by Mark Nemtsas | Jan 11, 2011 | Tips and Tricks, Using the Software
A fairly common question I get from prospective users is whether purchasing Time Clock MTS is a one time thing or is a yearly renewal required? Here’s the answer: When you buy Time Clock MTS you get a lifetime license to use that version of the software, it entitles you to one year of email support and software updates. Once a year has elapsed since the purchase of Time Clock MTS you’ll receive an email allowing you to renew your email support and software update contract for a further year. The cost of this is $25 (US) for the Stand Alone Version, $50 (US) for the Network Version, and $100 (US) for the Network PLUS Version. Of course you don’t have to renew but you wont be eligible for support nor will you be able to receive updates to the software that might include new features or bug fixes. That’s all there is to it. There’s no need to renew your support every year if you don’t want to, Time Clock MTS is very reliable and has enough flexibility to support most businesses right now. However, some companies like the surety of email support and the chance to access new features and bug fixes as they become... read more
by kathryn@timeclockmts.com | Jan 9, 2011 | New Releases, News
I’ve just finished uploading the first release of Time Clock MTS for the year. It includes a couple of minor fixes, tweaks to reports, and added a new report. The details of the changes are shown below. Total rows have been added to the Simple Wages Report and Time Breakdown Report. This is one of the first examples of cross pollination of ideas between our Web Time Clock system, Online Time Clock MTS and the desktop program Time Clock MTS. A user of the online system suggested the change to similar reports there and I’ve made the same change to the desktop product. A new report, the Detailed Punchcard with Full Notes Report has been added. This is the same as the regular Detailed Punchcard Report but shows the full text from all time notes rather than just the first 60 characters. The mouse cursor now turns to an hour glass when exporting reports to MS Excel to give an indication that something is happening. A fix has been put in place to stop Excel throwing an error when the new window is clicked while a report export process is... read more
by Mark Nemtsas | Jan 7, 2011 | News
At the end of the first week of 2011 it’s probably about time I spent a few minutes looking back at 2010 and what’s happened with Time Clock MTS during the year. We averaged one new release of Time Clock MTS a month during the year, as always concentrating on fixing up problems as they are found by Time Clock MTS users and adding features that are the most commonly requested. The biggest release of the year was in October with Version 3 being unleashed and containing a lot of new tweaks and enhancements to make the software easier to use while being more flexible to suit more and more businesses. The number of companies using Time Clock MTS continued to grow during 2010 with the total number of companies growing by around 25% in total and now numbering several thousand. We’re still seeing some effects of the GFC on our sales with 2010 being pretty flat compared with 2009. This is particularly apparent in our sales in the United States but 2011 has started off very well and perhaps there’s a new air of confidence in business circles. Let’s hope so for all our sakes, I think the lingering effects of the GFC should be put behind us and the time to move forward has come. 2011 promises to be an interesting year, we have many plans for Time Clock MTS as well as the on-going development of Online Time Clock MTS. The goal is to mirror the functionality of Time Clock MTS in the online version and to provide a good level of data interchangeability. The first... read more
by Mark Nemtsas | Jan 7, 2011 | How To, Tips and Tricks
Generally you’d want a time clock administrator to setup new jobs for the Time Clock MTS Job Tracking System but sometimes it’s useful to allow employees to create their own jobs on the fly during the work day. If you work from daily job sheets that have many small jobs that might just run to a few hours you would quite likely find this useful because of the lower administrative overheads. This Time Clock MTS How To Article covers how to allow your employees to create new jobs. To allow employees to create new Time Clock MTS jobs just follow follow the steps shown below. Log into Time Clock MTS as the administrator. How you log in as the administrator was covered in this Time Clock MTS How To Article. Go to the Tools->Options->Job Tracking screen and you’ll be shown the screen at the top of this article. Check the Allow Employee Job Creation checkbox. Once checked employees entering a new job code when clocking or switching jobs will automatically create new job with that job code. Of course the time clock administrator will need to then name and manage the jobs appropriately via the Tools->Options->Job Tracking... read more
by kathryn@timeclockmts.com | Jan 1, 2011 | Using the Software
There’s a time rounding method available on the Payroll Settings screen labelled “Least Quantity”. Some Time Clock MTS users have been asking some questions about what it does. It’s actually pretty simple. If you’ve got report time rounding turned on and the least quantity rounding method is selected then it will do the following at report generation time: 1) All clock ins will be rounded UP to the nearest unit set in the Report Time Rounding dropdown box. 2) All clock outs will be rounded DOWN to the nearest unit set in the Report Time Rounding dropdown box. The practical upshot of this is that the elapsed time for clock in/out pair is minimized. There’s a three things to be aware of if you’re wanting to use this setting. Firstly, it wont work unless you have a time unit set in the Report Time Rounding dropdown box. Secondly, like all report time rounding in Time Clock MTS the rounding is applied at report time only, the actual recorded times for the clock in/out are stored accurate to the nearest second. Finally, and a big caveat on this one, is that you should be careful that your local payroll laws allow for this sort of report rounding, there are many that do... read more
by kathryn@timeclockmts.com | Dec 22, 2010 | New Releases
Yesterday I uploaded a new version of Time Clock MTS that includes one new feature and adds some data logging to the Web Cam Image Capture areas of the software. The new feature can be found on the Interface Settings screen and allows you to password protect Microsoft Excel spreadsheets generated by employees when they are allowed to view their own timecards. This could be useful if you have remote employees submitting their timesheets via email and you want to prevent them from editing the spreadsheets before sending them. The password used to protect the spreadsheets is the current Time Clock MTS administrator... read more
