Timecard GPS: California Meal and Rest Report

Hi everyone,

We are very excited to announce our new California Meal and Rest Report!

This one goes together with the Premium Pay functionality that we have covered before, but there are a couple wonderful new things we have added to this specific report.

The first one is the ability to view all of the employee's answers at clock out in the same place, along with their signatures and the times they took any break or lunch:

 

This is very helpful to compare their answers and match them with their actual punches, and have backup for future reference.

The second new feature is a very exciting one: export this report as a PDF!

You will notice the button on the right, make sure to select the desired team, user and date filters and click on the "Generate PDF Report" button:

This will prompt you to save a PDF file in your computer including all of the desired results. The PDF is formatted in a way that each page contains the data generated by a user on a specific day and the picture of the signature for easy viewing:

We have more interesting features related to Premium Pay coming up on the next blog, so stay tuned!

--Econz Team

Feature Enhancement: Seeing Forms when Changing Tasks

On a previous post, we had covered the topic of Forms, how to create and maintain them, and also how to use them in the mobile application.

A new enhancement has been put in place, where not only you can control if the Form pops up the moment you clock in, clock out, or make it accessible anytime during the day, but you can also set it to pop up every time you change the task.

To enable this, make sure to move the "Change Task" option to the right on the Triggers filter, when you are inside the main screen on the form that you are editing.

Click the "Save" button at the bottom of the screen and you should be set!

We are always thinking of ways to improve your experience, so please don't hesitate to leave us a comment if you have any suggestions.

--Econz Team

Timecard GPS New Feature: Enhanced Forms View

We have implemented a new feature that will enable you to enhance the way you currently view Forms and Custom Fields.

At the moment, the default option is the Classic view, which is good if you prefer a more compact screen, here is what it looks like:

To change this, tap on the Gear icon, and select Settings, once in the screen with four yellow icons, tap on the Menu again and select "Extras".

You will see the following screen:

Notice the "Enhanced Forms View", make sure to set it to "ON" and tap "SAVE" at the bottom.

Next time you want to access your Custom Fields or Forms, they will look like this:

They will have an attractive layout that will also give you a hint as to what type of data it can capture.

We hope you like this new feature, designed to give you more control of what the application can look like, let us know if you have any questions or comments!

--Econz Team

Individual or Team Business Hours

We have implemented an enhancement to our Business Hours rules that will enable you to assign unique rules to specific employees or teams. They way it used to be was to assign Business Hours to the whole company, but now you can easily do it for individuals.

Start by going to the Administration tab and selecting "Manage Business Hours":

Then, on the next screen, you will find all the rules that you have created, if you wish to apply a rule for the whole company, you can always use the "Default" option. To create a new individual rule, click on the "Add" button:

On the next screen you will be able to select the Business Hours, make sure to give this rule a name in the "Description" field. Leave blank any of the time fields that don't apply. By clicking on the blank section on the "Select User(s)" and "Select Team(s)" fields, you will enable a dropdown menu where you can select the users and teams that apply to this rule.

When you are done, click on Save.

The next time you come to the Manage Business Hours section, you will find your newly created rule listed with the existing ones:

Let us know if you have any questions or comments!

--Econz Team

Timecard GPS: Premium Pay Answers Report

The Premium Pay Answers Report is a very useful new report that will enable employers using the Premium Pay features to have a detailed summary of what employees have answered on each question.

Here is a sample of the kind of data you will be able to retrieve:

Not only you will get each task and break sorted by the time when employees took each, but the last two columns will tell you if one of the answers chosen after finishing a break triggered the possibility of Premium Pay, as well as the reason why.

On the above example, we see that the employee took a Rest Break at 8:15 AM and a Meal Period at 12:00 PM. On both cases, the employee finished the rest/meal before the expected time, on the Rest Break, it was due to his/her own election, but on the Meal Period, it had to be ended due to work requirements, so it triggered the Premium Pay flag, as noted by the "Y" in the "Triggered?" column.

We hope this new tool enables you to keep better track of your employees Premium Pay related answers and that it serves as a complement to all the Premium Pay tools we have added along the way.

Feel free to leave us a comment if you have any question.

--Econz Team

Map Default Filters

Hi everyone,

Here we are with a quick update!

We have added a new feature that will allow you to setup the default filters for the Map. Originally, when you first logged in to the Administrator Portal, this is what you would normally see:

The filters are defaulted to the option that will allow you to see everyone at any time, if they are clocked in, clocked out or on break.

Now, we will have a new gear icon that will take you to the settings where you will be able to customize what filters are going to be used when you log into the website:

If you click on it, you will see this:

Notice how these are the same filters as in the Home screen, so pick the ones that suit you the best and click the "Save" button when you are ready.

Now the default option will be changed using your custom settings and whenever you log into the web portal, those are the ones that will be used from then on:

Make sure to use the "Filter" button to view the results, and feel free to adjust these settings whenever you need.

Let us know if you have any comments, we hope you like this new 'quality of life' improvement!

--Econz Team

New Feature: Auto Task Search

We have just added a very interesting new feature that will enable your employees to do a cloud search of tasks that are on their own team, or that have been assigned to the "No Team" section.

This is very useful for those cases where companies have a large volume of tasks and constantly upload new projects. There may be the time when an employee can't seem to find a job but he/she knows for a fact that a Manager has uploaded it to the system.

In this example, there is a new project called "Dirt Candy", so the employee tries to find it using the local task search:

See how the task is not available, so all that needs to be done is tap "SEARCH" on the top right of the screen. This will automatically look for the typed task in the server (specifically on No Team or the employee's own team).

Since this was an existing job, then the application will find it without issues:

Now the employee can select it to punch in to that project:

Of course, under normal conditions your administrator should be keeping your phones task list up to date with all the tasks that you personally need many hours (or ideally days) before you actually need them, but if for any reason the task that you need is not present on your phone, you can use this feature as a backup to find what ever you need.  If your administrator has very recently updated your task list with new items (like in the last few minutes), you can use the "Connect" option (in the main application Menu) in order to quickly update your local tasks list to avoid needing to use this search feature.

Let us know your thoughts in the comments section!

--Econz Team