by kathryn@timeclockmts.com | Dec 2, 2011 | New Releases, News
As I write this Time Clock MTS version 3.2.10 is being uploaded to our servers. There’s a couple of bug fixes in this release and a new feature. The job selection list (reached by pressing the * button the job code entry screen) is now sizeable. When using the department folder view of the employee list interface employees who are clocked in with the time classification OTHER are now displayed with a purple status icon. Fixed a problem with the report field that was causing OTHER time taken on the last day of the report period to not be included in the report. Time with the OTHER classification is no longer included in overtime calculations if the Sick/Vac Time Affect OT setting is not checked. Version 3.2.9 of the software was also uploaded earlier this week. This fixed up a bug that stopped existing shifts from being... read more
by kathryn@timeclockmts.com | Nov 23, 2011 | New Releases
Version 3.2.8 of Time Clock MTS is being uploaded as I write this entry. This new release now includes the current job number on the Employee Status Report. It also fixes up an error that was thrown on various maintenance pages on the Options screen (namely the Departments, Employment Types, Holidays, Shifts and Jobs pages) when the Edit button was pressed immediately after adding a new item to the list. Thanks to the long time Time Clock MTS user who was able to put me on the right track to fix up these errors which I’d been trying to track down for quite a while! View all release notes of all Version 3 changes... read more
by kathryn@timeclockmts.com | Nov 18, 2011 | User Testimonials
You may or may not know that we’ve got a time clock user reviews page that we use to put up nice emails or comments about the software we get from happy Time Clock MTS users. We put these emails up exactly as we receive them. We got a couple of good ones this week including one (completely spontaneous) email from the operations supervisor of a very large agricultural resources company. We’ve been working with this gentleman quite closely for several months ironing out usage problems he had with the software as well as adding some reports that he wanted to see. Clearly he’s happy with the result. You have been really great to work with. We are spread out over a 25 mile radius and we don’t always start and end work at the same location. We have a wireless network set up, and are running Timeclock MTS. It has saved many hours of time and miles on company vehicles for employees to clock in and out near the location they start or end work. The support for this product has been stellar. We needed some help for the first few weeks (most problems were our own), but after that this product has been running rock-solid for three years. Randall HoltRobert Holt FarmsUtah,... read more
by Mark Nemtsas | Nov 18, 2011 | Tips and Tricks
Businesses have been finding ways for their employees to clock in and out for many years. From ID cards to finger prints, there are a huge range of options for small and large companies looking to get a device or some sort of software to keep a record of who is working and who is not. In/Out boards are an example of this type of device, and they are used in the work place for a whole variety of reasons. 1). An In/Out board provides easily accessible information about other employees. The contact details and working hours of employees are available to view, and this allows the business to operate in a much more smooth manner. The business can provide their customers with the contact details of employees and people that they may need to get in touch with about a certain aspect of the company. 2). It allows employers and other employees to know exactly who is inside the building in the case of an emergency. The In/Out board will quickly show the names of employees who are still on the premises, which means that other members of staff can alert everybody of the emergency and ensure that each person is safe. While In/Out boards are very useful and are popular with large and small businesses, it does not change the fact that employees do not always find them easy to use. Physically manipulating the board can be extremely time consuming, and employees often cannot be bothered to use up so much time, especially if they have entered the building through another entrance where the In/Out board is... read more
by kathryn@timeclockmts.com | Nov 8, 2011 | New Releases, News
A very minor release today that fixes up a couple of minor glitches with the biometric features of the software and adds some data logging to the fingerprint initialization process to allow us to track down the source of any problems. The complete list of changes is below. A fix to a spelling error on the fingerprint driver installation screen. You can no longer enrol fingerprints if no employee is defined. Added data logging to the fingerprint enrolment screen. Completely re-built the fingerprint_update.exe installer to be compatible with 64 bit versions of Windows. The installer now detects if the operating system is 64 bit or 32 bit and installs the correct driver... read more
by Mark Nemtsas | Oct 31, 2011 | Tips and Tricks, Using the Software
Above you can see a working hours report run for a period from Tuesday 11 October through to Sunday 16 October. In this case our multi-user time clock software is setup with the first day of the week being Monday and to adhere to California Overtime Rules, with overtime paid after 8 hours in a day and after 40 normal hours in a week. Close examination of the Weekly OT Hours column shows what appears to be, at first glance, what appears to be a mistake. On Saturday April 30 the software has calculated that the 6 work hours are all to be paid at Weekly OT rates. However, if we add up the hours in the Normal Hours column it appears that this employee has only worked 32 normal rate hours to that point, which clearly doesn’t exceed the 40 hour limit stated above. So what is going on here? What is going on is that even though the report isn’t showing the times for Monday 25 April Time Clock MTS is still taking those hours into account to calculate the weekly overtime. Let’s look at the report including Monday’s data. We can see that the employee has worked 12.5 hours on Monday. This takes the normal hours tally for Saturday 30 April up to 40 hours and Time Clock MTS is indeed correct in calculating those 6 hours as weekly overtime. I’ve written about this example to highlight that Time Clock MTS calculates weekly overtime using ALL of the data from a given week regardless of the report period you’ve chosen to display. This is of particular... read more
