Raken Time Clock Geolocation gives you visibility into where your employees are clocking in and out relative to the jobsite. With geofencing enabled, you can flag off-site clock events, remind employees to clock in when they arrive, or prevent clocking in from outside a set project radius — giving supervisors and administrators accurate, location-verified time data.

To set up geolocation features in Raken:

To review violations: Time > Review > Issues.

To view per-employee clock event location details: Projects > [Project] > Production > Map > click an employee.

Requires the Performance Plan (part of Time Cards) plus the Time Clock add-on.

A project radius must be set before geofencing rules, the Project Map, and the Violations report can provide accurate data.

Log into the Raken web app. Click Projects in the left navigation. Select the project. Click Settings > General. Click Project Radius and use the slider to set the radius, or drag the pin directly on the map to reposition its center without changing the project address. Click Save.

A street address must be saved for the project before a radius can be set. Add it in General settings first if needed. New projects now default to a 100-meter radius rather than 0 meters, so geofencing has a reasonable starting point out of the box — adjust it to fit your jobsite. Keep in mind location accuracy can vary by up to 100 meters, so a worker standing near the edge of a tight radius may occasionally be blocked or flagged even when they're on site.

Click Company in the left navigation, then click Time settings > Policies. Click Edit policy. In Settings, scroll to the Geofencing section. Enable the rules you want:

Multiple rules can be enabled simultaneously.

Click Save & finish.

Employees must have location access set to Always for the Raken app. Update in device settings: Privacy & Security > Location Services (iOS) or App permissions > Location (Android). Off-site flagging only works while Location Services stay enabled for the entire shift — if an employee turns location off mid-shift, physically leaves the jobsite, and returns before turning it back on and clocking out, Raken has no way to detect or flag that gap.

Click Projects in the left navigation. Select the project. Click Production > Map.

Use the date picker to select the date range. Filter by time clock status, event type, employees, event origin, violations, or no GPS. Events outside the project radius appear in red.

Click any employee in the right-hand panel to expand their clock events for the selected day. This shows each individual punch with timestamp, location, and any violation flags. Use this view to verify where a specific employee clocked in or out on a given day.

Note: Raken captures GPS and a timestamp only at the moment of a clock action (clock in, clock out, break) — it does not continuously track an employee's location or log how long they spent outside the radius while clocked in. A historical "time spent off-site" report isn't available for the same reason.

Click Time in the left navigation, then click Review > Issues. The page lists time entries with flagged issues — columns include Date, Employee, EID, Project, Cost code, Start time, End time, Total hours, Issue, and Details.

Use the tabs at the top of the page to isolate a specific issue type: All, Breaks, GPS, Clock out, Radius, and Overlap. The GPS, Radius, and geofencing-related tabs cover the location issues described in this article. Break-related issues (Missing, Short, and Late breaks) have their own Breaks tab — see How to Create Breaks for Time Policies in Raken for how those alerts are configured and what each one means.

Note: a flagged GPS or Radius issue can't be dismissed directly — it's a point-in-time record computed from the time card's own data, recalculated every time the card is saved. To clear one, fix the underlying time card (for example, correct the location) rather than looking for a dismiss option on the Issues page itself.

Click the download icon in the top right corner of the Issues page. You can export as Issues CSV or Issues PDF — both reflect whichever tab and filters are currently applied. Time Card by Worker CSV and PDF are also available from this same menu.

Click Projects in the left navigation. Click Reports near the top right. Select Time card violations. Configure project, employees, time frame, and recipient email. Click Send.

Click New report in the Scheduled section. Set parameters and click Schedule report.

Note: there is currently no real-time notification when an employee leaves the project radius — off-site flagging only surfaces on the Time > Review > Issues page. If you want something closer to an alert, schedule the Time Card Issues/Violations report to run daily — this gives a regular digest of GPS and radius issues, though not a true real-time push.

No. Geolocation/Geofencing requires the Performance Plan plus the Time Clock add-on. Basic plan accounts have neither.

Confirm the employee has location access set to Always for the Raken app on their device — not just "While using the app." Also confirm Location Services stayed on for their entire shift — if it was turned off at any point and the employee left and returned to the jobsite during that window, that gap won't be detected or flagged.

Yes. A project radius must be set in Project Settings > General before geofencing rules, the Project Map, and the Violations report can flag or display location data accurately. New projects default to a 100-meter radius; you can adjust this with the slider or by dragging the pin directly on the map.

Off-site flagging records a violation when an employee leaves the project radius while clocked in — the clock event is still allowed. On-site verification prevents an employee from clocking in at all if they're outside the radius.

GPS coordinates are captured for Time Clock and Kiosk events only. Supervisor-entered time cards do not include GPS data.

Yes. Geofencing rules apply to Kiosk clock events. The Kiosk device must have location access enabled.

Go to Projects > [Project] > Production > Map. Select the date using the date picker. Click the employee's name in the right-hand panel to expand their clock events for that day — each punch shows the timestamp, location, and any violation flags.

Click the Breaks tab at the top of the Issues page. It shows only Missing, Short, and Late break alerts, filtered out from GPS, Radius, Clock out, and Overlap issues.

No — there's no real-time push notification for off-site flagging today. It only surfaces as a flag on the Time > Review > Issues page. The closest option is scheduling a daily Time Card Issues or Violations report for a regular digest.

No. Raken only captures GPS at the moment of a clock action (clock in, clock out, break) — not continuously. There's no way to see duration spent off-site or a log of every time an employee crossed in and out of the radius.

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