TrackTik runs day-to-day security operations for guarding companies: guard tour checkpoints scanned by NFC, QR, barcode, or GPS, dispatch and incident reporting with time-stamped evidence, scheduling, client billing, and payroll preparation. Its Attendance & Resolution tools give a real-time view of who has clocked in, let a scheduler manually punch a guard in or out through Batch Timeclock, and track disputed clock times as exception tickets that can carry a comment and move to an Approved status — and if an administrator manually adjusts a shift’s punch time, the original timestamp is preserved as a “Manual Time Edit” note. What TrackTik’s own published support material does not describe is a distinct second approver for that Approved status, separate from the same scheduler or administrator who already holds the permission to edit the exception. Keito is the layer in between: AI-drafted time entries a guard confirms, reviewed and approved by someone else, with any change reasoned and recorded, before the hours become a paycheck.
Illustrative review queue
Illustrative pay period
Hours reviewed
Entries confirmed
64
Sites covered
21
Guards reviewed
38
Hours tied to each post and shift
Guard, site, and shift on every entry
Reviewed before payroll runs
A separate reviewer confirms hours before the batch closes
Evidence behind payroll
Reviewed hours back payroll and labor-cost reporting
TrackTik’s Attendance & Resolution suite gives schedulers a real-time Attendance Watch view of who is clocked in, a Batch Timeclock to manually punch guards in or out, and geofence clock-in rules that can permit-with-exception or block a clock-in outside a site’s radius. Disputed or missing punches become exception tickets — each with a unique number, an optional comment, and a status that can move to Pending, Attention Required, or Approved — and if an administrator manually adjusts a shift’s start or end time, the original punch survives as a “Manual Time Edit” entry in the shift’s Notes/History. What TrackTik’s own support documentation does not describe is a distinct second approver for that Approved status: the same Attendance & Resolution permission that edits the exception also resolves it. Keito answers the question that leaves open: did someone other than the person who can edit the record actually confirm each guard’s hours, with a reason logged for any change, before those hours became a labor cost and a paycheck.
Set up guards, schedulers, and reviewers in Keito in days — TrackTik keeps running guard tours, dispatch, incident reporting, and client billing exactly as it does today.
Keito drafts a time entry from the shift a guard actually worked, so they confirm hours for that post instead of relying on an exception ticket that the same scheduler who edits it can also approve.
A reviewer distinct from the editor approves payroll status before the period closes, then hands the approved hours to payroll or whichever system tracks labor cost.
A resolvable exception ticket built into security operations software, not a payroll gate
TrackTik is published as workforce management software for the physical security industry: guard tour checkpoints verified by NFC, QR, barcode, or GPS scan, mobile dispatch and patrol assignment, incident reporting enriched with time-stamped photo, video, audio, and GPS evidence, scheduling, client billing and invoicing, payroll preparation, and analytics. Its Attendance & Resolution tools are real, documented functionality: Attendance Watch gives a live view of who has clocked in, Batch Timeclock lets a scheduler manually punch a guard in or out, and geofence clock-in rules can permit-with-exception or block a clock-in outside a site’s radius. Disputed or missing punches become exception tickets with a unique number, an optional comment, and a status a scheduler can move to Pending, Attention Required, or Approved; TrackTik’s own support documentation also states that when an administrator manually adjusts a shift’s punch time, the original timestamp is not deleted — it survives as a “Manual Time Edit” entry in the shift’s Notes/History. What that same documentation does not describe is a distinct second approver for that Approved status, separate from the scheduler or administrator who already holds the Attendance & Resolution permission and made the correction. Keito’s argument is not that guarding companies need a new dispatch, guard-tour, or incident-reporting platform — TrackTik already publishes all of that. It is that the hours behind a paycheck deserve a reviewer distinct from whoever can edit the exception, and a recorded reason for any change, not an exception-resolution workflow where editing and approving are the same permission. Keito drafts a time entry from the shift worked, the guard confirms it, and a separate reviewer settles payroll status before the hours become evidence for a paycheck. The boundary is deliberate: Keito has no guard tour checkpoints, dispatch, or incident reporting, and it claims no native TrackTik integration, automatic import, or synchronisation. TrackTik keeps running security operations; Keito is where the hours behind them get an independent, reasoned review.
Choose TrackTik when the guarding company needs guard tour checkpoints, dispatch, incident reporting, scheduling, and client billing running from one platform
Choose Keito when the problem is that TrackTik’s exception-resolution status has no described second approver distinct from the person who edited it
Prove it in one pay period: Keito runs alongside TrackTik, reviewing guard hours without touching guard tours or dispatch
Workflow fit
Keito keeps TrackTik alternative connected to client, project, billable status, approval, and invoice context before the work reaches finance.
