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How to punch using the phone ?
1. Employee calls our toll free number
Employee calls toll free number. Make sure to wait for the prompts on the phone system to ensure accurate input.
2. Key in Department ID & 3. Key Employee PIN
Go to Phone Time Clock page to get complete info about these steps.
4. IN or OUT Punch Date and Time is stated.
If authentication is successful, then system reply’s with an IN or OUT punch status with the date and time. When completed the system hangs up.
5. Your Done. Hang up and get to work
The punch will be immediately viewable on the labor time tracker portal. Furthermore you can see the IN/OUT status of all your employees.
In last Post, I have written about the coming soon features of Labor Time Tracker. I thought of giving a complete detailed roadmap of labor time tracker in coming days.
Approval/Archive Process:
Employee and Supervisor approvals timecard before export/archive(Q2 2009)
Timesheets:
Salaried employees can track project time, mileage and expenses(Q3 2009)
Biometric Appliance
Use our fixed or portable hardware timeclock to punch time, eliminates “Buddy Punching”(Q4 2009)
Localization:
Use in you own language(Q1 2010)
Firefox, IE and Safari plug:
Punch your timecard or timesheet with your browser(Q1 2010)
Blackberry/iPhone:
Access your account via a smart phone(Q2 2010)
Web Services:
Integrate time and attendace in your application(Q3 2010).
Here is the list of highly anticipated applications of labor time tracker,
Approval/Archive Process
Biometric Appliance
Localization
Firefox, IE and Safari addon-plug ins
Punch from your Blackberry/iPhone
Web Services – Integrate time and attendace in your application
In next Post We will explain in detail about the coming soon features.
Labor Time Tracker have introduced new Return On Investment calculator.
“Using Labor Time tracker will save your business money and time. Try our Return On Investment calculator and see for yourself.”
Just Enter
A. Pay Period (number per year)
B. Number of Employees
C. Hourly Wage of Payroll Staff
D. Average Hourly Wage of Employees
E. Number of Hours in Work Week
F. Number of Work Weeks per Year
G. Minutes Spent Calculating a Time Card
H. Time Theft per Employee per Day
I. Margin of Error:
And Get your Return On Investment. “
Labor Time Tracker going to introduces New Feature in the system.
” Employee and Supervisor approvals timecard before export/archive ”
This will in improving security as well as becomes user friendly. Coming Soon. To see the official confirmation, Visit http://www.labortimetracker.com/features.cfm – Time Attendance Tracking System.
Sometimes the web is not always available to punch IN or OUT. Employees can use the phone instead. Below is the 5 easy step punch with the phone.
Its very Easy to Configure up Phone Time Clock:
Setup – Obtain employee PIN, Department ID and Toll Free Number
The clock administrator needs to login LaborTimeTracker and assign each employee a PIN. This is done by going to [Employee] tab and then selecting the specific employee. Assign the employee a PIN. Share the employee PIN, Department ID and Toll Free number (in yellow background section of form) with the employee.
Time tracking tools to help small businesses keep a better record of billable time. It’s as simple as starting a timer and letting it run while you get things done. When the job is completed, apply the time. Run a few reports, generate an invoice, and collect your money. Then start the process all over again the next day.
After you’ve been tracking your time diligently for a few months or a few years you’ll have amassed a healthy amount of data — useful for evaluating past productivity and estimating future projects. At Pelago, we’ve found good time tracking practices to be an essential component to project management.
Incorporating time tracking into your day-to-day workflow will give any small business great quantitative insight into productivity. But what about the quality of that time tracked? Simple distractions like a phone call, an exclamation-pointed email, or a question from a co-worker can deter us from the task at hand. Before we know it, half our time has disappeared into an unrecoverable void.
Understanding the quality of the time we’ve tracked is still beyond the capabilities of any online tool, but perhaps that is where we’ll be headed next. It may not be necessary to analyze time tracking data in this way for business tasks like billing clients and paying freelancers. However, understanding the quality of the time spent can be extremely useful for optimizing business productivity.
Imagine being able to deduce that your web designer is most productive during the mornings, and that your developers crank out the most code in the evenings (yeah, I know, you probably don’t need a computer to tell you that developers stay up late). Qualitative time tracking data could help a project manager schedule tasks during the optimal hours for each resource. How cool would that be? Each industry has their next generation products in the works. Could this be ours?
Curt Finch, CEO of Journyx, shares his thoughts on the future of time tracking. Here are some of the highlights:
Software-as-a-Service will become more and more dominant as IT people become more and more scarce and businesses become more accustomed to this model.
Businesses will start to see the advantage of viewing time management as a core business process, like inventory management is today.
Single point-of-entry time collection systems that send different views of the same data to payroll, billing and project management applications will become even more valuable.
Some of the other points include XML transfer of data between services and more automated forms of time tracking. Intervals has been evolving in these directions already, as we continue to develop the API and improve the web-based timers. Hosted time tracking tools may seem like they’ve been around for a while, but their influence is just starting to be embraced by small business.
1. Choose like-minded partners who share your vision
A typical web development agency will be started by multiple partners. It is important that the partners share common goals and have skills that are diverse in a complementary kind of way. You don’t want one person getting stuck with all of the peripheral duties like IT, HR, and Legal. It’s best if you can distribute these tasks across all owners. It’s like Tom Waits sings: “We’re chained to the world, and we’ve all got to pull.” You are in this for the long term, make sure your cohorts are too.
2. Don’t always be the nice guy
For whatever reason, some clients are known to make outlandish demands. These demands are harder to deflect when you are first starting out because you need the business. But as you become more established, you need to know when to be the nice guy and when to say no. The problem with being nice all the time is that it sets a precedent. You’ll say “sure, I can knock that out by tomorrow” because, what the heck, today is a slow day. The next time the client has a quick need, they won’t understand why you can’t help them out as quickly as you did the last time. If clients become too accustomed to quick turnarounds, they will start shuffling their internal deadlines around the expectation that you will be available at the last minute, and that is when you really get into trouble.
3. Do not apologize for your rates
It doesn’t really matter what other agencies charge as long as you trust that your rates are a fair price for the service you are providing. You know your business better than anyone else and what rates you need to charge to be successful. You are far better off taking on clients who want to work with you, regardless of the cost. Standing behind your rates and your work tells the client that you are confident and able. Being thrown into a pool of lowest bidders is insulting and a waste of time.
4. Be as clear as possible in your proposal
The proposal and resulting contract should articulate the specifications of the project with as much detail as you can muster. If there is any question about the deliverables, which there will be, you can refer to the spec. Without a clearly defined spec you are leaving the project vulnerable to disagreements that can ruin client relationships. It is also helpful to verbally iterate certain points of the contract before it is signed, in case the client skimmed it too hastily. For example, if you don’t offer web hosting as a service, make sure it is clearly spelled out. Otherwise, the client will expect you to get involved when a mac truck takes out the data center where their site is hosted.
5. Track your time and tasks
This is important enough that we rolled our own web-based time tracking software, Intervals, to manage our projects. Tracking time and tasks gives you invaluable data that can be used to accurately estimate new projects, gauge the health of current projects, and provide clients with detailed invoices. Without this information you will lose money on underestimated projects, fail to meet deadlines, and upset clients over money issues.