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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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Iron in the Fire: Why Jobsite Equipment Management is Critical for Profitability

In the construction industry, we spend a lot of time talking about Labor Management. It makes sense—labor is usually the biggest line item on any project. But sitting right behind it is your “yellow iron” and your tool inventory. 

Whether it’s heavy machinery like excavators and dozers, or the smaller power tools that tend to walk off the jobsite, equipment is cash. 

If you aren’t managing your equipment with the same rigor as your payroll, you are likely bleeding profits through invisible cracks. Here is why tightening up your equipment management at the jobsite is non-negotiable for the modern contractor. 

1. Preventing “Ghost Assets”

One of the most silent killers of a construction balance sheet is the “ghost asset”—equipment that shows up on your ledger (and your insurance premium), but is missing, stolen, or broken beyond repair in reality. 

Without active tracking, you might be paying taxes and insurance on tools that haven’t been seen in six months. Regular field reporting forces a reconciliation between what you think you have and what is actually on the ground. 

2. Accurate Job Costing (The Real Cost of Work)

If you use a skid steer for 20 hours on Project A but don’t track it, who pays for the fuel, the wear and tear, and the eventual replacement? Usually, it comes out of general overhead. 

This distorts your view of project profitability. 

  • The Goal: You need to charge the equipment usage to the specific job code, just like you charge labor hours. 
  • The Result: When you bid the next job, you’ll know exactly how much equipment usage costs you per phase, leading to sharper, safer bids. 

3. Curbing Hoarding and Underutilization

We’ve all seen it: A foreman keeps a generator or a specialized lift on his site “just in case,” while another crew three towns away is renting that same piece of equipment because they think the company inventory is tapped out. 

This is a logistics failure. By tracking equipment location and usage daily, management can see that a piece of iron is sitting idle and move it to where it’s actually needed. This reduces unnecessary rental costs and maximizes the ROI on the assets you own. 

4. Reducing Downtime (and Wasted Labor)

There is nothing more expensive than a crew of five standing around because the one machine they need broke down. 

Equipment management isn’t just about where the tool is; it’s about how it’s running. By tracking hours of usage, you can stay ahead of preventive maintenance schedules. Changing the oil on a scheduled downtime is infinitely cheaper than a blown engine during a critical pour. 

The mJobTime Approach

Managing equipment doesn’t have to mean complicated spreadsheets or expensive GPS trackers on every hammer. It starts with the data coming in from the field. 

By integrating equipment tracking with your daily field reporting, you ensure that when hours are logged for the crew, hours are also logged for the machines. It provides the visibility you need to turn your equipment from a logistical headache into a profit-generating asset. 

Need to get a handle on your yellow iron?

Discover how mJobTime helps you track labor, equipment, and daily logs all in one mobile-friendly interface.