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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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Mobile in Construction - Blazing New Trails

I recently organized a trail ride for my family while on vacation in Oregon. Since several in our party had never been on a horse, our trail guide took care to match each rider with a suitable horse, even sharing the personality of each horse. While the horses traveled at the right pace for our inexperienced riders, it soon became clear that the mental composition of each of our horses was very simple – to follow the leader.

Just as our horses dutifully followed the trail guide, we now see construction companies following the trail of the early leaders in mobility. Mobility has delivered on its promises of efficiency and return on investment. We are working with ever more construction companies using our PowerTrack software to implement field mobility solutions. Some of the characteristics and trends that we see among the leading construction companies are as follows:

  • A Platform for Mobility

Companies want to minimize the number of different enterprise applications that their field people must work with. They demand a flexible application platform that can be used for a variety of field data collection, including labor time capture, equipment, and material usage, inventory moves and more. In today’s environment, they also want this application to run on a variety of OS platforms (Android, iOS, Windows) as well as Web browsers.

  • Tracking materials, equipment, and tools with barcodes

Using the same mobile platform, we are increasingly implementing barcoding with construction companies to track material, equipment and tool moves. Barcoding is essential for gaining financial control over inventories and reducing lost tools and equipment.

For scan-intensive applications, we recommend a commercial Android device with a dedicated barcode imager. The integrated camera on consumer Android or iPhones is more suitable for occasional barcode reading.

  • iPads in Construction

While we work with many customers using iPhones and Android smartphones to host their mobile applications, when it comes to tablets, the iPad is the overwhelming favorite. So much so, that the iPad platform has accounted for much of our product development over the past few years.

Compared to smartphones, the iPad can support additional flexibility in data entry, such as grid style labor entry. It is also a superior platform for displaying reports and other information. Applications such as PowerTrack can leverage iPad’s inherent capabilities including voice translation for daily log notes, GPS, image and signature capture.

Mobility in construction has experienced dynamic change over the past few years. Going forward, Apple and Android will continue to offer new innovations for application providers to leverage. Microsoft is becoming more competitive with their Surface products and the popular Windows 10 operating system. HTML 5 is becoming a more powerful language for web development. The wireless carriers will be offering more and better services.

Our challenge is to take advantage of the changing technology environment, offer innovative mobility solutions and continue to support construction leaders as they blaze new trails for the industry.