Mobile Time Entry

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We are about to enter scary territory...we're thinking of getting smartphones for all of our construction guys, and some of them won't like it. We want to do that to do mobile time entry. They're REALLY not going to like that. So I ask...what is the most user-friendly and least frustrating solution? Sage Construction Anywhere? AboutTime? We have roughly 35 employees and using Sage 300 CRE. Thanks for your help! 

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    We use HH2 for web base time entry. Not sure it's best, but integrates with Sage & is reasonably priced.

  • 0 in reply to Rayann Orr

    Thanks, I'll check that one out. Anyone else?

  • 0 in reply to syrr

    We're using ExakTime at three jobsites prep to rolling it out more widely. I'm using 10" Android tablets connected via job trailer Wi-Fi, one tablet per 5 people on a crew, so signing in isn't delayed. They enter employee number, pick the cost code from the list (limited to the specific cost codes on the job estimate), push start and they're on the job. There is a selfie taken every entry to keep buddy punching to a minimum.

    The integration with payroll works well, we figure 3 manually re-keyed time sheets takes as much time as importing 50 timesheets. The time sheet approval is still a bit manual because a paper trail is required for certified payrolls, but it still saves a TON of time.

    The office staff use it as well, I just added another tablet for easier access. We are looking at putting it on the floor of our manufacturing facility as well, that will require 3-5 distributed devices.

    ExakTime is not priced to put on every person's phone, so that may take it out of consideration for what you're doing. We have had prior experience with automated timekeeping for our Service Dept techs using another product integrated with work order / dispatch that ties directly in to Service Management. For 40-50 techs, paper timesheets were a full-time 40 hr week position. Now it is a 30 min / day position split across 3 dispatchers, with 20 minutes for timesheet approval once a week. You can buy a lot of cabbage with savings like that.

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    We're using ExakTime at three jobsites prep to rolling it out more widely. I'm using 10" Android tablets connected via job trailer Wi-Fi, one tablet per 5 people on a crew, so signing in isn't delayed. They enter employee number, pick the cost code from the list (limited to the specific cost codes on the job estimate), push start and they're on the job. There is a selfie taken every entry to keep buddy punching to a minimum.

    The integration with payroll works well, we figure 3 manually re-keyed time sheets takes as much time as importing 50 timesheets. The time sheet approval is still a bit manual because a paper trail is required for certified payrolls, but it still saves a TON of time.

    The office staff use it as well, I just added another tablet for easier access. We are looking at putting it on the floor of our manufacturing facility as well, that will require 3-5 distributed devices.

    ExakTime is not priced to put on every person's phone, so that may take it out of consideration for what you're doing. We have had prior experience with automated timekeeping for our Service Dept techs using another product integrated with work order / dispatch that ties directly in to Service Management. For 40-50 techs, paper timesheets were a full-time 40 hr week position. Now it is a 30 min / day position split across 3 dispatchers, with 20 minutes for timesheet approval once a week. You can buy a lot of cabbage with savings like that.

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