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.

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From Goat to Hero: Turn Your Software Fail Into A Great Success

Succeed With Determination, Perseverance, and a Better Process

Have you ever failed in business? You’re not the first, and you definitely won’t be the last. In fact, as you can see, you’re in pretty good company. As a software company, we constantly receive inquiries from companies who purchased a competitor’s application that, for whatever reason, did not work out. Most of the time these purchase decisions involved thousands of dollars and were intended to solve a very real and pressing need. Not only have these companies spent a significant amount of money, but now they have nothing to show for it. The original problems still exist. What is the next step? First, don’t dwell on your mistake. Putting the bad feelings from this experience behind you will allow you to think logically and rationally as you move forward. Okay, now that we’re thinking clearly, let’s examine what went wrong. For software, the problems generally boil down to a couple of things: 1) the application did not increase efficiency or productivity, or 2) it produced incorrect or inappropriate data. The big question is, why? Ask yourself:
  1. Did I have sufficient expertise on my decision making unit – did I receive enough input from the right people in my company to make the best decision?
  2. Did I exercise proper due diligence? Most companies will invest at least some time in viewing a web presentation. But, seeing a product demonstration is just the first step of the process. After you narrow down the selection choices to a list of finalists, you should have at least one more demo and include all the invested participants from your company. Additionally, you should ALWAYS obtain a list of vendor references and actually CALL them. Then you’ll want to ind out several things –  how long they have been using the product? Is the product meeting their needs? Most importantly, how satisfied are they with the level of technical support received? You want to make absolutely sure that once you write the check, you’re not going to be abandoned. Lastly, it is always a good thing to check any other resources available like the Better Business Bureau, Yelp, or online forums.
What can I do now? When you first recognize a problem with your software vendor, the obvious step is to meet with their management to share your unhappiness and discuss a resolution. If you do this and things do not get resolved or do not significantly improve, ask for your money back. With software companies, unless you secure a warranty or money-back guarantee in your purchase contract, chances are, this is not going to happen. Awkward So now we are at that really awkward stage where the money is gone, but the problems are not. You made a mistake, you’ve admitted it, but now you have to go back to your boss and recommend another solution (and more money to be spent)! Let’s Get It Right This Time First, let’s get everybody who has a stake in this decision involved. Make sure that you get plenty of input from anyone who will be a potential user of the proposed system. Then, let’s really do our due diligence by viewing product demos, asking plenty of questions, calling references, and checking out the vendor using any available resources. Finally, when you find the “right” solution, get a warranty clause or money-back guarantee provision written into your purchase contract. Following these steps, you’ll turn failure into success, and in the process, become a hero.