User Specific Daily Rounding Rules

Not too long ago we covered the topic of adding user specific rounding rules, which would be applied to define an employee's schedule and have the system automatically round clocked in hours around it.

We have added the capability to be even more detailed about it by enabling a daily schedule.

If you have some staff members that have different schedules around the week as opposed to a fixed schedule, then the steps are almost the same as described before.

You would  go to the Field Workers tab and click on the employee's ID, then look for the option called "Payable Start" and "Payable End". If the user has a fixed scheduled for the entire week, then you can put your start and end times, but now you will also find a button with a circular arrow:

When you click on it, the entire week will be opened:

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Here you can set a schedule for each day of the week that needs a rounding rule. If you don't need a rule for some days, they can be left blank and no rounding rules will be applied.

Just as before, these times will be applied to the timesheet signoff functionality and the rounded hours will be reflected on the following reports, as well as the User Rounding Report that gives you the original and the rounded times for comparison:

• Timecard Task Event and Location Report
• Custom Report
• NAR TimeCard Task Focused Custom Report
• Timecard Detail Report

That's it for this post! If you  have any comments or questions, don't hesitate to let us know down below.

--Econz Team

Scheduling PDF Reports

In the past, we had gone over the topic of scheduling reports from the web portal. We were originally able to send reports as CSV or HTML files, but now we have added PDF to the list of available formats.

Pretty much everything is identical to how it was described in our previous post, the only difference is that now there is a "pdf" option in the "Report type to be generated" section:

Once you get the email, you will notice that the attachments will of course be PDF files:

If you schedule one of the regular reports that are not pre-formatted as PDF (most of them aren't, they are the ones you can generate online or create a CSV file), such as the Timecard Detail Report, Timecard Event Report, for example, you will get the usual information in a PDF text table:

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On the other hand, if it's one of the reports that already has a PDF version you can generate online like the Job Daily Timesheet Report, California Meal and Rest Report or the Matra PDF Report, then you will get the PDF-formatted version instead:

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That's it for now, let us know if you have any feedback or comments!


--Econz Team

Viewing Decimal Hours in Timesheet Signoff

For this post, we are going to look at a small but very useful enhancement we have done to the format the total hours are viewed in within the Timesheet Signoff screen.

The default option is with the "hrs" and "mins" format like the following example:

But if you go to the Preferences screen in the Administration tab, then enable "Use Decimal Hours" and save it,

then you will be able to have your employees view their timesheet's total hours in decimals:

We are always glad to provide flexibility and options to you, so you can make our application your own, so we hope you like this enhancement and if you have any suggestions, don't hesitate to leave us a comment below.

--Econz Team

Filtered Smart Fence Triggered Rules

There may come the time where you have a bit too many SmartFence rules and you need to focus just on specific ones. At the moment, the SmartFence Triggered Rules Report will give all of the information whenever a rule was triggered, but depending on the amount of rules and employees you have, it can be a bit more work to find just the ones you need.

So, we have come up with a solution, a way to filter and see on a separate report only the rules you are interested in. Of course, the SmartFence Triggered Rules Report will still give you the detail for all of the rules, but the new Filtered SmartFence Triggered Rules Report will provide with specific details for the ones you want.

The only thing you need to do is enable or disable the specific rules, so that you are only left with the ones you desire.

For this, you can enable "Show Rulein SmartFence Triggered Rules Report" setting, which is done in the "Manage Rules" section for any rule. Keep in mind this can be done when creating a new rule or also editing an existing one:

In this example, we only want so see "Entering Econz CR Office" and ignore any other rules. So we click on the checkbox, Save it, and make sure to unclick any other rule we don't wish to see.

If we generated the standard "SmartFence Triggered Rules" report we will find a number of results we don't need at the moment:

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But if we open the "Filtered SmartFence Triggered Rules" report,

we will be able to see our desired filtered results:

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That's all for now, we will be back with more exciting news on our next post!

--Econz Team

Search Expired Tasks in Edit User Events Screen

Hello everyone!

On this blog post we are going to talk about a simple but very important enhancement: the ability to search for expired projects when editing tasks.

The default option used to be that if a job was setup with an expiration date, then it wouldn't be available on the device and on the editing screen. For example, we have this job called "Econz Santa Ana" which was good from January 1st 2018, to January 1st, 2019:

When we go to the "Edit User Events" section on the Administration tab, click on the "Edit Task" button and do our search for this task, no results will be found:

 

But if we go to Preferences and enable "Search Closed Tasks", when we go back, we will be able to find that expired job and edit accordingly.

Here we enable this setting:

Then we search for our desired task and get the expected result:

And finally, we have our successfully saved task:

That's all for now, leave us a comment in the section below in case you want to ask us something!


--Econz Team

New Enhancement: Bi-weekly Timesheet Signoff

We have a quick announcement to make on this post, we have just implemented a new much requested frequency for the timesheet signoff: Bi-Monthly periods.

Adding to the ability to sign timesheets daily, weekly or monthly, we are now able to do it bi-monthly, which means that the app will group the punches together in periods from the 1st and 15th of each month, or the 16th and the end of the month the punches are for. The user can sign it off once the next period starts.

To set this up, we go to the Administration tab and select "Configure Timesheet Settings":

Then, we select the "Bi-Monthly" period:

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When the employee signs his/her timesheets on the device, then all the punches for the specific period will be shown:

The manager that would approve the signed timesheets will also be able to view the periods with the appropriate dates:

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As you can see, it's pretty much the same functionality but with a wider time frame that is intended to be used for companies with bi-monthly payroll periods. Here is what the full timesheet looks like right before the manager approves it:

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Leave us any comments or questions down below, we'll gladly answer them or hear any feedback you might have!

--Econz Team

Timecard Checker Important Enhancements

On today's post, we will talk about a number of crucial features we have just incorporated into our Timecard Checker functionality:

1. The ability to change tasks for checker users.
2. The addition of custom fields.
3. The possibility to incorporate the end of day questions related to Premium Pay.

To enable these options, you need to access the Checker Main Profile, in this case called "Checker Profile":

Then open the Menu and select Settings. Once inside, open the Menu again and pick "Checker config":

Out of these options, the first two enable the app to pick a task at the beginning of the day and also change tasks, the third one is to enable custom fields (note that forms are not available for checker users at the moment), and the last button is to enable the Premium Pay questions at the end of the day. The dropdown menu at the bottom will allow you to change the size of the name fields in the employees list, in case the default option is too narrow:

Going back to the list on top of this article, the first enhancement is to allow employees to select from a list of jobs when clocking in and adding the option of changing tasks.

The first time a user clocks in, he/she will be shown a list of all the available jobs. As soon as one of these is selected, the user will be clocked in, and from then on, the new "CHANGE TASK" button will appear.

As you might have guessed, this button is the equivalent of the "Change Task" button (icon #3) on the regular version of Timecard GPS, so tapping it will also show you the list of tasks for you to select.

When it comes to the forms, it's just a matter of opening the menu while inside the user's profile and selecting "Add Task Info". Whatever custom fields were assigned to that person will be shown on the next screen:

Finally, at the end of the day, when the user clocks out, he/she will be shown the questions related to the Premium Pay Configuration as follows:

We are always looking for ways to make our applications even better, so make sure to leave a comment down below if you have any cool ideas you want us to look into.

--Econz Team