ShiftPunch — Business Plan

What we're building

A phone-first time clock. Employees clock in and out from their own smartphones, their hours are recorded with server-set timestamps, and the employer gets a timesheet they can export as CSV to run payroll.

Who it's for

The first pilot employer is named and real: CSC Forklift Repair — the trading name of Claypool Services Company Inc, which is the owner's own business. It gives us a real employer, four technicians on weekday shifts and a real payroll to be right about. It also gives us the right first shape: a trades business where a technician may clock in at the workshop or out at a customer's yard is exactly the hourly, shift-based work this is built for. We still say plainly that this is the owner's own business: it proves the product, but convincing an employer with no connection to us remains completely untested, and the wider assumption (cafés, clinics, salons, trades, small retail, payroll currently fed by paper timesheets, a shared spreadsheet or texts to the manager) is still an assumption beyond this one business. We sell to the employer, not the employee: they feel the payroll pain and hold the budget.

How it makes money

(Working assumption, not yet tested.) Monthly per-employee subscription — a flat per-active-employee fee per month, billed to the employer. The pilot is free; pricing gets set once we see real usage. — no real money has moved and none can. Stripe needs connecting on the Finance tab before we can charge anyone.