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Approve your crew's hours before payroll — with confidence.

Built for organisations with field teams.

Punctual gives Australian field teams tamper-aware, GPS-backed timesheets without replacing Xero or your accountant. Clock-ins, breaks, corrections and approvals are recorded with an audit trail your foreman approves before payroll day.

🇦🇺 BUILT FOR AUSSIE FIELD TEAMS 30-DAY PRO TRIAL · NO CARD NO GST CHARGED

Three promises

What you get on day one.

Know what changed

Clock-ins, breaks, corrections and approvals are recorded with an audit trail. Your foreman approves before payroll. Your accountant sees exactly what happened.

Keep payroll simple

Export approved hours for your accountant or payroll system. Punctual does not replace Xero or MYOB — keep your existing setup.

Respect the crew

Location is recorded at clock events, never continuous background tracking. Non-urgent reminders are designed to respect rostered hours.

What Punctual is not

We're honest about where we stop.

Plenty of tools try to be everything. Punctual does one job well — and tells you plainly what it leaves to the tools you already trust.

Not a fleet or vehicle tracker

We pin a location at clock events — not your team’s movements between jobs. Never continuous background tracking.

Not an award-interpretation engine

We don’t read awards or calculate entitlements. You set the thresholds; your accountant maps the pay.

Not a payroll or STP system

We don’t pay anyone or lodge to the ATO. Approved hours export to the payroll you already run.

Instead

Punctual is the tamper-aware timesheet and approval layer your team uses before payroll. You — or your accountant — still own pay rules and payments. We just make sure the hours are real and approved before they get there.

The problem

You're running a crew, not a payroll office.

Four things every Australian building SMB owner already lives with — and that Punctual exists to make go away.

01 / PAIN

The paper sheet just blew away.

Site timesheets get wet, ripped, lost. Then you’re piecing together the week from memory on Friday arvo.

02 / PAIN

"He swears he was here at 7."

There’s no record of when anyone actually showed up. Disputes turn into he-said-she-said and you’re the umpire.

03 / PAIN

Xero entry is a Friday tax.

Two hours of manual data re-entry every week. Errors creep in. Your crew chases you for fixes the following Friday.

04 / PAIN

Bad records, big risk.

Get the hours wrong by a hair and you’re looking at an underpayment claim months later. Punctual keeps clock records accurate and tamper-aware — you and your accountant own the pay rules.

How it works

Four steps from invite to first export.

Early access is TestFlight + a Play Store closed track. Get your crew on Punctual in an afternoon.

You set up the team in 2 minutes.

Crew installs the Punctual app.

Early access is TestFlight (iOS) and a Play Store closed track (Android). Both arrive by invite link.

They clock in — GPS pings at the punch.

A location pin is captured at clock events — never continuous background tracking. Any spot checks are pull-based and consented.

Timesheets land in Xero or CSV.

Click "Export". The week’s reconciled hours go straight to Xero Payroll, or a CSV your accountant can drop into anything.

TESTFLIGHT ACCESS IS BY INVITATION DURING EARLY ACCESS · WAITLIST GETS THE FIRST INVITES

What's in the beta

Built for crews out in the field.

Six things ship in early access. We don't pretend the others exist yet — when they do, they'll be here.

GPS-verified clock-in

A site geofence per job. Accuracy and mock-location detection visible on every punch.

Live team view

See who is on, who is on break, who is off — and where. Refreshes every 30 seconds.

Auto-generated timesheets

Weekly hours roll up by worker, by site, by job. Edit anything and the audit log keeps a record.

Sites and jobs

Pin a site to a Google Maps location, set its radius, archive when done.

Overtime + penalty flags

Flag candidate overtime and penalty hours against thresholds you set. Punctual doesn’t interpret or apply awards — your accountant maps them.

Tamper-aware GPS

Mock-location and spoofing signals are flagged on every punch, with a tamper-evident trail your foreman can see at a glance.

If you're on the crew, read this

We're not building another surveillance tool.

Most clock-in apps slowly turn into employee monitoring. Punctual is engineered the other way on purpose.

No all-day tracking. Full stop.

Your phone is pinged for location at clock events — never continuous background tracking. When you’re off the clock, Punctual captures no location.

Two weeks notice before GPS turns on.

Your team must give workers 14 days written notice before GPS can start. We provide the notice template, and we won’t let GPS turn on until the clock runs out.

Quiet outside work hours.

Routine reminders are designed to respect rostered hours — no after-hours pings for non-urgent notifications.

Your data is yours.

Hit "Export my data" in settings. CSV of every punch, every leave request, every payslip — yours to take anytime.

LOCATION AT CLOCK EVENTS · NEVER CONTINUOUS BACKGROUND TRACKING · CLOCK RECORDS STORED IN AUSTRALIA

Why Punctual

Sized, priced and compliant for Aussie crews.

How we stack up against the alternatives — and the Australian rules we're built to meet.

