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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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BYOD Considerations For A Mobile Time
Tracking System

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is a policy that permits employees to use personally owned mobile devices (laptops, tablets, and smart phones) at their workplace to access confidential company information and applications. BYOD first appeared on the scene in 2009, but really didn’t gain any significant traction until early 2011. Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group recently released the results of a BYOD survey of 2,400 mobile users across six countries and many industries, and as expected, the report shows increasing acceptance of BYOD. We’d like to share with you some of the results of this survey. Who uses BYOD
  • Only 36% of companies surveyed by Cisco currently have a policy, but an additional 32% plan to add one within the next 12 months. Only 16% have no current plans for implementing.
  • 34% allow BYOD with limitations (providing a list of sanctioned devices) while 24% allow their users to choose any device
  • Early adopters of BYOD targeted smartphones, because managing them was relatively easy given a phone’s limited data capacity and functions. Then companies expanded BYOD programs to tablets. Presumably, laptops will be next since they are the primary productivity tool for the majority of knowledge workers.
  • 81 percent of BYOD-ers use smartphones, 56 percent use tablets and 37 percent use laptops.
Why you should offer BYOD
  • Nearly half of all mobile worker respondents prefer BYOD over corporate devices, and as much as 29% prefer BYOD even though their companies don’t provide corporate devices
  • BYOD-ers spend an average $965 purchasing their own devices for work, and an additional $734 annually on mobile voice and data plans (not including monthly reimbursement stipends)
  • The average BYOD-er would require a $2,200 signing bonus to jump to a company that doesn’t support BYOD
  • The average U.S. BYOD knowledge worker saves 81 minutes per week thanks to using their own devices
Why you shouldn’t offer BYOD
  • Thirty percent of mobile users would rather use corporate-provisioned devices, and 25% of current BYOD-ers would rather use corporate devices because of the technical support provided with corporate provided devices
Implementing BYOD If you are considering implementing a BYOD policy, here are some generalized suggestions on how to move forward:
  • Develop and communicate a sound usage policy clearly communicating what will and won’t be allowed for users
  • Involve all possible stakeholders
    • Understand your security risks
      • Can you prevent sensitive data from being housed on any remote devices?
      • Can you protect employee devices and company data from malicious software and unauthorized access?
    • Understand your legal risks. How will you handle:
      • Privacy considerations such as limiting the collection of any employee personal data from the personal mobile device?
      • Situations involving inadvertent damage to an employee’s personal data?
      • Situations where an employer-owned device is lost or stolen?
    • Understand your financial risks
      • Will you provide total, partial, or no reimbursement for the cost of the employee’s device?
      • How much will you subsidize service plan fees?
    • Understand your resource risks
    • What level of participation will your technical staff be responsible for in setting up employee devices and supporting applications?
    • What devices will you support?
    • What applications will you support?
  • Train your employees on responsible, productive mobility
  • Monitor the program
BYOD considerations for a mobile time tracking system As we mentioned in earlier posts, great leaps forward in mobile technology, have made mobile time tracking applications accessible to companies big and small. If your company has or is considering implementing a BYOD policy, and is also considering adding a mobile time clock application, there are a few important things you need to look for before you make your purchase.
  • Will your company data be housed on the remote device itself? If so, how does the wireless time tracking application handle situations where a device is lost or stolen?
  • Does the mobile time tracking software provide an access route to the company’s sensitive and confidential data?
  • Does the remote time tracking application under consideration use encrypted access with user names and passwords?  This provides an additional layer of security should the device get in the wrong hands.
  • Will the application “time out” after a period of inactivity? This will require the person in possession of the device, to log back in to the program with the encrypted data.
  • Can the system filter the data sent to a remote user? Limiting a user to a specific sub-set of company data also limits the amount of company data susceptible to loss or misuse in those situations where the data resides on the device.
A good, well thought out BYOD policy can save you money and improve employee morale, but it needs to be evaluated in terms of the increased security, legal, financial, and resource risks that it may bring about. Weigh all the factors carefully before making your decision. Good luck!