Momentum’s GPS-powered automated time tracking captures every billable minute. No more crew forgetting to clock in or chasing people on Friday to fill in the blanks. You bill for the time actually spent on the job, not what someone remembered three days later.
Automated time tracking is the foundation for two other things you probably care about: knowing which crew member worked which job (that’s CrewID) and knowing whether that job actually made you money (that’s job costing).
Don’t Waste Time Tracking Time
Momentum’s time tracking automatically tracks job site and travel time based on vehicle and crew member movement. Here’s how it works:
- Plug in the Eagle One GPS tracker. It can be connected to the OBD-II port of hard-wired to the 12-volt battery.
- The hardware automatically syncs with the software and you are up and running in minutes.
- Momentum will then start logging every trip made. This includes travel time, arrival time, and departure time.
- No app to open. No button to press. No “did you clock in?” text messages.
Add CrewID if your crew doesn’t stick with the same truck every day.
The Real Cost of Bad Time Tracking
Field crews aren’t great at logging their hours accurately. Heck, most people (except lawyers) are terrible at tracking their time. It’s not laziness; people are focused on doing their job, not paperwork. If your people forget and try to remember after the fact, it’s guaranteed to be inaccurate.
Manual Time Tracking Means:
- Money left on the table from underreported hours
- Hours spent weekly fixing incorrect timesheets
- Billing errors on hourly jobs
- Zero visibility into actual job profitability
It’s especially important to landscapers who, according to a recent special section called Benchmarking Your Business in Lawn & Landscape Magazine, actually saw their per hour labor charge go down in 2024. To stay profitable you need to make every minute count.
Do the math: just 30 minutes a day of unaccounted labor costs $3,900 per employee, per year. Multiply that by a 10-person crew and you’re bleeding almost $39,000 a year — before you’ve even looked at billing errors.
For Jeff, Nothing Else Was Working
Real Numbers. Real Profits.
With Momentum’s automated time tracking, every job starts and ends with vehicle movement tracked using triangulated data from at least three satellites, recorded every ten seconds.
Using GPS to measure travel and job site time means:
Accurate Job Costing
Know exactly what every job costs in real-time.
Faster Billing
No end-of-month timesheet scramble.
Better Estimates
Bid jobs based on actual historical data, not guesswork.
Crew Accountability
Everyone knows they’re being tracked fairly and accurately.
Travel Time Accuracy
Get paid for actual travel time, not some “standard rate”.
See Your Costs in Real Time
Out-of-the-box financial reports show you fully-loaded labor costs for each job, so you can keep your profit margins healthy and your cash flow strong.
Why Field Service Companies Choose Momentum
No Nonsense Fleet GPS
- Built for contractors who need world-class GPS without corporate nonsense
- Support team that answers when you call (seriously, try calling other GPS companies)
- Add/remove vehicles anytime without penalties or long-term contracts
- We earn your business every month instead of trapping you in multi-year contracts
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Momentum uses GPS data from your Eagle One tracker (and CrewID if needed) to automatically log travel and job site time. Every movement is tracked to the minute with satellite triangulation updated every 10 seconds. No manual input, clock-ins, or timesheets required. Simple. Accurate.
Nope. That’s where CrewID comes in. If you don’t assign the same crew to the same vehicle every day, CrewID keeps track of who’s in which truck so the hours are linked to the right people and jobs.
Extremely accurate. Momentum logs vehicle movement every 10 seconds using data from at least three satellites. You’ll know exactly when your trucks arrive, how long they stay, and when they leave. Compare that to people’s memory—it’s not even close!
Absolutely. Travel and jobsite hours are automatically linked to the right job, and out-of-the-box reports show your true labor costs. You can bill faster and more confidently, with hard data to back it up. You can even do it retroactively for trips that weren’t set up as jobsites. How cool is that?
Nope. You can be up and running in less than 10 minutes. There are no contracts, no upfront costs, and the hardware syncs automatically. Just plug the Eagle One GPS tracker into the OBD-II port, log in to your account (or open the app on your phone), and you’re done.
Those apps rely on your crew remembering to clock in and out, which, let’s be honest, they won’t. Momentum works off GPS movement, not a button.
No app to open, no reminders to send, nothing for your guys to forget. It just works in the background.
No, this tracks job site and travel time for costing and billing, not payroll compliance (we don’t do timecards or ELD/HOS).
Think of it as knowing exactly where your labor hours went on a job, not clocking employees in for their paycheck.
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