The Sesame HR alternative for companies that clock in on site, not in an office
Sesame HR covers people management well: clock-in, absences, holidays, documents and performance in one place. What it does not do is organise your operation around the site, with its geofencing perimeter, its assigned crew and its booked hours. HoraTrack does.
One-tap clock-in, GPS checked against the site perimeter, and reports ready for an inspection or for payroll.
If your priority is digitising HR for the whole company — holidays, documents, reviews, employee portal — Sesame HR is a wider product than HoraTrack and you are probably better off keeping it. If what keeps you up at night is knowing who is on which site, with what hours and with what evidence behind them, a generalist suite falls short exactly there.
Why construction companies look for a Sesame HR alternative
The site does not exist as a concept
You can approximate it with workplaces, projects or tags, but none of those has a geofencing radius, a status (active, paused, finished) or a crew that rotates every week. You end up maintaining by hand a structure the product does not understand.
Reviewing questionable entries stays manual
Recording where someone clocked in is good. What actually saves time is the system flagging out-of-zone entries on its own and letting you approve or reject them from the dashboard, instead of cross-checking coordinates yourself.
The reports are HR reports, not site reports
Hours per employee, absences, balances. Answering "how many hours has this site taken and who booked them" means exporting to a spreadsheet every week, which is exactly what you were running away from.
You pay for a full HR module
Recruiting, training, performance reviews, document signing. If your company handles the people side through an external payroll provider, you are paying for capabilities nobody is going to open.
Sesame HR and HoraTrack, point by point
| What you need on site | Sesame HR | HoraTrack |
|---|---|---|
| Product focus | Generalist HR suite for the whole workforce | Vertical time-record product for companies that work on site |
| Unit of organisation | Employee, department and workplace | Site: address, geofencing radius, status, assigned crew and booked hours |
| Location validation | Clock-in from app, web and workplace devices | Per-site geofencing: every entry is checked against the radius and flagged if it falls outside |
| Hours per site | Reports per employee and period, built for HR | Reports per site, worker or period, with hours already booked to each site |
| Use in the field | Employee portal covering all of HR | One screen and one button: the worker sees their site and clocks in |
| No signal | Built for environments with a stable connection | The app records time and GPS with no coverage and syncs when it returns |
| Functional scope | Holidays, absences, documents, performance, shifts and more | Time records and site control only. The rest stays with your payroll provider |
| Working-time records | Meets working-time recording duties for general headcount | Meets them with a timestamp, a location and a GPS status on every entry |
| Getting started | An HR rollout: collective agreements, leave policies, approval flows | Create the site, set the radius on the map, invite the crew. Live the same day |
This comparison is based on Sesame HR's public documentation and on our own experience rolling out time records on construction sites. Sesame HR and every other brand mentioned belong to their respective owners; this page is not affiliated with them. Functional scope changes over time and depends on the plan you buy, so always check their website too. If you spot anything out of date, email us at info@soamee.com and we will correct it.
When to switch and when not to
Stay with Sesame HR if…
- You want a single tool for all of HR: holidays, documents, performance and an employee portal.
- Your workforce is mostly office-based or in fixed locations, and site work is a small part of the business.
- Your payroll is already integrated with their platform and switching would cost more than it saves.
- You need absence and shift management with collective-agreement rules, not just time records.
Switch to HoraTrack if…
- You run several sites at once and need to know in real time who is on each of them.
- You want out-of-perimeter entries flagged automatically, not discovered by reviewing coordinates at month end.
- You need to justify hours per site for budgeting, certification or cost allocation.
- Your crews clock in where coverage is poor and you need the app to work anyway.
- You want the team to learn it in a minute, with no training and no manual.
What moving from Sesame HR looks like
We export your history
You download your entries and your worker list from Sesame HR as a spreadsheet. That history is kept as the legal record for the previous period.
We create the real sites
Every workplace or project you were using as a workaround becomes an actual site, with its address and its geofencing radius drawn on the map.
We invite the crew
Each worker gets a link by email or phone, installs the app and lands on their assigned site. No one-by-one manual setup.
Overlap, then switch
You can keep Sesame HR for holidays and documents and use HoraTrack only for time records, or move across completely. We agree a clean cut-off date so payroll is never split mid-period.
Everything about time records on site
Per-site geofencing, multi-site, offline app, reports and a live dashboard.
Per-user plans with 14 days free and no credit card.
How we digitise sites, work reports and day-to-day operations.
When an off-the-shelf product is not enough for how your company works.
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14 days free with every feature. You create your first site, draw its perimeter on the map and invite your crew in five minutes. No credit card.
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