Solar panel installer time tracking, without the timer.
How a solar panel installer's day actually looks
Most time-tracking apps assume a steady, predictable day. A solar panel installer's day is the opposite. You're mounting racking and wiring inverters, switching between addresses like Residential rooftops, Commercial warehouses, Solar farm sites, and doing tasks like running conduit, mounting rails, testing string voltage. Timers get forgotten. Manually entering jobsites in advance does not match how calls actually come in.
Friction solar panel installers tell us about
- Difficulty distinguishing actual roof time from transit time between residential installs
- Missing mileage logs for long-distance trips to remote solar farm sites
- Forgetting to log the duration of quick inverter troubleshooting calls between larger jobs
How TradesTimer handles it
- Automatically separates driving trips from active jobsite stops so you don't overbill
- Captures every mile driven between residential rooftops for easy tax-time mileage exports
- Eliminates manual clocking when jumping from conduit runs to inverter commissioning
Free. The whole app.
The whole time-tracking app is free — no trial, no feature gate, no ads, no per-user fees. (Encrypted cloud backup is on the roadmap.)
- Automatic day reconstruction from background GPS
- Unlimited stops, drives, and days
- Review and edit any block
- Rounded billable-hours summary, shareable as plain text
- Automatic mileage log, exportable for taxes
- 7-day summary view
- All location data stays on your device
Your location history stays on your phone.
There is no TradesTimer server storing your location trails. No account. No sign-up. Your GPS history lives on the device that recorded it — for as long as you want it. The only time anything leaves your phone is when you choose to share your billable-hours summary yourself.
The app does not talk to any third-party service with your location. Nothing about where you've been is uploaded anywhere. See the privacy policy for the full detail.