Labor Time Tracker

These were the five option, which can be implemented to save huge spending on time tracking system,

1. Build your own time tracking app,

2. Install a free / open source time tracking app,

3. Signup for a free hosted time tracking service,
This option works great for some, especially freelancers who may not need the more in-depth features of a web-based app. Even our own time tracking app, Intervals, has a free plan for this reason.

4. Pay for a hosted time tracking service.

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.

Must needed features of an employee time tracker, without these features, your time tracker will be nothing.

Security Features:

Security plays a vital part in every time tracker. So see that whether your system has these security functions,

1. Login Security: Settings prevent employees from punching from home.
2. IP Login Security: Identifies network location and validates login.
3. Cookie Login Security: Identifies specific computer and validates login.
4. Caller ID Login Security: Identifies specific telephone and validates login.
5. Delete Manager: Allows admin to restore deleted records.
6. Supervisor Access Rights: Four levels of rights including Edit or View Only.
7. Secure Clock Settings: Clock cannot be tampered, it resides on our servers.
8. Database Encryption: Protects data with extremely high internal security.
9. Secure Data Center: Servers located in high security data centers.

Time Schedule Management Feature:

Time scheduling – this is the main reason for buying time tracker. So make sure these all top features are available to you. This is going to be heat of the system,

1. Over Midnight: Accommodates shifts that work thru midnight.
2. Rounding: Rounds punches to nearest minute, 10th or quarter hour.
3. IN/OUT Rounding: Separate rules both IN and OUT punches.
4. Overtime: Calculates two levels Worldwide.
5. Schedule: Start/end times determine late IN and early OUT punches.
6. IN Zone: Rounds first IN punch to department start time.
7. OUT Zone: Rounds last OUT punch to department end time.
8. Lockout: Prevents employee from punching outside schedule.
9. Lunch Deduction: Automatically deducts lunch minutes from a timecard.
10. Paid Break: Time tracker should add payable break minutes the system.

General Features:

Your system can be technical sound, but it should be user friendly to reach everyone,

1. Optimized for Web: Built for the Web from the ground up, blazingly fast,
2. Scaleable: Accounts may have from 1 to 10,000+ employees,
3. Group Organization: Group feature accommodates multiple entities and or locations,
4. Easy to Learn: Intuitive, does not require manual or costly training,
5. Access Restrictions: Access levels for supervisors. Login security for employees, Reliable: Redundant network architecture, systems and backup,
6. Daylight Savings: Automatically adjusts for daylight savings time,
7. Time Zones: Supports all US and International time zones,
8. Time Accuracy: System clock synchronized with authorative government servers,
9. Approval Process: Supervisor can approve timecards/timesheets.

Our own evolution with online timesheet management went like this:

1. Painful paper timesheets, entered into Spreadsheet form

When we decided that spending weekends data entering and not having a real time view of our projects just didn’t make sense any more, we evolved to:

2. Try third party software

Desktop software, web based software, lots of trial and error.  We found some interesting and cool products in this space, but they either didn’t fit our process or felt like they were built for companies with 5,000+ employees.  Then we moved on:

3. Internal Development

Since we solve other companies web related problems for a living, we decided to solve our own.  We didn’t want one process for managing projects and tasks and a separate process for timesheet collection and approval.  Folks don’t like to fill out timesheets and tracking time is difficult.  We all know that.  With trial and error we decided that directly tracking time at the task level catches a lot of missed time.  This also combines tasks and time into one process.  We found that making weekly timesheet submissions and approvals part of our process did a few things for us:

People started tracking time daily because it’s too tough to throw it all on a timesheet at the end of the week.
The system generated “nags” to submit time quickly went from annoyance to friend.  “Oh good, I need to submit my time”…instead of “Wow, what did I do last week?”.
Since time is entered with tasks, less ‘holes’ exist on timesheets.

It is must that Industries/Companies of all sizes need to ensure that their workers keep track of their time worked, especially if they are working on lots projects. This type of time management is essential to keep track of what employees are working on as well as for keeping a record of the billing process to outside employees. Employers use a time management system so that they can keep track of the time and attendance of their employees. There are several different types of software on the market that can log employee time with “online timesheet” tools that will keep track of the time that employees work.

If an employee is working on several projects at once the company will want to use time tracking software so that there is a record of time spent on each job. Software is available, such as a time recorder, that allows the employee to start tracking when they begin working on a project, and when they cease the work to move on to a new project. This type of software is great for the time management that is needed when it comes to billing clients and keeping them up to date with the progress of their project.

