Time tracking for welders
Track visits throughout your day
Your work can include running beads on structural steel, tack welding frames, repairing heavy machinery. You might visit fabrication shops, construction sites, pipeline segments in one day. Use your timeline to review each recorded visit before billing.
Common time-tracking challenges
- Difficulty proving travel distance for remote field repair visits
- Uncertainty in separating shop fabrication time from mobile service call travel
- Losing track of small, quick-stop repairs that occur between larger jobs
How TradesTimer handles it
- Automatic stop detection captures every repair site visit without manual input
- Automatic mileage log tracks every trip between sites for seamless tax season
- Provides rounded billable hours to simplify invoicing for varied-duration jobs
Time-tracking experiences from welders
Each quote links to its original public discussion.
The shop I’m at currently I slyly take note of the job, the consumables I use and how many hours I’m on it. … I’ve already found that with a couple of jobs I have been able to come in under the competition while also making a profit with most jobs I’ve taken on so far.
Hours-per-job data is quoting power. This welder beats competitors' prices without losing margin because he knows what jobs actually take — automatic per-stop tracking builds that same database without the sly notebook.
I am a welder and i weld 50+ hours a week. I normally keep my phone in my toolbox but lose track of time easily
A phone in the toolbox can't run a timer app — gloves, sparks, hood down. But it's still at the jobsite, which means background location tracking keeps recording the stop while your hands stay busy.
Five days to try it. Pro to keep tracking.
The upcoming paid release includes five days of tracking without payment details or automatic charges. Continue with Pro, including encrypted backup. Exports remain available after the trial.
- 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
Canada: CA$9.99/month or CA$69.99/year. Both plans include the same features.
- Continued automatic tracking and timeline review
- End-to-end encrypted cloud backup
- Restore your full history on a new phone
- A backup stored separately from your phone
US prices are shown in USD; Canadian prices are shown in CAD. Your local App Store or Google Play price may differ. Subscriptions auto-renew until cancelled through the store where you purchased.
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.
If you enable Pro backup, TradesTimer encrypts your history before uploading it. Your recovery code unlocks the backup. See the privacy policy for details about address lookups, exports, and other data use.