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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From Wasted Minutes to Wasted Dollars: The Real Cost of Jobsite Non-Productivity
Walk onto any active construction site, and you’ll see a flurry of activity. Hard hats are moving, equipment is running, and materials are being staged. But is all that activity the same as productivity?
For many construction firms, a silent killer is eating away at the bottom line: non-productive time. It’s not just about a worker leaning on a shovel. It’s a systemic issue of wasted minutes that quickly snowball into tens, or even hundreds, of thousands of dollars in lost profit.
The problem is that most of this lost time is invisible. It’s hidden in guesstimated paper timecards and “close enough” daily reports. But just because you can’t see it doesn’t mean it isn’t costing you.
The “Wrench Time” Reality Check
Industry studies on “wrench time”—the amount of time a craft worker spends on direct, value-adding work—are often shocking. It’s not uncommon for true wrench time to be as low as 30-40% of an 8-hour day.
Let that sink in. For every 8-hour shift you pay for, you may only be getting 3-4 hours of actual productive work.
So, where does the rest of the time go? It’s often death by a thousand cuts, falling into a few common buckets:
- Waiting: Waiting for materials to be delivered, waiting for equipment to become available, waiting for instructions from a supervisor, or waiting for another crew to finish their task.
- Excessive Travel: Time spent walking to and from a con-ex box for tools, searching for the foreman, or moving between work areas on a large, disorganized site.
- Rework: Having to demo and redo work that was done incorrectly the first time due to bad information or poor oversight. This is a double-loss: you pay for the initial bad work and the time to fix it.
- Poor Planning: Crews arriving at a work area without the right tools, prints, or materials, forcing them to scramble and problem-solve instead of build.
- Administrative Waste: Time spent at the end of the day trying to remember what was worked on and manually filling out a paper timecard.
Doing the Math: How Minutes Become Dollars
This lost time isn’t just an operational headache; it’s a direct financial drain. The key is to stop thinking about a worker’s wage and start thinking about their fully-burdened labor rate.
This rate includes not just the hourly wage but also:
- Payroll Taxes (FICA, FUTA)
- Workers’ Compensation Insurance
- Liability Insurance
- Health Benefits
- Retirement Contributions
- Paid Time Off
A worker earning $35/hour might actually cost your company $50/hour or more when fully burdened.
Now, let’s run a simple calculation.
The Cost of “Just 30 Minutes”
- Lost time per worker: 30 minutes (0.5 hours) per day
- Burdened labor rate: $50/hour
- Cost per worker, per day: 0.5 hours x $50 = $25
That doesn’t sound like much. But let’s scale it.
- On a crew of 10 workers: $25 x 10 = $250 per day
- In a single 5-day week: $250 x 5 = $1,250 per week
- Over a 50-week year: $1,250 x 50 = $62,500
That’s $62,500 in lost profit from a single crew losing just 30 minutes a day. Now, multiply that by every crew you have in the field.
The Snowball Effect: It’s Worse Than You Think
The $62,500 in our example is only the direct labor cost. The secondary, “snowball” costs of non-productivity are just as damaging:
- Project Delays: Lost time extends your schedule. Every day you run past the original completion date costs you in general conditions (trailer rentals, management salaries, equipment rentals).
- Liquidated Damages: If those delays push you past the contract deadline, you face steep financial penalties for every day you’re late.
- Opportunity Cost: The crew that’s stuck on a delayed project can’t move on to start the next profitable job, stalling your company’s cash flow and growth.
- Poor Estimates: When your field data is inaccurate, your estimators are blind. They continue to base new bids on faulty historicals, baking in these same invisible losses from the start.
How to Stop the Bleeding: You Can’t Fix What You Don’t Measure
The first step to solving non-productivity is to make it visible.
This is where traditional paper timecards fail. They are the enemy of productivity. A paper timecard that says “8 hours – Framing” tells you nothing. It can’t show you that 1.5 of those hours were spent waiting for a lumber delivery and 45 minutes were spent searching for the right air compressor.
To stop the bleeding, you need real-time, accurate, and detailed field data. You need to know:
- What task is this crew actually working on right now?
- How many hours have been spent on that specific cost code?
- Are we ahead of or behind our budget for that task today, not next month?
- Why did a crew suddenly stop work? (e.g., “Waiting on Materials,” “Equipment Down”)
This is the visibility that a modern time tracking solution like mJobTime provides. By empowering supervisors to capture detailed labor, equipment, and production data directly from the field, you move from guessing to knowing.
When you can see exactly where time and money are being lost, you can finally take action. You can fix the bottleneck, hold the right people accountable, and turn those wasted minutes back into dollars.
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Stop letting invisible losses drain your profits. Discover how mJobTime provides the real-time visibility you need to reclaim lost hours and protect your bottom line.