Samwise HR is launching soon
A tablet at the entrance becomes your time clock.
Enter the PIN, tap once, done. The time clock runs in the browser and keeps taking punches through short internet outages.
Launching by January 2027 at the latest. Ask us to keep you posted by 31 January 2027 and become a customer by 31 March 2027, and we’ll set up Samwise with you free of charge.
How your team clocks in.
Step 1: Enter the PIN
Everyone has their own PIN. The time clock then greets them by first name.
Step 2: Tap once
The time clock already suggests whether someone is arriving or leaving. One tap is enough.
Step 3: Done
After a short confirmation, the time clock shows only the keypad again.
Keeps going when the internet drops
The time clock stores every punch and sends it as soon as the connection is back.
No company email or phone needed
Mini-jobbers and casual staff clock in with their own PIN. That’s all they need.
If customs inspects
Samwise records start, end and duration for every working day. No punch is ever overwritten.
Set up in three steps.
Step 1: Set up a tablet
Any tablet with an up-to-date browser will do. There’s nothing to install.
Step 2: Open the time clock
Go to your business’s time clock address in the browser and leave the page open.
Step 3: Hand out the PINs
Everyone gets their own PIN automatically. Print a list, or a separate sheet for each person.
The internet drops out. Clocking in carries on.
If the internet drops out briefly, everyone keeps clocking in. The time clock stores the punches and sends them as soon as the connection is back. Punches that arrive more than five minutes later keep the time they were tapped. If they arrive sooner, the time they arrive counts.
If a punch only arrives more than twelve hours later, Samwise doesn’t simply record it: someone who approves corrections in your business confirms it first.
For the time clock to keep working offline, leave it open in the browser.
This applies to the time clock on the tablet. On phones and computers, Samwise needs a connection.
For mini-jobbers and casual staff.
They need neither a company email address nor a company phone.
- They fill in the staff questionnaire through a link or QR code on their own phone.
- They clock in at the time clock with their own PIN.
- They can request leave and call in sick there too.
- With the shift plan, they see their shifts through a personal link (‘Mein Plan’, my plan) that only their PIN opens.
What customs sees in an inspection.
In Germany, customs checks working-time records for the minimum wage. This is how Samwise keeps the times:
- For every working day, Samwise records start, end and duration, as section 17 of the German Minimum Wage Act requires. If you enter only the month’s total from a paper timesheet, the scan of the sheet is the record.
- A punch is never overwritten.
- Every correction is a new version with a reason.
- The original stays visible.
Samwise helps you keep records. It isn’t legal advice.
People who prefer paper can stick with it.
You enter the times in the timesheet and keep the scan of the sheet in the personnel file as proof.
Forgot to clock out?
Then the time clock points it out next time, instead of filling in a time itself. With the shift plan, it asks whether the person left at the planned end of the shift, for example ‘Um 14:00 gegangen?’ (left at 2 pm?).
Questions about the time clock
Can someone clock in for someone else?
At the time clock, only someone who knows the other person’s PIN can do that. Everyone has their own PIN and should keep it to themselves. After too many wrong PINs, the time clock locks for a while.
Does Samwise track where people are?
No. Samwise never asks for anyone’s location. Neither the time clock nor the phone sends us location data.
What happens if the internet goes down?
The time clock on the tablet keeps taking punches, stores them and sends them once the connection is back. On phones and computers, Samwise needs a connection.
Do we need an app?
No. Samwise runs in the browser on phones, tablets and computers. If you like, you can put it on your phone’s home screen like an app. Our own app for iPhone and Android is planned.
Home time
Samwise HR is launching soon.
We’d be glad to show you Samwise now, in a free intro call. If you sign up, you’ll hear from us as soon as it launches.
Launching by January 2027 at the latest. Ask us to keep you posted by 31 January 2027 and become a customer by 31 March 2027, and we’ll set up Samwise with you free of charge.
We only use your address to reply to you and, if you sign up, to tell you when we launch. More in our privacy policy (in German).
Free intro call
In a free intro call, we’ll show you Samwise HR live, on a video call or, by arrangement, at your business. Tell us when suits you, and we’ll suggest a time.