TemporSTF Electrics: Accurate Time & Pay for a Mobile Electrical Workforce
STF Electrics runs a team of electricians across client sites in the UK — work that moves between locations, mixes day-rate and hourly pay, and relies on a bilingual (English/Romanian) crew. Here's what they use Temporra for, day to day.
The challenge
Electrical contracting doesn't happen at a desk. STF's electricians move between sites, work is often priced by the day rather than the hour, and a subcontractor workforce means every hour has to be traceable to a specific job for CIS purposes — not just added to a weekly total. On top of that, instructions and confirmations need to work in both English and Romanian, so whatever system the team used had to be genuinely easy to use on a phone, in either language, without a supervisor chasing people to fill in paperwork correctly.
What STF Electrics uses in Temporra
- Face-verified, geofenced clock-in. Each electrician clocks in from their own phone; Temporra checks the face against their enrolled profile and confirms the phone is inside the geofence drawn around that site, so a punch only counts if the right person is actually there.
- Per-site geofencing around STF's job locations, including their long-running site at Beachfields Leisure Centre, so attendance is tied to the correct address rather than a general area.
- Day-rate invoicing with the job attached. Where work is billed by the day, each line on the invoice shows the job that day was worked on — not just a total — so nothing has to be reconstructed from memory at invoice time.
- CIS-ready exports for subcontractor payments, with the 20%/30% deduction split handled automatically rather than calculated by hand each month.
- A bilingual interface, so the same app works for the whole crew without translation being a barrier to adoption.
Why it matters
Before a system like this, the usual failure points are the same on every site: hours get written down after the fact instead of captured as they happen, a day-rate invoice arrives with a blank or generic "job" field because nobody wrote it down at the time, and a supervisor has no easy way to confirm someone clocked in from the actual site rather than somewhere nearby. Temporra closes each of those gaps at the point the hours are logged, rather than trying to fix them afterwards in a spreadsheet.
Frequently asked questions
Who is STF Electrics?
A UK electrical contractor whose electricians work across client sites, including long-running work such as Beachfields Leisure Centre.
Why did STF Electrics choose Temporra?
They needed phone-based clock-in for a mobile, bilingual team, hours tied to the correct site by GPS and face verification, and invoicing that shows which job each day belongs to — without extra admin.
What does STF Electrics use day to day?
Face-verified, geofenced clock-in from each electrician's own phone, day-rate invoicing broken down by job, and CIS-ready exports for subcontractor payments.
See also: Stop buddy punching · CIS payroll guide · Pricing