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2 categories · Named, not ranked

TimeClock Plus

15Judge labels

2First choices

5Negative labels

9 of 12Models named it

2Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

4 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. TimeClock Plus was named 4 times in Time and attendance and 1 other category, where UKG Ready led with 15%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business14 of 73

under the label threshold

Mid-market89 of 90

under the label threshold

Enterprise15 of 104

under the label threshold

In time and attendance · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named TimeClock Plus for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Time and attendance	Core HR and payroll	0%	89 of 90	67%	3	under 10 labels · led by UKG Ready at 15%
Workforce scheduling	Core HR and payroll	0%	53 of 94	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Deputy at 26%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for TimeClock Plus yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated TimeClock Plus across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	1	1
Mistral Small	1	0	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	1	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative4 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained2 labels2

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative5 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative15 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 3 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“ADP Workforce Now or TimeClock Plus may be better suited” Mistral Small · Workforce scheduling · paraphrase prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Targeted in 2019 class actions for fingerprint scans.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Time and attendance · negative prompt · hard negative

“Slow responses, weak onboarding, unresolved technical problems affecting payroll handoff.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Time and attendance · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as TimeClock Plus, over the 15 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and TimeClock Plus was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Clockify8 of 150Not in the top three

Connecteam7 of 151Not in the top three

Homebase6 of 152Not in the top three

Deputy5 of 150Not in the top three

QuickBooks Time5 of 150Not in the top three

OnTheClock4 of 151Not in the top three

When I Work4 of 151Not in the top three

Buddy Punch4 of 150Not in the top three

Keka4 of 150Not in the top three

greytHR4 of 150Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named TimeClock Plus. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 15 of the 15 answers that named TimeClock Plus and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

selectsoftwarereviews.com11

business.com10

forbes.com7

gartner.com6

peoplemanagingpeople.com6

bigideasdb.com5

g2.com5

apps365.com4

firsthr.app4

fitsmallbusiness.com4

Sixty-two of the sixty-two domain citations in answers naming TimeClock Plus came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

selectsoftwarereviews.com/buyer-guide/time-and-attendance-software11

business.com/categories/time-and-attendance-software10

forbes.com/advisor/business/software/best-time-attendance-software7

bigideasdb.com/software/time-attendance5

gartner.com/reviews/market/time-and-attendance-software5

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-time-and-attendance-software5

apps365.com/blog/best-time-and-attendance-software4

fitsmallbusiness.com/best-time-and-attendance-software4

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as TimeClock Plus

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as TimeClock Plus; a claim can dispute any of them.

TCP TimeClock Plus 1Timeclock Plus 1

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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when TimeClock Plus's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as TimeClock Plus, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at timeclockplus.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.