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 Your Construction Company Missing The Renewable Energy Boom? Part 1 - Wind
Wind Power
Although construction spending has been on a slow, steady rise for several years now, getting to higher levels in the next few years may become a bit more challenging. The current bull market is now over eight years old, interest rates are rising, and the labor pool for construction is very tight. If your company is involved in public construction, you are very aware that spending levels have remained stagnant for quite some time. Although companies should always be on the lookout for new opportunities, this might be a particularly good time to explore the possibilities available in the field of renewable energy. In this article, we will concentrate on one of the main areas of renewable energy – wind power. For centuries humanity has used wind energy for transportation in the form of boats and ships, but it was not until the late 19th century in Scotland when the first known wind turbine was built. More than 150 years later, NASA developed a wind turbine program for utility-scale turbines, which served as a springboard for the industry as we now know it. By 2000, there were 97 wind farms online in the US providing electricity to power nearly 600,000 homes. At the end of 2016, the installed wind capacity was 82,143 megawatts (MW) – enough to power nearly 25 million homes.
The wind energy industry celebrated another important milestone in 2016 when it displaced hydroelectric power as the country’s leading generator of renewable energy. And prospects for the future look strong. According to the Department of Energy, 142,000 MW of new and proposed wind capacity sits in the pipeline.
Reductions in wind energy costs are primarily due to larger, more efficient turbines. Bigger turbines with longer blades can produce maximum energy at lower wind speeds. What used to require winds of 20 knots can now be done at 10 knots.
The real area of potential growth seems to be in offshore wind. The country’s first major offshore wind project, the Block Island Wind Farm in Rhode Island, was operating as of the end of 2016 and will produce 30 MW of electricity, or enough to power 17,000 average homes. In January of this year, the 90 MW South Fork Wind Farm was approved by the state of New York’s Long Island Power Authority. When complete, it will be capable of powering 50,000 homes. The largest approved wind farm to date is proposed by a private developer, Cape Wind Associates, will be located of off Cape Code, Massachusetts, and is projected to generate 1,500 MW of electricity. There are many other major offshore wind projects being considered, including a couple of experimental floating wind turbines.
According to a new report from McKinsey, offshore wind still costs about 40% more than onshore wind and 20% more than the levelized cost of solar PV. However, because offshore wind in still in an earlier stage of development, “its prices can be expected to fall further, faster, thus improving its competitive position.” In Europe, new project bids are coming in much lower than expected. Some of the bids from a German auction in April of this year came in at the wholesale electricity price, meaning that they were competitive without any subsidy.
Despite the current administration’s attempts to alter the energy landscape by favoring fossil fuels over renewables, it is quite likely that the future of America’s energy will be determined by market and financial drivers. As more wind and solar farms are built, their cost will continue to fall to the point where in several regions of the country, wind and solar will be cheaper to build than coal and natural gas. This will lead to more opportunities for those who choose to participate in the renewable energy field. Should your company be considering renewables?
If you are needing to upgrade your labor tracking system in the field, please check us out. We specialize in mobile time tracking for the construction industry, but we have customers in many other industries. Our professional sales staff will discuss your situation and help you find the right solution. Please call us at 800-387-1109, email us at info@mjobtime.com, or request a demo at mjobtime.com/request-a-demo.