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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How Much Should You Pay For A Mobile Time Tracking System?
What is the right price to pay for a mobile time clock system? Do you have a budget? If so, how did you arrive at the budget? Was a flat dollar amount designated for the purchase price?
For some companies, a wireless time clock can be a commodity. Pick one off the shelf. It needs to track time by employee, date, and job. Just about every portable time clock system out there does that, so yes, it makes sense to go with the cheapest one.
Or does it?
Just like cars, houses, and virtually anything else, there are a ton of factors that determine the price of a mobile time tracking application.
Consumers considering a luxury car for the quality and amenities provided, do not expect to pay economy car prices. If you lust after a Mercedes Benz CLA or a BMW 4-Series Coupe, you know that you’re not going to pay the price of a Nissan Versa or Chevy Spark. They’re all good cars. They can all get you to where you’re going, but the drive experience is quite different. The luxury, comfort, horsepower, and everything else provided, comes at a price. At a personal level, desire and affordability usually determine what is purchased. If you make $30,000 a year, it’s pretty unlikely that you’re going to purchase a car that may cost two to three times what your annual salary is. If your annual salary is six figures or more, price will likely not be your most important consideration. You’re probably more interested in the aesthetic beauty of the vehicle, the smoothness and quietness of the ride, safety features, amenities, and other options.
In business, price is almost always considered at some level, but there are many other considerations.
Let’s take the case of a businessman purchasing or leasing a car for business use. He’s going to be spending many hours in the car, so comfort is very likely to be important. Maybe he’ll want heavy-duty suspension for a smooth ride, and leather seats for sitting comfort. If he is in constant contact with his customers, vendors, employees, and others, there is a good chance he’ll require hands-free phone usage provided by a Bluetooth system, and a GPS-based navigation system. If he drives customers or potential customers around in his car, he’ll want to have a car that shouts “success” to make the right impression. Obviously, with each feature or option added, the cost of the car goes up. At that point, he has to determine whether the benefits provided outweigh the cost.
And so it is with mobile time tracking systems.
There is no denying that the purchaser needs to take into account the dollar cost of the system, but more importantly, he should consider the savings provided by the software both in terms of time and money. And yes, in business, TIME IS MONEY! The more time it takes to accomplish a task, the more it’s going to cost you. If one remote time clock application costs $5,000 more than another, but the second system saves you an extra $500 a month, it won’t take long for you to absorb the extra cost and start realizing a net savings.
Maybe avoiding disruptions to your business processes is very important to you. What it be worth paying more for a system with extra flexibility or the ability to customize the software to fit your processes? If you are an organization with hundreds or thousands of employees, the answer is very likely, yes. The cost of slowing down all those employees by using rigid or unintuitive out-of-the-box software is potentially great. Keeping them in their accustomed processes or elevating them to more efficient ones, will pay great dividends in time, money, and even morale.
What is the right price for a mobile time tracking system? Only you can decide, but be smart when making your decision. Always take into account the extra savings provided by a flexible, customizable mobile time tracking system.
Our sales associates can provide valuable information to help you make the right decision, and yes, it’s not always mJob. Please don’t hesitate to contact us by phone at 1-866-922-TIME (8463), by email at info@mjobtime.com, or by clicking here.
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