Mjobtime

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

Califorina Contractor Expects To Reduce 8-Month Payroll Costs By $40,000!

The Company

Harrell Remodeling is a highly successful residential design/build construction company in Mountain View, California, whose business processes needed an upgrade. Until recently, the company had been relying on a variety of traditional business tools, such as spreadsheets and fax machines, to manage key business processes, including preparing and collecting time sheets, tracking job costs, managing payroll, and communicating with field staff. In addition, the company is also a “green” business so they naturally wanted to reduce their paper usage.

The Challenge

“We were struggling with our manual business systems and processes,” said Susan Pines, Accounting Manager at Harrell. “We needed a system that seamlessly combined mobile workforce management and payroll processing, from hours and jobs performed through getting people paid.”

The Harrell Design Center must account for both field and office workers’ time by project, so any solution would need to address both groups. Susan worked with the sales staff at mJob to come up with an innovative resolution to the problem.

The Solution

In the field, Harrell staff uses Xora’s GPS TimeTrack application on their Sprint/Verizon devices to record time sheet and job status information – including jobs, cost codes, and phase codes –throughout the day. Each day, this time data is downloaded from Xora into mJob where it can be reviewed, edited and approved before being sent to the company’s Master Builder accounting and payroll system. In addition, the Design Center staff in the office has access to web-based maps and business reports generated by GPS TimeTrack that detail the location and activities of field staff in real-time.

At the same time, office designers and administrative staff use the mJob software to record their time by client and activity. They also have the ability to add notes for billing clients.

Once the time data for both groups has been approved, it can all be uploaded to Master Builder from mJob with a single click. “For a growing company like ours, the combination of Xora and mJob has proven to be a winning option!”

The Benefit

For Harrell, the results have been impressive:

  • Less time wasted traveling to and from the office. In fact, as much as 12 additional carpenter hours are available each week to service clients
  • Payroll approval and review processes are more accurate and now take a third of the time
  • An estimated net savings of $40,000 in the first year

Summary

Harrell Remodeling knew they needed to upgrade their business processes in a way that would also reinforce their commitment to being a “green” business. In particular, they needed a more efficient system for managing mobile workers and processing payroll in the field as well as in the office. mJob devised a solution that worked for both and that also saved the company time, money, paper, and gasoline!