Projections are useful, but they are still estimates. The paycheck is the receipt, and reconciling against it is where a tracker either earns your trust or quietly drifts away from the truth.
Enter the real numbers
When a check arrives, you log its gross, net, pay date, and pay period in Clocked, plus any line items like taxes, insurance, or a bonus. That is the ground truth the app reconciles everything else against.
The shifts settle up
- The real net is allocated across the shifts that paycheck covered, pro-rated by each one’s projected gross.
- Those shifts finalize - their money is now actual, not estimated, and locked.
- Your learned take-home rate updates, so the next projection is a little sharper.
Made a mistake? Editing or deleting a paycheck reverts its shifts back to worked, so nothing is ever stuck. Your pay schedule - weekly, biweekly, semimonthly, or monthly - tells the app which shifts a check should cover in the first place.
Your pay data has no business leaving your phone
What you earn is about as private as data gets. Clocked keeps every shift and paycheck on your device, with no account and nothing to track.
How I decide which app to build next
With one person and no investors, every app has to earn its place. Here is the filter an idea has to pass before it becomes a Flowstate app.
The end-of-shift habit that pays off
The value of a tip tracker is not any single number. It is the small habit of logging every shift, and what that record tells you a month later.