PunchWhat's new in Punch 3.2: PTO accruals, plans from $1.99, and 15 countries
This is the biggest release Punch has shipped. Three things, and each one opens a door that was closed before.
Time off now accrues on its own, with tenure built in. There are two new plans for the smallest teams, starting at $1.99 a month. And Punch jumped from seven countries to fifteen, eight new ones in a single release, each with its own currency and overtime rules.
Here is what landed, and why each one matters.
PTO that accrues by itself
Tracking paid time off in a spreadsheet is where good intentions go to die. Someone takes three days, someone forgets to write it down, and by year end nobody trusts the numbers.
Punch 3.2 ends that. You set the policy once, and balances build themselves.
Open Time off settings as an owner and you get three controls.
Accrual, per type. For each kind of leave you offer, vacation, sick, personal, floating holidays, and volunteer time, you set how many hours a year it earns. Punch spreads that across every pay period automatically, on your weekly or bi-weekly schedule. You can cap a balance so it stops growing past a ceiling, or leave it uncapped. Turn a type off and it simply does not accrue.
Tenure milestones. Loyalty should pay. You set service thresholds, and once an employee crosses one, every accrual rate steps up by the multiplier you choose. A new hire and a five-year veteran can earn at different rates without you touching a single individual record. Punch reads each person's start date and applies the right tier on its own.
A waiting period. New hires can serve a probationary window before accrual begins. Set it once for the whole org.
Approved time off draws down a real balance, and managers see that balance right in the review queue before they approve, including when a request would push someone negative. No more approving a week off and finding out later it was never available.
This is the kind of feature that usually lives behind a payroll add-on or a higher tier somewhere else. In Punch it is included on every plan. See how time off works.
Two plans for the smallest teams, from $1.99
Punch used to start at a crew of five. Now it starts at one.
Punch Solo is $1.99 a month, or $19.99 a year, for a single person. It is a real one-person workspace built for contractors and freelancers. Punch in for yourself, track your hours by job site, and log your own time off as personal records. No approvals, no team chrome, none of the management surfaces a solo operator does not need. Just clean timekeeping and payroll-ready records for one.
Punch Startup is $4.99 a month, or $49.99 a year, for up to three people. The right fit for a brand-new shop or a two-person crew that is about to become three.
And the part that matters most: every plan still unlocks every feature. Solo and Startup are not stripped-down trials. PTO accruals, geofenced punch-in, overtime rules, Excel and PowerPoint exports, the full reporting suite, all of it is on the $1.99 plan exactly as it is on the $129.99 one. The only thing that changes between tiers is how many people you can add. Owners are never counted. See all the plans.
Eight new countries, for fifteen total
In 3.1 Punch covered seven countries. In 3.2 it covers fifteen.
Australia, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and South Africa now join the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, and Hong Kong.
The mechanics are the same as they have always been, and that is the point. You pick your country when you create your org, and three things follow automatically:
Your currency. An Australian crew sees Australian dollars. A shop in Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, or Belgium sees euros. A South African business sees rand. The currency follows the country everywhere payroll math appears, with no setup.
Your overtime rules. Each country's statutory working-time and overtime framework is applied for you, the same way the original seven work. Australia under Fair Work, Singapore's standard hours, UAE Labour Law, South Africa's Basic Conditions of Employment Act, and the European working-time rules for Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium. You can adjust the configuration in Org Settings, but you do not have to know the numbers to start. Estimate overtime under your rules with the free calculator, or read how overtime works across jurisdictions.
Your billing. When you subscribe, you are charged in your local currency at a local price, not a dollar amount converted at checkout.
A service business in any of these fifteen countries can run Punch in its own currency and its own rules from the first day of the trial. Not as a preview, not as a separate product. The same app.
Also in 3.2
Works offline. Punch out, start and end lunch, add a job site, and file a time-off request with no signal. Everything saves on the device and syncs when service returns, so a dead zone never costs you a punch.
Two new time-off types. Floating holidays and volunteer time join vacation, sick, personal, and unpaid, so your policy can match how your team actually takes leave.
Frequently asked questions
Do I have to calculate PTO accruals by hand? No. You set the hours per year for each type of leave once, and Punch accrues it every pay period automatically and draws it down when time off is approved. Tenure milestones and the waiting period are set once for the whole org.
What is included in the Punch Solo plan? A complete one-person workspace for $1.99 a month: punch in for yourself, track hours by job site, log your own time off, and keep payroll-ready records. Every Punch feature is included. The only limit is the seat count, one person.
Which countries does Punch support? Fifteen: the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Australia, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and South Africa. Pick yours at signup and currency, overtime rules, and billing attach automatically.
Does every plan really include every feature? Yes. PTO accruals, overtime rules, geofenced punch-in, reports, and exports are on every tier from Solo up. The only difference between plans is how many people you can add, and owners are never counted.
What this means
Punch is now the rare time-tracking app that fits a solo contractor for $1.99 and a hundred-person operation for one flat price, in fifteen countries, with paid time off that runs itself. Same per-org pricing. Same every-feature-on-every-plan promise. Owners always free.
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