ClockShark API
ClockShark is time-tracking and job management software used by construction and field service businesses to track crew hours, schedule jobs, and push payroll-ready data into accounting systems. An unofficial API lets you programmatically pull employees, timesheets, schedules, jobs, customers, and job-costing data—and push new time entries, schedule shifts, job updates, and customer records back into ClockShark.
What is ClockShark?
ClockShark is a time-tracking and job management platform built for field service and construction businesses to track employee hours, manage crews, and streamline job operations. More than 9,500 companies and 100,000+ field professionals use it to clock in and out from mobile and web, schedule crews with drag-and-drop, track GPS location and geofences, capture job costs, and send payroll-ready timesheets into accounting systems with just a few clicks.
Core product areas include:
- Time Tracking (mobile and web clock in/out, with high-accuracy capture)
- Crew Management (scheduling, GPS tracking, geofencing, time-off)
- Job Management (customers, job costing, conversations, shift wrap-up forms)
- Reporting (real-time time and financial reporting for payroll and job costing)
- Integrations (QuickBooks, Sage 100 Contractor, Xero, ADP, Paychex, Gusto, and Zapier)
Common data entities:
- Employees, Crews, Roles, Time-Off Requests
- Timesheets, Time Entries, Breaks, GPS/Geofence Events
- Jobs, Tasks, Schedules, Shifts, Customers
- Job Costs, Pay Rates, Reports, Wrap-Up Forms
The ClockShark Integration Challenge
Crews rely on ClockShark daily from the field, but turning its mobile-first, account-scoped data into API-driven automation is non-trivial:
- Mobile-first data capture: Much of the richest data (GPS, geofence events, clock punches, wrap-up forms) originates in the mobile app rather than a documented public surface
- No broadly documented public REST API: Customers commonly integrate through pre-built connectors and Zapier rather than direct developer API access
- Connector-shaped exports: Payroll and accounting flows (QuickBooks, Xero, Sage, ADP, Paychex, Gusto) are tuned for those destinations, not for arbitrary downstream systems
- Account-scoped authentication: Sessions are tied to company accounts and user roles, complicating headless automation
- Job-costing reconciliation: Hours, rates, and job/task assignments must align precisely for payroll and costing to stay accurate
- Schedule and shift state: Drag-and-drop schedules, reassignments, and time-off interact, so naive sync can drift from what crews actually see
How Supergood Creates ClockShark APIs
Supergood reverse-engineers ClockShark's authenticated web and mobile flows to deliver a resilient, normalized API layer for your ClockShark account—covering time tracking, scheduling, jobs, and customers.
- Handles account login and MFA securely within a managed session
- Maintains session continuity with automated refresh and change detection
- Normalizes responses across employees, timesheets, schedules, jobs, and customers so you integrate once and rely on consistent objects
- Aligns with your company's roles, pay rates, and job/task structure to keep payroll and job costing accurate
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Getting Started
- Schedule Integration Assessment
Book a 30-minute session to confirm your modules, payroll connectors, and authentication model.
- Supergood Generates and Validates Your API
We deliver a production-ready ClockShark adapter tailored to your account configuration and roles.
- Deploy with Monitoring
Go live with continuous monitoring and automatic adjustments as ClockShark evolves.
API Endpoints
Authentication
/authenticateAuthenticate to a ClockShark company account using credentials, or MFA, and obtain a session token for downstream calls.
Workforce
/employeesList employees and crew members with role, status, pay rate, and assignment filters.
Time Tracking
/timesheetsRetrieve timesheets and time entries with filters for employee, job, date range, and approval status.
Time Tracking
/create_time_entryCreate or import a time entry against an employee, job, and task with start/stop times and breaks.
Scheduling
/schedulesPull scheduled shifts and assignments across crews, jobs, and date ranges.
Jobs
/jobsList jobs, tasks, and customers with status, cost code, and assignment filters.
Use Cases
Sync time and labor data into payroll and accounting
- Pull approved timesheets, breaks, and pay rates into payroll and GL systems - Map time entries to jobs and cost codes for accurate job costing - Reconcile hours against QuickBooks, Xero, Sage, ADP, or Gusto exports
Automate scheduling and crew dispatch
- Push new shifts and reassignments into ClockShark schedules - Pull crew availability and time-off to avoid scheduling conflicts - Trigger downstream notifications when assignments or jobs change
Feed job-costing and field analytics
- Stream time entries, GPS, and geofence events into BI and reporting tools - Roll up labor cost by job, task, and customer for margin analysis - Surface overtime and budget-overrun alerts to operations
Keep customer and job records in sync
- Push new customers and jobs from your CRM or ERP into ClockShark - Pull job status and wrap-up form data back for invoicing - Maintain a consistent customer/job mapping across systems
Technical Specifications
Authentication
Account credentials and MFA handled in a managed session
Connectivity
Authenticated web and mobile flows normalized into a single API surface
Response format
Normalized JSON across employees, timesheets, schedules, jobs, and customers
Rate limits
Adaptive throttling tuned to your account to avoid platform-side limits
Session management
Automatic session refresh, MFA replay handling, and credential rotation
Data freshness
Near real-time pulls for time entries and schedules with optional scheduled batch syncs
Security
Encrypted credential vault, scoped access tokens, SOC 2-aligned controls, and audit logging
Webhooks
Event-style callbacks for clock in/out, schedule changes, and job status updates
Latency
Sub-second reads on cached entities; multi-second writes when posting time entries and schedules
Throughput
Horizontally scaled workers sized to multi-crew, multi-job volume
Reliability
Retry, backoff, and idempotency keys for time entries and schedule writes
Adaptation
Continuous monitoring of ClockShark releases and UI changes to keep the adapter stable
Frequently asked questions
ClockShark customers most commonly integrate through pre-built connectors (QuickBooks, Xero, Sage, ADP, Paychex, Gusto) and Zapier rather than a broadly documented public REST API. Supergood provides a normalized API over your authenticated ClockShark account so you can read and write data programmatically without those constraints.
Yes. The normalized surface supports pulling employees, timesheets, schedules, jobs, and customers, and pushing new time entries, shifts, job updates, and customer records back into ClockShark.
Supergood preserves your company's jobs, tasks, cost codes, and pay rates so time entries map to the right job and cost structure, keeping payroll and job-costing reports consistent.
Yes. The API runs on top of your authenticated account, so it complements rather than replaces existing QuickBooks, Xero, ADP, or Gusto connectors.
Account login and any MFA are handled securely inside a managed session with automatic refresh and credential rotation, so you never embed raw credentials in your own systems.