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.
Our Services
mJob Makes Dramatic Impact On Project Management Saving major Amounts Of Time
The Company
JPC Group, Inc is a family-owned engineering, construction, and demolition firm based in Philadelphia, PA and Blackwood, NJ. Founded in 1954, today the company provides services in civil/municipal, electrical, environmental, mechanical, structural, transportation and water/wastewater engineering as well as information management, construction and materials inspection/testing, and surveying. With over 55 years’ experience in general construction and engineering, JPC Group, Inc. has been awarded contracts with the US Navy, major city centers, municipalities, schools, universities, public utilities, and many prominent contractors in the tri-state area.
The Challenge
JPC Group was convinced there was a better way of tracking field labor than the cumbersome paper system it was currently using. Timesheets were being brought in from the field and manually keyed into the accounting system by office staff. They needed a faster, more accurate way to get the data from the field into their accounting system. But, at the same time, they needed a system that had to be very easy to use for their field guys. If it wasn’t, they knew it wouldn’t fly.
The Solution
Initially, JPC Group installed a 10-user mJob system on field-based PDAs. Almost from day one, the system worked as planned, saving a significant amount of time. Because the technology is so easy to use in the field, JPC employees started effectively using mJob right away. In fact, the company was so pleased with the results that, within a few months, they purchased an additional 15 licenses. JPC continues to grow and as they have, they have steadily increased their mJob licenses.
mJob has helped in other areas as well. When JPC Group decided to switch their accounting system, they were both pleased and relieved to learn that mJob works with practically any popular accounting package. After the switch was completed, the technical support staff at mJob helped JPC develop a new template and transfer all of the company’s important job and employee data from the new accounting system. It also retained the historical time records from the prior accounting system.
The Benefit
According to JPC Systems Manager, Ken Rizzo, JPC has really benefitted from the streamlined processes in the office. “With over 200 employees and 75 to 100 pieces of heavy equipment to bill and cost to multiple jobs in our accounting system, mJob has been an incredible timesaver.”
mJob also helps JPC stay on top of their projects. Rizzo told us that mJob has had a dramatic impact on project management. “Our guys input EVERYTHING into mJob, including deliveries, ticket numbers, yards of concrete – even which subs are on the project. This information is essential for reporting to the owners of the project.”
Summary
JPC found exactly what they were looking for in a mobile time tracking solution from mJob. They have drastically streamlined the payroll process both in the field and in the office. Now days, their foremen are spending more time on construction and less time on filling out paper timesheets, while the office staff no longer has to re-enter timesheet information into payroll. The increase in efficiency has been dramatic. The office staff is now much better equipped to handle their heavy workload. mJob has greatly benefited JPC’s management group as well. With all the jobsite documentation being entered into the mJob system, management now has a bird’s eye view of what is happening with their jobs, allowing them to make changes and adjustments quickly. mJob has become an important tool in helping the JPC Group continue to provide well-built and superiorly managed projects.