Paper or Excel

The status quo

Time captured

Whenever someone remembers

Disputes

Memory vs memory

Xero

Manual re-entry every Friday

What you pay for

Free, but you lose hours

Setup & fit

Fine until the crew grows

Enterprise platforms

$30-50 per seat

Time captured

Reliable, but heavy

Disputes

Resolved, but adversarial

Xero

Built-in, configurable

What you pay for

Every seat, every month

Setup & fit

Built for 50+ with an HR desk

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Punctual

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Time captured

At the punch, ±4 m GPS

Disputes

GPS evidence both sides can see

Xero

One-click weekly export

What you pay for

Only the workers who clocked on

Setup & fit

Built for 5–30, no consultant

Built for Australia

The boring stuff, taken seriously.

Punctual is built for Australia first, not retro-fitted from a US product. The privacy basics are plumbing, not a marketing line.

14-day notice

A 14-day notice is sent before GPS ever activates

Clock-event only

Location is captured at clock events — never continuous background tracking

Data minimisation

Data minimisation, access and deletion you control

AU data residency

Your timesheet records are stored in Australia; some support services run overseas — see our Privacy Policy

Frequently asked

Questions, answered straight.

Ten things people ask in the first email back. No marketing-speak.

Can I use Punctual right now?

Not yet — Punctual is invite-only during early access. Join the waitlist and we’ll bring you on in small batches, so we can keep the feedback loop tight.

Why tie GPS to clock events instead of running it all day?

Three reasons:

Privacy: workers are entitled to a life outside of work.
Battery: continuous GPS chews phones.
Compliance: all-day background tracking is a far heavier obligation than we want to drag SMBs into.

So location is captured at discrete clock events — never continuous all-day tracking.

My team will feel watched. How do I sell this to them?

Show them the "For your crew" section above. The product is explicitly designed to not be a surveillance tool — and a 14-day notice is sent before GPS ever activates.

Where is my data stored?

Your timesheet and account records are stored in Australia — our database sits in Sydney. A few supporting services (transactional email, push notifications, rate-limiting and our global CDN) run in the US or globally, so some technical data is processed overseas. We never run all-day location tracking, and you can export or delete your records any time. See our Privacy Policy for the full list of sub-processors and the regions they run in.

How much will it cost?

Two simple plans, a 30-day free trial, and no GST charged yet. See full pricing →

How is this different from the big HR and rostering suites?

Those suites are built for a 50-plus team with an HR department to run them. Punctual is built for the ute, not the head office — for the crew of 5 to 30 where the owner is also the bookkeeper. Nothing to configure, no consultant, no per-seat enterprise bill. Just the timesheet-and-approval layer before payroll, sized for how you actually work.

What happens if there’s a data breach?

If something goes wrong, we’ll tell affected admins promptly — in plain English, with what happened and what we’ve done about it.

Can I export my data?

Yes, any time. There’s an "Export my data" button in worker settings and a team-wide export for owners and admins — your hours, leave and payslips, yours to take whenever you want.

Why is access invite-only right now?

Punctual is in private beta, and we onboard in small batches on purpose — so every founding crew gets a hands-on setup and real influence over what ships next. Join the waitlist and we’ll be in touch.

Pricing

Simple per-active-worker pricing. No hidden fees.

Two public plans, billed monthly or annually. 30-day free trial includes Pro features and demo data — no credit card. No GST charged (ABN not GST-registered yet — we will display GST inclusively once we cross the ATO A$75k threshold).

Billed monthly · cancel anytime

Starter

GPS clock-in, approvals, weekly export, basic leave.

A$ 29 /mo

per month, billed monthly

A$348 per year if you stay 12 months

Included active workers¹ 5 workers

Each extra active worker A$4/mo

5 active workers included
+A$4 per extra active worker / month
GPS clock in/out at the punch
Manual correction requests
Supervisor approvals
Weekly CSV/PDF export
Basic leave requests
Audit history

Available to waitlist members once early access invites open.

First 30 paying businesses get 40% off, locked as a percentage

01 Limited to the first 30 businesses to start a paid subscription
02 40% off your selected plan for as long as your subscription stays active
03 Locks the discount percentage — not a fixed per-worker price. When public pricing rises, you keep the 40% off
04 If your subscription lapses (cancellation or unpaid past the grace period), the founding discount cannot be restored
05 Applies to subscription fees only (excludes SMS, one-off services, third-party pass-through costs)
06 No application required — 40% off is applied automatically to your first paid invoice while founding slots remain

· You'll see the 40% applied automatically when your first paid invoice is generated. No coupon code, no haggling.

Business Need 25+ workers, multiple teams, or custom setup?

¹ No GST charged.

What counts as an "active worker"?

You only pay for people who actually clock in, get scheduled, submit timesheets, approve hours, or appear in payroll-ready exports during the billing month. Archived workers and accountant-only users are free. Each team includes one free admin seat.

Punctual is not a payroll system and does not calculate final wages, tax, super or award entitlements. It helps your team capture, approve and export payroll-ready hours.

Get on the list

Get on the early access waitlist.

Drop your email and we’ll send a TestFlight or Play Store link as your spot opens up. Prefer to talk first? Grab 20 minutes on the calendar and ask us anything.