Time clock that respects rounding rules
Clock in and clock out with optional rounding to your firm's preferred interval. Per-office overrides for multi-location firms. Verification and override workflows for managers — all audited.
Pedant Clok Beta
Payroll timesheets for your hourly staff and seasonal preparers — not your CPAs.
Pedant Clok is a time clock, scheduling, and mileage app built for tax preparation and bookkeeping firms — the ones whose headcount triples in January and shrinks in May. Payroll-ready CSV exports, without the maintenance overhead of payroll-API integrations.
Free plan covers one location forever. 30-day trial of paid features, no credit card required.
Yes, we spell it Clok. The pedantry went into the timesheets.
Who Pedant Clok is for
Clok is built for the small firms that swing seasonally. If your team ramps up in January and back down in May, off-the-shelf workforce management tools are designed against your usage pattern. Clok isn't.
- ✓ Independent tax preparation offices (CTEC, PTIN-based practices)
- ✓ Tax-prep franchise locations (Liberty Tax, Jackson Hewitt, similar)
- ✓ Enrolled Agent practices and tax resolution firms
- ✓ Bookkeeping firms (often combined with tax practices)
- ✓ Small CPA firms doing tax (1–5 CPAs plus support staff)
- ✓ Single-office or multi-location, 1–50 employees
Clok is not practice management. Tools like Karbon and TaxDome track billable hours and client work — Clok tracks payroll hours for your hourly and seasonal staff. They sit side by side; keep both.
Built around the actual problems
Headcount swings 3× during tax season.
Add seasonal staff with email invitations. Deactivate them in October without losing history.
Per-user pricing punishes seasonal hiring.
Clok is priced per location, not per employee. Bring on twenty seasonal preparers in January — your bill doesn't move.
Native payroll integrations break every time the API changes.
CSV export, pre-formatted for the major payroll providers. Durable. No API treadmill.
Tax preparers often work at multiple firms during the season.
Linked accounts let employees use one login across firms. Firms never see each other.
Features
Designed to be useful out of the box, configurable when you need it.
Portable employee identity
One employee account follows a worker across every firm on Clok. Seasonal preparers working at two or three firms keep a single login — and each firm sees only its own data, enforced at the database layer.
Lightweight scheduling
Week-grid scheduling for managers. Copy-week templating for repeat schedules. "My Schedule" for employees, with cross-firm conflict warnings if they work at multiple firms.
Mileage tracking, simply
Self-service mileage claims with per-mile reimbursement reports. CSV-ready for your payroll provider.
Payroll-ready reports
Time worked, overtime, payroll, mileage, and employee-history reports. Every report exports to CSV pre-formatted for QuickBooks, Gusto, ADP, and similar.
Internal messaging
Send announcements to individuals, offices, or role-based groups. Plus a Message of the Day shown at login for firm-wide notices.
Coming soon
In active development — listed in the product's own feature matrix, so we'll say it here too. Teased, not promised.
- → Cross-employer hours dashboard — employees see their combined hours across every firm they work at.
- → Portable employment-history PDF — a worker's verified history, exportable and theirs to keep.
- → Native mobile app with shift push reminders.
Pricing
Free is genuinely free, forever, for single-location firms. Paid is per active location, volume-tiered: every location bills at your tier's rate, so growing into a cheaper tier reprices all of them.
Free
$0/forever
- ✓ Unlimited employees
- ✓ 1 active location
- ✓ 1 administrator
- ✓ 90 days of history
- ✓ CSV exports for payroll
- ✓ All core features (time clock, mileage, scheduling, messaging)
Most firms with 2+ locations
Paid
$19/location/month
- $19/location — 1–2 locations
- $16/location — 3–10 locations
- $14/location — 11+ locations
Every location bills at your tier's rate — cross a threshold and all of them reprice, not just the new ones.
- ✓ Everything in Free
- ✓ Unlimited active locations
- ✓ Unlimited administrators
- ✓ Full history (no 90-day cap)
- ✓ Email support
30-day trial available, no credit card required. If the trial lapses, your account stays open on Free — everything you've entered is kept; you're just capped for new additions.
What Pedant Clok doesn't do
Honest non-goals matter as much as features. If you need any of these, Clok isn't the right fit — and we'll tell you so before you pay.
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No billable hours. Practice-management tools own that job, and they're good at it. Clok is payroll timesheets for hourly staff — a complement, not a replacement.
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No native payroll API integrations. CSV export only — pre-formatted for QuickBooks, Gusto, ADP, and similar. Durable; no integration treadmill.
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No cross-employer overtime calculation. Under FLSA, OT is per-employer. Clok calculates within your firm only.
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No native mobile app yet. The web app works on phone and tablet today. A native app is planned after launch.
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No tablet shared-PIN mode. Clok requires per-user accounts — best fit for offices where employees have email and personal devices.
Be first in line for Pedant Clok
Clok is in beta and launching soon. Join the waitlist and we'll email you the day signups open — free plan for one location, 30-day trial of paid features, no credit card.
Join the Pedant Clok waitlist
One short email when Clok opens for signups or ships something major. No spam.