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 Time Tracking Sync Options
People often ask us, “What choices do I have for getting my mobile time tracking data from the field back to the office? Do the options depend on what type of device I’m using? What are the costs associated with each?
These are all excellent questions, and we’d like to list our responses by type of device as follows:
Mobile Hand-held Devices Using Wi-Fi Communication
• Using any available public wireless network including McDonald’s, Starbucks, hotels, airports, cafes, restaurants, and other public establishments. Some charges may apply.
• Through companies offering high speed wireless Internet through Wi-Fi “Hot Spots” nationwide such as Boingo or iPass. Currently, their plans start at $7.95 month,
• Through your own wireless network if you have one. No additional costs are involved.
Mobile Hand-held Devices With Cellular Data Plans
• Through a cellular data plan anywhere or anytime cellular service is available (be sure to check with your cell service provider). Cellular data plans can vary widely by carrier and usage, so be sure to do your homework. At last check the cost of these plans ranged from $25 to $40 per month for data only. Adding texting will increase the cost fairly substantially.
• Using Bluetooth to connect an otherwise disconnected device to the internet via your cell phone. The cell phone must have a data plan. You can pair the device with the phone and relay the sync data thru the phone. However, this scenario requires Phone-As-Modem service on your phone or smartphone, and these plans can range from $30 to $80. Also, T-Mobile does not support its phones as a modem.
PC Workstations, Netbooks, Laptops and Tablet PCs
• Utilize any internet connection available to sync – high-speed, pay as you go dialup, or the Wifi plans mentioned above,
• Mobile broadband aircards or built-in access cards enable a connection to the internet via the cellular provider’s network. A data plan is required. Be sure to shop around for data plans and aircards for each carrier. Aircards retail for around $250, but with special pricing can be much less expensive or even free!
Wall Mounted Time Clocks
• Connect the device via serial (RS232/RS485), modem or Ethernet
• Download your data to any portable laptop, netbook, etc., and then sync thru any of the sync methods mentioned immediately above
Which Option is Best?
Which method you select will be determined in large part by the dynamics of your particular situation. If your employees report to the office at the beginning and end of the day, then easily your best choice would be to sync through your own wireless network or via a cable connected to a workstation on your local network.
If they go directly to a jobsite or other location, and a public wi-fi hotspot is readily accessible during the day, then that would probably be the optimal solution. If no hotspot is available, then your choices would probably come down to either employing a cellular data plan, or a utilizing a plan through a wireless communication services provider like Boingo or iPass.
If you are considering a mobile time tracking application like mJob and have questions regarding syncing or any other issue, please feel free to contact us at 800-387-1109 or at
info@mjobtime.com.