Choose TrackTik when the guarding company needs guard tour checkpoints, dispatch, incident reporting, scheduling, and client billing running from one platform
Choose Keito when the problem is that TrackTik’s exception-resolution status has no described second approver distinct from the person who edited it
Prove it in one pay period: Keito runs alongside TrackTik, reviewing guard hours without touching guard tours or dispatch
Keito drafts a time entry from the shift a guard actually worked; they confirm and correct it instead of relying on an exception ticket the same scheduler who edits it can also approve.
TrackTik documents resolving attendance exceptions and moving their status to Approved under the same Attendance & Resolution permission used to edit them, without describing a distinct second approver; Keito’s reviewer settles payroll status for every entry, with a reason recorded for any change, before the period closes.
Reviewers approve guard hours and hand the evidence to payroll or whichever system tracks labor cost, through exports the team designs and tests itself.
The difference is not just recording time. It is whether the record can support billing, project decisions, and client conversations.
Product shape
A standalone workspace for reviewed, payroll-ready guard hours and labor-cost evidence.
TrackTik publishes workforce management software for the physical security industry — guard tours, dispatch, incident reporting, scheduling, client billing, and payroll preparation.
How time is captured
AI drafts a shift-specific entry from the work that happened; the guard confirms it, and a separate reviewer approves before it becomes a labor cost or paycheck.
TrackTik’s Attendance Watch and Batch Timeclock track and manually punch guard clock-ins and clock-outs, with geofence rules and exception tickets for disputed punches.
Stated purpose of an attendance exception
Every reviewed hour is meant to back payroll and labor-cost evidence from the start.
TrackTik’s own support documentation frames exceptions as scheduling and attendance issues to resolve — like vacant shifts or unconfirmed shifts — not as a payroll-approval gate with a described second reviewer.
Review before payroll
A reviewer distinct from the editor settles payroll status per entry, with any change reasoned and recorded, before the period closes.
TrackTik’s published material describes resolving an exception ticket and setting its status to Approved under the same Attendance & Resolution permission used to edit it, with no distinct second approver described.
Pricing and adoption
Published flat team pricing and a setup measured in days, run alongside TrackTik.
TrackTik does not publish per-guard or per-site pricing; Trackforce quotes cost by sites and modules after a sales conversation.
Data movement
Team-designed, tested exports and API handoffs moved in deliberate stages.
No native Keito-TrackTik import or automatic synchronisation is assumed in either direction; TrackTik’s own reporting covers guard tours, dispatch, and client billing, not independent payroll review.
It is software a security guarding company adopts instead of, or alongside, TrackTik, which runs guard tour checkpoints, dispatch, incident reporting, scheduling, and client billing. Because TrackTik already covers that much of daily security operations, an alternative rarely replaces all of it at once. Keito is the alternative for the review gap in TrackTik’s exception-resolution workflow: AI-drafted entries the guard confirms, approved by a separate reviewer before those hours become a paycheck.
It does both. TrackTik’s Attendance Watch gives a real-time view of clock-ins, Batch Timeclock lets a scheduler manually punch a guard in or out, and geofence rules can permit-with-exception or block a clock-in outside a site’s radius. Disputed or missing punches become exception tickets with an optional comment and a status a scheduler can set to Approved — and TrackTik’s own support documentation states that a manually adjusted shift keeps its original punch time as a “Manual Time Edit” note in the shift’s Notes/History.
The gap is a second approver, not attendance data. TrackTik already tracks clock-ins, resolves exceptions, and preserves a manually adjusted shift’s original punch time, but its own documentation does not describe a distinct approver for an exception’s Approved status beyond the scheduler or administrator who already holds the permission to edit it. Keito adds that layer: it drafts a time entry from the shift worked, the guard confirms it, and a separate reviewer settles payroll status, with a reason recorded for any change, before the hours become evidence for a paycheck. TrackTik still owns guard tours, dispatch, incident reporting, and client billing; Keito owns the independently reviewed hours record.
Choose TrackTik when the company needs guard tour checkpoints, dispatch, incident reporting, scheduling, and client billing running from one platform — it already covers all of that for security guarding operations. Keito does not reproduce any of it: no guard tours, no dispatch, no incident reporting. It is the wrong choice if the immediate need is a security operations platform rather than an independently reviewed record of guard hours.
Each reviewed record keeps the guard, site or post reference, shift, duration, description, payroll status, reviewer, approval state, and pay period, tied to the specific shift a guard worked rather than an exception ticket that could be resolved and approved under the same permission used to run daily operations. That package backs the payroll run and gives an operations manager a reviewed answer when a guard’s hours are questioned.
No. Keito claims no native TrackTik integration, automatic import, or two-way synchronisation — TrackTik’s own guard tours, dispatch, incident reporting, and attendance exceptions belong to its platform, not Keito’s. Capture in Keito is its own workflow: AI-drafted, typed, timed, and manually entered records that pass review before becoming payroll evidence. A guarding company can keep TrackTik for guard tours, dispatch, and incident reporting and run Keito alongside it as the independent review layer for guard hours, with any transfer between them designed and tested by the team.
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