Time management is important for the successful running of any company, no matter what the size. With so many software tools on the market today there is no reason why any company shouldn’t be taking advantage of these types of functional methods of tracking time and employees. Most companies that have computer usage in their offices will want to keep track of the comings and goings of their employees and monitor what they are doing on the computer when working on client projects. Time and attendance is a big issue for large companies that lose time when employees have a lax attitude toward the time they spend at the job. There is software on the market that will let the employer know exactly what time the employee logs in, how much time he spends on each project, and what time he logs off to go home. This information is critical in the running of any large company.

Labor Time Tracker is a smarter, easier and faster way to track employee time for payroll and job costing. Our web time clock system is totally optimized for the web (unlike typical client/server technology). As a result, our system is fast and very easy to use. Labor Time Tracker is an internet-based employee productivity application that represents essential and evolutionary technology that dramatically improves the way organizations manage their workforce.  It has been focused on internet-base Time & Attendance, Timesheets, HR Benefits, Expenses, Payroll, Self services and other Human Resource application.

Labor Time Tracker Features:
•    We can create account may have from 1 to 10,000+ employees
•    Supports all US and International times zones
•    Post notice to an individual employee or to whole group
•    Punch from any cell or land line phone
•    Prevents employee from punching outside schedule
•    Automatically deducts lunch minutes from a timecard

From all of us at LaborTimeTracker, we hope you are enjoying a wonderful holiday season and the beginning of 2009. Happy New Year! We are anticipating an active and productive year. You can look forward to new features as well as expanding many of our existing features.

We recently released a minor update that improves the ability to synchronize your user list with other applications. Additionally, if you are interested in making bulk updates to your user list (adding and editing), please contact our web time clock services department for more information.

We also encourage you to tell us what you’d like to see added or changed in Labor Time Tracker by Posing our suggestion through Comments. We look forward to hearing from you.

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Labor Time Tracker  evolution is based on our customers’ requirements Most of the enhancements that have been added in web time clock have been requested by our customers. We do not believe we should impose our ideas on you. When we evaluate a new potential feature, the first question we ask ourselves is “Do our customers need it?” Customer satisfaction is imperative for us; we want you to get the best possible experience with our project management tool.

Perform project management online or host the software yourself Labor Time Tracker can be accessed online, through your favorite web browser for time attendance systems. Our packages are suitable for all-sized businesses, whether they need a low volume or a high volume of users or storage space. Hosted packages require no additional software to be installed. Updates are applied automatically, as soon as they are released.

On the other hand, if you need more control over the program, our Source Code package can be installed easily on any Windows web server. It can be self-customized to match your most specific needs, for example, if you need to integrate it with in-house applications. Both SQL Server (2000/2005/2008) and Access (2000/2003/2007) database formats are supported.

Try our live demo! If you like it, feel free to create a free account, without any worries or commitment Labor Time Tracker has plenty of project management features such as time tracking, Gantt charts, calendars and document management. We invite you to evaluate the features of our PM software to evaluate how beneficial they can be for your organization. You can try our live demo without even having to provide us with any personal information. Then, if you like what you see, we suggest you create a free account, in order to start from scratch and enter your own users and projects in it. If you need higher privileges someday, we can migrate your data into a higher package. Obviously, your data will remain intact.

Services offered by www.labortimetracker.com:

Tracking staff/employee hours
User access job tracking
Timesheet monthly reports
Online timesheet access
Adminstrator access
Supervisor access
Downloadable instructions
Printable reports
…and much more

labortimetracker.com offers administrative and editing solutions for all accounts and Users. We offer online reporting for users Timesheets, product exporting, downloading and printing. We also offer product compatibility with payroll software as needed.

We allow your idea of what a pay period should look like. You can configure our time clock software to use any day of the week as the first day of the week for overtime calculation.

If your first day of week for overtime calculations is Sunday, and your payroll is from wednesday the 16th until the end of the month, Web Time Clock will look back at Sunday and Monday the 14th and 15th to see if an employee goes into overtime Tuesday the 15th, through Saturday the 20th – even though Sunday and Monday were paid on the previous payroll run.

If your first day of the week is configured some other day, the overtime calculation engine will look back to that day, regardless of the actual payroll start and end dates specified.

All types of payroll periods are supported:

Weekly Payroll

Bi-Weekly Payroll (pay every two weeks)

Semi-Monthly Payroll (pay on the 1st and 15th of the month)

Monthly Payroll

Any other date range

Additionally, for semi-monthly, monthly and other period payroll tracking software runs, web Time Clock knows how to calculate overtime regardless of what day of the week (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc.) the starting day of the payroll period falls on.