# OnTheClock review (2026): is it worth $4 a month? > Online time clock with scheduling, PTO and optional payroll Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. OnTheClock is an employee time clock for small and mid-sized businesses. Staff clock in from a browser, desktop, kiosk or mobile app, and managers get timesheets, overtime calculations, scheduling, time-off tracking and GPS controls in a single per-employee plan. Payroll with tax filing is sold as an add-on. - **Category:** Time Tracking - **Made by:** OnTheClock.com, LLC - **Website:** https://www.ontheclock.com - **Runs on:** Web, Windows, macOS, iOS, Android - **Who should skip it:** Watch out: a $5 base fee is charged every month on top of the per-employee price. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, OnTheClock is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $4 per employee / month plus a $5 monthly base fee, billed monthly. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 30-day free trial, no credit card required. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Time and scheduling | $4 per employee / month, plus $5 base fee a month, billed monthly | One plan with everything: time clock, scheduling, time off, GPS and geofencing, overtime, payroll integrations and support. | | Payroll add-on | $6 per paid employee / month, plus $40 base fee a month | Unlimited payroll runs, direct deposit, tax filing, W-2s and 1099s. A one-time $250 migration and onboarding fee applies. | | Enterprise | Custom | For businesses with more than 100 employees. Contact sales for pricing. | Read from https://www.ontheclock.com/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with OnTheClock before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Discounts for education, government and nonprofits** (Education): The pricing page lists education, government, and churches and nonprofits as eligible for a discount, which is given on request. Source: https://www.ontheclock.com/pricing ## Key features - **Online and mobile time clock:** Employees clock in from a browser, desktop, kiosk or mobile app, with timesheet editing, approvals, rounding rules and automatic break tracking. - **GPS and punch controls:** Location maps, GPS breadcrumb trails, geofencing, IP and Wi-Fi restrictions and biometric fingerprint clocks help verify where employees start work. - **Scheduling:** Drag-and-drop schedules by employee, location or department, an hours estimator, and schedules shared by email, web, PDF or Excel. - **Time off and overtime:** Tracks paid time off balances, overtime calculations, salaried employee time, and tips, bonuses, commissions and mileage. - **Payroll:** An optional add-on runs payroll with direct deposit, state and federal tax compliance, benefit withholdings and year-end forms. - **Payroll integrations:** One-click exports for QuickBooks, Gusto, ADP, Paychex, Square Payroll and others, plus CSV and PDF export. ## Good for - Small businesses that want one flat per-employee price with no tiers - Hourly teams needing clock-in verification by GPS or biometrics - Owners who want time, PTO and payroll in the same account ## Worth knowing - Standard plans are designed for under 100 employees; larger organizations are quoted under Enterprise. - Billing is monthly, and a $5 monthly base fee is charged on top of the per-employee price. - Payroll costs extra ($6 per paid employee plus a $40 monthly base) and has a one-time $250 migration fee. - Discounts for education, government and churches or nonprofits are by request. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. OnTheClock gives hourly staff a web and phone time clock with scheduling, GPS and overtime in one plan. The $5 monthly base fee comes on top of each employee, and payroll costs extra. - **Value for money: C.** $4 per employee a month plus a $5 monthly base fee, so $5 a head for five, between the cheaper quarter at $4.50 and the middle at $6.67. - **Free plan and trial: C.** 30-day free trial with no card needed, and no free plan. - **Features: B.** Time clock, GPS and punch controls, scheduling, time off and overtime in one plan; the listing names no gap in the core job. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. Employees, pay rules and schedules have to be set up first. - **Platforms and integrations: A.** Web, Windows, Mac, iPhone and Android with 8 integrations on record. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from OnTheClock's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among time tracking apps - OnTheClock's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 42 of the 69 other time tracking apps we grade, and level with 11. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (A, above 47 of 69) and worst on ease of use (C, above 2). - Its paid plans start at $4 a month for each person, against a middle price of $6.70 for the category: 11 of the 58 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 3.0 out of 4. 1 tool scores higher and costs less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/time-tracking ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace OnTheClock you would be making payroll taxes worked out and filed with the government for you. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $48 a year. - You could make: Time tracking, time off and reports: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Payroll taxes worked out and filed with the government for you. - You could not: Clocking in from a phone, checked against where and when. - You could not: A rota the whole staff sees on their phones, with swaps and alerts. - You could not: Apps for macOS, Windows, iOS and Android that stay in step with each other. - You could not: It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team. - You could not: It plugs into other products, QuickBooks, Gusto and ADP among them. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with QuickBooks, Gusto, ADP, Paychex, Square Payroll, Thomson Reuters, Sage, Paylocity **Tags:** Time tracking, Time clock, Shift scheduling, Time off, Payroll, Reports ## Alternatives - [Buddy Punch](https://toolgpa.com/tools/buddy-punch): Online time clock with GPS, scheduling and payroll add-ons. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/buddy-punch-vs-ontheclock) - [Timeero](https://toolgpa.com/tools/timeero): GPS time clock and mileage tracking for field teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ontheclock-vs-timeero) - [QuickBooks Time](https://toolgpa.com/tools/quickbooks-time): Employee time clock and scheduling tied to QuickBooks payroll. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ontheclock-vs-quickbooks-time) - [Jibble](https://toolgpa.com/tools/jibble): Free time clock and attendance tracker with GPS and face recognition. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/jibble-vs-ontheclock) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.ontheclock.com/pricing - https://www.ontheclock.com Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/ontheclock Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).