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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New York Contractor No Longer Has To Fight Mountains Of Paperwork
The Company
Bana Electric Corporation has been a leading electrical contractor for power plants, schools, correctional facilities, and a wide range of other projects in the Long Island, NY area since 1955. They specialize in low, medium, and high voltage power systems, including lighting, fire alarm, and public address systems and much more.
The Challenge
For years, Bana Electric struggled under an avalanche of time sheets as their 60 employees reported labor time the old-fashioned way. According to President Stephen Bender, “Our foremen spent way too much time pushing paper.”
To make matters worse, Bender told us that tallying employee time manually across multiple job sites was overwhelming their accounting staff. “We had to go through tons of handwritten logs to find the information we were looking for. Entering data more than once really cost us a lot of time, and the daily entry was prone to error.”
The Solution
Utilizing mJob easy-to-use interface and foreman-specific synchronization, Bana has virtually eliminated all redundancy, becoming much more efficient in the process.
The staff at mJob helped Bana get up and running quickly by installing and configuring the software on their network and mobile devices as well as training their users on-site. While adopting mJob, Bana implemented new processes around the system to better manage their day-to-day operations. Now, after the field data has been entered and synced back to the office, the office staff uses the mJob Administrator component to review, edit, and report on the labor hours submitted. Once all the records have been reviewed and approved, they are exported to the accounting system using mJob direct link.
The Benefit
Bana Electric now enters data only once, and as a result, the number of daily entry errors has significantly decreased. Once the data has been synced back to the office, the administrative staff now just reviews the data for correctness and accuracy before transferring it to the accounting system. “Our controller loves mJob,” Bender says, “because of the one-click interface with our Master Builder system.”
“The application is very easy to use and has saved us a significant amount of time and money,” says Bender. “Our foremen can now focus on the job at hand and no longer have to fight mountains of paperwork.”
“mJob service has been excellent,” says Bender. “And, after being in business for three generations, we know service.”
Summary
Bana Electric Corporation needed a better way to collect and report labor time. Endless paperwork, manual systems, and duplication of effort were eating away at profits and morale as foremen pushed mountains of time sheets each week. mJob easy-to-use solution and excellent customer service helped Bana turn the corner, freeing up foremen to do the jobs they were hired to do. It also provided management with timely and accurate data along with the tools to implement more efficient processes that continue to save the company both time and money. Bana Electric Corporation has been reaping the rewards of their mJob system for many years, and has thrown away paper timesheets forever!