The first warm week of the year arrives, and every client wants their grounds done at once. You’re scaling up fast, onboarding seasonal workers, juggling multiple sites, and trying to keep payroll accurate, all at the same time. If your time and attendance setup isn’t built for seasonal pressure, it will crack under it.

Why Summer Is the Breaking Point

The UK landscaping sector is under significant workforce pressure year-round. According to HL Services, over 50% of landscaping businesses have a hard-to-fill vacancy, and the spring-summer surge only intensifies the strain. When you’re bringing in seasonal staff quickly and deploying them across multiple sites, tracking who’s where (and for how long) becomes almost impossible with manual systems.

Paper timesheets get lost. Supervisors forget to collect them. Seasonal workers are harder to chase. By the time payroll runs, you’re working from incomplete data and hoping for the best.

TimeKeeper Keeps You in Control Through Peak Season

TimeKeeper is a time and attendance platform built for mobile, multi-site teams, which describes almost every landscaping operation in the UK.

• The mobile clock-in app means seasonal workers can log time from their own smartphones, from any site, without additional hardware.
• GPS tracking and geofencing ensure they’re clocking in from the correct location — whether that’s a commercial estate, a council contract, or a private garden project.
• The live Who’s In dashboard gives you a real-time view of which operatives are on site across all your locations at any given moment.
• The rota planner lets you build and adjust schedules quickly as seasonal staffing changes, with visibility over availability, leave, and gaps.
• Leave management is built in, so holiday requests from seasonal and permanent staff are handled digitally, with automatic balance calculations.

Payroll That Keeps Up with the Season

TimeKeeper is a cloud time and attendance software that integrates directly with payroll software, BrightPay. When your landscaping teams are working long summer days across multiple contracts, approved timesheet hours flow straight into payroll. No manual calculations, and no guesswork at the end of a busy week.

Ready to get started? Start your free trial before the summer rush hits.