Time tracking for educational institutions

Every hour under control.

Schools and educational institutions have mixed teams: teaching staff with flexible hours, administration, custodians. With clockin you record working hours for every role in one app – legally compliant, with no messy paperwork.

  • GDPR
  • 100 % Made in Germany
  • CJEU-compliant

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Sound familiar?

  • Timesheets for teachers, administration and custodians – all separate
  • Leave requests by email and on paper – hard to keep track of
  • Overtime is not recorded anywhere
  • No overview of how working time is distributed

What you want:

  • Every role clocks in via the app – one solution
  • Leave requests approved digitally – in seconds
  • Overtime recorded and visible automatically
  • Reporting per role – at the push of a button

Time tracking made for Educational institutions

Time tracking for teaching staff

At the push of a button – wherever you are

Teaching staff record their working time with one tap, whether at school, working from home or on the way to a training course. No paperwork chaos, no estimating after the fact.

  • One-tap time tracking in the app or the browser
  • Record breaks and travel time separately
  • Offline-capable, data syncs when there is a Wi-Fi connection

Time tracking for every role

Administration, custodians and everyone else included

Not just teaching staff – the school office, cleaning staff and custodians record their hours in the same app. On site at a tablet in the office or on the move on a smartphone, whichever fits.

  • A central tablet as the clocking device for all employees
  • Individual working time models per person
  • One system for every role in the building

Absences and leave

Manage leave, sickness and overtime centrally

You keep an overview of every absence in your institution – from the principal to temporary staff. Requests arrive digitally and you approve them with a click.

  • Digital leave requests and approval in the dashboard
  • Sick leave notifications straight from the app
  • Overtime calculated automatically and transferable to DATEV

Integrations

Seamlessly connected to your tools

clockin sends time data straight to your existing systems – no manual exports, no duplicate work.

More features

Everything your business needs, all in one place.

Work schedules

  • Plan fixed or flexible working hours easily
  • Calculate overtime & absences automatically
  • Adjust working hours individually – with no extra effort

Employee self-service

  • Meet your transparency obligations as an employer
  • Self-service area for employees
  • View working hours, manage corrections & requests
Add-On

Shift planning

  • Build schedules intuitively with drag-and-drop and employee self-service
  • Live updates for your team through the clockin app
  • Automatic planned vs. actual comparison as you build the schedule

Digital employee file

  • Store contract data in a legally compliant way
  • Document staff development & agreements
  • Secure document upload to GDPR standards

Analytics, corrections and reporting

  • Detailed reports per employee and, if needed, per project
  • Easy corrections
  • Automatically generated hours reports
What 9,000+ customers say about clockin
OMR Rating
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Google Review
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trusted
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App Store Rating
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As of June 2026
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Implementation partner

Our implementation partner for private schools

Triargos GmbH from Freiburg is a company specializing in software solutions and services for independently run schools. Since 2023 it has been rolling out the clockin software in private schools such as Waldorf and Montessori schools.

  • One-click time tracking for every role.
  • Record breaks and travel time easily.
  • Built for field work, easy for everyone to understand.
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Team

Starter

Leave the paperwork chaos behind. Your first step to going digital.

3.59 €
per month / user, billed every 2 years*
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  • Mobile and on-site time tracking
  • DATEV export for hours reports
  • Manage calendar & absences
  • Custom branding
Team

Pro

Hours and projects under control. Transparent for your whole team.

6.29 €
per month / user, billed every 2 years*
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  • Everything in Starter
  • Time tracking for projects
  • Lexware Office integration for automatic invoicing
  • Digital customer management
  • GPS time tracking
  • Digital personnel file
  • Custom roles & permissions
  • Advanced absence management
Team

Expert

Every project properly documented. Audit-ready down to the last detail.

8.99 €
per month / user, billed every 2 years*
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  • Everything in Pro
  • Digital project files (incl. comments)
  • Checklists & forms
  • Photos, sketches & notes
  • Digital signatures
  • Project export for customers
  • Audit log
  • clockin API
  • Single Sign-On
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Large businesses

Tailored precisely to what larger teams need

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*All prices exclude VAT. A platform fee (€10/month) applies for fewer than 5 users.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Does the obligation to record working hours apply to schools and educational institutions too?

Yes – with no exception. In 2019 the European Court of Justice ruled that all EU employers must record their employees' working hours systematically. In September 2022 the German Federal Labor Court set this out in concrete terms for Germany: the obligation follows from Section 3 of the German Occupational Safety Act and applies across all sectors. The German Federal Ministry of Labor has expressly clarified that there are no exceptions for teaching staff.

For independent schools the same applies as for any other employer: they can and must act now. At public schools the decision lies with the individual federal state – some states such as Bremen are already running pilot projects. School operators who wait are taking a legal risk.

How do teaching staff record their working time when they also work from home?

clockin works in the app on a smartphone or in the browser – whether the teacher is at school, working from home or on the way to a training course. One tap to start, one tap to stop. Location makes no difference.

Can clockin handle different working time models – part-time, full-time, mini-job?

Yes. In clockin you set the right working time model for every person – full-time, part-time, mini-job or substitute coverage. Overtime and absences are calculated automatically on the basis of that model.

How do teaching staff request leave or report sick?

Directly in the clockin app: teaching staff submit leave requests digitally and the school management approves them with one click in the dashboard. Sick leave notifications are recorded digitally too – no paperwork and no long email chains.

How much work is it to roll out clockin at a school?

Very little. clockin is usually set up within a few hours. Employees need no technical knowledge – the app works on any smartphone. If you prefer, you can use the clockin setup service.

Can I send the recorded hours to DATEV?

Yes. clockin has a direct DATEV integration. You send your employees' hours to your tax advisor at the push of a button – with no manual entries and no exports by hand.

Does every teacher need their own smartphone?

No. You can also use clockin on a central device, for example a tablet in the teachers' lounge. Several people can clock in and out there. No separate SIM card is needed – the app works over Wi-Fi as well.

Where is the data stored – is clockin GDPR-compliant?

Yes. All data is stored on ISO-certified servers in Germany. clockin is fully compliant with the GDPR and the ECJ ruling and was developed in Germany.

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