Service 04 · Attendance and costs

Time tracking and payroll for construction and field teams

The crew logs hours on their phones right from the site, and you see attendance, costs, profit and payroll live. I build it to fit your company, or you start today with Evidenka, the ready-made version.

  • 8+ years of experience, since January 2018
  • A reply within one working day
  • Slovak, Czech and English

Sound familiar?

  • Hours arrive on paper, in text messages and in a spreadsheet only one person can fix.
  • Payroll with advances takes days, and someone still finds a mistake.
  • You only learn what a site really cost once it is finished.
  • Nobody knows who forgot to log their hours.
  • A new hourly rate rewrites past months too.

Two ways to the same result

Ready-made

Evidenka

My own product for companies with people in the field: attendance, costs, payroll with advances and profit per site, in your company's colours and with your logo. Your own instance within 48 hours, pricing at evidenka.sk.

Custom-built

As for Polákstav

If your way of working goes beyond what a ready-made system covers, I build it for you. For the construction company Polákstav I started with an automated Google Sheet; today it is a web app with ten modules.

What the system covers

Modules running in production. With a custom system you pick the ones you need and we add your own.

The ten modules of the Polákstav system

All of them run in the construction firm's daily work. In a custom system you choose the ones you need, and we add your own.

  1. Attendance

    The whole team and the whole month on one screen, with holidays, public holidays and sick leave. After the deadline the day locks, so it can no longer change.

  2. Worker portal

    Workers open a link on their phone and log hours in three taps right from the site. The system also shows them the days they have not logged yet.

  3. Costs

    Labour is calculated from attendance and rates, plus materials and overheads, split by site.

  4. Profit per site

    You see the profit and margin of every site at any time, not after it is finished.

  5. Finance and charts

    The company's finances in charts, so the owner sees the trend without assembling spreadsheets.

  6. Quotes

    Quotes for customers built from your price lists, a finished PDF in one click.

  7. Payroll and advances

    Who takes home how much, advances included, calculated from attendance and rates to the cent.

  8. Holidays

    Holiday requests from the phone and approval in one click, with no paper slips.

  9. Change history

    Every change shows who made it and when, so nobody has to argue about it.

  10. Rates over time

    A new hourly rate applies from the month you choose, and past months and payslips stay as they were.

From real projects

The Polákstav system on a phone (demo data)

Polákstav · construction10 modules

A custom system from hours logged on site through costs and profit to quotes and payroll. In daily use.

Read the case study
Evidenka · my own productSK and CZ

A ready-made system for attendance, costs and payroll, running at companies in Slovakia and Czechia.

Go to evidenka.sk (opens in a new tab)

“The company delivered exactly what we described, and more. The system replaced all our paper sheets and our managers actually use it every day. We saved hours on payroll each month.”

Robert PolákExecutive Director, Polákstav s.r.o.

Who builds it

Lukáš Novák

Senior frontend and React Native developer, founder of Novak Design

Novak Design is a one-developer studio. You work with me directly: the intro call, the design, the code and the launch are all mine, with no sales layer and no lost-in-translation hand-offs. I have built apps since January 2018, first in teams working for J&T Banka, Škoda Auto, Groupon and the Czech sports federations, and since 2026 under my own studio.

  • 8+ years of experience, since January 2018
  • Experience from teams at J&T Banka, Škoda Auto and Groupon
  • Web and mobile apps in React, Next.js and React Native
  • My own product, Evidenka, live in Slovakia and Czechia
Full career

Who it is for

How we work together

Four steps with clear timelines. You always know where the project stands.

  1. 0130-60 min

    Intro call

    We talk about your company, the problem and what success looks like. No technical jargon.

  2. 021-2 days

    Proposal and scope

    You get in writing what I will build, what it will cost and when it will be ready. No hidden fees, no vague estimates.

  3. 032-8 weeks

    Design and build

    I work in short cycles. You see progress every week and can give feedback at any time.

  4. 041-2 days

    Launch and handover

    We launch the system together and I show your team how to use it. I stay available after launch.

What it costs

Evidenka has public pricing at evidenka.sk and you can try it free for 7 days. A custom system is priced by scope: after the intro call you get a written proposal with the price and the delivery date within 1-2 days.

What drives the price of a custom system

  • Number of modules and roles
  • Your rules for wages and advances
  • Moving data from spreadsheets
  • Connections to accounting or other systems

Questions

Does time tracking work on a phone without installing an app?

Yes. Polákstav and Evidenka both run in the phone's browser. A worker opens the link, signs in and logs the hours in three taps.

What is the difference between Evidenka and a custom system?

Evidenka is a ready-made product: you have your own instance within 48 hours and pay according to the pricing at evidenka.sk. A custom system follows your own process, for when you need something Evidenka does not have.

Can I try the system first?

Yes, free for 7 days: every module, logins for the office and for people in the field, your logo and sample data from your industry. No credit card, no commitment, and the demo is ready within 48 hours.

Which companies is it for?

Companies with people in the field: construction, installation, trades and services, in Slovakia and Czechia.

Does it calculate payroll and advances?

Yes. From attendance and rates it works out who gets how much in hand, advances included, to the cent.

Can the system carry our logo and colours?

Yes. Evidenka takes your company's logo and colours. If you need your own modules or process, I build a custom system.

Does the system track location with GPS or QR codes?

Not in the Polákstav system. Workers log their own hours on the phone in three taps, and after the deadline the day locks so it can no longer change. The system does not track location and needs no QR codes or terminals. If you really need GPS, we can discuss it for a custom system.

Can the output go to our payroll accountant?

Yes. Evidenka exports to CSV and PDF and has its own login for the accountant, who can check the payroll figures on their own.

Tell me what you need built.

I reply within one working day, in Slovak, Czech or English.