The Timesheet Blog

As your SaaS vendor, we take full responsibility for continuously upgrading all our products. We’ve just finished improving Web TimeSheet version 8.11.1 to make it even more user-friendly. Check out these new features!

Increased Employee Visibility into Time-Off Requests

As a manager, it’s no fun telling an employee he can’t take a vacation because someone else has already asked for that week off. Now, employees can collaborate in scheduling their time-off. In addition to viewing approved time-off for coworkers, Managers have the option to grant permission for team members to see requests that are still awaiting approval. That way, they have the opportunity to work out their conflicting requests and come up with a plan that satisfies everyone.

Keep Your Work Weeks Straight

Do you need to limit the number of hours employees work each week to stay in compliance with labor laws in your area? Set up a “weekly” Web Timesheet validation rule to automatically monitor hours worked. Base this on your organization’s definition of a work week for each individual’s profile. That way, if you use a monthly timesheet you don’t have to worry about employees surpassing their permitted hours.

In the past, this error might not be caught immediately. This could happen if the excess hours were worked during the final days of a partial week at the end of a month. Payroll would have to manually check timesheets to catch this problem. Now, you can set up Web TimeSheet to validate full work weeks even if they are split between two different months.

See Who Needs To Approve Timesheets Next

Several new fields are available in the Timesheet Status Details report. For example, you can now include the name of the next approver scheduled to review a timesheet. This person appears in the “Waiting Approver Name” column. You can see the previous approver(s) who have already done their job listed under the “Approver Name” column.

Check out the complete documentation on this latest version of Web TimeSheet for more.

Do you have suggestions for further improvements? We are always eager to hear your ideas. Talk to us in the comments. Track our latest developments on Twitter; network with us on LinkedIn; and sign up for a free trial.

Are you handling several projects with different milestones, deadlines and budgets?  Trying to manage all this information is confusing.   Sometimes, you may not even be completely sure how many projects are in the works concurrently (and who is supposed to be working on what).

You are probably frustrated with trying to keep track of all the details.  Without good visibility into your projects, you don’t know which ones are on schedule and which projects are woefully behind.  Even more troubling in today’s cash strapped economy, you can’t identify those projects that are creeping up on the dreaded “over budget” line.

You need a solution that dramatically increases the ease, efficiency, and accuracy of managing multiple projects.

Get Instant Relief with Project Status Reports

With the Project & Billing edition of Web TimeSheet, you have access to tools that help you manage every aspect of your company’s projects in real-time.  You are able to see at a glance where each project stands and how many estimated hours you have remaining.  You can identify and address projects and tasks that are lagging behind as well as those that need to be immediately re-evaluated to control costs.

Get everyone involved in Actuals and Estimates

Getting your team involved in acheiving on-time, on-budget project delivery is key to your success.  You can easily set-up multiple projects with estimates on timeline and cost.  As a project manager, you can assign projects and tasks to team members and start collecting actual time spent and time remaining.  Individual timesheet screens have a project progress bar to provide immediate feedback on where the project stands.  This helps team members see which projects need attention.

Everyone Benefits from Project Visibility

Keep project managers or your whole team up to speed with automated emailing of any report you select (or configure build) in Web TimeSheet.  Depending on how fast your projects are moving, you can set up this automatic distribution to occur once a month, once a week – or even every day.

Do you want to start managing your projects for success? Watch a video or take our project time tracking software for a test drive with a free trial (no downloads, immediate access).

Want to share your advice on managing projects for success? Do you have questions about how to use Web TimeSheet to keep your projects on track and under budget? Share your thoughts or ask us for advice in the comments section. And, don’t forget to stay in touch with us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

At Replicon, our philosophy of constant innovation has paid off once again for our customers.  We are excited to introduce the newest addition to our Web TimeSheet family of products – Web Schedule.  This employee scheduling software module makes creating, updating, and communicating work schedules as painless as possible.

Why Employees Like Web Schedule

With Web Schedule, your employees have access to real-time updates to their individual schedules.  This eliminates confusion about last minute changes.  When you integrate this employee scheduling software with Web TimeSheet, employees can instantly populate their timesheet using the data from their published schedule.  Then, they can simply make changes to indicate any discrepancies (such as additional time or missed time) each day.

Why Managers Like Web Schedule

Managers tasked with managing schedules and approving timesheets can do this much more quickly now.  Any discrepancies are listed and described at the top of the timesheet approval page.  Errors can be corrected before the final timesheet is sent to payroll.  Actual failure to adhere to the schedule can be addressed while the incident is still fresh.  Managers can also pull historical reports to identify a pattern of time & attendance issues.

Why Companies Like Web Schedule

Besides the obvious benefits of saving time and optimizing labour cost through effective scheduling, you get access to a free trial.  Try Web Schedule with your existing access to Web Timesheet or sign up to sample both of these products together.

Watch this quick video to see our Web Schedule software in action.

Are you using this software on a trial basis right now?  We would love to hear your first impressions.  Talk to us in the comments.  Also, feel free to join us via LinkedIn and Twitter to stay fully connected.