The Timesheet Blog

When you need to know how 180 employees in your department are spending their time, it’s not quite as simple as sending out a mass email or walking to each person’s desk. To gain a solid understanding of how company resources are being allocated, and where those resources could be used more efficiently, it helps to have technology on your side.[…]

The end of the year is coming quickly and it’s a busy time for all of us. As we reach the peak of the holiday season, tracking your employee vacation schedules can be a headache. If your company is still using a manual system for time-off management, then you’ll likely be grumbling “Bah humbug” all season long.

Are you still monitoring employee time and attendance with paper and spreadsheets? Do your employees bombard you with questions about their outstanding vacation balances? Do you lack visibility into vacation schedules and lose track of who is off when?

Now is the perfect time to streamline your time-off process and create more efficient policies for the new year. […]

Note to businesses: If it’s taking you 24 clicks to approve one employee timesheet, then it’s probably time to switch to Web TimeSheet.

That’s exactly what JSR Micro did when they discovered their time-keeping system was an administrative hassle for employees, managers, and payroll alike. Now, with Web TimeSheet, JSR Micro has made its time-tracking and employee time off scheduling processes much easier and more efficient. Employees alone have saved hours a month by entering their time into Replicon’s web-based system. Manager’s approvals, which previously required up to 24 mouse clicks per timesheet, now only take three clicks for all timesheets combined. And, JSR Micro can easily view its attendance compliance with Replicon’s rich reporting capabilities. […]

Throughout the year, we hear many stories of great businesses who are unnecessarily doubling or even tripling their time-entry processes. Such was the case at Contoural, a business consulting firm based in Mountain View, California, where employees were submitting their timesheets in two different formats: one for internal use and another for client billing. Additionally, that same billing data was then manually entered into Contoural’s accounting system. This slow, time-consuming process was neither efficient nor fun for any of Contoural’s 50+ staff. […]

If you’re using Replicon’s timesheet software to track projects, then you’re probably already well-versed at dividing those projects into tasks and sub-tasks. In Web TimeSheet, these tasks are naturally linked to the parent project. But what happens when you need to link two or more entire projects together? How do you do it?[…]

The time has come for Punch Clocks and the time clock market to be innovated and disrupted.

The Replicon CloudClock is a revolutionary new time clock that is the only 100% cloud connected time clock in the market today. Built on cutting edge hardware and software, the CloudClock brings the power of cloud computing to the everyday time clock. The clocks feature large, full color, multi-touch displays, wireless networking, remote monitoring and real-time integration with the Replicon application cloud.[…]

Intuit’s announcement to discontinue support for its Time Tracker and Time & Billing products has taken a lot of organizations by surprise and has left them holding the bag. Thousands of organizations around the world are suddenly going to have to figure out how to maintain timely and accurate time tracking. […]

As consumers, we’ve been subjected to innovation at a break-neck pace in nearly every aspect of our lives: computers, phones, shopping, travel, entertainment. Today we don’t think twice about whipping out our phones to search and navigate to the nearest restaurant, while listening to music that is streamed live to our ears. Yet, there are some areas and products where innovation has not happened in any significant way: the Innovation Dead Zones. The humble time clock or punch clock is one such Innovation Dead Zone. The time clock has seen little innovation in the three or so decades that electronic devices were used to keep track of employee time.[…]

We occasionally get questions about rounding off employee time entries, primarily for use in calculating attendance or payroll. Most inquiries come from customers who use either the locked in-out method or punch card module in our Web TimeSheets.

In most real-time systems, when users enter their start and stop times, the system captures the exact times and easily calculates a daily/weekly/monthly total. Rounding is largely unnecessary in time tracking software because no manual additions are performed offline, unlike with old paper punch cards. […]

In its annual Software 500 survey, Software Magazine has placed Replicon among the world’s 500 software and service providers. That’s seven consecutive years, and put us in the company of household names such as Microsoft, Oracle, and Google. It’s a nice validation of the work we do 24/7, providing time tracking software that delivers the industry’s most hassle-free experience for employee timesheet and expense management. […]