We’re Back!
After our recent unexpected absence we’re back in the office and working our way through the emails we’ve received in the last few days. Apologies for any inconvenience during this short period of down time.
Email Support Down Until Saturday 30 January 2016
Due to unforeseen circumstances we’ll be unable to respond to emails and support requests until about 2:00AM Saturday 30 January 2016 (PST). Apologies for any inconvenience this might cause.
Time Clock MTS Version 5.1.7 Released
Version 5.1.7 of Time Clock MTS was released today. The only change to this version was to address a bug with the calculation of sick and vacation time available that only took effect under the following circumstances:
- Rounding is turned off.
- AND the report end date is the day before the end of the fiscal year.
- AND the vacation/sick time accrual scheme doesn’t roll over annually
- AND the vacation/sick time accrual scheme is set to reset on the FY rather than the anniversary of Hire Date.
The issue is now resolved.
Time Clock MTS Version 5.1.6 Released
Today we’ve released the final second last minor release of version 5 of Time Clock MTS (version 6 is under development right now). Here’s a summary of the changes made to this release:
- The keypad data entry interface (see here to understand what that means) can now be re-sized and is actually useful when you’ve got the kiosk display mode activated.
- If an employee fails a fingerprint scan their last time punch details are not displayed.
- Fixed a problem with the keypad data entry interface that could stop an employee punching in or out if they were using the same badge number as a deleted employee.
Time Clock MTS at Severn Area Rescue Association
The Severn Area Rescue Association (SARA) is close in-shore boat rescue and land search organization in the south west of the UK. It is run entirely on donations and they are using Time Clock MTS to track the activity of their volunteers and kindly supplied us with the information below explaining their use of the system.
We are a Lifeboat and Mountain rescue charity based in the UK, up till now we have used a signing in book then have to work out the attendance by going through the book and trying to count the times. This was very time consuming for our volunteers and sometimes we had problems trying to read the names.
Now we can just run a report of who and when our volunteers clocked in. We do not use the overtime and wages facilities due to being all volunteers, but this great bit of software has helped us cut our volunteers hours for admin.Pros:
Easy to set up and use by our volunteers. Easy to run reports saving us many hours of admin time.Cons:
For us it would be good if we could disable some of the facilities we don’t use. Otherwise none.
A mobile app for Iphone and android phones would be good so out volunteers can log admin / fundraising hours when not at the Lifeboat station.Summary:
Great easy to use software with great support. Helping us to cut our volunteers admin times enabling them to concentrate on saving lives and training. We recommend this software to any charity or business looking for a clocking in system.
Version 5.1.5 Released
A release today that addresses a problem that’s been hanging about for a while that we’ve struggled to get to the bottom of. There’s a couple of other little tweaks and some enhancements to make some processes easier.
Enhancements
- The Registration menu was disabled when not logged in as the administrator and this proved a little confusing to new users of the software who didn’t realize they needed to be logged in as the admin to register the software. The menu item is now permanently enabled and simply prompts the user for the admin password when it is selected.
- Users are now prompted to confirm exiting the fingerprint enrollment screen if there are unsaved changes.
Fixes
- Some users were seeing an overflow error if they left the software running for a long period. A fix has been put in place for this.
- Changed the way the employee data was passed to and from the fingerprint enrollment screen in an attempt to solve the bug that stopped employee fingerprints from saving despite what appeared to be a successful enrollment process. Fix appears to have worked.
- Put in place logging on the fingerprint enrollment screen to get to the bottom of why some enrollments were not saving correctly.