Custom Time Clock Software: Mobile Solutions for the Construction Industry
Gain Added Efficiency By Customizing Your Mobile Time Clock Software
Tailoring mJobTime’s Custom Time Clock Software To Meet The Special Needs of Your Business
At mJobTime, we have focused on giving our customers a large number of configuration options to make our application as flexible as possible. However, software programs are designed to accommodate the maximum number of companies possible. We realize that there are going to be situations where mJobTime may not address certain facets of your business processes, but we ultimately strive to provide employee time clock solutions that will be unique to every business.
We look upon these situations as opportunities. This is because we love to get input from our customers about our time clocks for construction as well as our other software. Many times, this input can lead to a new feature or functionality that becomes a standard part of the program. Oftentimes, when the amount of work and time involved is not significant, we will do the work at no charge. Even in those situations where there is a substantial amount of resources required to do the work, if we feel it will improve the product, we often will share the cost of the modification with the customer. In those situations where the customization is very unique to a customer, we will provide a quote for the work and allow the customer to make their own decision.
Whatever the case, our development team has earned quite a reputation for doing outstanding work in a reasonable time period. They will work with you to get a detailed understanding of your needs, propose a solution, develop and test the solution, and follow-up to insure that our employee time clock solutions are working as intended once released. Our customers constantly rave about the amount of time we have saved them with our modifications. Usually, the ROI on our customizations is very short.
Whether it’s a special report or a very specific way to calculate travel or per diem pay, our crackerjack development staff is always ready to meet your custom modification challenges. They thrive on being able to make mJobTime (and our time clocks for construction) meet even your most stringent and unique requirements.
mJobTime Mobile Time Clock Software Customization Examples
- Allow customer to clock in crews with equipment attached, but only post the equipment to one employee’s time card (not the entire crew).
- Allow Supervisor user to transfer individual existing time records to a different company, verifying that all (pronoun) time record fields are valid in the “transfer-to” company, and disabling transfers for “Approved” and
“Exported” records. - Add a new labor report for commercial drivers with the following columns:
- Last Name
- First Name
- Position
- Last Day Off
- Next Mandated Day Off
- Total Hours since Last Day Off
- Hours Remaining (in the cycle)
- Create a delimited file of time and material for our customer to send to their customer, and as a second customization, generate an invoice in their customer’s format.
- Modify our Weekly Time Entry screen to allow for daily distribution of time by sub-job.
- Create new functions to facilitate entry, tracking, and calculation of per diem and travel pay for employees on jobs:
- Allow users to enter per diem and travel rates per job
- Allow users to enter per diem and travel transactions
- Allow administrative users to export per diem and travel transactions to “Bank File” and “Timberline Export”.
- Customize the mJobTime Crew feature to track:
- Day or night shift per crew
- Craft code per employee
- Alternate employee ID per employee
- Per diem code per employee
- Travel code per employee
- Modify the export to accounting to create a text file export and add special calculations described below:
- Specifications
- A maximum of 40 hours per week will be exported for salaried employees
- Salaried employees will be identified by a field in the employee table.
- Time records beyond the 40 hour limit will remain in mJobTime and will be flagged as “exported”.
- For time records that include task codes beginning with “41” populate the “GL Exp Acct” field as follows:
- The second segment of the task code
- Followed by the employee’s department number (two-digit-zero-filled)
- The employee’s dept number will be pulled from a field in the employee table Examples: “500503”, “500603”
- Develop a custom version of the “Daily Time Sheet Entry by Employee” screen:
- To include a five-row header,
- Make the Job Number column header span all columns for the same job.
- As new columns are added, insert them into the grid sorted in ascending order by Job Number, then by the last five digits of the Cost Code, then by Extra.
- Remove color shading of alternate rows in grid and add a solid line between rows
- Shade “REG”, “OVT”, and “DBL” columns in White/Lt Blue/Dark Blue
- Increase allowable distribution columns to 30
- Divide the “Total” column into “REG”, “OVT”, and “DBL” sub-columns and display the appropriate totals for each row broken down into the three Pay IDs.
- Replace the “Save” button acknowledgement dialog with the following custom dialog:
- “Entries will be recorded with the following Date: ##/##/####”
- Allow user to click “OK” or “Cancel”
- Allow users to save selected distribution columns for multiple jobs and have them default whenever a job is selected for time entry.
- Add Edit, Review, and Approve functions to the Daily Time Entry screen.
Let us provide you with a personalized demo today. As you can see, a custom time clock from mJobTime can supply your business with many helpful resources.
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6 Tips for Hiring and Keeping Quality
Construction Labor
The most time intensive part of running any business is managing human resources. Finding and keeping good, quality employees takes energy, but it pays off when your staff is happy. Happy crews lead to quality work, accurate labor time, and less staff turnover.
Here are some ways to help ensure that you are placing your efforts in the right places.
Create a Unique Job Posting
When writing online job posts, referral flyers or personal emails, make sure to convey your company’s brand. Create the post in the manner that conveys how fun your crew is to work with, how you feel when you finish a productive day, or how your customers feel about working with you. All of these are selling points on why quality employee prospects should work with you.
Ask for Referrals
Prospects are asked to provide a list of previous positions when compiling and submitting an application for employment. Make sure to reach out to the prospect’s previous employers. Prepare a list of brief questions to gauge the prospect’s familiarity with the requirements of the role, trustworthiness, and overall compatibility with your company’s vision.
Offer Referral Incentives
Your current and former employees likely know a handful of other people that work in construction, too. After working for a period of time, crew members develop and maintain relationships with one another. Tap into those relationships by offering your staff incentives for referring their friends and family. A simple way to encourage referrals is by offering gift cards or bonus pay incentives.
Retain Good Employees
Keeping your employees engaged and invested is the best way to ensure their job satisfaction. Share your company successes with frequent company-wide updates, emails, newsletters, etc. Keep staff up to date with new business wins and share customer satisfaction communication. Your success is due in large part to their dedication and service.
Share the wealth of your company’s success with incentive bonuses and parties. The reward doesn’t have to be huge to make an impact. Parties create positivememories, and unexpected bonuses can make a big impact in an hourly employees well-being.
Maintain Relationships with Previous Employees
When good employees part ways for appropriate reasons, it is good business practice to maintain a relationship with those alumni. Keep a readilyaccessible list of former employees, and make a point to contact them once a year to keep your company at the top of their mind. Continue to invite previous employees to selected company events, cookouts, and other informal occasions. As their life changes, that effort that you made to stay in contact with great former employees will pay off when they come back.
Make Recruitment a Part of Your Day, Each Day
Set aside a portion of your day to accomplish human resource tasks. Even when you are fully staffed for every project, new projects and employee turnover is always inevitably looming ahead. It is always better to be proactively prepared for changes instead of being reactionary.
These are just a few tips that can easily yield great results for your construction business. What tips do you have for finding and keeping quality construction labor?
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