time management

has anyone used any hourly time clock management systems, such as HH2, about time, or construction anywhere? We are looking for the best solutions for our field guys to enter time. Currently they enter them in an excel sheet and email to the office. I believe we are behind the times, any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

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    I've used hh2 previously and at my current employer. I think it works very well for Accounting but seems cumbersome for field employees, particularly if you are also charging internal equipment rental and/or you have personnel charging multiple codes on a daily basis. I like that it syncs regularly with data in Sage (from PR and JC) and that it is cloud based. We do not use the apps, though. All of our field guys are on iPads running on Sprint. We run into issues if data coverage isn't functioning as well as we'd like. I've heard that Construction Anywhere does not live up to expectations. Having not used it personally, you'll want several opinions. Another piece to consider: what part of the industry are you in? If Residential or Commercial Building, I think you'll like hh2. If civil/heavy highway where you are also looking for production unit information, you might like HCSS's product as another option.
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    We are multi-family framers. we looked into to HH2 and our field guys hated it so we ended up dumping it, they scoff at anything more difficult than entering time in an excel spreadsheet. I'm going to demo About Time and eSub, not sure how great there but we will see. I do not want the field guys to have to mess with anything associated with cost codes, it confuses them and makes them immediately want to dump it. I'm looking for simple.
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    We are a general contractor with projects across the US and use HH2 exclusively for all employees whether they are onsite or in the office. Our field guys only have to enter the job and cost code once into the system. Then it pre-fills each week and they just have to fill in their hours for that project. This is the same whether it is using the HH2 Remote Payroll app or using a laptop.

    Then we import payroll entries into Sage so all the information is entered. The payroll person just has to verify hours/OT/Vacation days/etc.

    We also use HH2 Field Reports for our Daily Logs.