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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Avoid This Huge Mistake When Implementing Your Time Tracking Solution
Buying software can be a very harrowing experience. The motivation usually comes from problems your field and/or office users have had to deal with until they reach the breaking point, at which time, they want you to fix the issues, pronto!
So you start doing your due diligence and begin researching the available options. You find out that there are approximately 50,000 potential solutions, or so it seems, and now, you’ve got to narrow your choices down to a few.
At this point, you make a few phone calls, send out a questionnaire, or maybe you even do some cursory demos to get down to smaller list of feasible options. Now you schedule more in-depth demos, gather your people together, and listen to the various presentations.
Afterwards, you review the options, decide on a list of finalists, and once more schedule demos. The team sits through the most thorough presentations to-date, and after intense discussions, reference checks, and maybe another demo or two, you finally make your choice.
It may be six months to a year after you started this assignment, but before you pat yourself on the back, just know that your job as the head of this project is just beginning. You are now entering a crucial phase, and it is critical that you get it right from this point on.
What am I talking about?
I’m referring to setting the tone and the expectations for implementing this mission. Maybe the biggest reason why software implementations fail, and they fail fairly often, is a lack of leadership and commitment on the part of management.
We had a customer who went to great lengths to insure that the mobile time tracking solution they purchased was the right fit for their company. They did their homework and were very comfortable with their selection. After initial planning discussions, our implementation specialists went on-site to install and configure the software and train their users. Everything seemed to be going smoothly until, after the completion of the training, one of the field managers made a seemingly innocent remark to our technician, “the software looks great, I just hope we can get our guys to use it.”
Fortunately, situations like this one don’t happen too frequently, but when they do, it is very unsettling as well as unnecessary. The leaders of this company have seen the value of our software, made a fairly sizable investment in it, and now are leaving the success of the project to chance. Instead, they should have communicated to all employees that the new software was purchased to make it easier for everyone to do their job, and to do it more accurately and with better documentation.
Good communication and monitoring goes hand in hand with a solid commitment. Management needs to be totally engaged in the project. Field managers should closely and continuously monitor the progress and performance of their users. They might even contemplate assigning a “champion” of the software to work with those users who might be struggling a bit. As a minimum, they need to insure that access to technical support is readily available.
If you are considering purchasing a time tracking software solution, be sure to do your due diligence, and once you’ve done that, plan on making a total commitment to the success of this project. You’ll be happy you did.
Our professional sales associates will help you find the right solution for your company, even if it’s not mJob. But if it is, our experienced and knowledgeable technical staff will work closely with you to achieve a successful implementation. We want happy customers, and we’re prepared to do the work necessary to make them happy. Please don’t hesitate to contact us by phone at 1-866-922-TIME (8463), by email at info@mjobtime.com
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
— Albert Schweitzer