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Codeeo provides employee attendance app development USA employers use to record hours across many states without forcing every location into the strictest rule or the loosest one. The federal Fair Labor Standards Act sets the baseline for recordkeeping and overtime, and states and cities layer their own break, scheduling and biometric rules on top. We build one platform with a rules engine that applies the right policy to each worker, wherever they clock in.
Codeeo has no US office. Our team of 80+ in Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi works remotely with American clients, running discovery, design reviews and testing by video call. We have delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US.
200+ companies across the US and the UAEFrom a first store to a listed developer
Platform capabilities
The hard part of a national attendance system is not the clock in button. It is that a shift worked in California, Texas, New York and Illinois can produce four different answers to the same questions: when overtime starts, whether a meal break was owed, whether a schedule change triggers extra pay, and whether a fingerprint or face scan may be used at all. Federal law requires employers to keep accurate records of hours worked each day and workweek for nonexempt staff, and it does not let an employer avoid paying for short rest breaks. States go further in different directions. We design the platform so that rules live in configuration, assigned by location and worker group, and so that the original punch is never altered. Managers see one interface, payroll receives one consistent feed, and legal teams can read the rules the system is actually applying.
Each location is tagged with its state, city and county, and each worker with a group such as nonexempt hourly, union or seasonal. Overtime thresholds, meal and rest rules, scheduling duties and premiums are applied from that combination, and changes are versioned so past pay periods can be recalculated under the rules that applied then.
New states added by configuration, not rewrites.
Hours per day and per workweek, workweek start, regular rate inputs and overtime are recorded for every nonexempt worker. Records are held for the federal retention periods, and the original punch, any edit and the approver are stored together.
A federal baseline every location meets.
Fingerprint or face templates are only enabled in states where your counsel approves them. The app collects written consent where Illinois BIPA or similar laws require it, publishes your retention policy, offers an alternative method, and deletes templates on schedule. In New York, mandatory fingerprinting stays switched off.
Biometrics used only where they are lawful and agreed.
Cities and states with fair workweek laws require advance schedules, premiums for late changes and rest between shifts. The scheduling module applies the notice period for each covered location, logs consent and change reasons, and sends premiums to payroll.
Scheduling rules handled where they apply, ignored where they do not.
A national workforce spans Eastern, Central, Mountain and Pacific time and sometimes Alaska and Hawaii. Punches are stored in universal time with the local zone attached, overnight shifts across midnight are assigned correctly, and daylight saving changes do not create phantom hours.
No lost or doubled hours at the clock change.
National employers often run one payroll provider and one HR system, or several after acquisitions. Approved hours flow by API or scheduled file to each, with pay codes mapped per entity, so a new acquisition can join the platform without changing its payroll provider on day one.
Hours delivered to the systems you already run.
Geofenced phone punches for mobile crews, shared kiosks for warehouses and stores, and supervisor crew punches for job sites, all writing to the same record. Offline punches sync with their original timestamps when signal returns.
Every capture method feeding one record.
The worker app follows mobile accessibility guidelines, with screen reader labels, large touch targets and readable contrast, so employees with disabilities can use it alongside their colleagues. Spanish is available as standard and other languages can be added by region.
An app every worker can use.
Collective bargaining agreements often set their own overtime triggers, call back minimums, shift differentials and seniority rules for offering extra hours. These are configured as a layer above state law for the members they cover, so a union warehouse and a non union store in the same state each get the correct result.
Contract terms applied without manual payroll fixes.
Overtime by state, missed meal premiums, schedule change premiums, attendance exceptions and agency hours, filtered by region, brand or manager. Leadership sees trends across the country while district managers see their own locations.
National visibility without exporting spreadsheets.
Who we build for
Plenty of good timekeeping products exist, and for a single state business one of them is often the right answer. Custom employee attendance app development for the USA makes sense when your operation crosses state lines, your pay rules come from several sources, or your processes are part of what makes your business work. These are the situations that bring national employers to us, and in each one the first question we ask is which state carries the most risk, because that is where the first release should land.
Restaurant and retail groups with locations in many states face overlapping duties: state meal and rest rules on the West Coast, fair workweek ordinances in several large cities, and plain federal rules elsewhere. A single platform with location level rules lets operations publish one process while each restaurant or store applies the law that fits its address. Owners see premiums and overtime by market and can compare performance fairly.
Consistent process, local compliance.
Agencies place workers at client sites across the country, often with each client setting its own approval steps. The platform lets clients approve timesheets for their placed workers, keeps each client's data separate, and sends approved hours to agency payroll and billing together. Disputes over invoiced hours shrink because both sides see the same punches. Workers who move between clients keep one login and one history, and the agency can show each client exactly which rules were applied to its timesheets.
HVAC, telecom, utility and construction companies send technicians and crews across several states, sometimes crossing a state line within a single day. The app records which jurisdiction each segment of work happened in, handles travel time according to your policy, and ties hours to work orders for job costing. Prevailing wage projects can carry their own worker classifications and pay codes, kept apart from private work.
Hours tied to jobs and to the right state.
Multi-state providers combine hospital staff, clinic teams and home care aides. The app handles shift differentials, on call time and visit check ins, connects to EVV providers where Medicaid requires them, and keeps patient information out of attendance data so HIPAA protected records stay in clinical systems.
Attendance kept separate from patient records.
Engagement models
Most US clients begin with a fixed scope platform release for one region, then move to a retainer that adds states, integrations and features. Organizations with large programs often choose a dedicated team that works inside their delivery process. As an employee attendance app development company, we keep every model to the same basics: written scope, video reviews at each stage and code delivered into your repositories. For US clients, the employee attendance app developers who build the platform stay on the product after launch, so the people who built the rules engine are the ones who update it.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
Native or cross platform mobile apps, a web admin platform and a cloud backend that scales across regions, chosen to fit your identity provider, payroll and HR systems and the internal team who will run the platform with us.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
It is phased, and the plan is agreed after discovery.
A national rollout is rarely one launch. We usually plan a first release for one region or worker group, then add states in waves. The pace depends on how many jurisdictions and worker groups are involved, how many payroll and HR systems need connecting, and how quickly your legal and payroll teams can confirm rules. After discovery you receive a written release plan showing what goes live in each phase. Holding the platform design steady while states are added is what lets later waves move faster than the first, since each new region mainly needs rules, testing and training rather than new software.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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