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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Is Modular Building the Future for Commercial Construction?
Modular home construction started gaining acceptance in the early 20th century. Sears Roebuck Co. sold between 70,000 to 100,000 pre-fabricated homes between 1908 and 1940. The market continued to grow and evolve through the remainder of the 20th century and into the 21st century.
But modular building for commercial use seems to be a market now gaining momentum.
In its latest SmartMarket Report – Prefabrication and Modularization: Increasing Productivity in the Construction Industry, McGraw-Hill Construction details the benefits available to users. Of the more than 800 architecture, engineering and contracting (AEC) professionals surveyed, 66% report improved project schedules, 65% report decreased project costs, and 77% report reduced construction site waste.
It is the last item that suggests the importance of the green benefits of modular construction:
- Less construction waste – materials that may have been assigned to one project can be re- allocated to another
- Portability – modular buildings are considered permanent structures, but if necessary, they can be disassembled, moved, and re-assembled
- Fewer site disturbances – jobsite traffic is greatly reduced, especially for vendor deliveries.
- Improved indoor air quality – the potential for high levels of moisture being trapped in the new construction is eliminated
- Reduced construction schedules – because site preparation and construction take place at the same time, most projects can be completed 30 percent to 50 percent sooner.
Sustainable Living Innovations, a consortium comprised of consultants from architectural design, construction, MEP(mechanical, electrical, and plumbing), and structural engineering, bills itself as the only “pre-fabricated system on the market that is scalable for mid-rise structures”. Their system involves pouring separate concrete floor slabs on the footprint of a building, erecting a prefabricated steel frame around it to form the structure and then using hydraulic jacks to lift into place the roof and floor slabs already fitted with walls, cabinets and fixtures.
Royal Concrete Concepts of West Palm Beach, Florida offers their modular system as a building solution that can be shipped and constructed quickly almost anywhere. A well-documented success in Haiti following the recent devastating earthquake there has RCC now setting their sights on a much bigger market. A $55-million terminal for Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd at Labadee, 85 mi away, suffered no damage. It had been delivered by Allied Builders of Fort Lauderdale, only weeks prior, and was constructed of precast concrete panels and modular units that RCC specifically engineered to be hurricane- and seismic-resilient. Allied is now planning to use RCC for rebuilding projects in Haiti, says Alex Fullerton, Allied manager.
So what are the disadvantages of modular building?
- Limited Customization – Modular buildings can be customized to a certain extent, but these designs have limits on changes to the shape or look.
- Limited Service Area – Since the modules are constructed in a factory and then shipped to the building site, the building site needs to be within 300 miles of the factory. The costs and transportation dfficulties greatly increase for building sites farther than 300 miles.
- Confusing Zoning Rules – Since modular buildings are just now becoming popular, local zoning boards must develop a better understanding of this type of structure.
Do companies like Sustainable Living Innovations and Royal Concrete Concepts represent the future for commercial construction, or will their limitations confine them to a niche-market status?
Learn more about how mJob can help your company.