by Mark Nemtsas | Aug 25, 2009 | How To
In some cases it may be more efficient to automatically assign a break period to an employees’ payroll information rather than getting them to clock in and out at lunch break for example. Time Clock MTS can account for this by allowing you to allocate an automatic break period to your employees. This Time Clock MTS How To Article covers how to setup automatic employee breaks. To setup automatic employee breaks in Time Clock MTS just follow the steps shown below. Log into Time Clock MTS as the administrator. How you log in as the administrator was covered in this Time Clock MTS How To Article. Go to the Tools->Options->Payroll Settings screen and you’ll be shown the screen at the top of this article. To setup automatic breaks you must determine how long an employee must work before a break is applied and how long the automatic break will be. You can apply breaks after 1 to 8 of consecutive hours worked (in half hour increments). The length of the break applied can range from 5 minutes to 90 minutes (in 5 minute increments). To apply an automatic break check the Automatically Apply Breaks checkbox and select the appropriate break length and work period from the drop down boxes. When you’re happy with your automatic break setup press the Save button to save the changes and the next time you run a report the times will be rounded. It is worth noting that Time Clock MTS does not create a clock in / out pair for the automatic break, it is simply applied at report... read more
by Mark Nemtsas | Aug 21, 2009 | How To
As I’ve mentioned previously it is possible to deactivate an employee in Time Clock MTS to prevent them from clocking in or out. However, you may find that you need to reactivate these employees so they can start using the software again. This Time Clock MTS How To Article covers how to reactivate a Time Clock MTS employee who has been deactivated. In previous versions of Time Clock MTS this was known as disable and re-enable employees. To reactivate an employee in Time Clock MTS just follow the steps shown below. Log into Time Clock MTS as the administrator. How you log in as the administrator was covered in this Time Clock MTS How To Article. You can easily see which employees are deactivated on the employee list when you’re logged in as the administrator, they have a gray status icon next to their names in the employee list. If they are not shown, right-click over the employee list and Show Deactivated Employees. Go to Employee Maintenance->Re-Activate an Employee. Click Activate Selected Employee and confirm the action, once you’ve done so the employee will be... read more
by Mark Nemtsas | Aug 19, 2009 | How To
It is is important that a supervisor be able to see at a glance who is currently clocked in for work and who is not. Time Clock MTS provides this information visually via the Employee List (people clocked in have green status icon, people clocked out a red). However, if your employee list is long or you need a paper print out there is a better way of viewing this information. This Time Clock MTS How To Article covers how to quickly and easily generate a report to see who is currently clocked in or out of Time Clock MTS. To view a report showing who is clocked in or out of Time Clock MTS just follow the steps below. Log into Time Clock MTS as the administrator. How you log in as the administrator was covered in this Time Clock MTS How To Article. Go to the Reporting->Current Status Report Menu You’ll now be shown the Current Status Report. This report is simple to understand, it is split into two main areas, employees clocked in at the top, and employees clocked out at the bottom. The time of the last action for each employee is displayed next to their name. The report can be exported or printed easily by just clicking the appropriate buttons at the bottom of the reporting screen. That’s all there is to it, if you require more information you may like to take a look at the Current Status Report Help... read more
by Mark Nemtsas | Aug 18, 2009 | How To
As a Time Clock MTS administrator it can be useful to have a printed list of all the employees currently in the system. This Time Clock MTS How To Article covers how to quickly and easily generate a report showing a list of all employees and their pin numbers. To view a report showing all employees currently stored in Time Clock MTS just follow the simple steps below. Log into Time Clock MTS as the administrator. How you log in as the administrator was covered in this Time Clock MTS How To Article. Go to the Reporting->Employee ID Report Menu You’ll now be shown the Employee ID / Badge Number report. This report is simple to understand, it just shows a list of all employees in Time Clock MTS sorted alphabetically along with their badge numbers and PINs. The report can be exported or printed easily by just clicking the appropriate buttons at the bottom of the reporting screen. That’s all there is to it, if you require more information you may like to take a look at the Badge Number Report Help... read more
by kathryn@timeclockmts.com | Jul 8, 2009 | New Releases, News
I finally rolled over to version 2.3.0 of Time Clock MTS today. There’s been a large number of improvements and new features since Version 2.2.0 so I guess the time had arrived! There were several changes from the last release (2.2.16) and it’s worth discussing them in some detail here. Added optional data logging to the software. This logging records all changes made to clock in and out times and stores them in an encrypted table for security reasons. You can view the log for any time on via the Edit Times screen. Take a look at the online help file to read more about the view time log screen. Re-ordered the internet time server list to move a problem server to the bottom of the list. You can read more about the problem server here. Fixed up a couple of problems with the software that I’d been trying to sort out for a while. The first is a fix to spontaneously re-setting administrator passwords and the second is a fix to overtime calculations when using the ‘no double up’ setting. You might be interested to know that the new time data logging feature and the Departmental Wages Report added in the last version were added at the request of existing Time Clock MTS users. Is there a report you’d like to see added to the software? A feature that is missing that you simply cannot do without? Well just go ahead and contact me and I’ll see how your request can be... read more
by Mark Nemtsas | Jul 7, 2009 | News, Tips and Tricks
For whatever reason (it’s a problem with the time server and not Time Clock MTS) the Internet Time Server nist1.uccaribe.edu is taking an abnormally long time to respond to queries for the time, up to 20 seconds. This is causing Time Clock MTS to fail. To solve this problem you should change your time server to the dedicated Time Clock MTS time... read more
