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Geo-tagging

The Geo-tagging tab is where you review the GPS side of every clock-in and clock-out. Each event carries the device’s location, how far it was from the location’s geofence centre, how accurate the GPS fix was, and whether the device reported a fake (mock) location. Use this tab to find off-site clock-ins, spoofed-GPS attempts, and members whose phones consistently give poor location data.

This tab only fills in once you’ve set up geofences on your locations. See Locations for how geofencing works and what each status means.

Getting there

Open General Report in the sidebar and click the Geo-tagging tab.

What you’ll see

A filter bar followed by a grid of individual clock events. The filter bar contains:

  • Start Date and End Date: the range to pull (defaults to the last 7 days).
  • Location: leave blank for all locations.
  • Event: All, Clock in, or Clock out (defaults to All).
  • Geofence: All, Inside, Outside, or Unknown (defaults to All). Filter to Outside to see only off-site events.
  • Mock location only: a checkbox. Tick it to show only events the device flagged as fake GPS.
  • Search member: by name or member code.
  • Apply button (loads the grid).
  • Export CSV button (enabled once the grid has rows).

Grid columns: Date / Time, Member, Location, Event, Geofence, Distance, Mock, Accuracy, Coordinates.

  • Date / Time is the moment the event was captured (e.g. “04 Jun 2026, 09:30 AM”).
  • Event reads “Clock in” or “Clock out”.
  • Geofence is a colour-coded badge: Inside (green), Outside (red), Unknown (grey). Unknown means there was no usable fix, or the GPS accuracy was worse than the geofence radius.
  • Distance is how far the fix was from the geofence centre, in metres (e.g. “45 m”). Shows a dash when there’s no distance to report (for example, an Unknown event).
  • Mock shows a red Mock GPS badge when the device reported a spoofed location; otherwise it shows a dash.
  • Accuracy is the GPS accuracy the device reported, in metres (e.g. “12 m”). A larger number means a vaguer fix. Shows a dash when not reported.
  • Coordinates is the latitude and longitude of the fix, to six decimal places (e.g. “6.504500, 3.358200”). Shows a dash when no location was captured.

Common tasks

Find every off-site clock-in last week

  1. Leave the default 7-day range, or set the dates you want.
  2. Set Geofence to Outside.
  3. Click Apply. Every row is an event that happened beyond its location’s radius.
  4. Click Export CSV if you need an audit trail.

Catch spoofed-GPS attempts

  1. Set the date range you want to review.
  2. Tick Mock location only.
  3. Click Apply. Any rows here are clock events from a device running a fake-GPS app, and should be investigated.

Audit one member’s locations for the month

  1. Set the date range to the month.
  2. Type the member’s name or code in Search member.
  3. Click Apply to see every clock event they made, with the distance and status for each.

Tips

  • Filters are not auto-applied: change any of them, then click Apply to reload the grid.
  • This tab reports, it does not block. An Outside or Mock clock-in was still recorded and the member was still clocked in. The tab is for review after the fact. See Locations for why TimePally flags rather than blocks.
  • A row showing Unknown isn’t necessarily suspicious. Indoors, or on a cheap phone with a weak GPS chip, fixes are often too imprecise to judge against the radius.
  • The Export CSV file (geo-tagging-<date>.csv) includes a Member Code column that isn’t shown in the on-screen grid, and the full-precision coordinates, handy for cross-checking against a map.
  • There’s no PDF export and no built-in map on this tab. To view a coordinate, paste it into Google Maps or OpenStreetMap.
  • If a location’s events all show Disabled-style blanks, that location doesn’t have a geofence turned on. Enable it on the Locations page.
  • Locations: set up a geofence and learn what Inside / Outside / Unknown / Disabled / Mock mean.
  • Attendance Logs: the same clock events without the GPS detail.
  • Installing the App: the kiosk’s Location permission must be granted for geo-tagging to capture coordinates.
  • Privacy Policy: how precise GPS location at clock-in is collected and handled.
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