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Timecard Stopwatch

We are interested in finding out if anyone uses the stopwatch feature of the timecard. How do you use it and have you encountered any problems?

Thanks,

Celeste N. Beley
Production Specialist
Fisher Scientific Communications

The stop watch feature is very exact! We bill for time in increments of 15 minutes. The stop watch feature will track time to the minute. For this reason, we do not use it.

Carol Stano
Controller
Drone & Mueller and Associates

I cannot seem to get anyone in the office to use it. It is too difficult for them to use. We do use the timecard, but inputs our approximate time at the end of the day.

Is there anyway to get a list of everyone's time and what job they were working on? It would be nice to have a weekly list of where these employees are at the work.

Thank You,

Stephanie

We don't use it. I count myself lucky to get the staff to do their timesheets on a timely basis. I would be looking for signs that it is the end of the world if anyone actually used the stop watch. Or to put it another way, has he-- frozen over?

Shelly Constantz

We use it and it does work fairly well. The trick is you have to "Save" after clicking the start "Green" button otherwise it will not record the time. I do not think this is documented in the guides very well. It also does not handle time if you work past midnight, which many of us do in the agency world and C&P should have known. Some staff members still like to keep their time in a ledger and fill out a time sheet at the end of the day. Management does not care as long as it hits the sheet and is complete.

Sonny Goodall

It also tracks in increments of 100 rather than a 60 minute hour. So constant auditing and rounding is required.

Ann Marie Tullo
Bookkeeper, Ph.D

We do not use the stop watch either. However, everyone does enter there time daily. I run a report once a week that shows everyones time. Go to Accounting: Time Sheets: File: Print Reports. I print the report by staff. I find it very helpful. Hope this helps.

Lynn Ebben

The reason that we don't use the stopwatch, and quite possibly the reason that others do not use it either, is that it's impractical. How many people spend their entire day glued to their computer monitors? Clients come in for meetings with you, you have to run to someone else's office to provide technical support, you're on the phone with one client while another is holding for you, the network server goes down and you have to either restart it or kick it (I like to leave that option open... ), your boss brings a prospect through the office and involves you in showing them around and/or selling your creativity and expertise in a given area.

Any number of things can happen where it doesn't make a lot of sense to keep hitting the "start" and "stop" buttons on a timer that requires you to be in one place at all times.

Here, we enter our time on paper time sheets throughout the day, then spend 10 minutes updating our C&P time cards before we go home for the evening.

Scot Robnett

We do not use the stop watch feature. If one of your designers is interrupted on one job to do something else, which we all know happens fairly often, it is a hassle to keep stopping and restarting the timer. We do use the timecard. Most of our staff keeps a written log of what they work on in a given day and enters it into C&P before leaving. So far this has been working for us. At the end of each week we have our traffic manager check on timecard entries to make sure that everyone is up to date.

Kristi Tiber

We'd use it all the time if it were a little more intuitive. I had to write my own application for people in the office to track their days. On our web development side, everyone spends the entire day at their computer, and tracking many functions at once is essential... we do find ourselves working on more than one task at a time, and having the ability to do that without having to go back at the end of the day and guess what was done is a great help. I'd like to integrate my tracker into C&P... comming soon, I think!

Dave McClave