by Mark Nemtsas | Jul 20, 2008 | News
The real benefit of time clock software lays in the productivity savings you gain from gathering and processing time and attendance information efficiently, and the costs savings you gain from removing employee fraud and calculation errors. Time Clock MTS gives you these benefits in one simple to use piece of software, given that you want to collect all of your information on the one network and using MS Windows based PC’s. However, if you have geographically separated locations or dont run MS Windows based PC’s then it’s a little more difficult to use Time Clock MTS. You can use it through the use of remote desktop tools (such as Windows Terminal Services) and Windows emulators (such as WiNe) but these add a layer of complexity that is not really desirable.
The best solution to these problems is by the use of an online time clock. I’m happy to announce that the online version of Time Clock MTS is under development and will be released within the next 12 weeks. Online Time Clock MTS is a completely hosted solution (we hold all your information and host the software) meaning you don’t need to install anything on your PC’s. All you’ll need to do is log into your Online Time Clock MTS account and clock in and out, run reports, and configure the software in the same way you do now with the desktop version. And this can be done from anywhere, using any computer that has a web browser!
Stay tuned, I’ll be posting screenshots here as they become available.
Update: Online Time Clock MTS is now available
by kathryn@timeclockmts.com | Jun 26, 2008 | New Releases, News
Just a minor release today. For some reason the default settings for report section templates we not being set. This is now fixed.
by kathryn@timeclockmts.com | Jun 19, 2008 | New Releases, News
I’ve just released Version 2.0.2 which contains a number of fixes to problems introduced by the last release plus adds one major new feature. Changes made include:
- A new security feature which allows you to use a camera attached to any Time Clock MTS computer to capture an image when users clock in or clock out. Administrators can then view the captured image associated with a clock in or out and verify that the correct person performed the action. This should allow you to stop buddy punching.
- A fix to the Version 2 database updates for SQL Server and MySQL that didn’t work correctly.
- Fix to the last action display text to allow non English characters to be displayed.
There were a number of other minor fixes, for more information take a look at the Release Notes page. In the next day or two I’ll write a longer post covering the new image capturing feature of Time Clock MTS, what it does, how it works, and how you might use it.
by kathryn@timeclockmts.com | Jun 10, 2008 | New Releases, News
Well Version 2.0.1 is out. I wont talk about it too much here right now. You can read about it on the Official Time Clock MTS Version 2 Release Page or take a look at the Release Notes. Over the course of the next week or so I’ll cover one of the features of the new release in detail here each day, hopefully along with some explanatory screen shots.
A Note to Existing Time Clock MTS Users
If you’re an existing Time Clock MTS user the software will not update itself to Version 2. Because a new registration key is required and not everyone is eligible for a free registration key I decided to make it a manual process. If you want to upgrade to Version 2 you’ll need to download the admin program update installer and the client program update installer. Once you’ve downloaded these just run them on your installations of Time Clock MTS and it will update to Version 2.
Getting Version 2 Registration Keys
You can retrieve your own registration key for Version 2 of the software. You’ll need to know your Version 1 registration key to get it. Don’t worry too much if you cant pull your own registration key from our website, the database has a couple of holes in it that I am trying to fix up. Just send me an email with your current license details and if you’re eligible I’ll send you your Version 2 registration key ASAP.
by kathryn@timeclockmts.com | Jun 10, 2008 | New Releases, News
Time Clock MTS Version 1.7.4 has been released. It has been released in update form only rather than as a full install. This is the last release of version 1 of Time Clock MTS. The only change to the software is a message informing users that it is the last release of Version 1 of the software and to upgrade to Version 2 you’ll need to visit our website.
by Mark Nemtsas | May 24, 2008 | New Releases, News
Time Clock MTS Version 1.7.3 has been released containing a number of fixes to the recent problems we’ve been seeing with syncing the internal clock with internet time servers.
- The Maryland NIST time servers have stopped supporting the older TIME protocol, and this was the cause of the recent problems Time Clock MTS had with syncing with these servers. We’ve changed the protocol used for these servers to the NIST format.
- Time between queries to NTP Servers has changed to 30 minutes to stop flooding the servers.
- Query time out has reduced to 10 seconds rather than the previous 1 minute, to stop the software locking up on start up for a minute.
- Internet Time Syncing is now turned off by default to prevent this sort of problem for people who are just trialing the software.
