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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The True Cost of Inaccurate Material Tracking
When you don’t have a real-time handle on material usage, you expose your business to a host of expensive problems:
- Cost Overruns: Without knowing exactly what materials were used on a specific task or cost code, it’s impossible to know where a budget is going off the rails until it’s too late.
- Inaccurate Job Costing: True profitability can only be calculated by weighing all costs against revenue. If your material data is delayed or inaccurate, your job costing is fundamentally flawed.
- Waste and Theft: Materials left over, damaged, or lost on a job site are pure profit loss. A robust tracking system makes it easy to spot discrepancies and hold teams accountable.
- Poor Future Bidding: How can you confidently bid on the next project if you don’t have precise data on how much material the last one actually required? Accurate historical data is the key to competitive and profitable bids.
Gain Real-Time Control with mJob
Waiting for paperwork to catch up is no longer an option. mJob extends its powerful, field-first data collection capabilities to material reporting, giving you the same real-time visibility you have with your labor.
Here’s how mJob closes the loop on job costing:
- Field-Based Data Entry: Your foremen and crew leads can easily report material usage directly from their mobile devices on the job site. No more waiting for crumpled receipts to make it back to the office.
- Assign to Cost Codes: Don’t just track what was used; track why. mJob allows your team to assign materials to specific jobs, phases, and cost codes, giving your project managers incredible detail and control.
- Instant Visibility: As soon as materials are entered in the field, the data is available to your team in the office. This allows project managers to monitor budget vs. actuals in real-time and make proactive decisions to keep projects on track.
- A Complete Picture of Profitability: By combining precise, real-time labor data with real-time material data within the same system, mJob provides a complete, accurate, and immediate view of your project’s financial health.
Stop Guessing, Start Knowing
Your materials are one of your biggest investments; it’s time to track them with the same level of importance as your labor. By empowering your field staff to capture this critical data, you can eliminate guesswork, reduce waste, and build more accurate bids for the future.
Ready to get a complete view of your job costs? Contact mJob today to learn more about our material reporting features and schedule a personalized demo!