employee request keeps its reason beside the proposed change.

Approve the hours

Program hours approved

The corrected time and edit history remain available after approval.

Two nonprofit operations staff reviewing employee hours together in an innovation center office

Nonprofit customer story

Put employee time logs and shift reports in one place.

“Having time logs and shift reports in one location has helped us tremendously with federal grant reporting requirements.”

B. Aitken

New Orleans BioInnovation Center

Verified customer

Review the workweek

Review program hours before export.

Check program totals, correction history, missing punches, and approvals before exporting employee hours for payroll or reporting.

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Job hours

Timesheet approval

5 of 7 employees have approval for the full period.

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Job hours

Jul 27 – Aug 2, 2026

Total hours267h 45m
Jobs worked7
Employees7
Without a job0m
JobHoursEmployees
Food AccessFOOD58h 15m4
Northside outreach programOUTREACH47h 30m3
Housing SupportHOUSE41h 45m3
Program AdministrationADMIN38h2
Volunteer CoordinationVOL32h 15m2
Youth ProgramsYOUTH28h 30m3
Resource NavigationNAV21h 30m2
Total267h 45m

When program or site work begins

Team Updates give employees the current instructions for the workday ahead.

Clockspot shows the matching update after an employee clocks in. Use it for program, facility, or site changes employees need at the start of work.

  • Share site changes with the employees they affect

  • Reduce separate calls and repeated reminders

  • See who confirmed the update and who is still waiting

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Your clock-in is recordedTime recorded at 8:02 AM

Update for this work

This update matches the work you just clocked into.

Community center evening shift

Use the west entrance tonight

The main lobby is reserved for an event. Employees should enter from the west lot.

Please confirm you’ve read this update.
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Where Clockspot fits

Track paid employee hours without replacing your nonprofit systems.

Clockspot tracks schedules, clock-ins, corrections, approvals, and employee-time reports. Keep volunteer, donor, grant, accounting, and impact records in the systems you already use.

Clockspot tracks

Paid employee hours for payroll review.

  • Paid employee schedules and clock-ins

  • Breaks, program jobs, and notes

  • Corrections, approvals, and edit history

  • Employee-time reports and exports

Keep in other systems

Volunteer, donor, grant, and impact records.

  • Volunteers, opportunities, and service hours

  • Donors, gifts, campaigns, and memberships

  • Grants, funds, budgets, and restrictions

  • Programs, beneficiaries, outcomes, and impact

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Explore program hours in a working demo.

Open a fictional nonprofit account with program hours, individual time entries, correction history, and records that still need review before export.

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Job hours

Questions this report answers

Last workweekAll clientsAll jobs

Job hours

Jul 27 – Aug 2, 2026

Total hours

267h 45m

Jobs worked

7

Employees

7

Without a job

0m

Food AccessFOOD

Hours58h 15mEmployees4

Northside outreach programOUTREACH

Hours47h 30mEmployees3

Housing SupportHOUSE

Hours41h 45mEmployees3

Program AdministrationADMIN

Hours38hEmployees2
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Common questions

See whether Clockspot fits your nonprofit’s staff timekeeping.

  • Tracks paid employee hours
  • Keeps program labels with time entries
  • Shows corrections and approval history
Can a nonprofit track paid staff hours by program?

Yes. Set up Food Access, Community Outreach, Youth Programs, Program Administration, or other work areas as Clockspot jobs. The selected job stays with the time entry and appears in the Job Hours report. A Clockspot job is a flat time category, not a grant, fund, budget, or accounting allocation.

Can employees switch programs during a shift?

Yes. An employee can choose a job when clocking in and switch jobs while still clocked in. Each resulting time segment keeps its selected job for manager review and reporting.

Can outreach employees record mileage between program sites?

Yes. Employees can record a work trip’s date, distance, purpose, origin, destination, and optional program job or Work Site. Administrators get one reviewable trip history for reimbursement or business-mileage preparation. Clockspot does not automatically track the route.

Does Clockspot track volunteer hours?

Clockspot tracks employee time. It does not provide volunteer profiles, service-hour verification, opportunity signup, waiver collection, or volunteer communications. Use a volunteer-management system when those records are required.

Does Clockspot manage grants or prove grant compliance?

No. Clockspot can record paid employee time by job and export reports, but it does not manage awards, restricted funds, allowability, indirect costs, budgets, or compliance. Your organization decides how employee-time records support its grant and accounting processes.

How do reviewed nonprofit hours reach payroll or reporting?

Employees can request corrections with a reason. Managers review entries and approve the pay period, then download CSV, Excel, or PDF reports or use a configured export file. Clockspot prepares employee-time records but does not process payroll or connect those records to a donor, grant, or accounting system.

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Invite your paid staff, set up the program labels you need, and review one complete workweek before payroll.

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