Time tracking for fence installers
Track visits throughout your day
Your work can include Setting posts in concrete, Stretching tension wires, Installing gate latches and hardware. You might visit Residential backyards, Commercial perimeter sites, Construction site boundaries in one day. Use your timeline to review each recorded visit before billing.
Common time-tracking challenges
- Losing track of travel time between scattered residential properties
- Difficulty separating actual labor time from material unloading and site prep
- Missing small repair service calls when jumping between large-scale installs
- The headache of manually calculating mileage across multiple job sites for tax season
How TradesTimer handles it
- Auto-detects every new jobsite arrival without manual input
- Automatically logs every mile driven between posts and gates
- Captures the full duration of the day, including travel between yards
- Provides a ready-to-export mileage log for tax time
The founder’s experience with fence installer work
I built cedar fencing for a living — panel runs and stick-built custom, post holes, concrete, gates. Fencing days are split by nature: quote one yard in the morning, set posts at another before lunch, come back to hang panels at a third once the concrete from Tuesday has set up.
Those stops involved work for different homeowners and travel between jobs. I recorded them on paper, but sometimes missed shorter visits, such as a 40-minute gate adjustment.
TradesTimer records stops and trips automatically. At the end of the week, review the times and label each job before billing.
Free time tracking
Record stops and trips, review your hours, and export reports without a subscription.
- Automatic stop and trip recording
- Unlimited stops, drives, and days
- Review and edit stops and trips
- Rounded billable hours, exported as text or CSV
- Travel log with estimated distances
- 7-day summary view
- History stored on your phone
Control your location history
TradesTimer stores your history on your phone. Address lookups send coordinates to an address provider. You choose where to share your hours and travel exports.
See the privacy policy for details about address lookups, exports, and other data use.