Clock Cards & Time Cards

Usually rectangular pieces of cardboard, clock cards or time cards have the days of the week and the hours of the day pre-printed across them. These clock card elements are sectioned off with ruled lines and are designed to hold all the clocked-in and clocked-out times that an employer needs recorded.

Clock cards & time cards are usually used with mechanised time clock recorders. Time recorders are most commonly made up of a time clock with a clock card input slot. When a user inserts a clock card in the slot, the machine prints clocking-in and clocking-out times on designated areas on the clock card.

Typically a workers would have a personalised clock cards, so the company that they work for could easily work out what to pay them, by adding up the hours worked on the individuals' clock cards.

Clock Card History

Businesses today usually have time recorders and clock cards in place to easily track employee clocking-in and out times. But during the 1900's companies relied upon handwritten logs.

That all changed when in 1888, the first time keeping machine was invented by a man called Daniel M Cooper. His machine revolutionised the way workers' hours were recorded by using clock cards. His time keeping machine; or The Rochester Recorder, as he called it was the first of its kind that was able to print clocking-in & out times in assigned areas on clock cards.

To get their clocking-in and clocking-out times on their card, workers would insert their clock card into The Rochester Recorder and pull a lever to trigger the printing mechanism.

It wasn't long before other inventors created similar time recorder devices to rival The Rochester Time Recorder. And in 1911 several of them merged to form what we know of today as IBM. This grouping together allowed the technology used in time recorders to evolve much faster. This saw advances such as 2 colours of ink to highlight lateness, more accurate minute by minute times for registration and the ability to make smaller time recorder machines. The actual process of transferring a printed times onto a clock cards hasn't changed greatly over the years.

Clock Cards from Birmingham Time Recorder Services

BTRS ensure that we have large quantities of high quality clock cards suitable for all the leading time recorders in-stock at all times, such as clock cards for:

Our clock cards can be delivered next day to all areas of the United Kingdom.

Personalised Clock Cards

We are able to supply personally branded clock cards, with your companys' logo or branding pre-printed on the clock cards. A selection of clock card board colours is also available to add that personal touch of corporate branding.

An undisputed reliable log of employee working hours clock cards and time recorders are a must have for any sucessful business. Accurate records of times & dates of weeks worked on clock cards is essential for monitoring employee performance and vital when carrying out cost cutting exercises.

The BTRS team has over 30 years of experience of supplying time recorders & clock card services and solutions and has become a market leader. Currently we supply Time Recorders, Time Management Systems, Time & Date Stamps, Time Signals & Clock Cards to many types of clients in different market sectors such as:

Contact us on 0800 3288 038 or via our online contact form with your clock card & time recorder requirements.